Stephan H Wissel provides a flow-chart of how document locking works under Domino. Since he needed to lock web documents, he had to write code to make it work. He provides some sample code to help you out.

Jeanmarie White provides links to the fix pack for Sametime 8.0.2 Server on Linux and the list of fixes it contains.

Daniel Nashed says the Server Availability Index (SAI) may not always report correct information. It seems, if your server is really, really fast, the formula used to calculate availability can be thrown off. A new approach is available under Domino 8.5.

Mike Sobczak has databases distributed across a number of servers meaning that sometimes people have trouble connecting to the database they need. In trying to understand the problem Mike ran across an interesting Technote.

This is the official "end of life" list for version 7.0.x of Notes, Domino, and Enterprise Integrator. Now is an excellent time to talk to the boss about upgrading.

Tom O’Neil was looking through some slides from a presentation on performance tips when he came across an interesting comment. He decided to look further, and test his ideas, before posting his code to wrap Evaluate strings in a class.

Bilal Jaffery reminds us – Lotus Knows IdeaJam opens at 8:00am EDT on August 19. Lotus is asking you to share your ideas and experiences. Registration is required.

In honor of Yellow Day Adam Gartenberg shows you how to autoreplace text in Sametime making those mind (and finger) numbing acronyms easier to type.

Thomas Bahn offers a way to display design elements instead of documents using $FormulaClass. He provides some code, directions, and ideas on what you can do with the information.

Mark Gargan had an application that needed to be fast, down to the millisecond, so he pushed XPages memory usage and performance to the max. Now he’s provided a list of ways to help you streamline your code.