Andre Guirard thinks the option "Categorized as flat version 5 or greater" is rather mysterious. To solve the mystery he created a view with three categories to experiment. Now he’s published his findings to help explain the option.

In response to its customers Sherpa has launched its Professional Services offering to include Product Services, Messaging Services and Consulting Services for Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange environments.

Chris Toohey is excited about new widgets for the Notes client allowing you to access LinkedIn and TripIt directly from your client. He provides links to both widgets and the official IBM announcement.

Declan Lynch offers the first of several parts in a discussion of using themes in XPage applications.

Andre Guirard sees a lot of code using CurrentDocument incorrectly. While the code may work, and may return the right result, there is a better way of doing this.

The topic for the July 28th conference is using social media to participate and contribute in the Lotus community. This page includes toll-free phone numbers and web link.

For those falling into the second camp, IBM’s announcement last month that it’ll no longer be upgrading DAMO is somewhat disturbing. DAMO stands for Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook and was one of Lotus’ particularly interesting efforts to create interop between the Microsoft camps and the Lotus camps.

Read this DominoPower article.

Prior to doing an upgrade from Notes 6.5 to 8.5 Jess Stratton went through the "What’s new" documents and pulled out all the new items. Then she created a training class. Now she’s offering a copy of the differences as a PDF to help you train your users.

Tim Davis is posting a week’s worth of tips for Domino web development. Today he offers a more Web-2.0-way to do dialog boxes.

Andre Guirard is asking for your ideas. What kind of articles would you like to see added to the Domino Designer wiki? He includes a link to the wiki where you can add your suggestions.