Reaching out and picking and choosing cultural references with abandon, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz wishes everyone a happy 2009. Even though this is an end-of-year blessings article, it’s also important. David lists 10 important online safety tips that could help you make 2009 a safe and successful year.

Read this DominoPower article.

Peter Presnell says the Property Generator tool within .Domino Framework has been enhanced as part of the upcoming 0.7 Release. The new release will include the ability to generate properties for NotesName data types and more.

Mikkel Heisterberg has been looking into Scala, a functional programming language that runs on the JVM and is fully interoperable with Java. He provides links to IBM’s Developerworks Technical Library articles on using Scala as well as one to the Scala language organization page.

Vladislav Tatarincev provides a link to the Technote on how upgrading to Domino 7 or 8 removes templates, in case you’re having trouble finding it. Then he provides a number of other notes of upgrade issues for different versions and different operating systems.

Only partly in jest, Keith Brooks offers his experiences with a recent data center move as a case study for the Worst Practices session at Lotusphere.

In this Show-n-Tell Thursday article Gregg Eldred lists the steps in adding the Client Single Logon feature to both new and existing installations.

Chris Reckling says an article was published on developerWorks discussing how to run server-side JavaScript on WebSphere, or, he says you could install Domino 8.5 and use XPages. He provides links to both sides of the story to help you decide.

In preparation for Lotusphere 2009 everyone is trying out new ideas. There is now a URL to access IdeaJam via the iPhone. John Wylie has posted links to instructions and more.

IdeaJam is a piece of Web2.0 software built on Domino/XPages where people can post ideas and see how popular they are. Current items include: "Move attachments to the top of the email message", "Open Source the Domino Product line", and "Make and SMTP/POP3 only version of the mail client part of Symphony".

Stephan H Wissel wants to remind you not to shut down too many "extra" services in your Windows client. He found the Notes 8.5 client crashes fatally if the "DCOM Server Process Launcher" isn’t running.