Usability Specialist Deb Maurer has put together an online survey about the use of color coding in the Notes calendar. The designers are interested in your thoughts on the current color coding scheme and how you might like to use colors in the Notes calendar in the future.

Even better they’d also like to take this opportunity to collect as much feedback from direct end users as possible.

Mikkel Heisterberg wrote about the JavaCompilerTarget last year when Notes 8 came out saying you needed it to enable Java 5 in Domino Designer. Last week some new info on this notes.ini setting surfaced in a forum for Domino NEXT. If you’re doing Java development in Notes you might want to read on. This info will be released in a Technote sometime later. (Technote 1320401)

Mary Beth Raven finds there are times when you want to open the basic (non-Java) version of a view. But, in Notes 8, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, and the beta of 8.5 most views are written in Java. Mary Beth ran into a bug the other day where she couldn’t open any Java view, so this little trick came in handy.

Chris Toohey posts his first Domino + BES mini-project. In this post he will give you a beginner-level introduction to WML specific to something that you can use right now: mobilization of a Group Personal Address Book.

Tommy Valand continues his search for the perfect templating solution for webapps. In his latest concoction, he feels he’s got a decent mix between readability, speed and flexibility.

Colligo Networks Inc. announced the release of Colligo Workgroup Edition 5.0 and Colligo Workgroup for Lotus Notes 5.0, its ‘server free’ ad-hoc networking and database replication software products. Version 5.0 offers reliable peer-to-peer collaboration and IBM Lotus Notes replication technology.

Developer Colin Neale has figured out how to adapt the Google Search Appliance to work with Notes databases, even those that aren’t Web enabled. To learn how, read this fascinating article.

Read this DominoPower article.

Almar Diehl says he was using Lotus Connections 2.0.1 configured to use the Domino directory as the LDAP directory. Last week he noticed one user could use Blogs, Profiles and Communities without a problem but Activities no longer worked and generated an error 500.

Find out what the problem was and how he fixed it.

Chris Miller wonders if your organization understands that QikCom and Present.ly are more than just chats between two people. He sees the data and conversations flowing through the enterprise as something that can be searched, sorted, tagged and archived.

Okay – this isn’t serious, only fun. Of course, you could use the result to see if anyone pays attention to your presentations. SCIgen generates random Computer Science research papers using hand-written context-free grammar.