Stupid user tricks 4: IT horror never ends

No, your users aren’t the only ones who do strange things. This article relates nine, only nine, horror stories collected from various companies. They’re scary stories, like letting the CEO design the web site and duct-taping bridges to a balcony rail, so brace yourself.

Posted on: September 21, 2009 9:00 am

HTTP Request Consumer Domino Agents – Build, Demo, and Download

Chris Toohey offers some instruction on getting a Domino Agent Design Element to consume an HTTP request or, "How to edit a document via web browser when the document isn’t in edit mode".

Posted on: September 21, 2009 9:00 am

Automatically running a Fixup on Corrupt databases

Paul Farris knows Domino Admins don’t always catch error messages as soon as they pop up. So he’s posted the code for an agent that can tell when a database is corrupt and automatically run Fixup against it.

Posted on: September 21, 2009 9:00 am

Domino & BlackBerry Java Applications

John Wargo presents Part 2.5 of his series on building Java applications for Domino and the BlackBerry by discussing why he uses the JSR-00172 J2ME Web Services Specification.

Posted on: September 21, 2009 9:00 am

Understanding SMTP authentication and securing your IBM Lotus Domino 8 server from spam

How about a little light reading to start your weekend? This whitepaper is available for download from IBM developerWorks.

Posted on: September 18, 2009 9:00 am

WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management

This Technote includes links to performance tuning guides and supplemental content for WebSphere Portal versions 6 and 6.1. It also has links to non-version specific articles and resources.

Posted on: September 18, 2009 9:00 am

Response to ‘IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 RSS Widget Privilege Escalation’

The RSS widget in Notes 8.5 has a vulnerability. No malicious code is required to exploit the problem. This Technote includes IBM’s workarounds for the issue.

Posted on: September 18, 2009 9:00 am

Changing comma separator in Quickr 8.1.1 for Portal

Stuart McIntyre says IBM has released a fix for Quickr 8.1.0 that fixes a comma separator problem. He gives the names of the fixes and how to fix the problem once they’ve been applied.

Posted on: September 18, 2009 9:00 am

E-mail deletion scandal shows need for email retention policy

Many companies have e-mail retention policies but not everyone abides by them. An aide to the mayor of Boston routinely deleted his mail while employees of one agency were told to delete mail due to lack of storage space, all of which has led to problems.

Posted on: September 17, 2009 9:00 am

Strange error message

Bernd Hort got a strange error message when he tried to open a database. Not realizing anything had changed, he started investigating. The investigation uncovered some things and confused others.

Posted on: September 17, 2009 9:00 am