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Summary: For beginners only
Review: This book is supposed to be at a user level of Intermediate - Advanced. Quite the contrary. As a reference for experienced developers I found this book to be very disappointing. If you are relatively new to Notes this book could be of value, otherwise I believe your money can be better spent elsewhere.
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Summary: good, not great - it's what Domino online help SHOULD be
Review: This book provides the info that Lotus SHOULD have included in Domino Designer's online help. I feel like Lotus ripped me off, and this book adequately fills the void. However, I was hoping for more in-depth developer's info. Instead, it's more suited to the novice developer or advanced user, and is definitely not a comprehensive reference. If you're a beginner, you'll find this useful. If you're a more advanced developer, or an administrator, then look elsewhere.
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Summary: Good book for Notes Developers. Not for beginners.
Review: This books gives a head start development in R5 for already notes developers. I liked the casual language of authors. The book covers all the development aspects of R5 including Formula Language, Lotus Script, Java and JavaScript(it teaches you how to use JavaScript in Notes R5. You need to be familiar with it already). It also covers Lotus Components, Net Objects Bean Builder and Domino Global workbench. Not to forget the chapter on Project Design & Management aspects of Domino Applications. It is worth buying. The only problem is, the book is heavy and should have been hard cover bound. I am not sure i can have this book for too long. By the time i finish reading, the pages maybe separated from the book. Lots of useful trial software in CD. I liked the NetObjects Fusion.
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Summary: The Developer's Bible
Review: This is the ideal companion volume to Rob Kirkland's excellent system admin manual. In this hefty book you'll find all you really need to know about formula language, LotusScript, JavaScript and Java to get cracking with R5 development. Granted, it doesn't go into as much detail on each of the "programming" languages as a book dedicated to each of them would but it tells you what you need to know and serves as a perfect launchpad for learning other languages at a later date.Whereas my reference shelf holds about six R4 books which kind of cover everything between them, for R5 I own this and the Kirkland book and so far they haven't let me down. Unreservedly recommended.
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Summary: The Developer's Bible
Review: This is the ideal companion volume to Rob Kirkland's excellent system admin manual. In this hefty book you'll find all you really need to know about formula language, LotusScript, JavaScript and Java to get cracking with R5 development. Granted, it doesn't go into as much detail on each of the "programming" languages as a book dedicated to each of them would but it tells you what you need to know and serves as a perfect launchpad for learning other languages at a later date. Whereas my reference shelf holds about six R4 books which kind of cover everything between them, for R5 I own this and the Kirkland book and so far they haven't let me down. Unreservedly recommended.
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Summary: They have changed authors for this book
Review: This Unleashed book was always edited and partially written by Randy Tamura, but now I notice that he is not involved and is now author of an R5 book from Que, thus the direction of this book may be different. Tamura also got leaders from different technical areas to write chapters, and if they are not involved either, the book will be entirely different than prior ones. One advantage of prior r4.x books was that older version chapters were retained on the CD and still in the index, thus you got much more than the printed pages - they do not describe whether that process continues, thus if you liked the prior Unleashed versions, beware of the new one since authors have changed, and they may or may not be as good. I am past President of a Notes User group and we always had Tamura come and speak. Vance Jochim
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