This book does not give much information on implementing PeopleSoft technically. Rather, it's a book that advertises the capabilities of PeopleSoft and its different Modules. This book teaches consultants how to do project management rather than how to use peopletools. I would not recommend this book for technical people. It's a book for consultants, who wants to know things to consider in implementing peoplesoft, what resources are needed and how to go about with a project. But it won't teach you how to really use peoplesoft.

I love the topic: the sculpture of Ursula von Rydingsvard, so I had to give this book at least 3 stars. I am less than satisfied with the way the author continually refers to elements of Ms. von Rydingsvard's remarkable history rather than art history. I wonder how many readers would be interested to know more of the artist's interest Giotto. This is only touched on in the interview-not at all in the analytical essay. Maybe a little scholarship could be directed here, and leave out some of the tabloid sensationalism. The connections to Giotto or any of her other artistic influences would certainly broaden the means of interpreting her work, whereas the references Brenson makes to von Rydingsvard's childhood serve to limit our understanding leading us to believe that this sort of knowledge is the essential key to it's meaning. I don't believe this to be so. Even though there are too many black and white plates, I confess to buying this book for the pictures. If you can't see von Rydingsvard's sculpture in person, you will find this an economical introduction to her work.

This book has an answer to most questions you could have regarding web site maintenance, although it is heavily biased towards configuring UNIX servers. Windows NT, for example, doesn't get much of a mention. Also, many of the examples are written in Perl which was a shame as I was more interested in CGI written with shell scripts.

Some topics do not go into enough detail. For example, the section on how to install two servers on a single machine, each responding to different domain names, tells you "what" to do but not "how" to do it.

Where the book does excel, however, is in describing the concepts of how the internet works.

Nice book. But where is the beef? If you have Mindy Martins book you're all set and this one doesn't offer much news. Actually, it includes a chapter about the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit 2.x which is now obsolete after the release of SharePoint Portal Server.

If you are looking for detailed examples or sample programs this isn't the book for you... Go with Mindy's book

Scott Jamison, Alex Gomez, and George Wesolowski effectively collaborate to present a convenient and comprehensive tutorial and reference book for a programmer-based overview of Microsoft's Exchange 2000 software with Developing Applications With Exchange 2000: Programmer's Reference. The authors definitive address the issues of WebDAV HTTP 1.1 protocol; creating custom Web forms and Outlook Web Access; Outlook Object Model (OOM) and the digital dashboard; accessing Web Store with ADO 2.5; accessing Web Store with ExIFS; ExOLEDB; making remote calls using DCOM; using XML to set Access Control Lists; exchange store events; using CDO 1.21 and CDO 3.0 for messaging, calendars, contacts, workflow, and exchanging management; XML and Exchange 2000. Also included is a convenient summary comparing and contrasting the APIs and object models, as well as development scenarios highlighting recommended usage. Developing Applications With Exchange 2000 is a very highly recommended core reference title for Exchange 2000 users.

Having read most everything published by Marryat, all of the Hornblower series, and everything written by Patrick O'Brian I must say this book was a terrible disappointment. There is no plot to speak of; not even the somewhat unevenly spaced episodes of the early Hornblower books. There is little to no character development; after 450 pages of this 508 page edition I gave up because I still didn't really know who was who (or even care!). There was no real discussion of life aboard ships of the time period, nor any understanding of hardships or life during the time period. All this author was able to do adequately, in my opinion, was act as a fashion critic wherein he discribed, often in unnecessary detail, the various clothing worn by the various individuals who floated like some sort of jettsom throughout his "novel." I cannot, after reading close to 100 novels of this period of life at sea, give a worse recommendation than I give to "Tom Cringle's Log." It truly is not worth the time or money.

The various chapters of this novel were published separately in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from 1829 to 1833. They were reorganized into chronological order and published in the present book form in 1833. The author was a businessman in Jamaica during the time period of the story, and was familiar with both the area and the era. The book is of some interest to people studying that segment of history. On the down side, the novel (in narrative form) is written in the fashion of that era, and the fashion required by Blackwood's. It goes into excruciating details describing everything the main character observes. The story sometimes drags as Tom Cringle goes from one adventure to another. The main action takes place from roughly 1811, when Cringle was in his early naval career, to the point where he is promoted to commander and returns to England (possibly 1820 or so), and roughly corresponds to the time period when the author lived in Jamaica. The story starts in European waters, but quickly shifts to the West Indies where Cringle deals with Americans, pirates, and slavers. A considerable portion of the account is spent on land.

The real travesty is that reviews like the 1-star above should color people's first impressions of this landmark book. Unlike O'Brian et al., Scott lived the life and times he wrote about, and his powers of description were superb. Scott's style is a bit dated, but his book does repay the modern reader's attention.

This book is awful! I know the fundamentals of programming in Flash and ASP.NET so regardless, if you are advanced or know the basics this book is still AWFUL!!! Trust me do not buy it! The Poll in the first chapter does not even work. I went to peachpress to find the updates for the book and the Poll sill will not work. The book constantly points to the CD and the CD is missing the files the chapter is pointing to. The Poll.XML on the CD does not match that in the book, I mean come on! This was all before I even got through the 1st chapter! ...

... I am sure that some of these examples worked, but only in the head of the author who authored the chapter. I am so upset about this one; ...

