Entries Tagged as 'review'
Review: Beginning ActionScript 2.0 by Derksen
This is the text of my amazon review, I gave it 2 stars. It is featured in the Shelf of Shame.
Updated now that I’ve plowed through the whole thing. Compared to the beginning, the later pages are better, I think there’s some real good information in this book and good tips. But it just seems [...]
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Review: Version Control with Subversion by Pilato
This is the text of my amazon review, I gave it 4 stars.
Having worked in java and oracle with pl/sql some time ago, I’m in the “probably better not to use stored procedures” camp for most environments - but now that mysql offers them, I figured it was best to see how they tackled the [...]
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Review: Macromedia Flash Professional 8 by Gonzalez
This is the text of my amazon review, I gave it 4 stars.
I almost gave this book 3 stars, but realized that it was just 3 based on my flawed expectations for the book. I had been looking for a good introduction to flash with an eye towards the capabilites of actionscript. Sadly, the action [...]
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Review: Ajax in Action by Crane
This is the text of my amazon review, I gave it 4 stars.
I have to say, I’ve been extremely impressed with all the Manning books I’ve read. These books remind me of O’reilly books back in the day. Ajax in Action is no exception, although it was not what I was expecting. To be honest, [...]
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Review: Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Zakas
This is the text of my amazon review, I gave it 4 stars. I recommend it as a good introduction/reference for javascript development. It is featured in my Developer’s Bookshelf.
I was in the market looking for a good book on javascript and found… a marked lack of them. Most javascript resources seem targetted towards the [...]
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Review: DHTML Utopia by Langridge
This is the text of my amazon review, I gave it 2 stars. This is featured in my Shelf of Shame.
I got this book looking to find more coverage on how dhtml/ajax works. I got a book very light on details and focused on very broad how-to/cut-and-paste type scripts. So, partly, it was my own [...]
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Review: Perl Best Practices
This is the text of my amazon review, I gave it 5 stars. It is listed in my Developer’s Bookshelf and is highly recommended.
This book is probably one of the best tech books I’ve read. The topics he covers range quite a bit starting from the very beginning with programming style through documentation and error [...]
