FileMaker Pro 9 Bible by Ray Cologon
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Book Reviews of FileMaker Pro 9 Bible
Book Review: Super Genius!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been in the FileMaker market for 18 years and accomplished many things but I have never taken a FileMaker class or read a book. For me to purchase a book and read it says a lot about the author and his brilliance. Don't buy any other FileMaker book.Book Review: Excellent book
Summary: 5 Stars
I really am enjoying this book a lot. Packed with very deep explanations and very useful tricks and tips. I am only half way through the book, and by now I feel it was an excellent purchase.Book Review: This is THE source reference for Filemaker Pro 9
Summary: 5 Stars
Very complete. This should be THE reference book every Filemaker Pro 9 professionals should have. I recomend.Book Review: Good overview, short on details.
Summary: 3 Stars
This book is a solid 'lay of the land' type of overview with a few good examples sprinkled in. As someone who's done a fair amount of coding in other scripting applications (actionScript, lingo, php, mysql, lasso etc) and someone who's purchased this book with the hope of finding a decent treatment of FileMaker Pro's scripting capabilities, I found this book less useful than the manual.Book Review: Help!
Summary: 2 Stars
The Filemaker Pro 9 bible contains tons of information. No dispute there. But this book, contrary to nearly of the other reviews, is both limited and confusing.
It is limited because it requires the reader to build a solution exactly as it is descrbed in the text. Therefore, if you need information on a specific element of Filemaker, is often not possible to derive the information through looking at a specific section of text. Information is presented contextually and while this has certain advantages, it also has grave disadvantages.
It is confusing because the author consistently presents fairly complex scripting steps and calculations without providing any explanation to the novice or SOMEONE LEARNING THE APPLICATION. And this is the key point. The book requires extensive knowledge of Filemaker language and techniques in order to be understood.
This book is, certainly, not for the beginner and, in many cases, it is not for the intermediate user. Its range of use is really quite narrow and it is for this reason that I have trouble understanding all of the accolades for this volume.
Finally, the writing style of the book is often lacking in clarity. The author assumes so much on the part of the reader that many of his examples are rendered inexplicable.
This book is recommended only for Filemaker experts and for them, the information, maybe pedantic.
I believe that this book could have been vastly improved if it didn't follow a contextual approach, but one that was more pedagogical, where techniques were taught from the perspective of generalized problem solving.