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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• Sametime blackbox - update needed for Lotus Connections 2.0
  I wrote a number of articles in THE VIEW some time back on writing custom Sametime blackboxes (see the March/April and May/June 2008 issues). If you implemented the Sametime blackbox that read data from Lotus Connections (like it's done on ...
• How to install a Lotus Connections fix (which is different from a fixpack)
  Previously I installed Lotus Connections 2.0 fixpack 1 and it took me a while to figure out the syntax so I blogged it. Now I just installed a fix and that too took some figuring out so here is the syntax. I had to install the LO32615 fix from IBM ...
• Show 'n Tell Thursday: Easy access to Lotus Connections Profiles translation files (21 August 2008)
  This weeks SnTT post is about Lotus Connections and how to more easily get access to and change the translation files for the UI of the Profiles feature. Configuring which pieces of information are surfaced in the Profiles feature is pretty easy and ...
• Eclipse Bundle Management
  Understanding Eclipse's new bundle-management mechanism Tags : eclipse
• SWT@Notes 8: Workbench startup and the Accounts API
  So one of the things I have been wresteling with over the last couple of weeks is the Accounts API in Notes 8 / Expeditor. While very nice at the core it does leave something to be desired. Trying to interact with the Accounts API from a plugin running ...
• Lotus Connections communities and Java policy files
  Brain dump... Only technote I could find that mentioned tango.policy was technote 1286604 but that wasn't it. I did however find a clue in the Lotus Connections wiki and was able to adapt it to my needs. Application server (e.g. server1)\Java and ...
• Take the red pill and click your heels 3 times...
  "You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." I do not consider myself a total nut job but I invite you and encourage you to listen to this episode of the Daily Source Code podcast for your start to the ...
• TwitNotes - proxy support in v. 1.0.5
  So TwitNotes has been out for a while now and I have been discussing various aspects of the application with users. One of the issues that come up time and time again is proxy support. The proxies supported by TwitNotes v. 1.0.5 are the proxies supported ...

• Re: Discovering Notes 8: Enabling Java 5 source compilation
  Thanks for this, I was just about to start pulling my hair out!
• Re: Custom Sametime blackbox for bleedyellow.com
  First of all I don't think the Connections Rest API provides you with access to the picture data though I could very well be wrong. The honest answer however is that it started as a use-case for writing your own Sametime blackboxes more than anything else ...
• Re: Custom Sametime blackbox for bleedyellow.com
  Hi Mikkel. Was there a reason you chose to access this data directly in DB2 rather than use the Connections existing APIs?
• Re: Discovering Notes 8: Empty LotusScript debugger
  I gues this is not only related to Notes 8, I have it also in Notes 7...
• Re: Java in Notes/Domino Explained: Domino Session Tester
  From the HttpServletRequest get the cookies and loop through them until you find a cookie called LtpaToken (or whatever name you use for it), extract the data and use that for your session.
• Re: Java in Notes/Domino Explained: Domino Session Tester
  Hi there! I must say your 'article' was very useful to me, now I know that it is possible to use the LTPA token to create a session in when using a 'servlet' from a portlet to connect to a domino database! I am using Domingo to get the domino java api, ...
• Re: How to install a Lotus Connections fix (which is different from a fixpack)
  Hello, You could have used the GUI installer of the UpdateInstaller foor Connections also. Which is much easier to handle. This doesn't work for the FixpAck you are right about that. But for Fixes it does it work as it should be. The command for the GUI ...
• Re: Java in Notes/Domino Explained: Domino Session Tester
  Nope but I can tell you where to find it in your Notes/Domino installation if you're interested... :-)
• Re: Java in Notes/Domino Explained: Domino Session Tester
  could you please provide a link to download notes.jar?
• Re: TwitNotes - 1.0.5 released to the update site
  Please go into "Help/Support/V...