On The Quickr Blog, Stuart McIntyre, has posted an OpenMic session recorded on June 26 that covers the installation and configuration of Quickr/J2EE in a clustered Websphere Portal environment:

Chris Toohey offers a videocast showing how you can add a Lotus Notes Form as a Sidebar Widget.

On his blog, Bob Balfe offers a video on how composites are used to take three web applications and share data between them.

Collaboration University is accepting registrations for its September conferences on Lotus Quickr and Sametime. Early registration discounts are still available.

Collaboration University will be in Chicago: September 8-10 2008 and in London: September 15-17, 2008

RSS Feed Creator, a software tool designed to create, edit and publish RSS feeds, has been released by Webvigour Software. With RSS Feed Creator, webmasters can create new RSS feeds from scratch, or modify and enhance existing RSS feeds.

Designed for the Windows OS, this application enables you to create, edit and publish RSS feeds and podcasts quickly.

BlueBear, LLC announced beta availability of Kodiak. Kodiak addresses the many limitations in existing virtual infrastructure management software and gives IT professionals split-second reaction time and maximum situational awareness.

New Relic RPM helps speed key action response by 50 percent for the company that created Ruby on Rails.

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Many enterprises with IBM Lotus Notes(r) have IT users that use Microsoft(r) SharePoint(r) for basic document management and team collaboration. However, accessing SharePoint document libraries from Notes is a cumbersome, multi-step process that makes day-to-day tasks tedious.

On his blog Curt Stone discusses his first day of Eclipse training using the Eclipse Tutorial from SourceForge.

The authors of Nuwar — also known as the Storm worm — are exploiting the escalating political tensions between the U.S. and Iran to encourage users to download the malware, according to McAfee Avert Labs.

The security firm has warned people to be wary of e-mails with the headers "The beginning of World War III" and "USA declares war on Iran." The e-mails promise to link to a video showing the beginning of World War III, but clicking on the link actually triggers an automatic download of the file iran_occupation.exe, McAfee said.

The Storm worm was first detected in January 2007, but has reappeared in various guises several times over the past 18 months.