The Domino Chick

Books

Thursday, April 8th, 2004

I've been looking at my library of Domino and other technical books lately. Some of them are books that I've found extremely valuable - they're dog-eared and their accompanying CD-ROMs are looking a little battered. I have others that I've purchased, thinking I'll use them extensively, and ended up giving them a cursory once-over and relegating them to the bottom bookshelf. I've been looking at them because I'm trying to determine what makes a particular book fall into the first category.

I've been thinking about this because I'm considering writing a couple of books on Domino and related technologies. I've co-authored two IBM Redbooks - one on Domino Clustering and one on QuickPlace administration and deployment. The clustering redbook hasn't been updated since 2000, so I thought there might be some interest in an updated version that details the changes between the 5.x and 6.x codestreams. I'm also considering a book on troubleshooting, but maybe I could turn that into a series of articles instead. I mean, everyone wants to read a whole chapter on parsing NSD call-stacks, right?

Another area that I'd really like to write about (and you'll most likely see me write about here) is running Domino on Linux. There has been a lot of discussion in Linux-related publications lately (see Ed's recent posts here and here), and I think a lot of organizations are considering moving to Linux as a platform for Domino. I think Linux is a fantastic platform for Domino and I'm very excited about the prospect of running a designer client on Linux - even if I have to do it under WINE - because I'd love to have all of my home machines running Linux exclusively. I know there are a couple of Redbooks out there about running Domino on Linux, but I wonder if there would be interest in additional books on the subject.

Of course, none of this will get started for a couple of months, due to the aforementioned season of conferences. I barely have time to blog, as evidenced by my dearth of posts this week. However, I'd like to know if there's any interest in books or articles on the subjects I mentioned. Just don't be surprised if I use your comments to convince an editor or two. :-)

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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 08:37:49 AM