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 In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king Dec 02, 2003
This book has many, many deficiencies. In many ways, it is simply dreadful. Grammar is dubious, spelling errors abound, and the author's mastery of the subject matter is often rather questionable. Despite all of these shortcomings, though, it's still the only book available on the topic. As an independent contractor, I try to avoid costly vendor training classes whenever possible, opting instead for whatever third-party publications are available. This book makes for an inexpensive -- albeit deeply flawed -- alternative to spending a week in a Peoplesoft training class.
Good Basic Information / Bad Quality Binding Aug 20, 2003
I am a mid-level PeopleSoft developer and found a lot of useful information in this book. If you are an expert this book is not for you. If you are new or your company won't spend money to train you then this book will be helpful. NOTE: the construction quality is severely lacking. It looks like it was printed from a Word Processing program and bound in someone's garage. My book fell apart after a couple of months. The other books from this author/publisher were all good quality, but this one looks like it was put together by someone in jr high.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Full of information, but it needs a revision Dec 31, 2002
The book has a decent amount of technical information although it lacks the organization found in other books of its kind. Also, the screenshot quality is horrendous and it has many typos.
I also didn't like the fact that it didn't cover such an important tool as App. Engine. It's basically an App. Designer, PeopleCode book with a small, although useful SQR section. But... you need to give credit to the author for putting the effort and delivering something for the PeopleSoft developer community. Other than this book there is virtually nothing else worth purchasing for version 8.x The book price deserves a revision as well. Consider the caveats before purchasing. You should buy this book only if you are new to PeopleCode and your company or yourself cannot afford a PeopleCode and/or SQR course. I would wait for a new edition.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Excellent book for a beginner, if only..... Aug 06, 2002
This is an excellent book (5 stars) for PeopleSoft beginners, if only they can finish this book. This book has tons of errors including typos (in contents and code examples), and missing instructions (fatal). I am about 30 pages from the finish and can't continue because of the wrong instruction included in the book. It's a shame, I rather enjoyed the book and it could be one of the best PeopleSoft books in the market.
9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Useful but flawed Jun 13, 2002
Covers the v8 changes in peoplecode pretty well, which is what I bought it for; but is marred by a weird conversational tone (almost as if the text had been transcribed verbatim from a dictaphone recording of someone walking through the process) and infuriatingly poor proofreading - including the cover, which promises "New Bugging Techniques" (though I see from the Amazon cover image that this at least has since been corrected). Here's a representative quote from page 347, about Grid objects - I guarantee all errors are in the original: "With that said then why is there a Gird objects with methods and properties? Well there are special commands that you can use to manipulate Girds a bit more effectively." See what I mean? The information contained in this book is largely accurate, but I wish it were a lot more polished.
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