February 2nd, 2010
Free Code: Not Just your average book review
I too have been asked by Packt publishing to review the book: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 by Tim Speed and an army of other ISSL folks. We reviewers get a free electronic copy of the book to read, which I find very handy since I'm getting most of my books that way now.
I finally had time to sit down and read the book, and I like it a lot. And not just because I got it for free. I seriously thought I would be underwhelmed, but its the extras that the authors put in here that make it worth your time and money. There's really nothing that you can say about Notes 8 , 8.5 and 8.5.1 that hasn't already been written somewhere BUT this book has free code among other things not found elsewhere.
That's right - FREE CODE! and its free code for us administrators (who for the most part are not good at writing it) In Chapter 6, the section on Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5, there is code that exports the information in DCT (Domino Configuration Tuner) into a report. It allows you to run DCT then take the data elsewhere and study it. How cool is that? It's worth the price of the book in my opinion. The code work too - I set it up on my test system. It creates a nice HTML report at the root of c:/ Note: Make it run on No documents and watch out for the extraneous line breaks that happen when you steal - er rather - copy code from one place to another.
The book also goes through integration Sametime and the Quickr connectors. As a bonus, the book covers some 3rd party products that you've probably heard of , but wanted more opinions about.
The Upgrade chapter, Chapter 6 is rock-solid best practice stuff. These authors are a seasoned team who have done actual upgrades, so this isn't about something they tested in a lab. You should buy this book - use the link in the first sentence above and they'll know you read about it here (no I don't get anything extra if you do). Also - here's the free chapter you can read. It's about development - I almost got hives just copy and running that agent I talked about above, so read this chapter at your own risk
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Chapter No.8 – 'What's New In Notes/Domino 8.5 Development
