New article: Lotusphere 2009 explores Connections, Quickr, Foundations, Protector, and LotusLive
It’s time for more Lotusphere analysis. So far, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard gave you an overview of Notes and Domino 8.5.1 and discussed SAP integration, OpenNTF, mobile, Sametime 8.5, and more. This week, he looks into some more Lotus initiatives including Connections, Quickr, Foundations, Protector, and LotusLive.
Read this DominoPower article.
Notes feature comparison
Ed Brill, on Twitter (Lord help us, we actually checked Twitter today!), posted a link to a great slide presentation comparing the features of various versions of Notes from 6.0 through 8.5. It’s worth reading.
Perforce & Designer 8.5 – Anyone done it?
Mark Barton attended a recent presentation of Domino Designer 8.5. The presenter didn’t know if Perforce could be used with Domino Designer, so Mark is asking if anyone else has tried this combination.
Getting used to Lotus Domino Designer 8.5, findings so far
Tom Steenbergen has loaded Lotus Domino Designer 8.5, based on Eclipse, and worked with it for a bit. He’s written up his impressions, so far.
Consuming .Net web services in Notes 8.5
Michelle O’Rorke had a new challenge: a client wanted to use web services from an external party. After some research, and testing, Michelle gives us her findings.
New Terminology for Block Mail from Sender
Margo L Ezekiel has heard complaints about how "block mail from sender" doesn’t really block mail. So. She’s wondering if it would make sense to change the label on the function. Margo has a few suggestions but she’d like your input.
First, we hang the bankers
New CNN article from David: When it comes to bankers, I so miss hanging.
Why did we give them our hard-earned taxpayer money? Simple. They screwed up. They screwed up so royally that to let them fail might take the country down with them. Now, I’ve screwed up royally once or twice myself, but you don’t see the government rushing to hand me $60 billion.
SnTT: Lotus Notes Icon Collections
Since Notes icons are still limited in size and color, Julian Robichaux has posted links to some icon libraries to help you out.
Busting through “No way!” to get to “Wow!”
Ben Langhinrichs thinks "handling MIME to rich text is a horrible, sticky, nasty pile of steaming difficulty", however the customer wanted it to work anyway. So…
Missed it by that much: Dead Drive
The server was remote, so when the local admin sent David Killingsworth a picture showing a dead drive David had to figure out why the server hadn’t sent an alert.