IdeaJam(tm) : Book Proposal: YALSB

Lotus Technical Information / Other: Book Proposal: YALSB

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:43:20 +0000

Author: Ulrich Krause
Tags: book proposals
Idea:

This is response to Ben Langhinrichics' request for book proposals.

YALSB ( Yet another LotusScript book ) starts where the "Programming Bible" ends.

From over 10 years of working in a forum, I can say that 80% of all Developers do not know or use many of the functions in LotusScript. Aside from db.UnprocessedDocuments, do you know what the StampAllMulti method of the NotesDocumentCollection class is used for? Do you know, how to style RichText using methods that are build into the core product?

Are you an experienced developer and are missing a specific function in the core classes? Raise your arse and build them on your own using LSX or even LS2CAPI to manipulate Richtext on the CDRecord level.

The book contains kick butt code to open your eyes on the abilities of LotusScript. The code might be EInstein leveled at some point, but we will explain every bit and pieces so not only geeks will understand it. LotusScript is dead or "legacy" ? No way. ...

re: Book Proposal: YALSB

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:39:22 +0000

Author: Peter Presnell
Comment: Sorry Ulrich. I just don't agree with your statement that LotusScript is not dead or "legacy". As much as a love LS as a language I doubt new people being attracted to the product (the ones most likely to need a book) will be focusing much time (if any) to LotusScript.

re: Book Proposal: YALSB

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:15:34 +0000

Author: Ben Langhinrichs
Comment: I think LotusScript is a long way from being dead or legacy. Sure, there are plenty of people using Java, but I'd say a majority of Notes/Domino developers still use LotusScript on a regular basis. Certainly the sessions covering LotusScript remain popular at Lotusphere, so a book might be popular too.

re: Book Proposal: YALSB

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:58:45 +0000

Author: Mike Woolsey
Comment: LotusScript is a great way to get past the wordiness & time to complete for the Java & Javascript aspects of an application.

I'd probably not use the LSX toolkit -- but there're other places for it. On the other hand, just extending classes & such would probably be an eye-opener to those who think this scripting language is elementary.

I alway wished there were a way to extend the built-in classes beyond simply containing the built-ins.