Seems like IBM Lotus have released a Critical Fix for R6.0.1.

This is a new method of releasing unscheduled updates to the codestream but you do have to ask yourself if downloading 176Mb ( 79Mb for the Server Update and 97Mb for the Client Update ) is really worth the 6 fixes that it contains.

Why are the patches so darn big…

I’m off to the UK for a little while. Visiting the Lake District in the north of England. I’ve heard that it is a lovely place.

So while I’m away have a great St. Patricks Day on the 17th and make you all have plenty of Guinness on the night

In other news I have just made the BETA version of BlogSphere available to download from BlogSphere.net. Have fun but please remember that this is a BETA product, it is not finished and there is NO documentation yet.

Today I was presented with an interesting issue. A clients database where they kept sales records and VAT information had a small rounding issue. Things were not being rounded up or down to their liking. With a VAT rate of 17.5% a lot of values were ending up with a figure that was accurate to 3 decimal places with the third decimal place always being a 5 for example 125.255.

When displayed with a currency field that is set to only display 2 decimal places it will get rounded up to 125.26. but if it was a value of 125.225 it would get rounded down to 125.22 and not up to 125.23 as you would expect. This is appently called Even Number Rounding where any figure that needs to be rounded will be rounded to the nearest even number. The concept is that there will be a 50/50 split of round up to round downs and that they will cancel each other out in the long run.

Mike over at NotesTips.com put up a small post about a new
TrackBack feature that he has implemented in his Blog Template, however the
comments seem to have turned into a discussion about OpenNTF and Open Source Blog templates. What are your views ? Get over there now and let everybody know.