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I'm about 1/3 of the way through the book. I'm an experienced amateur at VBA and have learned several useful new techniques.

The book is pretty well written, clear, with nicely worked out examples, and good explanations of why you would do something in the recommended way. Wish i'd bought it a year or two ago.

This book did enable me, a excel vba developer, to become able to develop VBA for Microsoft Project.

It explore the integration between excel and vba as well.

The book is a great reference guide of MS Project VBA Programming. Rod, the author is well known in the MS Project comunity and a Project MVP, which makes him the most qualified person to write this book. If you are a VBA starter or an advanced user, you will get very good usage out of the book.

What I like most about this book is there is something for everyone. The code examples are great for learning the tool. More experienced developers will put their minds to work and morph the examples into all sorts of useful and more robust applications.

I go fishing for hints in the book almost daily when I am trying to get things done in Project via VBA.

Since the approach Rod uses is "modular" it is very easy to expand and combine the knowledge. Beginning users can work at their own pace, more advanced users have a Microsoft Project Specific reference and hint book.

This type of work was long over due and I'm glad I found the book; it will be a treasure. No way a shelf queen, this book is being used and recommended to many of my friends.

Didn't learn much new stuff. Most is out on the Web but it is nice to have it in one place. I like the book format, good for older coders like me who's eyes aren't like they used to be.

The index is limited/sparce. Wish it had an appendix with the full MSP Object Model and other MSP specific references.

Great start, just want more...

I came at this book from the point of view of a web designer. It is, unfortunately for me, written more for the business person (ie: divisional manager / executive within a mid to large sized company). It argues quite convincingly that the various applications & systems within a business need to be integrated for it have be a successful ecommerce presence. However it gives no technical insight into how this is to be achieved. The authors simply drop names of companies that provide software that can do whatever function they are talking about in that chapter. (Or at least, companies who were doing this several years ago, when the book was published. The book is really is a bit old now to be completely relevant on the topic of the present business environment).

I get the feeling that an executive or divisional manager reading this book would not understand half of what the authors are talking about. At least that has been my experience with business people at this level. They really don't have much of a grasp of the working of websites, or of software applications generally for that matter. They simply leave it all for their IT department to take care of.

From my experience, most execs reading this book would just be looking to be able to pick up enough of the jargon to be able to sound like they know what they are talking about. Customer relationshiop management, supply chain management, front office, back office, etc, etc... I think the book achieves this result. Perhaps that is why it had such hype around it. However the authors could have written a much slimmer book & achieved the same aim. They ramble on at length about the significance of each issue before actually broaching it. I don't know how many times a sentence like "the company that fails to do this will soon be left behind!" is used in each chapter. After a while, it starts to get a little ridiculous.

There is alot of rhetoric, which you eventually just start to switch off to, & look for the next actual point to arrive. (Fortunately, the points themselves are quite engaging).

There is also a section at the end of each chapter called "memo to the CEO". This revises what was dealt with in the chapter. I just found this "memo to the ceo" scenario kind of ridiculous too. It seems to suggest that only CEOs are going to be reading the book. Memo to AUTHORs, isn't that limiting your readership somewhat to assume this? Or to shape the material in this way? What about addressing us mere mortals too. We paid our money at the bookstore counter too!

Despite the heavy-handed prose (a bit of sensible editing would have done wonders for the flavour of the book) it is an interesting theoretical study of what ecommerce SHOULD be about. I would recommend it on this basis.


The book is basically about apllications integration, & how this can lead to cost savings (for the company) plus better experiences for customers. They can do more, faster, at lower cost, & with greater quality assurance.

It is interesting, reading it now, to see some things the authors mention have become the norm in ecommerce today. So they were clearly right on the general significance of this issue of integration.


You just have to switch off to the grandiose nature of their style occasionally. It really seems akin to an Anthony Robbins book at times ("You can do it! You can be the best. If you choose to succeed. But you must act. Many will fail. Will you be one of them?" etc, etc) I am exaggerating there, but if you read the book you will see what I mean.

