Patrick Picard upgraded some of his Domino servers to 8.5.1 last week and has started moving some users from 7.0.3 to 8.5.1. So far he seems to be having a lot of issues. He’s looking for some help on this one.

Sven Meirte explains how you can sync your Facebook calendar with your Notes calendar to make it easier to keep track of your schedule.

Chris Toohey knows that, sometimes, you feel like the only Lotus Developer out there. So he’s posted a whole list of places to check for coding help and a pat on the back.

Graham Dodge says Holli Konig and her All-Dancing Business Partners are bringing their R8.5 ‘Proof of Technology’ seminars to Sydney, Australia. The first – free – seminar runs November 19-20.

CommonTime’s mLone Worker is a non-intrusive mobile phone based solution enabling individual Lone Workers to be discretely and electronically monitored. This application enables workers to notify a response team in case of emergency.

Mark Hughes has found XPages to be a little slow in loading images and, knowing his users, wanted to keep them from clicking the load button again and again. He’s posted his code and some instructions on adding a box to indicate the process is working.

The public beta for Sametime 8.5 Online Meetings is now available on Greenhouse. You can try out the new Online Meetings for free though a login is required.

Mary Beth Raven is looking for some help from you. The terms "connector" and "plug-in" have been used in different IBM applications for a very similar software item. Is this confusing to you? Should both items be referenced by the same term?

Technote 1391768 covers how to hide the subject of a meeting marked "Private" in the R&R calendar. The default in versions 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 8.0, 8.5 is to show the description of a private meeting.

Dennis Ruddigkeit provides a link to the Notes.ini settings for Traveler as he reminds you, unlike other INI settings, for Traveler you need to use "true" and "false".