Create a Web 2.0-style, thin Web client for Lotus Domino using HTML and JavaScript. Building on the previous articles about the IBM Lotus Domino XML (DXL) framework, this article shows you how to extend your Notes/Domino applications with Ajax.

IBM announced new technologies and consulting services that are designed to allow employees to automatically create customized, Web-based learning courses for their personal use, in real-time. Developed by IBM Research, and by IBM’s Human Capital Management and Learning Solutions practices, these two new software tools, Dynamic Learning Experience and MAGIC (Metadata Automated Generation for Information Content), work in tandem to streamline the preparation and assembly of learning material, including documents and video content. These tools are specifically designed to help make learning easy and attractive to employees.

By now, nearly everyone has heard the dismal account of what generational shifts in the technology workforce will mean for the future of IT: The old guard is soon to retire, few want to join the new guard, and skilled workers are only getting harder to come by. A report, "CIOs: Avoid War Between IT’s Twentysomethings and More Mature Workers," released Oct. 24 by Forrester Research analyst Phil Murphy, argues that this position is both irresponsible and just plain wrong.

Security professionals from around the world have snapped up places on a Scottish university’s pioneering new terrorism course, which went live on Monday via the Internet. Participants include police, military, coastguard and aviation officials from Britain, Australia, Canada, Scandinavia and Thailand, among other countries.

Cheap little servers handle so much of the Internet’s dirty work that giant computers known as mainframes, which debuted 50 years ago and often cost more than $1 million, are supposed to be passe. Mainframes were IBM’s fastest-growing hardware segment after the microchip division, which is enjoying a nice ride making microprocessors for the top three video game consoles. IBM does not release precise figures, but analysts estimate mainframe revenue at roughly $2.3 billion in the first nine months of 2006.

A tricky malicious program has become more prevalent in spam, but experts don’t know what its creators plan to do with it. Many vendors are rating the malware–called "Warezov," "Stration," and "Stratio"–as a low risk. But they also say it is tricky to deal with. The malware is a mass-mailing worm that affects machines running Microsoft’s Windows OS.

A "Tower of Babel" device that gives the illusion of being bilingual is being developed by US scientists. Users simply have to silently mouth a word in their own language for it to be translated and read out in another. The researchers said the effect was like watching a television program that had been dubbed. The system, detailed in New Scientist, is not yet fully accurate, but experts said it showed the technology was "within reach".

Hewlett-Packard will introduce three new products at Storage Networking World–its first C-class blade server dedicated to storage, an ultra-high-speed virtual tape library gateway, and a storage area network "starter kit" for small and midsize businesses. Although all three could work well in a large enterprise storage environment, HP is aiming them squarely at the burgeoning SMB storage market in its continuing battle against foes IBM, EMC, Sun Microsystems, NetApp and others in this sector.

While not all IT disasters are of cataclysmic proportions, every weathered IT professional has an all-too-real eerie tale about a day when everything went wrong. Even 10 and 50 years later, these pros retell their horror stories with a startling sharpness, more haunting than ghost stories.

We continue our series of interviews with Lotus Business Partners. This week, I had the opportunity to interview Marek Szymanski and Scott Tomlinson of DLI.tools. Marek’s the Product Development Director and Scott’s their Marketing and Alliances Director. In this in-depth interview, these gentlemen help us understand document management, AJAX, RSS, and more. In fact, we started off with our usual 10 question interview and the discussion got so in-depth we wound up with more than 20 questions — and an interview that will span both this week and next week’s issues.

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