A new white paper defines what IBM means by "Unified Communications and Collaboration (IBM UC2)" with a high level discussion of how Sametime Unified Telephony works with Lotus Sametime and Lotus Notes.

As a promotion for Instructor-Led Online training, IBM is offering you the chance to try Basics of the Data Studio Environment (3E060) on December 16, 2008 for free. The course normally costs US $199.

For those who have been too busy to upgrade their certifications, you have another 4 months. The deadline has been pushed back from December 31, 2008 to April 30, 2009.

Cognos is a business planning tool from IBM that can be combined with Domino to get reports to managers. Mark Myers offers some code, and advice, on getting the information off a Cognos server cleanly and getting it into Domino.

Michael Slater and Christopher Haupt are offering a free "Learning Rails Online Course" on BuildingWebApps.com. The course includes 23 lessons covering everything from "Why you should learn Ruby on Rails" to "Performance analysis with New Relic RPM".

Stuart McIntyre has posted links to the 8.1 Quickr/Domino fix pack and its list of fixes on his blog. There are about 50 fixes in this fix pack.

Mick Moignard has found another bug and a workaround for it in Notes 7.x and 8.0. If you’re having trouble with spaces in list boxes, you might want to check out his page.

What are the strategies and tactics you can begin to deploy NOW that will help keep you afloat in these incredibly uncertain times? What are ten things you can begin to do right now, this month, this week, even this morning that will combat the financial crisis blues and ensure that your bottom line is more line than bottom? Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz discusses an upcoming webinar that’ll answer these questions, introduces two new site features, and even shows you how you can find ten tips for staying safe online.

Read this DominoPower article.

iQ.ClientWatchdog, uses a single DLL in the Notes program directory allowing you to manage the file-types users can attach to their emails.

Show’n Tell Thursday is a day early this week with code to help you create an empty NotesDocumentCollection.