Save your money, don't buy this book.
A book that takes the reader all over the place. The author pretty much cut and pasted the words from numeruous sources(plagiarism comes to mind) The author is neither an expert nor very good writer. The MSDN contains the same exact information so go there and save your dollars for a better book.
Can I get my money back ?
huh ?? what is this book about ? absolute waste of time.
i have to laugh
well after reading some parts of the books.I have to cry over my lost money. This books is taking you nowhere ,and I dont know what is the main purpose of this book.May be if you have enough time, take this book with you to the jungle or to a seaside perhaps. I can better peruse through many more sites in internet to get much better knowledge.
Good philosophical/theorical content, lack real-life example
I was more than excited through the first chapters to see that the level of the author was very high in theorical and/or philosophical content. But it faded out when I saw that this book did not really included real-life examples or case-studies.A problem that I often see is that the examples included in the book are just like data island, they don't know about each other and let us decide where we can really use them.
This book does have one small case-study toward the end but it does not reflect so much the high theorical level of the beginning.
As mentionned in a different review, a lot of buzzwords, and it's true; then again, this book DOES give you a GREAT THEORICAL aproach to SOLVE Distributed Applications PROBLEMS, but lacks in it's bringing us a good implementation of solutions (even though the level of coding was fairly high).
What I hope in the future, is just a book that will join all those buzzwords into one great application with all those technologies & softwares.
A must read
I can't say enough about this book. The content is well organized, and very well written. How often do you read every page of a book about programming?(esp. this publisher)What is key in this book is not the choice of browser (or XML) , it is the principles.
Buy it or borrow it, but you must read it.
(14 reviews)
