Serdar Basegmez
For a couple of weeks, an important discussion has been emerged between Lotus community members. I am watching blogs with deep curiosity, because similar issues are being discussed here (in Turkey) for a decade between partners as well as customers.
A recent news article claims that the database application keeping land registy records of Istanbul province has been stolen and being marketed to some real estate agencies. It is concerned what may happen if mobs acquire this sensitive information. It reminds us the importance of information security .
We talked about different aspects of social software before. In this fourth episode of series, I will brief some of the ingredients in a social software. I have to repeat that, social software does not provide a solid solution to be analyzed and implemented towards a 'real' business problem 'in general'. Instead, it should be considered as a service provided for employees who are enthusiastic about new technologies...
Users of Lotus Notes 8.x are frustrated with the slowness of the Eclipse platform. Java based new client creates performance problems in older computers due to its memory consumption. IBM Lotus development team provides performance improvement at every new versions. IBMers assure that the performance issues are top-priority for their agendas. The team is focusing especially on start-up times. The first outcomes has been experienced in version 8.5.1 where start-up sequence of some components was reordered to improve end-user usability.
Version 8.5.2 beta phase is approaching to the final and there are good news about the performance improvements. Perhaps, the most important advance is the installation option to pre-load some eclipse processes with the operating system . If you noticed before, Lotus Symphony has the same option which speeds up the opening by over 50%.
Ed Brill posted in his blog about 8.5.2 performance improvements. You can see some links and videos in comments.
Two weeks ago, at a round table meeting with Kevin Cavanaugh, I saw Traveler working on his iPad... Few days later Ed Brill blogged about it. IBMers are 'officially' using Lotus Notes Traveler on iPad...
Ed also has good news about more. Starting with 8.5.2, some new features will be included to the codestream regarding iPad usability.
Beginning with Lotus Notes 8 version, the new document selection method is very annoying for many users. As you 'noticed', we cannot select documents by 'checking' them anymore. I didn't notice before but a nice tip published in Lotus Notes 8.x Tips blog suggests how to bring back old-fashioned selection mark.
IBM announced that Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.1 FP3 is ready to be downloaded. The fix pack contains several critical fixes and is recommended for all 8.5.1 users. It is also incremental and contains all fixes in prior fix-packs. In the fix pack, several crash issues in client application seem to be fixed.
Fix list contained by FP3 can be seen on:
To download FP3:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899\&uid=swg24025721
My friend Ferhat informed me about he has published a blog entry announcing a new Domino Administration utility. The little application will be working on Blackberry phones and providing some basic administration functions like access to remote console, remote calls for scheduled agents, etc.
Second episode is coming for developers. It is time to be expert in XPages.
This week I have participated in XPages virtual workshop of IBM Texas Innovation Center. Due to the time zone issue, it was starting at 5.00 pm and ending at midnight; which upsets my little daughter Defne :) Anyway, I have improved some practise about XPages...
Last week, IBM released an important technote...
System Admins may play with the memory usage of JVM, especially those dealing with limited memory issues. Moreover, as of release 8.5.2, JVM heap size will be decreased by default. It is better to have precautions before upgrade.