If you really like the Notes 8.x client and want to use it outside the corporate environment, like to read your home e-mail, this article provides detailed instructions on making it work.

The editors here at DominoPower send congratulations to the nine members of the new OpenNTF Steering Committee. OpenNTF, if you’re not familiar with it, is the new open source community dedicated to creating resources for Notes and Domino users, developers, and administrators.

Among the members of the steering committee are many friends of DominoPower and leaders of the Notes/Domino community. They are Elguji Software’s Bruce Elgort, Lotus 911’s Nathan Freeman, Vince Schuurman, PAVONE AG’s Ludwig Nastansky, Prominic.NET’s Justin Hill (who helped save our bacon from a nastyDDoS this weekend), PCS’s John Head, SNAPPS Consulting’s Rob Novak, IBM’s Brent Peters, and Teamstudio’s very own Scott Johnsen.

Congrats to everyone. Now get to work!

You may have noticed that Connected Photographer has been offline for the past few days. It’s back, and what happened makes for quite a story.

Read this DominoPower article.

Richard Schwartz offers a Show-n-Tell Thursday quiz. Is the code snippet he’s posted safe? And if not, why?

IBM is offering a new way for developers to collaborate through My developerWorks. You start by building your profile and home page to define your interests and connect with others.

Kathy Brown started a DXL project not knowing much about DXL. So she went to Stephan Wissel’s blog and read his post "DXLMagic". When things didn’t go as planned, she wrote up her misadventure in hopes of helping others read between the lines.

Remember those certificates that expire Monday, May 18? Well, if you forgot, Stuart McIntyre includes links to IBM’s open mic calls on the subject.

Tony Palmer says, like many of us, he isn’t a graphic designer. But he still needs to design user interfaces from time to time, so he’s created six style rules to make the job easier. He provides the rules, and screen-shots, to help you clean up your designs.

Stampede Technologies is offering new Stampede FX Series 2000 and 4000 solutions to help reduce bandwidth utilization, up to 400% in both directions, and improve end-user performance in large enterprises.

Sean Burgess has been working with MooTools framework 1.2.1 using FormCheck for making client side validation of forms. Everything seemed fine, but Domino didn’t generate an ID attribute so Sean had to solve the problem.