I really liked this book. I am doing an MBA at the moment in the Michael Smurfit Business School and was trying to get an example for an eBusiness Model. The choice in the end came between Weil's Book 'Place and Space' and Kalakota's, but, there was no choice. Even though I have the greatest respect for Weil. Kalakota was pragmatic. At first as I staggered through the earlier chapters I thought, 'Hello' ... have you heard of dot.con ( we are talking about techie stuff...)and then it clicked , literally , this guy , or should I say lady and gent, have it all sussed. All eBusiness models should be based on sound business principles.
'e' has changed the principles but it is still the same message. Incorporate and get on with it. That's the message and do it as soon as possible. That's the reality! Business has not changed, just the tools, and the speed ...But beware once you do it, you have to keep on doing it, to come out on tops, it'a a reiterative cycle, OK babe...

After seeing all the glowing reviews of this book, I'm beginning to wonder if it's just me. I've only gotten through the first 3 chapters and already I've run into a multitude of terms that are not explained at all. My class uses this book for its text and I have to answer discussion questions about brand-intensive vs. capital intensive, disaggregation and reaggregation (Dictionary.com didn't even have 'reaggregation' in its database), etc. It sure would be nice to include a glossary of terms used. I'm really dreading the rest of this book.

This book still holds up rather well given all the changes that took place in the e-business space in the last couple of years.

The authors really seem to understand this space. I heard Ravi Kalakota speak at a seminar in Cincinati. He was fantastic. He is very articulate about the trends that are shaping the e-business and e-commerce landscape.

Highly recommend this book to those who want to understand the basics of e-business.

I read this for as a text for a course in ECommerce and I enjoyed the candid dialogue that the author used in this book. The examples and ideas are not outdated. Not a how to book, but more of a these are the main business concepts and opportunities you can benefit from, book.

Really enjoyed it.

The internet has changed a lot since this was written but it is still a good book on the basic concepts of Online Communities. I'm not sure if there is a better resource out there yet. I would hope the author would write another version to keep it up-to-date.

Hi to everybody, I've recently read this book (in the italian version) for an university exam and I've found it very interesting. It speaks about virtual communities from the poin of view of the designer of this kind on web sites You can read about the two most importat features of VC: socialbility and usability. I've always read about these two elements in an indipendent way. Preece's Book tries to take sociability and usability in a single perspective. And it gives some useful advices to the question of community design.

Another reviewer has written `online communities for dummies'. This
is essentially correct. A student from medium-high school would
have nor problem to follow this book. This is, however, not the
disapointing part. O.K., I still can accept that Jenny Preece explain
and reexplains even to most simplest notions again and again.
But what is unacceptable is, that everything written in this book is
just descriptive. Nowhere in the whole book there is a new idea,
a new insight or anything else that would make it worth reading.

This book appears to be written for those who are ignorant about online communities (and I can't imagine why such a person would pick up this book). I found no insights in this book that would not be obvious to an experienced user/member of online communities. I was recently given a new task at work to manage an online community of practice (for project managers) at my global company, and I was hoping that this book would offer some new insights and ideas. It was a complete disappointment. I found much better information in an article from the Harvard Business Review and from the IBM website.

I thought this book was GREAT! Sure, it's dated, but every book about the Internet dates quickly. That's because the Internet is growing and changing faster than the book publishing business can publish a book.

The author takes us through many aspects of community building and group dynamics point-by-point. I had to take notes, I found it so useful. Ideas are taken from sociology and applied to the Internet. Dry in parts, yes, but very useful as far as clarifying one's ideas about online communities.

As the manager of a small women's community online, I found this book very useful. Much more practical than Amy Jo Kim's similar book, which mainly focuses on the monster-sized for-profit communities.

The ideas in this book can be applied to any size online community. It's clear thinking will help you understand participant/leader roles in order to delegate responsibility. There are also wonderful hints for keeping a community thriving and successful.

I really wasn't sure what to expect with the book, my shelves are already packed with a stack of good PHP books that I've read through once, got a few good gems of info from, put on the shelf, and never touch again.

It was the title that got me first interested in this book, sort of like the greatest hits of PHP which, in theory, is a book that I expected to get a little more use from.

I'm happy to say that this book delivered on it's promise and them some.

