David Brown has posted a shot of one of the least helpful error messages out there. If you have a good translation, he’d like to know.

Steve Russell describes ways to secure micro broker communication using a security feature new in version 3, which is shipped with Lotus Expeditor 6.2.

Marie L Scott has upgraded her users to the mail8.5.ntf template. Occasionally, conversion failed with an "invalid slot number" message. She found a workaround for the problem.

Chris Toohey says most Domino web application developers are probably using this already, but maybe they didn’t know its official name. In case you weren’t aware, CRUD is short for Create, Read, Update, Delete.

Andy Pedisich was going to print out some PDFs on using Notes R8 for a customer when he discovered they’d all been converted to Learning Plug-ins for Lotus Notes. He provides links and screen shots.

Ulrich Krause is wondering why, after a clean shut down and startup of his server, the DAOS catalog needs to be re-synched. He’s aware others have reported the issue but hasn’t seen a fix.

Bob Balfe has posted links to three new tutorials on the Composite Application Wiki. Tutorials include: Integrating Notes Data to Symphony Tutorial and How to Write an Eclipse Component in 40 minutes or less (which may take you more than 40 minutes to read).

Jacques Pavlenyi has posted information on some of the speakers confirmed for the Sametime and Lotus Interop scheduled for May 17-22 in Las Vegas, NV.

If you’re interested in adding geolocation capabilities to your applications, the SQL database behind iplocationtools.com is available for free.

Steve McDonagh provides some serious tips on using FLEX to capture click events to test buttons with labels saying things like, "I’m Waiting. Click me hard."