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Summary: A Good Resource for any User
Review: A very good reference for beginners and great tips for those in the business of developing FileMaker Pro solutions. Very good examples of how to improve your development of a solution, so that the customer is informed and your work is appreciated and paid for.Well worth the investment
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Summary: Priceless treasure in FileMaker world
Review: Although I have been using FMPro 6 for more than a year, and bought this book in the fall of 2000, I still refer to it often. I wish Coulombre and Price (or someone else for that matter) would write the same book for version 6. Nevertheless, this book is full of scripting and coding gems that I'm sure any developer can appreciate. Sometimes just to brush up on my skills if I haven't done any developing for a while, other times to learn a new trick. This book obviously is not meant to hold your hand while you do your own coding. It encourages you to take the examples and develop further on your own. Because it is set up with this self-learning concept in mind, it never fails to let me down, and I never feel talked down to. There are plenty of tips and tricks to boot as well. There are few books that continue to inspire long after a new version of the software has been released. This is definitely one of them.
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Summary: Essential Reading for anyone using filemaker
Review: an excellent book, sensibly priced, with lots of tips and techniques and well presented topics. ideal for the beginner and anyone using filemaker pro. the additional cd with examples is a real bonus. a "must have" for anyone using filemaker.
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Summary: Using FileMaker Pro 5
Review: Being a researcher, and an author myself, I found this book to be a refreshing resource! This book will be greatly beneficial to all levels of FileMaker enthusiast. This book goes into great detail about planning a database system, designing, marketing and trouble shooting. This is one of the most complete reference guides that I have read. I was very impressed with the CD-Rom Example files. These were well thought out and wonderfully done! I highly recommend this book.
Stephen K Knight...
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Summary: CD alone is worth the price of the book
Review: Coulumbre & Price have done it again. The book answers every questions a developer or anyone else using FMPro could have. The CD that comes with the book is tremendous because it has a lot of templates that you can use for yourself or with clients.
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Summary: Special Edition Using FileMaker Pro 5
Review: I found this book to be extremely helpful in clarifying the fine points of not only FileMaker Pro 5, but also of structuring and building a database in general. Well-written, easily understandable, not condescending, thorough, with little gems of wit tucked here and there where least expected. Thank you, Rich and Jonathan, for this impressive volume of information and tips. You 'splain things so well!
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Summary: Exceptionally clear, exceptionally useful
Review: I guess I'm an intermediate FileMaker Pro user: I've been using the program since before it was called FileMaker but although I use it on a daily basis it's strictly for my own use (we run our medical practice on a self-developed series of databases). I'm not a developer and have no clue how to use some of the most sophisticated capabilities of the program. Having positioned myself in the middle of the spectrum of users I have to say that this book, like the one the authors wrote on FileMaker version 2, is entirely approachable, full of easy-to-apply tips, and a rock-solid source of inspiration and usable techniques that intermediates like me are likely to find invaluable. I too have Scriptology, but Coulombre and Price have a knack for explaining FileMaker that in my opinion no other authors match.
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Summary: Excellent resource
Review: I had the pleasure of taking one of Rich Coulombre's classes a few years ago, and I was really looking forward to this book. Most of the other Filemaker books I've read hae great examples of scripts and calculations, but this is the first book I've read that really gets into HOW to think about Filemaker. It's the difference between giving a man a fish and teaching him to fish.
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Summary: Great guide for overall development
Review: I have a pretty nice library of FileMaker books and this is my favorite. The thoughtful review of how to consider a design on paper before developing, along with hints about how to interact with clients and use diagrams gave a structure to my communications with clients that is professional and powerful. In addition to this there are amazing hints and chapters of information that I (joyfully) continue to refer to in my development practice, though I've had the book for years now. More than any other, it put me in control, and I am grateful.
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Summary: Holy Smokes!
Review: I have been developing professionally for quite a while now, referring regularly to Scriptology and the manual, and while both are very helpful, Mr. Coulombre has elucidated the development process in ways from the very earliest planning stage to completion. His writing style is very user-friendly, engaging and sometimes even funny ("the joys of self joins and other relationships")! If I were given only one chance to say something toMr. Coulombre, it would be "Thank you!" For anyone who is interested in developing professional databases, this book should be your Bible.
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