Fantastic, The best PB / Jaguar book on the market, 05 Jan 2000
What a great book. Im a PB developer of 4 years but without any exposure to Jaguar. This book provided a great introduction to Jaguar. It had the usual flannel about nTier architectures and their ups and downs. But it was quite interesting and provided a good lead into the uses of Jaguar and the basic installation and setting up. Theres is then some really good detail in setting up the key components of an application utilising Jaguar.

This is without doubt the best book to purchase if you are embarking on any new PowerBuilder development.

Fantastic, The best PB / Jaguar book on the market, 05 Jan 2000
What a great book. Im a PB developer of 4 years but without any exposure to Jaguar. This book provided a great introduction to Jaguar. It had the usual flannel about nTier architectures and their ups and downs. But it was quite interesting and provided a good lead into the uses of Jaguar and the basic installation and setting up. Theres is then some really good detail in setting up the key components of an application utilising Jaguar.

This is without doubt the best book to purchase if you are embarking on any new PowerBuilder development.

Excellent Technical Jumpstart, 13 Aug 1999
This was an excellent technical jumpstart into using Web.PB and other PowerBuilder 6 internet development tools. Fortunately, Powerbuilder 7 is much richer (read better) for web development. But unfortunately this book only covers PB 6 techniques. I would still recommend it for folks needing to get PB6 to do web stuff. There are even fewer books out on PB7 and EAS.

I would also highly recommend "Distributed Application Development with PowerBuilder 6.0" by Michael J. Barlotta. (another Manning book).

An Incredible Book, 01 Oct 1998
This book covers every aspect of programming in PowerBuilder for the net. This is not a difficult subject, but it is complex. There are a lot of setup issues and there is a change in programming style from the traditional PowerBuilder. This book covers all of that in easy to understand style. It does so completely and in such a fashion as to make it easy to follow.

I would recommend this book to all PowerBuilder programmers, you never know when you are going to be faced with a PowerBuilder project that has to be on a net.

Fantastic, The best PB / Jaguar book on the market, 05 Jan 2000
What a great book. Im a PB developer of 4 years but without any exposure to Jaguar. This book provided a great introduction to Jaguar. It had the usual flannel about nTier architectures and their ups and downs. But it was quite interesting and provided a good lead into the uses of Jaguar and the basic installation and setting up. Theres is then some really good detail in setting up the key components of an application utilising Jaguar.

This is without doubt the best book to purchase if you are embarking on any new PowerBuilder development.

Excellent Technical Jumpstart, 13 Aug 1999
This was an excellent technical jumpstart into using Web.PB and other PowerBuilder 6 internet development tools. Fortunately, Powerbuilder 7 is much richer (read better) for web development. But unfortunately this book only covers PB 6 techniques. I would still recommend it for folks needing to get PB6 to do web stuff. There are even fewer books out on PB7 and EAS.

I would also highly recommend "Distributed Application Development with PowerBuilder 6.0" by Michael J. Barlotta. (another Manning book).

An Incredible Book, 01 Oct 1998
This book covers every aspect of programming in PowerBuilder for the net. This is not a difficult subject, but it is complex. There are a lot of setup issues and there is a change in programming style from the traditional PowerBuilder. This book covers all of that in easy to understand style. It does so completely and in such a fashion as to make it easy to follow.

I would recommend this book to all PowerBuilder programmers, you never know when you are going to be faced with a PowerBuilder project that has to be on a net.

Great Introduction to PowerBuilder, 30 Nov 1998
This book is a great help to anyone starting out in PowerBuilder. This book covers a lot of PowerBuilder fundamentals as well as basic programming techniques. It is a really useful guide to working in PowerBuilder if you are still new to it, and it is much easier to find answers here than in the powersoft newsgroups. The style is quite readable and a lot more human than a lot of other tech-oriented books. Definitely worth checking out- although probably not useful if you are already a guru.

Great Quick PB6 reference, 18 Nov 1998
As a programmer who started with PB5, had to do a project in PB4, and is currently developing in PB6, I found this book to be a great referential starting point. Without having to pore through the massive, sometimes silly, Sybase support pages, and every PB developer's website (usually having the same 2 or 3 tips as all the rest, and never updated) this is a great way to have a lot of commonly asked questions answered immediately. Ranging from strange bugs (i.e. the amazing shrinking detail band) in PB, to PowerBuilder-specific constructs, to clean coding advice in general, this book answers a lot of questions that you need to know, but might be a little embarrassed to ask. Plus, you never get flamed for asking a beginners' question! While it isn't a PowerBuilder be-all end-all, it is a friendly and insightful starting point for someone who would like to break free from using only MS dev tools. A good read, too.

