I've been taking to heart what Chris Toohey and others have said about application UIs and how they can impact what users think of an application platform like Lotus Notes.

Before I roll-out another database based on the drab and lifeless Document Library template, has someone already taken the existing emplate and jazzed it up?  Or created something like a Document Library and made it open source?

I checked OpenNTF but didn't see anything there.  This would be for Notes 8.5 Basic client users.  No web or Standard client users at this time.

Blogger of the year Chris Tooey wrote an excellent article on how to set row colors using profile document.  Unfortunately, I discovered today that it does not work with shared columns.  I created a non-shared view column and it works just fine.  Time to call Lotus Support and complain!

Is there a way I can prevent DDE from initializing Java Tooling every time I launch DDE?

I've been searching through all of the various sources for xPages development and haven't found the answer yet.  Either that or I completely missed it.  (Which is very likely.)

Does anyone know how I can validate that a Radio Button Group control has a radio button selected before the xPage is submitted?

One problem I've had with DDE 8.5 is that I could not copy an Action in a form and paste it into Shared Actions.  I work on a lot of older databases and replacing redundant actions with shared actions is one of the cleanup tasks I do.

Well, now with DDE 8.5 FP1, I can do this again.  Woot!