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Summary: Some good techniques...
Review: This book does have a number of good web techniques for those who are new to Domino - stuff often found in good technical articles. Good for the beginner to intermediate in Domino web programming.Not so useful for the developer who has done abit of work with Domino web stuff before. Just to echo other reviewers, the Domino R5 version used was beta and some things are outdated.
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Summary: It tells you it can be done, then drops you like a hot potat
Review: This book is no better than some of the annoying posts I see on the notes.net discussion. This book tells you something can be done. It tells you what you could do in very general terms. Then it refers you to other resources. So why should I bother to buy this book? I specifically was looking for info on the ViewApplet, and Javascript control of applets. The information that is available in Lotus' documentation was repeated. In addition, once that information was presented, the author gave the usual 'go look elsewhere' for real examples - what good is that! I have questions that are advanced in nature--but none of them are answered in this book. So why should I bother buying this book? The references to other sites, and other books is insulting and stupid when you consider you are buying the book in the first place to find that information - IN THIS BOOK. For the few items that this book does actually discuss, the knowledge imparted is shallow, and no better than what you can find in the documentation. I am very disastisfied with the entire Notes/Domino yellow book series from McGraw Hill. I own many of them which I bought from Amazon based on reviews. I am sorry I did. All these books are very shallow and general. You might get lucky and get one or two pages of information you could not find anywhere else. However the rest of the material in this series of books is review or just "I know it, you can do it, find out how elsewhere". If you are a longtime Domino developer, than this book is not for you. You already know what's in it.
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