If you weren't lucky enough to be one of the estimated 10,000 in attendance at Lotusphere 2007 in Orlando, Fla., you can still catch up on the hot topics. In this audiocast, you'll hear Lotusphere attendees' thoughts on this year's Lotusphere conference, the upcoming release of Lotus Notes 8.0, and some of its best new features.

We asked our SearchDomino.com experts to tell us their favorite freeware tools for Lotus Notes and Domino Server administration and other everyday IT administration tasks. Find out what freeware tools and applications they say are the best on the Web.

Shifting some of the love in Sun's direction, Simon Phipps reports, Sun Announces ODF Plug-In for MS Office Great news today. Sun has announced that it will make available a plug-in for Microsoft Office that adds seamless support for ISO/IEC...

Google Operating system blog reports that after 3 years of invitation only access, GMail is opened for public sign up. The service is still strictly in beta, even though it's been around since 2004. GMail started with invitation only sign...

Apple - Thoughts on Music Much of the concern over DRM systems has arisen in European countries. Perhaps those unhappy with the current situation should redirect their energies towards persuading the music companies to sell their music DRM-free. For Europeans,...

Just when you thought it was safe to make assumptions regarding whether or not MSFT understood the "Don't Fight The Internet" rule of doing business on the 2.0 Web, they go and get all "Open" on us. So much for...

Cedric Savarese offers an interesting guide to using XUL to enhance web apps on Mozilla-compatible browsers. He very helpfully includes performance numbers, including comparisons to equivalent JavaScript widgets.

Learn how you can apply XSL style sheets to your XML views without the pain of creating several templates.

Have you ever needed to use a list description and its synonym in different views? This universal @Formula script from SearchDomino.com member John Humphreys allows you to set a field with the description value of a list for later use.

I want to use Apache SOAP in websphere 6.1 since we will be reusing the framework developed already using Apache SOAP.This has been implemented only

I want to use Apache SOAP in websphere 6.1.
Since we will be reusing the framework developed using Apache SOAP.This has been implemented only with

I'm a democrat (not in the US capital D sense): I think regulations should be made transparently and fairly by wise heads with elected oversight, administrative checks and balances, and judicial appeal. So I am horrified by the idea that...

Opera's Anne van Kesteren has blogged that HTML browser makers should "define graceful error handling for XML, put some IETF, W3C or WHATWG sticker on it, label it XML 2.0 and ship it." It has been widely reported. My company,...

I'm sure this is going to get blogged almost immediately, but I'll just add my two cents here - Microsoft has formally announced that with the publication of the XSLT 2.0 Recommendation the XML Team has commenced working on a...

Service-oriented architecture is an architectural approach to building software applications as a collection of reusable business services. Interest in SOA is growing within the business community. To address the need for an infrastructure to enable the building of service-oriented applications, a new breed of SOA suites is emerging. Vendors such as Oracle, BEA Systems, and IBM now provide platforms specifically focused on SOA applications. In established, complex IT environments with diverse applications - including legacy applications that are tied together with custom adapters, and business scenarios that demand extensive partner interaction - the move to SOA may appear challenging. However, new SOA suites make it easy. We at Sierra Atlantic decided to review one of them - Oracle SOA Suite.

This is probably a naive question, but it's an important one. I'm trying to take an existing app and turn it into a web service. The application has

NOTE: While this is the first post in this weekly series, to stay in context with the weeks of the year I've chosen to start with week 5, which for those of us in whom use the Gregorian calendar, is...