Jake Ochs says there are time when you need to declare and bind to a method explicitly, using the JNI signature. There’s the usual way of doing this, then there’s the quick tip Jake has posted here.

This page lists information on new articles, patches, subscription information, and more that was posted during January 2010. It’s a handy way to find what you might be looking for.

We’ll have a lot to talk about in the coming weeks about all the Lotusphere announcements. This week, let’s take a look at five trends you’ll be talking about all year.

Read this DominoPower article.

InBoxer Anti-Risk Appliance is an integrated system for email archiving, electronic discovery, compliance, and real-time content monitoring for email policy management that works with Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange. Your mail archives are held on servers in your own private, hosted cloud.

IBM is providing $4 million to Virtual Bridges to build and market a Linux-based desktop as an alternative to Windows 7. The virtual desktop software would work with IBM’s applications such as Lotus Symphony, Sametime, and Notes.

This hour-long conference call is designed as an open question & answer session covering deployment of Sametime 8.5. Questions can be submitted before the call begins.

Jake Howlett is building a Contact Manager database to use for demonstrations. He’s set it up so you can enter yourself, your favorite cartoon character, or your pets, but he’d like you to report any bugs you find in the process.

Mainsoft Corporation announced a preview of Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes version 2.5. The new version is expected to be available in the first half of 2010 to deliver the same document collaboration experience for Lotus Notes and Outlook users.

Lotus Notes Traveler has already been ported to the iPhone and BlackBerry and will soon be available for Android-based phones. Even the server software for Notes Traveler will soon be available for Linux.

Chris Harris is having some problems with timezones in Notes. The documents need to reflect the correct time at the home office, regardless of who, or where, in the world opens them.