What do you think of the SilverStripe book?

[Sigurd Magnusson]

Hi all,

By now, numerous people on this list would have bought and read the
new English book about SilverStripe and Sapphire.

We'd love to know what you think of the book. Your feedback here on
this list is useful to us. Posting your feedback as amazon.com reviews
is also very useful: if you recommend the book, then we'd love you to
publish your reasons on amazon.com so that others are encouraged to
buy the book.

Cheers,
Sigurd Magnusson,
SilverStripe.

[Matt Bower]

The book was awesome. I read through it in 2 weeks, almost cover to
cover (I skimmed a couple small sections since I had already learned
them on my own). Great book for anyone who wants to work toward being
an SS guru. Many useful tricks that aren't really highlighted in the
website Docs.

Matt Bower

[Aaron Cooper]

Hi Sig,

I've got it but am only up to chapter 5 due to late nights at work this
month.

So far I've learned 1 or 2 new things. Otherwise it's pretty basic stuff
aligned more at someone new to SS (and to MVC for that matter).

I was going to wait until I've done a cover-to-cover on it before posting on
Amazon as I'm hoping the meatier stuff is deeper in.

I will say that it definately doesn't act as a great reference like so many
other tech books I have bought. I've found myself in need of details for
specifc classes or procedures and found myself hitting the SS docs instead
as the book simply hasn't helped when used in that fashion. I wish I could
think of an example, but my brain is currently mush.

I'll be giving the book a fair go before giving a proper review, mate.

Ta
Aaron

[Matt Bower]

Aaron,

The meat starts in Chapter 6.

Matt

[Aaron Cooper]

I imagined as much. Looking forward to it then!

A

[fuz...@gmail.com]

Got the book in just yesterday.
At first glance it looks great , very professional !

Will review when I'm done reading it. ;)

[Gjermund Brabrand]

Hi!

After my first glance at the book, I would say I'm very pleased with the content. The book covers widely, from beginner to expert users. My personal advantage is that I get a more overall impression on capabilities available. This is basically the documentation that silverstripe.org is missing. Structured, and well written. Looking forward to dig deeper and hopefully find alternative solutions to problems that may occur on future projects.

I hope you guys also publish it as an an e-book or pdf soon. 

Nice work!

Cheers,
Gjermund Brabrand  

[dio5]

I've read up to the start of the recipes chapter so far.

Indeed, the meat starts at chapter 6.

Although I'm using Silverstripe for about 2 years now, I still learned
quite some things,
especially about ModelAdmin and GenericViewer scaffolding.

When finished I'll write a deeper review and something on Amazon as
well.

Although it doesn't really act as a reference guide, I imagine it will
do a good job in
giving a basic understanding to new users, something where the online
documentation sometimes fails.

Good work!