
Today has been an interesting day, and it comes on the heals of a week that’s been an interesting week. There was big news in the battle to save White House email, an ongoing discussion about whether President-elect Obama can keep his precious BlackBerry, and more. The boss doesn’t want to brag, so he won’t tell you that he’s been featured on CNN.com four times in the last week, twice today alone. First, I’ll cover the big news, which is the emergency order to preserve White House email issued by federal court in Washington, D.C. David got the news early this morning, and he broke a detailed story on the CNN site by mid-afternoon.
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Every year, we mark the tradition of Lotusphere. For those of us who’ve been there nearly every year since it began (I missed the year I got married), Lotusphere isn’t just a business gathering, it’s an annual chance to see some of our favorite people. Lotusphere is also a chance to be inspired and it’s where we go to test the waters, to get a feel for how the overall Lotus market is doing.
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After upgrading to Domino 8.5, John Willemse noticed a change in the default settings for the Notes.ini parameter DEBUG_PD_NAGLE_OFF. This change may, or may not, affect your installation. John provides more information.

Victor Toal offers some undocumented settings for various Lotus products that you might find useful. Things like "RefuseChatFromBoss=1", and "DominoAfterBurnerOn=1".

Andrea Waugh-Metzger provides short descriptions of the different aspects of DAOS (Domino attachment and object service) with links to the wiki pages for thos wanting the full story.

Almar Diehl added the VPS_BYPASS_SINGLE_MACHINE_LOGIN=1 parameter to his Sametime.ini file to fix a problem. Now he finds it has side effects.

Design and document compression can be a good thing. Or it can get you an early morning call from the service desk you didn’t expect.

Mary Beth Raven wants to remind you of this handy short-cut combination that’s been around since 8.0.

Thomas Rajiv provides an overview of what Lotus Traveler is and how it works. Then he lists the new features in version 8.5.

This wiki page provides the table of contents for the Redbook, available in PDF format. The Redbook has chapters on architecture, theme customization and branding under Domino and J2EE, and creating new templates and components under Domino and J2EE.