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Update: added How Do I Temporarily Get The Applications View Out Of The Way section (March 6, 2010)
The release of Notes 8.5.1 brought with it a significant change to the Domino Designer client. For those admins out there (or anyone else, really) who do not have the benefit of an in-house development team to bounce [...]

“IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1, The Upgrader’s Guide” is the latest Domino related title to come out of Packt Publishing. The book promises to be your guide enabling you to quickly upgrade your existing Domino infrastructure and to assist you in leveraging the newest features of Notes and Domino 8.5.1. For the most part [...]

Conxsys is proud to sponsor the milestone 100th episode of the Taking Notes podcast! In this episode, Bruce and Julian interview Matt White, Declan Lynch, and Peter Presnell. They discuss everything XPages from how to get started to debugging (or lack thereof). Go listen to this podcast right now and help us to continue to support wonderful [...]

By rather popular demand I have re-done the Lotus Notes wallpaper from yesterday and made it fit several screen resolutions (800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 800, 1280 x 960, 1400 x 1050, 1440 x 900, 1600 x 1200, 1680 x 1050, 1920 x 1200, and of course 320 x 480 for the iPhone). [...]

For some reason today I was in a bit of a creative mood and decided to create a few Notes, Conxsys, and nsfRewind wallpapers. I hope you enjoy! If you have any other high-quality PNG Lotus product logos and would like similar wallpapers created just let me know.

The Domino 8.5.1 Field Translation pack is now available for nsfRewind Server Document Edition and nsfRewind Enterprise Edition customers. This translation pack includes user-friendly field names for server documents, configuration documents, program documents, connection documents, group documents, and person documents for Domino versions 8.0.2 and below, 8.5, and 8.5.1.
Field translations are used to translate confusing [...]

nsfRewind v1.0.2 is now available to all nsfRewind customers. This version, along with the field translations for Domino Directory 8.5.1, makes it fully compatible with the recently released Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 software. Upgrading current installations of nsfRewind to v1.0.2 is recommended for all customers whether they are running Domino 8.5.1 or not because [...]

Yesterday’s IBM press release announcing the pending shipment of Notes & Domino 8.5.1 contained quotes from Bruce Elgort, David Leedy, and myself. I’m pretty sure that this is the first time that IBM has quoted me in a press release before. But, cool as that may be, my real excitement over this press release was [...]

Flow v1.0 Beta 5 has been released on OpenNTF.org. This version includes a small enhancement called Property Caching.
The Flow Engine’s new Property Caching feature allows developers to set the following properties prior to the Flow document object’s instantiation when using the Flow Engine:

LogMailRecipients
LogMailSubject
LogFileName
ViewIcon
ContinueText

Previously, code had to be written in a specific order. For example, when [...]

Conxsys is proud to sponsor today’s Taking Notes podcast episode #99. In this episode, Bruce and Julian interview none other than IBM’s Alistair Rennie, Vice President of Development and Technical Support, and Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President of Messaging and Collaboration Technology. They discuss the recent success of the Lotus Knows IdeaJam, how those ideas will [...]