Craig Mullins wrote an article on how DBAs need to be able to understand development in order to help support it. In his comments on the article, Tim Lorge provides a link to the original article and some other sites where admins can start learning the basics of developing apps.

As a reminder, IBM posts the Lotus Handbooks for different versions on-line. Here’s a link to the section for "Troubleshooting the Domino system" for version 8.5.

Stuart McIntyre has posted the supportability matrix for Notes 8.5 and embedded plug-ins to help you with your upgrade.

For those of you who like to plan ahead, the folks behind the Lotusphere Blog are offering you a chance to win a pass to next year’s Lotusphere. All you need to do is spend 30 minutes giving them feedback on social networking and team-based management software in the Lotusphere Lab.

Whether you’re new to JavaScript, or an experienced web developer, "Learning JavaScript" by Shelley Powers will provide no-nonsense coverage of this language for web development. The book covers JavaScript elements involved with Ajax and dynamic page effects.

Once again, Mary Beth Raven and the Notes design team would like your opinions on the Notes interface. This time they want to know what you think a tooltip should mean as opposed to what it actually does.

This is the place you can go to try out some of the Lotus products to see how they might work for you. This year the topics include: Quickr, XPages, Comp Apps, Symphony, iWidgets, and more.

Sean Burgess offers some LotusScript code to get a list of ACL entries with a specific role enabled.

Ah, spammers. They keep coming up with new ways around the filters. Robert Ibsen Voith explains how a recent e-mail got past his filters and wonders if you’ve come across the way to stop such mail.

If you’re attending Lotusphere, and like to play miniature golf, now is the time to sign up for the Lotusphere 2009 Blogger Open. Conxsys has agreed to be the official sponsor for this first Blogger Open.