This is the blog of Mikkel Heisterberg about all things Lotus though primarily Notes, Domino, Sametime and Connections. More detailed info about me, incl. bio, can be found on the about me page.

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• Show 'n Tell Thursday: Cross compiling sidebar plugins for Notes 8.0.x and Notes 8.5 (7 August 2008)
  I haven't done a SnTT in months (actually the last one was back on 24 May 2007) so I guess it's about time. This week it's about cross compiling sidebar plugins for Notes 8.5 and Notes 8.0.2. Enjoy... Since installing Notes 8.5 I have had a lot of ...
• Running your own DNS?
  If you are be sure to listen to Security Now! episode 155 ("How DNS works") to learn about the DNS exploits circulating the internet these days. Also you might want to test the DNS servers you use to see if they they are subject to the attack. I know ...
• Discovering Notes 8: VMWare, Notes 8 and database corruption
  For quite some time I have been a strong proponent of using VMWare for customer development. I used to have 2 or 3 Notes clients in various versions installed on my laptop with a directory pointer per customer linked into my main data directory. A ...
• Amazon web services - amazing!
  I just got a billing statement for my usage of the Amazon S3 storage service and it's amazing! Well not the actual statement but the contents of the statement. The statement shows that I have 5.36 USD due. I uploaded around 3,5 GB of data to my account ...
• Site of the day: Wordle.net
  Discovered a very nice site today that allows you to nicely visualize tag clouds from either a RSS/Atom feed or from the tags a user assigned to links on del.icio.us. The site is called wordle.net and the data is displayed using a Java applet. Very nice ...
• If in doubt throw more memory at it
  I have had more memory added to my Tomcat hosting and the blog already seems to be running better. Thanks to those who have been pointing the problems out to me.
• Really like being able to minimize sidebar plugins to an icon
  Prior to Notes 8.5 it wasn't really an option to load many sidebar plugins as they, even when collapsed, would take up a great deal of screen real estate. From Notes 8.5 you can choose to minimize a sidebar plugin to an icon at the bottom of the sidebar ...
• TwitNotes - 1.0.5 released to the update site
  Finally after talking about it for a long time and working on it for even longer I'm happy to announce that I have uploaded TwitNotes v. 1.0.5 to the update site. This release became bigger than first expected and required more work than expected so I'm ...

• Re: My steps for installing Lotus Connections 2.0 FP1
  Thanks Mikkel! Seems to have worked like a champ!
• Re: TwitNotes - 1.0.5 released to the update site
  AH, but my Clean instructions for the Mac work, even though an error is popped.
• How to clean Cache
  Got time to try this... no joy I'm on a Mac. Went to Terminal hit cd /Applications/Notes....
• Re: TwitNotes - 1.0.5 released to the update site
  Sorry to say that that did not help. I did a search in the Notes directory for com.lekkimworld and found the following references: c:\Program\IBM\Lotus...
• Re: TwitNotes - 1.0.5 released to the update site
  Try running Notes with the -clean option. If Notes is installed in c:\lotus\notes run the following command from a DOS prompt: c:\lotus\notes\frame...
• Re: TwitNotes - 1.0.5 released to the update site
  Nop, that did not work, after starting Notes I get errors when doing file - application - install and I cannot install it again as I get configuration errors. The reason I want to uninstall is because I installed Version 1.0.5 from the update site ...
• Re: TwitNotes - 1.0.5 released to the update site
  Out of curiosity which version are you uninstalling? You should be able to manually uninstall by removing the features and the plugins themselves. You should be able to do it like this (this is for v. 1.0.5): Close Notes Find your Notes data ...
• Re: TwitNotes - 1.0.5 released to the update site
  I get an error when I try to uninstall the plugin, is there a manual way to uninstall it ?
• Re: Amazon web services - amazing!
  I've been using this for a while, and it is ridiculously good value. Exploring the newest Jungledisk just now, I've noticed that they've introduced "Jungledisk Plus" which (for the extortionate sum of $1/month) adds some useful features like: - ...
• Re: Site of the day: Wordle.net
  Well I did see the name but no. I found the site through @perrins Twitter followers... :-)