Lotusphere 2009: Lotus Symphony Developer’s Workshop
If you are interested in attending the Lotus Symphony Developer’s Workshop at Lotusphere, Ed Brill is providing a link to the registration page. The focus of this workshop will be the LotusScript API.
Nice work on iNotes, the iPhone, and IWAREDIR.NSF
Andy Pedisich has written up some tips for Notes Admins who’ve been thrown into supporting iPhones for Domino Web Access.
Article: The ultimate guide to the Amazon S3 service
Ferdy Christant promises this PDF download will show you how to integrate the Amazon S3 service into you PHP application, covering basic setup, URL routing, scripted file uploads, and how to lower your Amazon bill. Don’t forget your towel.
New article: Using the Notes client with Hotmail (or not)
A reader recently asked if he could use Notes as a POP client to get messages from his Hotmail account. Being curious, Nancy Hand set up a new Hotmail account. For all the details on what worked (not much) and what didn’t (pretty much everything), you’ll have to read the full article.
Read this DominoPower article.
Lotus Notes Gets a Makeover, Symphony Beta Released
IBM introduced Lotus Notes 8.5 at Macworld Expo. The company also released a beta version of Lotus Symphony, a free productivity software suite including document, presentation, and spreadsheet capabilities.
Notes 8.5 Contacts vCard Import/Export
Chris Reckling has posted some instructions and screen shots on using the new vCards feature in Notes 8.5.
Upgraded Traveler and Domino to 8.5 – How to get rich text on Windows Mobile?
Robert Ibsen Voith just upgraded his servers from Domino 8.0.2 to 8.5 successfully. Now he’s trying to get rich text support to work on his Traveler client. If you know the answer, he’d like to hear from you.
Notes 8.5: No Designer When Running in Basic Mode
No, this isn’t a bug. Ulrich Krause wants to remind you, Notes 8.5 was designed to work this way.
David on CNN today (twice!)
ZATZ Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz recently wrote an Open Letter to the President-elect, which was published today on CNN.com.
Supporting David’s premise was Ken Robinson, a former Special Operations and Intelligence officer and Senior Terrorism and National Security Analyst for CNN. Ken published his comments on David’s recommendations in a second CNN article.
Notes / Domino 8.5 is available for download
Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5 is available for Download from the IBM Passport Advantage Website. New in Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5:
xPages
ID Vault
Domino attachment and object service (DAOS)
Remember – there is a regression bug in 8.5 AdminP for which you need to download the Interim Fix for 8.5. Bastian Wieczorek provides links and more information from his site.