IBM's Christopher Pepin has written instructions showing you how to use Sametime 7.5 to instant message with IBMers. ? ?Please see Communicate with IBM employees via ?Sametime 7.5 for details. ? Log-on and send me a hello.

Our friends at Alien Skin Software have set us up with an exclusive special offer discount link that will give you some sweet savings at their online store. Just follow this link and you'll see 10% and 20% price drops on almost all of their products when you get to the Alien Skin Online Store area. This special offer includes a discount on Eye Candy, Exposure, and their latest release — Blow Up. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Today I bring you an interview with the go-to guy when it comes to data recovery. Scott Gaidano is the president of DriveSavers, one of the most respected data recovery companies in the business. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

There are some new script updates at Trevor Morris' site. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Canon’s EOS Digital Rebel XT model – the camera that set all time sales records for digital SLRs of any persuasion (supplanting the original Digital Rebel’s claim to that title) – now takes its place alongside of the newest member of the irrepressible Rebel clan: the 10.1 megapixel EOS Digital Rebel XTi SLR camera. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Adobe has used the opening keynote at Photoshop World as a platform for showcasing new and emerging Photoshop technologies, and this year's conference is no exception. John Loiacono, senior vice president of Adobe’s Creative Solutions Business, will take the stage on the morning of September 7. During his presentation, Loiacono will give a sneak peek at some of the new Photoshop technology being developed by Adobe. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

There's a new brushset with a paint splatters/strokes theme. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

My daily coverage of Photoshop tips, tricks and tutorials. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Photoshop users will find this new book on finishing touches practical, valuable and inspiring. From the pen of Photoshop expert Dave Cross (one of the Photoshop TV Guys) comes the new easy-to-use Photoshop Finishing Touches, which offers creative solutions for those of us searching for ways to add that last subtle or dramatic effect to images. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

My daily coverage of Photoshop tips, tricks and tutorials. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

A Notes/Domino 7 upgrade pilot is when you put your first Notes/Domino Release 7 server into the production environment. It's the first real chance you have to prove to everyone that everything is going to work; and, it's your last chance to fix anything that's broken. In this tip, Notes/Domino expert Andy Pedisich explains 10 ND7 upgrade pilot dos and don'ts you should follow to ensure the smoothest ND7 upgrade pilot process possible.

If you haven't migrated to Lotus Notes and Domino 7 yet, you're probably at least thinking about it. This compilation of links will help you ramp up your ND7 knowledge so you can be properly prepared when deployment time arrives.

I have a web service problem....
Based off a WSDL file, I have created stub classes in AXIS...that can communicate with the deployed web service

Hello,

I have integrated Axis with My web application. Can anybody please tell me how would I test if I have integrated properly? Also how can

Workflow is one of the new core capabilities (along with WPF aka Avalon and WCF aka Indigo) being added in the .NET Framework 3.0 release later this year. It provides an in-process workflow engine to process rules, a designer for VS 2005 to enable both developers and non-developers to define custom workflow processes graphically, and a new Workflow namespace to integrate these within code.The official site to learn more about Windows Workflow Foundation can be found here. Over the lasttwo weeks I've also seen a number of great new posts and web-castspublished that cover it in more detail. Belowis a list ofsome of them you might want to explore to learn more: Windows Workflow Foundation Basics: .NET Rocks! Audio-Cast: Carl Franklin talks with...(read more)

Would anybody (Need only 3-4 people) be interested in reviewing sections of my book on

Java/J2EE Job Interview Companion 2nd release at

Since I began this blog, I've been living with the guilt that I've been breaking one of the primary rules of blogging, I did not have a "Blog Roll". ? The idea of a Blog Roll is that you provide links to the other blogs you read, they then do so for you in return, and thus an interweaved community (the blogsphere) is formed.

Well I've finally decided to take the plunge. ? On the left side navigator you will now see "My Blog Roll". ? It is certainly not complete, and subject to change (mainly additions) at any time.

I feel like this is an acceptance speech at an award show, and I know I've forgotten to thank somebody! ? ?So to any names I've not listed, please accept my apology.

The XNA team released their first XNA Game Studio Express Beta release earlier today. You can learn more about it and download it for free here(below is a screenshot from a fun app build with it). This release works on top of the free Visual C# Express Edition, and provides the ability to build games using C# and .NET that target both Windows and the XBOX 360 (we did the work to port a .NET execution engine with PowerPC JIT support to the XBOX to enable this). The XNA Framework ships with the VS package and provides a managed code library for creating rich graphics, and incorporating 3D content into games. I'm looking forward to having some fun with this. :-) You can download it for free here. Enjoy, Scott Share this post: Email it! | bookmark...(read more)

Just to head off any technical support requests for Stubby or the Weather Fetcher database, please let me remind you that Lotus Notes agents that call web services from a server require a security access of 2. Allow restricted operations.

This is because they're making network connections, which is a restricted operation. In addition, the person who signs the agent needs to have the following access set on the server document of the server the agent runs on:

• Run unrestricted methods and operations
• Run restricted LotusScript/Java agents

If not, you get errors like:

java.lang.SecurityException: not allowed to make a socket connection to www.foo.com

And don't get me started on the loose naming convention that was used, which allowed "unrestricted" and "restricted" to mean the same thing. I've talked about that already, long ago.

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I'm Nick Rosenthal from the UK chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. I'd like to invite you to register for the European Conference that we are