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Summary: Good contents + bad unit testing + ugly editing = 2 stars
Review: Completed (well almost -- see later why) the whole book on a PS 7.5 standalone machine in about 10-12 man hours. Here's my review:The Good:
1. Lots of exercises/repetitions.
2. Liberal use of graphics. The Bad:
1. Lots of exercises/repetitions. Perhaps too much?
2. Plenty of typos and outright missed some elemnets - one should figure out the workarounds after doing the exercises, however. Although many were not obvious.
3. Where is unit testing? you can't see your work's results with data until the end of the WHOLE book. Why didn't they our coding efforts by doing the unit testing after each panel? This is a big one to miss since the authors called themselves consultants and unit testing is a fundamental application development step.
4. Did not offer a website/link for post-publishing for correction/feedback. Did the authors really expect version 1 of their book to be error-free? If so, they're kidding themselves. At the minimum, an email address for a feedback would be nice. One wonder if these guys went thru formal training for an application development life-cycle methodology. The Ugly:
1. Between the Security and the Testing the Application chapters, the authors didn't bother tell us HOW to COMPILE the application for TESTING. Hello, Are we forgotten a WHOLE chapter on compilation here? If the authors really take these feedbacks and taking their reputation seriously, they should provide us a link to some or all of the fixes... We're still waiting for their response...
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Summary: Good book for beginners.
Review: I am new to PeopleSoft and enjoyed the book as it provided hands-on learning, however, there were so many type-o's that it was quite frustrating trying to follow along. Also, I wish more topics had been covered in the detail that Application Designer was covered. If you want to learn any PeopleTools other than AppDesigner, this is not your book. The sections on nVision, Query, and PeopleCode are lacking to say the least.
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Summary: Good book for beginners.
Review: I am new to PeopleSoft and enjoyed the book as it provided hands-on learning, however, there were so many type-o's that it was quite frustrating trying to follow along. Also, I wish more topics had been covered in the detail that Application Designer was covered. If you want to learn any PeopleTools other than AppDesigner, this is not your book. The sections on nVision, Query, and PeopleCode are lacking to say the least.
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Summary: Quality Lacking in Screen Images
Review: I just purchased the book and have not read it completely, but I was surprised at the poor quality of many of the screen shots. Blurry, fuzzy, some small details lost in some. As one other reviewer noted, there are a lot of screen images (good), but I would have expected better quality and clarity. Sometimes the details of the windows/panels are important - especially to PeopleSoft newcomers. I was also surprised that I could find no e-mail addresses for the authors to pass my comments onto directly.
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Summary: A Good Beginner?s Book
Review: Of the 592 pages, 460 are devoted to the Application Designer (PeopleTools). The remaining cover Peoplecode, SQR, Crystal,Nvision Configuration manager and a tiny bit on upgrades. I would hardly call it a Handbook as all it does is go through an example. Having taken Peopletools 1 and 2 from Peoplesoft, this book was review material only. This is a good refresher however, but unlike Oracle you cant really practice unless your company actually has Peoplesoft that they let you play with.
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Summary: Typos, typos, typos...
Review: Overall good introduction to the Applications Designer, but loaded with typos. Screen shots make up the bulk of the book. Very repetative text which is good for beginers but cumbersome for itermediates and advanced developers.
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Summary: Better have your glasses handy
Review: Very hard to read the text in the screen shots. This book does not pertain to any application like HR or Payroll. But it does a good job covering peopletools. I need a book that covers HR and Pension applications using HR database tables and columns.
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