I couldn't agree more with the reviews that have already been posted. This book assumes WAY too much knowledge and leaves large chunks unexplained (like the #include .as files that don't even get a mention...)

The layout is sloppy and poorly thought out - eg they have 2 pages of code and THEN they describe what is happening in the previous 2 pages, requiring you to be costantly flicking back and forth. Simply repeating each line of code with its explanation would have made it so much easier to read (authors should check out "OOP with Actionscript" to see how it SHOULD be done).

The code that is included is full of stuff like

gotoAndPlay("whatever");//used to be gotoAndStop

making it obvious that the author hasn't even bothered to clean up their code before slapping it in the book. When covering a complicated topic like this, having comments that reveal the "mistakes" that the author made along the way is confusing, annoying and inexcusable (not to mention very revealing about the amount of effort [or lack thereof] that went into this book).

Save your money

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I came into reading this book with very little Flash experience. All I'd done was simple timeline based flash movies. I chose to read this book to help get an understanding of Flash's capabilities and how to further the skills I had, enabling me to create dynamic content in my Flash movies.

I thought this book was unique in that it didn't get into the hows and whats of Flash, but straight into some very interesting example code. It also doesn't focus purely on Flash, but integrating flash with web application server products like ColdFusion and ASP.

While I'd never be able to create any of these examples on my own, it was quite cool being able to walk through each code example and see how everything works. Some of the Flash code was a bit hairy to follow, but they did attempt to explain it. Rather than learning what the code meant, I just read the comments stating what the code does and moved on. Unless you're experienced in flash, you won't be able to follow the code line for line. However, wading in example apps above your capabilities is a great place to learn.

Each chapter is a different example application, focusing on a dynamic backend. Some use ASP, some use ColdFusion, etc. So you can pick your middleware of choice and they'll be an example here for you where you can view both the Flash code, as well as the code it interfaces with to achieve dynamic content.

I wouldn't recommend this book as your soul source of Flash instruction, but it is a unique book rich with very usable example code. I didn't learn much Flash actionscript from this book, but I did come out of it with a good understanding of how Flash can be dynamic, using XML to communicate back and forth to your scripting language of choice. If that's what you're after, this might be a good book for you.

M.S. Cain obviously expended a good deal of effort in writing this book. Too bad he didn't employ an editor: poor sentence structure, mixed metaphors, and weak organization of ideas combine to make this a poorly crafted book. He raises some worthy issues, however, and one senses that the book is an outgrowth of his passion for the plight of adjunct faculty, his most interesting chapter. The community college is a growing area for research in higher education. Go to the Teachers College at Columbia University, New York, website for a list of excellently written publications on this subject.

Richard Trenton Chase is misspelled as Richard Tenton Chase. Diane Downs is misspelled as Diane Downes. In a particularly sloppy and disquieting factual error, Scott says that it is Downs' oldest daughter, Christie, who died after she and two siblings were shot by their mother; in actuality it was Downs' youngest daughter, Cheryl, who died. One wonders what the survivors of this tragedy would think of this error; hopefully, they never wasted their time with this book. And you shouldn't, either.

For having a Ph.D., Dr. Scott sure has written a sloppy book. Perhaps she needed a better editor. This book, a surface study of murder from the 1900s through the present day, highlights in each decade a number of cases reflective of the era. It's an interesting premise and one that initially drew me in. Unfortunately, this book is riddled with inaccuracies, misspellings, and factual errors. People unfamiliar with the cases will be misinformed. To name just three examples: Scott states that Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate killed "Robert Jensen and his daughter." Robert Jensen and his girlfriend Carol King, both teenagers, were among the deadly duo's victims. Also written is that after John E. List murdered his wife, daughter, and two sons he "drove to his mother's home in another part of town and killed her, too." The author should have read the reference materials listed at the end of each chapter a bit more carefully. John List's mother, Alma, lived in the Westfield, NJ mansion's third-floor apartment. After List shot his wife Helen, he climbed up to his mother's apartment and shot her as well. Lastly, Perry Smith and Richard Hickok, made famous in Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" are listed as having murdered "Clutter, his wife, and two daughters with virtually point-blank shotgun blasts." The point-blank might be right, but the Clutters were murdered along with their daughter, Nancy, and their son, Kenyon.

Save your time and money; don't bother with this book!

In addition to what has already been reported, there are other problems. "Edward" Kemper, the serial killer, is actually Edmund Emil Kemper III. This was the first time that I've read that the woman who committed suicide after being raped by KKK leader Stephenson was a KKK employee; all other books indicate that she was a state employee. Similarly, the lane on which the Hall-Mills murders took place has always been referred to as DeRussey's Lane; I've never seen it called "Phillips Lane". If the author's statement- that the editors added this material without her knowledge- is true, then she needs new editors. In the meantime, this book should be read with caution by anyone not already familiar with the cases.

I ordered this book 25 days ago. Clearly someone is selling vaporware

This so called biographer seemed to have one goal in mind: portray Scott Hamilton as a crazed lunatic. The book consists mainly of episodes that cast either Scott or members of his family and entourage in a bad light.

The author glosses over the years of work and obstacles overcome in order for Scott to make it to the Olympics. He harps constantly on his perception of Scott's 'shallowness' and also his bouts of bad temper.

I got the impression that this was written by someone who was disgruntled with Scott Hamilton. The author obviously had no respect for his subject.