Don't even bother!, 24 Aug 1998
I wish there was a rating for 0 stars. This book rates that. The questions and the answers are extremely superficial. Over 80% of the book is an almost word for word copy of questions and answers that can be found in numerous online forums and maling lists. I don't mind having all of the time and effort I've put into providing answers to questions used to solve their problems. (Many of these answers appear in this book.) But, I strongly object to someone taking my work and effort and trying to make a profit from it, especially when it is offered for free elsewhere.

Fantastic, The best PB / Jaguar book on the market, 05 Jan 2000
What a great book. Im a PB developer of 4 years but without any exposure to Jaguar. This book provided a great introduction to Jaguar. It had the usual flannel about nTier architectures and their ups and downs. But it was quite interesting and provided a good lead into the uses of Jaguar and the basic installation and setting up. Theres is then some really good detail in setting up the key components of an application utilising Jaguar.

This is without doubt the best book to purchase if you are embarking on any new PowerBuilder development.

Excellent Technical Jumpstart, 13 Aug 1999
This was an excellent technical jumpstart into using Web.PB and other PowerBuilder 6 internet development tools. Fortunately, Powerbuilder 7 is much richer (read better) for web development. But unfortunately this book only covers PB 6 techniques. I would still recommend it for folks needing to get PB6 to do web stuff. There are even fewer books out on PB7 and EAS.

I would also highly recommend "Distributed Application Development with PowerBuilder 6.0" by Michael J. Barlotta. (another Manning book).

An Incredible Book, 01 Oct 1998
This book covers every aspect of programming in PowerBuilder for the net. This is not a difficult subject, but it is complex. There are a lot of setup issues and there is a change in programming style from the traditional PowerBuilder. This book covers all of that in easy to understand style. It does so completely and in such a fashion as to make it easy to follow.

I would recommend this book to all PowerBuilder programmers, you never know when you are going to be faced with a PowerBuilder project that has to be on a net.

Great Introduction to PowerBuilder, 30 Nov 1998
This book is a great help to anyone starting out in PowerBuilder. This book covers a lot of PowerBuilder fundamentals as well as basic programming techniques. It is a really useful guide to working in PowerBuilder if you are still new to it, and it is much easier to find answers here than in the powersoft newsgroups. The style is quite readable and a lot more human than a lot of other tech-oriented books. Definitely worth checking out- although probably not useful if you are already a guru.

Great Quick PB6 reference, 18 Nov 1998
As a programmer who started with PB5, had to do a project in PB4, and is currently developing in PB6, I found this book to be a great referential starting point. Without having to pore through the massive, sometimes silly, Sybase support pages, and every PB developer's website (usually having the same 2 or 3 tips as all the rest, and never updated) this is a great way to have a lot of commonly asked questions answered immediately. Ranging from strange bugs (i.e. the amazing shrinking detail band) in PB, to PowerBuilder-specific constructs, to clean coding advice in general, this book answers a lot of questions that you need to know, but might be a little embarrassed to ask. Plus, you never get flamed for asking a beginners' question! While it isn't a PowerBuilder be-all end-all, it is a friendly and insightful starting point for someone who would like to break free from using only MS dev tools. A good read, too.

Don't even bother!, 24 Aug 1998
I wish there was a rating for 0 stars. This book rates that. The questions and the answers are extremely superficial. Over 80% of the book is an almost word for word copy of questions and answers that can be found in numerous online forums and maling lists. I don't mind having all of the time and effort I've put into providing answers to questions used to solve their problems. (Many of these answers appear in this book.) But, I strongly object to someone taking my work and effort and trying to make a profit from it, especially when it is offered for free elsewhere.

Really an intermediate book., 03 May 1999
Having read this book I found it dissapointing in a number of areas. Certain topics which were being discussed should have been covered in the fundamentals book. I think explaining concepts such as inheritance at this stage is too late. I recommend this book to the person who wants to learn programming in a patient way.

Overall the content was very good but too many errors, 10 Dec 1998
The content of the book was good. Overall I am pleased with it. The one flaw I have with the book is the number of errors in it. These errors range from spelling errors to grammatical errors to mislabeling of figures (charts) to errors in some of the coding examples. I would have expected the book to have been edited a little better than it was. I would have recommended the book but the publishers need to do a better job editing future editions.

A great resource book!, 18 Jun 1998
I found this to be an excellent book covering many intermediate and advanced topics. This book is definitely not for beginners unless you already have programming experience using Visual Basic, etc. The coverage of changes in PowerBuilder 6.0 with it's migration issue warnings is very helpful. I'm looking forward to using items mentioned in our applications. This will definitely be one of my well used books.

An excellent development and reference guide!, 30 Apr 1998
Derek Ball brings PB to developers in a comprehensive, straight-forward manner. The well-done organization, format, and figures make this guide worth reading from beginning to end. The Developer's Tips and appendices are truly useful tools and compliment the main text. Also, this guide's thorough index makes it an excellent reference. The only reason I didn't give it a ten is that it's weak on external DLL information, but then so is every other PB book I've found. Of the current PB books available this is, by far, the one I use most.