Mark your calendars. There will be two Lotusphere 2009 labs presented in the UK. 28 April in Manchester and 30 April in London.

Do you kneed a quick way to check if a BlackBerry is actually getting messages? Paul Harrison offers a quick way to check.

Denny Russell found a new short-cut key in the Notes client. It allows you to mark messages as Read or Unread with a single click.

John Del Pizzo has posted links to seven podcasts, demos, and videos to help you with Sametime.

Okay, maybe it wasn’t pretty, but Dave Hay finally figured it out. After getting the compact to work, to upgrade the ODS on his files, he wrote up the instructions for you.

Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz is back with another inciteful article on CNN.com. This time, he takes on Senator Patrick Leahy’s proposal to create a commission to investigate the Bush administration justice department.

Read Sins of commission: Senator Leahy’s truth squad.

You can read all of David’s CNN articles at http://www.DavidGewirtz.com/cnn.

Mary Beth Raven and her team are working to make the user experience more consistent. A current challenge is the difference/similarity in Notes/Quickr between "sync" and "replication". She’d like your opinions on what would make more sense to users.

Jake Howlett has been asked for the best way to learn development enough times that he feels compelled to provide an answer. So he’s asking how you learned.

You’re getting ready to migrate your installation to Notes 8 so you’ve read all the information on the new Notes.ini variables. But. Vlad Tatarincevs warns you about those old setting that are now obsolete.

This developerWorks article is Part 1, "Basic Steps", on converting Notes applications to Java from Steve Castledine and Margo Ezekiel. Part 2, "Advanced Java View Features", is expected to be published February 17.