Customer Reviews

Special Edition Using Lotus Notes and Domino R5

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This book is a comprehensive overview of both Application Development and Systems Administration and also has great Lotus Script and Java overviews; all based on the new R5 environment.

This book is worth for Lotus Notes beginners, not for advanced users, it helps me a lot to became a CLP, for programming part and advanced administration this book can't help.

Having bought the previous book by Mr. Tamura (Notes 4.6) which, at the time, was the only one around that covered 4.6 Client AND Server, I went for this book, too.
I agree that it might not be of any help for experienced Notes developers and admins, but for those of us who have to struggle through... it's a godsend.
I'm still working my way through it, but seeing as I use the 4.6 book as my bible... I have a sneaking suspicion that the same will apply to the R5 book.
It helped me set up R5 from scratch, and it worked. So there. ;-) Already I didn't have to go through the "Trial and Error" phase. That alone was worth it.

This book helped me a great dealing in learning the changes for R5 and updating my certification as a developer.

I have been a Notes Administrator for a little more than 4 years and this book hasn't left my side since notes went to the R5 version. It touches on all admin and development topics that most real world Notes Administrators and Developers need to deal with on a daily basis. Comparing it to other books I would say it definitely is easier to follow and find the topic that you are looking for than any other Domino book out there to date. I highly recommend this book for beginners and Intermediate level Administrator / Developers.

Excellent for a Domino newcomer. No button or option left uncovered. The only thing I found missing were examples or exercises where you can implement and be walked-through real-life day-to-day situations. You might have to look elsewhere for that, it's hard to expect all that from a 1300 page book.

This book is very good written. It's best for beginners and everybody who want to become CLP. I made my pricipal by reading this book only ! Buy it - read it - and have a deeper look to Notes/Domino ... It's not the best for advanced users but anyway worth to get it.

I knew nothing about Notes and Domino and wanted to learn with this book. Well, almost every minute spent with this book has been a total waste. The book explains concepts in most illogical places, and forgets to mention quite important topics.

One example: if you install Domino, you have to detach the admin's ID from its person document before you can login with a client. Domino setup doesn't tell you this, and if you don't already know, you're stuck. This book doesn't even MENTION an admin ID. It just tells you to log in. Duhh.

Furthermore, the author thinks he's giving useful information by describing a lot of things detail by detail. This is similar to explaining how cars work by alphabetically describing how every single little component works. That's NOT a way of explaining things.

A beginner needs a story about what replication is, how Notes and Domino work together, how to get things started. You CAN find the information, but you have to look very very hard in the most weird places.

If I wanted a detailed description of every little component, I wouldn't need a book.. I'd press F1 for Help..

Talk about a book that can help Notes Admins get comfortable and knowledgeable about lotus! Shows many ways that things can be done and there is no wrong way! Very easy reading and gets straight to the point. This is my fourth lotus / domino book i have bought and this is by far the best one! Mr. Tamura knows what he's talking about!

This book was horrible. This book has a lot of high level information but does not show you how to do it. If you want to develop something once you are finished reading this book, forget about it. I've read chapters over and over and still didn't understand what the author was referring to. There are very few examples to walk you through creating things. When there are examples, they reference stuff you were supposed to create in a previous section, but there were no examples in that section.