The difference between this book and say some of the other more tutorial style PHP books I own is that it doesn't follow the one size fits all approach. It actually explains solutions to problems that your able to adapt you your own world. I downloaded the code from the books website which made my life even easier.

It's organized into stack of little mini tutorials covering most of the challenges you'll face if you're programming with PHP. I didn't read this from cover-to-cover but more jumped straight to some of the specific sections that I was keen to learn about. The layout and design of this book enables you to jump around from section to section easily.

I'm now finding myself going back to this book time and time again as new problems crop up, just today I had to solve a caching issue and violia a nice little example of exactly what I needed was there in chapter 11. It saved me a stack of time so I thought I'd use it to write this review.

It's also worth noting that chapter 1 contains a nicely written introduction to object-oriented PHP and is worth a read if your just starting with PHP and everyone should read chapter 13. Even though I've been programming in PHP for a while now this chapter opened my eyes to why I experience some of the frustrations I do... I'd probably be happy with paying the cover price just for that chapter alone.

It's my first sitepoint book and I've got to say I'm extremely happy. They seem to do things a little different than you're old schoolers and I've got to say the approach is refreshing. I'd have no problem with recommending this to PHP developers at any level.

I ordered this from the publisher and it literally fell apart as I started reading it. I'm going to have to 3-hole punch it and find a thick binder for the over 500 pages! I thought it might be the publisher (Sitepoint), but I just read that a Peachpit book (the new Scott Kelby book) is having the same problems. I wonder if they use the same binder? I can't actually review the book, as it's unreadable in the present condition. I have read other Sitepoint books though, and find them quite good, particularly the Yank book. This is the first one to fall apart.

While I wouldn't read this book cover-to-cover, it makes a very handy and current reference title for any intermediate PHP programmer.

100 Solutions, neatly divided into 13 chapters, make it very quick to find what I was looking for. The downloadable code from the publishers website also helped a great deal and saved me some time.

I found the security checklist at the back of the book particularly useful and helped me pinpoint and solve some potential vulnerbilities. Chapter 13 on best practices was also a clear standout in my mind, as it covers PHP coding best practices and helped me improve how I work.

This book covers the new features included in version 3 of Nessus, including the file content and security check audits that are only available through a direct feed subscription. Other books make cover Nessus but do not cover these new features. I use Nessus with privacy and security audits. This book is a must if you are using Nessus in a professional capacity. I keep track of local security law changes for the United States, and other background regarding using Nessus as a consultant at computersecuritylaw.us. I also recommend this book to non-Nessus using computer security officers, with increased cyber-attacks one should really consider this or other similar product as part of your computer security program.

This book is going back to the store. It is not a guide to SAS but to SAS Enterprise. Thank goodness a colleague quickly short circuited my learning curve on this book. He told me as I sat with a data set about to plunge in. We don't even have Enterprise on our company computer.

Too bad...I had high hopes.

SAS for Dummies was great!!! It provided the information to jump-in and get started. But it should be called SAS Enterprise for Dummies as much of the book is dedicated to using SAS Enterprise rather than Base SAS.

I purchased this book based on the title and the description provided by Amazon, although I have no clue where they got it. However, while I was looking for a book that described SAS, the language, this book describes SAS, the Windows interface. There is nothing in this book about the actual SAS language, so if that is what you're looking for, like I was, then steer clear of this! Somewhere on the cover or in Amazon's description of this book, there should be a big, red, warning label making sure that you are aware that really this is SAS (Windows) for Dummies!! I guess, in my case, the dummies part was pretty descriptive! I also will never, ever, buy another "for Dummies" book. There is $30 + shipping and handling down the drain.

SAS for Dummies may seem like an oxymoron, but this book was very useful at bringing a formerly frustrated user like me back to SAS from S, Systat, and Minitab.

When I had tried SAS a few years ago, it was very heavy on programming and learning a fairly complex language (the SAS language.) As a social scientist whose forte isn't programming (I found the syntax and many manuals! of SAS programming very difficult to pick up and use), I wanted easy access to data importing, data management, graphics, and statistical analysis. This book and the new SAS product covered in this book actually fits the bill (Enterprise Guide.)

