Inside Lotusscript

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Summary: Provides valuable cut & paste code & not avaiable elsewhere.
Review: Although not for the beginner, this text was straight forward. Goes beyond Lotus' explanation of this language. It provided solutions to some of my current LS issues...as well as the code-to-go. Great Reference!

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Summary: Inside LotusScript
Review: At last, here's a book that tells you everything that ISN'T in the Lotus Notes manuals. It's designed to make it easy for you to develop Notes and Domino Web applications by providing advanced LotusScript code for direct use in your programs. It emphasizes practical, useable code and solutions to common Notes programming problems. If you're interested in the Internet or Web programming -- or if you want to learn Notes programming, from beginner level to advanced, this book is for you!

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Summary: Inside ? Where ?
Review: I bought this book because I want to understand LotusScript in details, but the book is very confuse and don't have a cronologic "learning" process... Was a spend of money.. In time, if want to understand LotusScript in ease (But not like a dummy way) purchase TY LotusScript!

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Summary: If you want to know LotusScript - this is not for you
Review: I expected much more on LotusScript than this book offered. I needed information and explanations. The title suggests it's all about LotusScript, but it's not. If you want some basic understanding of functions, domino and security, which is what this book offers, there are more helpful books out there.

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Summary: The title of this book is misleading
Review: I'd have to agree with the person from Sweden. This book didn't provide what the title seems to promise. It should be titled "General Overview of Notes". For someone wanting to dig into LotusScript I suggest Bill Kreisle's book "Teach Yourself LotusScript for Notes/Domino 4.6". Very Good.

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Summary: You can judge a book by the number of copies stolen...
Review: I'm on my third copy of this book. Every time I loan it out to a new developer, I never see the book again.

The title is a bit confusing because it deals with more than just LS. This book contains a LOT of great Notes design information - @functions, LS, general db design, web design, security, the whole bit. It also contains some great code you can copy/paste into your apps. Sequential numbering, text parsing routines, and more.

I keep hoping Joe puts out a new version for R5 or R6. I love this book.

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Summary: You can judge a book by the number of copies stolen...
Review: I'm on my third copy of this book. Every time I loan it out to a new developer, I never see the book again.

The title is a bit confusing because it deals with more than just LS. This book contains a LOT of great Notes design information - @functions, LS, general db design, web design, security, the whole bit. It also contains some great code you can copy/paste into your apps. Sequential numbering, text parsing routines, and more.

I keep hoping Joe puts out a new version for R5 or R6. I love this book.

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Summary: Good book with weak points
Review: Lots of good ideas about LotusScript programing. The title is somewhat misleading since there is a lot of Formula language programming explained. The weakest point is the over and over repetition of evaluating formula commands in LotusScript which does not provide anything new after the first example. Furthermore, I did expect 'inside' information about native LotusScript list processing, which is not covered. On the positive side, I liked the style of writing and many ideas.

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Summary: Great book, very useful!
Review: This book was exactly what I was looking for. It was worth buying for the sequential numbering code alone, which has saved me on a couple of projects. Lots of other useful pieces of code too. The searching functions and Internet LotusScript search functions saved me a lot of time. And some of the code - like for setting rich text fonts and colors - I didn't even know was possible in Notes! Very easy to understand, the author is good at explaining things in plain English. I'd recommend this book to Notes programmers at any level.