"This book is not intended to be a deep-dive on security, programming, reporting, configuration, etc. but more of a high-level overview on salesforce.com, Force.com development, tools, methodology and other resources. We will not cover all aspects of salesforce.com. This is not the "salesforce.com Bible". We wrote this book to (hopefully) become an invaluable resource for anyone new or inexperienced with the Force.com platform. This book contains the information that we wish we had when we started developing applications on Force.com."--Introduction, p.9.