Overall, I like the main product in the book and found the sections on importing and managing data good introductions to something that used to be incredibly hard with just SAS programming. The book requires no programming, but does have a chapter for those who already program in SAS or want to run old SAS programs in EG.

I really like that I can create many of the graphs that I spent hours or days before in just a few minutes. The book also has a nice overview of many statistical analyses, including a few techniques I may able to add to my work in the future.

After just a few weeks, I can see the real value of SAS since it so much easier to do my work with Enterprise Guide. I can transition much of my simple and advanced analysis to SAS. I highly recommend this book if you are in a similar situation and need to manage, graph, and analyze your data all in one application.

SAS For Dummies, like all of the books in the Dummies series I've read, is an enjoyable to read, easy to understand introduction to a broad and complex topic. As some have mentioned, the focus of this book is not on "SAS programming." Rather it covers getting your analysis and reporting work done using some of the newer offerings from SAS in the "business intelligence" area, including Enterprise Guide and other products. There is, however, a helpful chapter on what kinds of programming tasks can be done by more advanced users and what long-time SAS programmers may miss. (For a good book on SAS programming, I'd recommend The Little SAS Book). Also included in SAS For Dummies is good coverage of data integration, "Stored Processes" for analysis and reporting, and 2 chapters on analytics. These 2 chapters are especially helpful as an introduction to difficult concepts. Overall, this book provides a helpful overview of getting your data manipulation, analysis, and reporting tasks done with SAS, and a no-nonsense, nuts and bolts understanding of some of the newest software from SAS.

If need some help for Macromedia Dreamweaver MX: this book can sure help you.
That is if you read it! Good luck, The Larghe's

This book is formatted nicley. One can just follow the step by step examples in the tutorials from beginning to end. Also, the provided case studies at the end of each chapter further reinforces what was learned within that chapter (if one attempts to do them). It makes the whole idea of designing web pages seem simple. Granted, you will want to be fairly familiar with HTML if you plan to use Dreamweaver often. This book is a wonderful teaching tool. I recommend using this book as an aid for anymone diving into Dreamweaver.

If you are new to SOAP and you want to get the overall picture, and you don't care for details, this is the book you need.
If you need a reference guide, this is not the book you want.
If you're looking for a book about SOAP on a particular platform (say Java), this is not the book you need.

This book was a disappointment. I got thrown into an XML/SOAP project and had to get up to speed in short order. After struggling on my own for a while I bought this book hoping it would have lots of meat on actually using SOAP::Lite, but it had pretty thin coverage.

I did like the big-picture overview of the various technologies, but it was not very helpful in writing an actual SOAP client to talk to a third party's SOAP server. Considering that the author of SOAP::Lite also wrote this book, it seems to me that there could have been a whole chapter on SOAP::Lite from the client view.

This will stay on my shelf as a reference, but for getting up to speed rapidly on actually writing a SOAP client, it was a bust.

This book is a nice introduction to SOAP. It doesn't get caught in the Software wars and has examples of most existing systems. Another advantage: it is a thin book and not a 1000 pages bible. So you can easily read it in a weekend and then decide where you want to dig deeper (if necessary).

If your pretty new at SOAP, and if you need an overview, then this is the book you want.
If you don't care about interoperability, and you just want a book on SOAP within a particular environment (say Java), then this is not the book you want.
If you need a reference guide, then you don't need this book.

I was so keen to learn from this book, but no matter how hard I tried it had too much nonsense to be readable or usable.

I'm really happy I bought this book, even though I'd be happier if it was true what the title says: this book doesn't say anything about design.

It shows much about syntax and about what possibilities Struts 2 gives you, but if you aren't a good designer your designs won't still be good after reading this book. I know there are other good books about designing struts applications, this is not one of them.

Anyway, if you are looking for the best way to do something with struts 2, this book will show how in a technical view (take care from a design view).

The book is for people who have a solid understanding of the servlet/JSP api. Some of the examples in the book require a little extra work on your part since the it does not layout every step. However if you do put the effort and go over the chapters thoroughly, you'll find that there's a wealth of information in here.

