Real World Computing

I was only recently lamenting the lack of Notes 8 books in Australia, when I got sent this one to review. It looks interesting and it certainly will fill a gap. I'll bring you a detailed review when I've had a proper read. In the meantime, if you're interested, jump right in and get it - it seems very comprehensive. IBM Notes and Domino 8.5.1 by Barry Rosen , Bennie Gibson , Brad Schauf , David Byrd , Dick McCarrick , Joseph Anderson , Tim Speed Chapter 8: What's new in Notes/Domino 8.5 Development is available for download for free (in PDF format). It's a good place to start. Click here for further information;

With our recent change to everyone's password and the hardening of some of our standards, we've understandably got a bit of internal confusion over passwords. I decided to not only sort out our internal problems but also give our users some great tips for their internet passwords. Here's a presentation I've prepared for our users. I've stripped off branding and names so that you can use it in your own organisations. You have my permission to reuse it as you see fit.

Our Domino Infrastructure upgrades were originally scheduled to take place in early 2009 but when we discovered that Notes 8 closed the "duplicate subform" loophole which, as it turned out was used by one of our mission critical apps, it was put on hold. In fact it was put on hold for so long that 8.5 and then 8.5.1 were released in the meantime. After a careful look at both, some unresolved issues in 8.5.1 led us to a decision to deploy 8.5. The Notes 8.5 Client The rollout of 8.5 client was done quietly, one person at a time. Given that this is such a major change to the client (eclipse), it's hardly surprising that there were issues - some of which are again, still unresolved. We did quite a few experiments in that initial rollout; Networked Data Folders We tried putting the data directory on the user's home drives (network shares). It's an old trick which works to provide better (more complete and seamless) roaming than Notes itself provides. Unfortunately, no...