December 2009 Sys Admin Tips is out

Chris Miller says the Sys Admin Tips are now available on the LotusUserGroup.org. He provides the list of items in this issue and a link.

Posted on: December 18, 2009 9:00 am

Lotusphere Sessions iPhone app is awaiting approval

Tim Davis finished re-writing the Lotusphere Sessions app for the iPhone and submitted it to Apple for approval. With luck it will be approved and available in time for the opening session in Orlando.

Posted on: December 18, 2009 9:00 am

Developing a Mozilla Firefox plug-in for CMIS

This article on developerWorks gives an overview of Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) and provides an example of how to use these services with Mozilla Firefox.

Posted on: December 18, 2009 9:00 am

Lotus Notes – Symphony desktop icons a confusing array of orange-y to you?

Craig Wiseman has posted a link to let you vote on altering the desktop icons for Notes and Symphony. There are seven icons, all the same size and color, with different designs right now. The suggestion is to add additional colors.

Posted on: December 17, 2009 9:00 am

Design by committee

Volker Weber has posted a 2-minute video on a committee effort at designing a stop sign that may make you want to cry and laugh at the same time.

Posted on: December 17, 2009 9:00 am

SNTT: LotusScript to remove the Prohibit Design Refresh flag

Sean Cull needed to replace the design on some applications where the "prohibit design refresh" flag was set. He found some code and wrote an agent to simplify things, which he has posted for download.

Posted on: December 17, 2009 9:00 am

SnnT: Configure Eclipse 3.4.2 for Lotus Notes 8.5.1

Bastian Wieczorek has written a short explanation of how to set up Eclipse 3.4.2 on Win XP SP2 to work with Notes 8.5.1 Admin and Designer clients manually. Or you can use the Lotus Expeditor Toolkit to do the configuration automatically.

Posted on: December 17, 2009 9:00 am

CommonTime – Getting Android ready for business

CommonTime has released mSuite v5.11, to support the Android smartphones Acer Liquid, HTC Droid Eris, Motorola Cliq and HTC Hero. mSuite now extends compatibility to iPhone OS, Palm webOS, Windows Mobile and selected Android and Nokia Symbian devices.

Posted on: December 16, 2009 9:00 am

RAP or GWT – Which Java-Based AJAX Technology is for You?

In this 37-minute video, recorded at EclipseCon 2009, Dan Rubel and Mark Russell review the same application implemented once using GWT and a second time using RAP to help you understand the benefits of each.

Posted on: December 16, 2009 9:00 am

C.U.L.T. shirt 2010 Top 10: Top 10 things “Lotus Knows”

Rocky Oliver and Andrew Pollack are working on the C.U.L.T. T-shirt for Lotusphere 2010 and need your help. They’re looking for a list of things "Lotus Knows", or maybe, doesn’t know.

Posted on: December 16, 2009 9:00 am