The Learning Continuum Company (TLCC) has released two new courses: Notes and Domino 8.5 Application Development Update, which covers Domino 8.5 Designer in Eclipse client and XPages; and Notes Domino 8.5 System Administration Update, for experienced Notes and Domino 8.0 administrators.

Vladislav Tatarincev offers some tips on a quick way to recover a server or configuration document, and figure out who changed it, without resorting to backups.

Eric Mack has posted a 1-minute video from Vaughan Rivett explaining keyboard shortcuts in Lotus Notes 8. Eric also provides a link to using ActiveWords for eProductivity for more shortcut options.

YTRIA has updated their EZ Suite of tools for Lotus Notes to work with Notes 8.5. The suite includes scanEZ, agentEZ, aclEZ, and more.

An open source plug-in called eclipse4SL (Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight), is being released under the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0. eclipse4SL will enable Silverlight development capabilities in the Eclipse IDE.

iEnterprises has launched iComply, a Lotus Domino email archiving and compliance software solution. iComply helps companies capture and store Lotus Notes email for compliance with government regulations, corporate policy and electronic discovery.

Christopher Pepin reminds us that Lotus Connections 2.5 is supposed to ship later this year. He also provides a number of links to information on Lotus Connections.

Andy Pedisich will be providing a Sneak Peak of The View’s Admin/Dev 2009 conference and will blogging this week on security holes and how to plug them. Today’s tip: the most dangerous privilege to the Notes Address Book isn’t Manager.

Eric Mack is looking for someone, with a blog or other web site, to whom he can send people looking for basic information on Notes. He has additional information on this page.

Since we explored how Notes with Hotmail seemed to be an unworkable idea, we decided we’d take on Gmail and see if it would be any more cooperative. It was, and in this article, Nancy Hand shows you the ins and outs of getting incoming and outgoing mail to work between Notes and Gmail. It’s another one of her incredibly helpful reads.

Read this DominoPower article.