Submersion test of Blackberry Bold

Karl-Henry Martinsson claims this wasn’t an intentional test. But if you’ve wondered how "waterproof" your BlackBerry might be, he includes his estimates of the time it took to dry it out. Your results may vary.

Posted on: June 15, 2009 9:00 am

Lotus Technical Information and Education Community webcast – June 23rd

The next webcast will take place on 23rd June at 10AM ET/3PM UK and 8PM ET/1AM UK. One of the items being covered is how to become an IBM Press author.

Posted on: June 15, 2009 9:00 am

Forms Portal – Integrating Lotus Forms 3.5 and WebSphere Portal 6.1 together

Dave Hay says he’s still working on this one but, so far, he’s installed DB2 UDB, WebSphere Portal 6.1, Lotus Forms Server 3.5 – Webform Server, and Lotus Forms Server 3.5 – API on a VMWare image running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Posted on: June 15, 2009 9:00 am

New article: When the debugger won’t debug hidden code that isn’t hidden

Looking carefully at your workspace, you notice a strange little message in the status area: "Debug request ignored. Source code hidden." You’re in Notes and you’ve enabled the debugger. Now, you attempt to debug a form or view action. It looks like your code executes, but the debugger is nowhere to be found.

Read this DominoPower article.

Posted on: June 14, 2009 9:00 am

PandaBear for Lotus Quickr, FREE end-user utility for Windows, Mac and Linux

This public beta, code named PandaBear, is a desktop application for uploading, downloading and locating files stored in Lotus Quickr 8.1 and 8.2 using the Adobe Air framework.

Posted on: June 12, 2009 9:00 am

Creating Meetings from Email Recipients

Dwight Morse wants to remind everyone of the feature in Notes 8 allowing you to create meetings from messages in your Inbox. He provides instructions and screen shots.

Posted on: June 12, 2009 9:00 am

Notes Client Tip – Dragging and Dropping documents into a calendar

Steve McDonagh was asked about creating calendar entries by dragging a customer name from a list to the Calendar. After much pondering, Steve came up with something that might fill the requirement. He’s provided code and an NSF demo so you can see it in action.

Posted on: June 12, 2009 9:00 am

Writing standalone Java code that connects to IBM Lotus Domino

A new article on the Lotus Domino wiki covers how to write Java to integrate into Domino.

Posted on: June 12, 2009 9:00 am

How often do your users want to “Mark All” as read or unread?

Mary Beth Raven and her team are again asking for your input. Do your users use the "Mark All" feature in Notes often?

Posted on: June 11, 2009 9:00 am

Adding Datasets & Datagrids to Notes Applications – Part 2

Peter Presnell discussed the concept of a dataset in part 1. In part 2 he continues the discussion with the NotesDocumentCollection.

Posted on: June 11, 2009 9:00 am