The Learning Continuum Company (TLCC) has introduced three new distance learning courses for Notes and Domino 8. TLCC offers FREE demonstration courses to let you experience a TLCC course and see for yourself! The three new courses are DB2 for Domino 8 Administrators and Developers, Using JavaScript in Notes Domino 8, and, Using LotusScript in Domino 8 Web Applications. All three courses are available now at TLCC’s website for download. TLCC also offers a complete line of courses for Notes Domino 8 and Sametime for users, administrators and developers.

Two words: Amen, brother.

For a few years now, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard has been supporting a Notes application for a customer, and one of the pieces of functionality he wanted in the application for quite some time was to be able to record server, rather than client, clock times when users performed various actions. Even though there are all sorts of version compatibility issues, Mick figured out how to do it. This article explains it all.

Read this DominoPower article.

Cloud computing, designed as a shared pool outside the enterprise, has gained momentum recently as a way to reduce costs and improve IT flexibility. But cloud computing carries with it security risks, including perils related to compliance, availability, and data integrity that many companies haven’t fully considered.

If you’re running Sun Solaris, you might know what software they offer, or you might only know some of their products. For a list of software and freeware available for Sun Solaris take a look at this list compiled by H. Balo and B. Lund of Copenhagen Denmark: http://www.solaris4you.dk/sunsolaris.html

Mikkel Heisterberg provides a link from his blog to a new article on Eclipse.org. Comments posted on his site provide additional information on using Eclipse for Lotus 8 plug-in development.

Elguji Software, LLC, will be releasing their new bookmarking tool, LinkJam, at the end of July. It works with Lotus Domino 6.5, 7, and 8, to help users share their sources of information more easily.

Just Uptime is an installation-free, user friendly, web based server monitoring and alert service. Upon sign up users are assigned a unique dashboard in which they can use to setup a range of checks to ensure their website or server is functioning correctly.

Being installation-free Just Uptime means no webmaster should be without the service. This user friendly, web based server monitoring and alert service will text message you as soon as your website or server goes down.

Webroot Software has unveiled ‘The Webroot Giving Programme’, the company’s commitment to donate to worldwide beneficiaries. Webroot is a leading provider of security software for the consumer, enterprise and SME markets.

‘The Webroot Giving Programme’ is based on three main principles: matching individual employee donations; a quarterly corporate donation; and employee Volunteer Day.

This will mean something only to a very few of you, but a very special (and long forgotten) friend has passed on. I’m speaking, of course, of WebStar. WebStar was one of the very first Web servers, and it worked (amazingly well) on Macintosh computers back in the late 1990s.

Ten years ago, when we launched ZATZ, we launched it running WebStar on an old iMac, of all things — and that iMac and WebStar took the hits like a champ. It stood up to millions upon millions upon millions of hits. We were asked, back then, about just how big our data center was to hand all the traffic we were getting and we were almost embarrassed to point to the one, lone, greenish iMac and say "That’s it."

Of course, we long ago moved off of WebStar about the time we moved off Macs. We hosted on Apache, then Frontier, then our own ZENPRESS server, which works with Frontier and Apache. And WebStar went the way of history. It first moved from StarNine, its original publisher, then to 4D (that old Mac database company), and finally, quietly, to a company called Kerio.

This week, WebStar reached the end of its life. Kerio has discontinued it and support for WebStar ends in 2009. We understand why — WebStar was a very old product and by the time we moved off of it, old age had begun to set in. But like your first girl or your first car, we’ll remember WebStar. It brung us to the dance and it brung us back home.

WebStar is dead now, but it’ll live on in our memories. Thanks WebStar. Thanks for everything.