How to run a manual NSD for #LotusNotes / #LotusDomino on Windows http://t.co/yFXyB6K5

#ibmconnected RT @We4IT: There a still a couple of seats left for our first webinar http://t.co/npONiP3d #mobility #LotusNotes

Based on your feedback here, similar comments in Design Partner reviews, and some challenges we were having with explaining the whole thing to our extended IBM team, I revised our release strategy.

The new version of Notes/Domino shipping later this year will now be a single Lotus Notes/Domino Social Edition 8.5.4 release. As an administrator, you will be able to configure the code to deploy in the manner in which you intend. If you want it to just be a maintenance release, you won't have to enable the new features. If you want the new stuff including embedded experiences, you'll be able to deploy all of those components. If you want something in-between, that will be an option.

Beyond this release, it will be time to end the confusion. Our next feature release, planned for another 18 months or so past Notes/Domino Social Edition 8.5.4, will definitely increment the first digit. Whether that is a 9 or something funkier, we'll just have to see :-)

Looking to replace #Lotusnotes with #Exchange? Have a read of this and you may think again - http://bit.ly/qV5waF

Want to learn HTML5 ? If so, has developerWorks got an offer for you .... ? Well, yes, it has :-)

The big feature of this release — and the reason for the new version number — are the new WebDriver APIs for Python, Ruby, Java and C#. These have been in development for over four years, and are already widely used, trusted and depended on. The WebDriver APIs have been written by developers familiar with each language, so they feel like they belong there. We’re very proud of them, and hope you enjoy using them.

Support for WebDriver is also baked into Opera and Chrome, and we’re working closely with Mozilla to ensure that their browsers also support it. Looking to the future, WebDriver also works on both Android and iPhone, allowing you to test your sites on the next wave of the Web.

Performance improvement for accessing documents through viewentries

Setting the Update_Fulltext_Thread parameter to 1 allows use of a separate thread to do full text indexing so that long full text indexes don't delay view updates. By default, view updates and full text index updates are driven by the same thread.

someone casually mentioned that there is an undocumented URL command "?OpenField".

What this URL command does, is return the HTML rendering of a specified Rich Text Field, with no head, no body tag etc.

The 'Domino Unit Framework' (DUF) is the Domino (or maybe that should be LotusScript - although LUF isn't quite as funny) take on this framework. The database contains example code in the one and only agent, but here are a few snippets so that you can see