This is one of the good book for struts 2.0 in the release books. It gives the complete idea about the struts 2.0

The first thing I did was look up file uploading in Struts. The book's instructions are incorrect (a wrong method name is given). That cost me an hour of pointless debugging.

That initial experience, plus numerous typos and grammatical errors, do not inspire confidence. It's back to Amazon for this book.

It's a shame, because the author's tutorial approach is pretty good. A little proofreading would have gone a long way here.

This book is definitely not for a "casual read". What you'll find here is information written as if it were the design documentation for the Struts 2 project. EXTREMELY detailed, this will most likely be your troubleshooting guide and information resource whenever you work with or get stuck somewhere in the framework.

The author goes with a "no fluff" approach to the book and the 500+ pages are nothing but details, details, details (aka, meat). There's plenty in the book that you probably won't need/use more than once or twice; but when you do, you'll be glad to have this reference for the general lookup and troubleshooting the intricacies and details of Struts (I haven't had it long and I already found pieces that are contained within that are just blatantly missing from other texts).

The book really exposes Struts 2 and its inner workings. You will need to take what is there and completely rework it for you application (it's not a "copy-and-paste-from-me" book), but you will understand thoroughly what is happening under the covers.

This is also the first book I've read so far that covers the "default, no-config" option available in Struts 2. It's finally nice to have a reference that goes over the default information so that you aren't declaring everything explicitly until it works the way you want it to. You can just check this book out and figure out which parameters, constants, etc. you need to override/alter.

It's a heavy "general" read, but it's a wonderful, light reference.

The only reason I can't give it 5 stars is due to the overall formatting. The sections of the text are separated as if it were being displayed on a basic web page, wiki, etc. It just made narrowing down what's on the page to your specific needs a little harder than usual.

PS - don't let it's size fool you, it really is COMPLETELY packed

I was looking for a book that I could use to provide non-technical students with basic skills. This book was just what I was looking for and helped me plan out my class. I like the way the book is divided into sections that gradually build. Some information is repeated but this helps students to understand the material. Overall a great book if you want to learn computer basics.

???Terrible. Absolutely terrible. DO NOT BUY! In this day and age, any person between the ages of 13 and 60 will be quite familiar with all of the concepts discussed in this book. Few people need to be taught how to delete a file or create a word document. I also found the class that I bought this book for to be incredibly boring. It was almost torture because everyone in the class knew all of the concepts we were being taught, but we all had to take the class anyway because there was no way to place out of the course.
???Another major problem with this book was that it's extremely biased towards Microsoft. I fully understand that Microsoft has a monopoly on Information Systems Technology, but that doesn't mean that their software is the only software someone would ever want to use. I use Linux as my operating system, and this book is ignorant of Linux and its users. Some of the excercises we were assigned could only be completed on a Windows computer or required Microsoft Office, and that was very cumbersome. Apparently the authors of this book do not realize that Microsoft does not make Microsoft Office for Linux (surprise, surprise).
???If you know nothing about computers and plan only on using Windows computers, this book would probably be right for you. If you have enough computing skills to navigate to this web page and read this review (and obviously you do), AVOID THIS BOOK AND ANY CLASSES THAT USE IT LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!

I have been teaching people of all ages how to use (including all versions of Windows and Office) and build computers for over 6 years now. I just decided to get a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology and was told that I needed to pass the IC3 exams as an introductory course. Thinking that I could probably pass the exams in my sleep, I ordered this book to look over the material anyway just to make sure that I wasn't being overconfident. I learned a couple of obscure things that I hadn't known before and I'm only 1/2 way through the book. It was worth it to me (bought it used).

This book was written assuming that the person reading it knows virtually nothing about how to use Windows or Office. Why does it concentrate on products from Microsoft? Because that is what the IC3 exam will cover. Simple as that - the book prepares you for the exam.

The book does not talk over a person's head - it is plainly written with great examples. Lots of color pictures along the way to illustrate key points too. My only complaint is that it assumes you are part of a class that is teacher lead - which is a problem if you are home-studying like I am. There's no answer key to the questions then, but you should be able to figure out the correct answer as it lets you know which part of the chapter to look in for the answer.