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Book Review of Professional Twitter Development

I must admit that Twitter is a subject that intrigues me, just like all of these social service media do. But this book is more than just about Twitter; it’s also about Twitter’s architecture and the use of REST-based applications and services that can be exposed through other means than...

Posted to Brian Mains by bmains on Mon, Dec 14 2009
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Pro Asp.NET MVC Framework (Apress) by Steve Sanderson

Rating: 5 out of 5 I believe Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework is one of the best books on the market about MVC. This book is crammed with a lot of information that you need to know as a developer. While he doesn't cover each subject fully (no book really does that), he does cover the major topic points...

Posted to Brian Mains by bmains on Mon, Oct 19 2009
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Non-review: The Data Access Handbook by John Goodson and Robert A. Steward

A while ago I agreed to write a review of this book (which the publisher sent me a free copy of) but I haven't had time to read it fully yet. I've been skimming through the first couple of chapters though, and it's pretty interesting. I'll post a full review when I have more time (along...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Fri, Jul 10 2009
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Book Review for Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 By Matthew McDonald

I read Matthew McDonald’s book Pro WPF to bone up on WPF, XAML, and everything .NET 3.5 has to offer. I have to say that I was impressed by Matthew’s writing style, level of detail, and general knowledge that he passed onto the reader. This fact is also the case with Pro Silverlight 2. While...

Posted to Brian Mains by bmains on Mon, Jul 6 2009
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Book Review: Pro JavaScript Design Patterns

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Posted to Brian Mains by bmains on Wed, May 27 2009
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Book Review: C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming: Beginner's Guide by Gastón Hillar

Update (19th March 2009) Debate around this review is getting heated. I stand by all the points I make about the text, but I'd like to clarify a few things: If there are any ad hominem comments in the review against the author, please ignore them. I'm going to try to weed out any that I find...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Mon, Mar 16 2009
Filed under: Filed under: C#, Book reviews, Parallelisation
Book Review: Pro ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX from Wrox

There are quite a bit of books on the market about ASP.NET and AJAX. The book “Professional ASP.NET AJAX” from Wrox is a good overview of the AJAX framework. The authors of the book cover a wide array of subjects that you don’t find in every AJAX book. The book covers topics like localization...

Posted to Brian Mains by bmains on Sun, Mar 8 2009
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Book Review: Practical JavaScript, DOM Scripting, and Ajax Projects by apress

The goal of the book "Practical JavaScript, DOM Scripting, and AJAX projects" illustrates what it takes to create an application solely in JavaScript. This book discusses projects in different genres: using mashups to pull external data, creating a calculator, creating and playing a game, creating...

Posted to Brian Mains by bmains on Sun, Feb 22 2009
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Book Review: Outlook 2007 Programming

Working with Office product's API's can be a daunting task for several reasons. First, the API isn't always fully documented, and there can be a lot of gotchas for developers to find as they build an add-in for this popular software product. The author of Professional Outlook 2007 by Wrox...

Posted to Brian Mains by bmains on Wed, Jan 28 2009
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Book Review: Code Leader

The book Code Leader, written by Patrick Cauldwell, tries to get any leader of a project in any type of role up to speed on the latest technologies, concepts, or decisions that a code leader has to go through, such as build vs. buy, whether TDD practices are practical, or the value of limiting dependencies...

Posted to Brian Mains by bmains on Mon, Oct 20 2008
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Book Review: ASP.NET AJAX Programmers Reference

ASP.NET AJAX is a popular topic these days, from web service calls to server/client components. There are many facets to this framework, and this book covers the client-side components. The layout of the book is pretty consistent. It delves into the client code, illustrating what the underlying architecture...

Posted to Brian Mains by bmains on Sun, Oct 19 2008
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Book Review: Programming C# 3.0 by Jesse Liberty and Donald Xie

Resources The O'Reilly page (errata etc) Jesse Liberty's page for his various books Buy it from Amazon or Barnes and Noble Disclaimer One reader commented that a previous book review was too full of "this is only my personal opinion" and other such disclaimers. I think it's still...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Sat, Sep 27 2008
Filed under: Filed under: C#, Books, Book reviews
Book review: Pro LINQ - Language Integrated Query in C# 2008, by Joe Rattz

I'm trying something slightly different this time. Joe (the author) has reacted to specific points of my review, and I think it makes sense to show those reactions. I'd originally hoped to present them so that you could toggle them on or off, but this blog server apparently wants to strip out...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Sun, Sep 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: C#, LINQ, Book reviews
Book reviews - what do you look for?

I've just started writing the book review for "Pro LINQ - Language Integrated Query in C# 2008" and I wondered what people look for in a review. I've talked before about who is in the best position to write a review - but this is slightly different. In particular, what sort of balance...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Sun, Sep 14 2008
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Book review: Accelerated C# 2008 by Trey Nash

Time for another book review, and this time it's a due to a recommendation from a reader who has this one, C# in Depth and Head First C#. Resources Amazon Barnes and Noble Publisher's page (Apress) Introduction and disclaimer My normal book review disclaimer applies, but probably more so than...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Fri, Aug 1 2008
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Judging a book by its cover (or title)

I've ranted about versioning before (and indeed in C# in Depth). I still believe that Microsoft didn't do the world any favours when they introduced a relatively minor set of changes (just libraries, albeit important ones) with .NET 3.0 and a more major set of changes (languages, LINQ, core library...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Fri, Jul 18 2008
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The trouble with book reviews

I'm currently reading two .NET books: Accelerated C# 2008 (Trey Nash) and Concurrent Programming on Windows (Joe Duffy). I will, in due course, post reviews here. However, the very act of thinking about the reviews has made me consider the inevitable inadequacies. There tend to be two kinds of people...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Tue, Jul 8 2008
Filed under: Filed under: General, Books, Book reviews
Guest post: Joe Albahari reviews C# in Depth

Joe Albahari, co-author of the excellent C# 3.0 in a Nutshell (previously reviewed here ) kindly agreed to review C# in Depth. Not only has he provided the review below, but he also supplied several pages of notes made while he was reading it. Many of those notes have been incorporated into the C# in...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Fri, Jun 6 2008
Filed under: Filed under: C#, Books, Book reviews
Programming "in" a language vs programming "into" a language

I'm currently reading Steve McConnell's Code Complete (for the first time - yes, I know that's somewhat worrying) and there was one section was disturbed me a little. For those of you with a copy to hand, it's in section 4.3, discussing the difference between programming in a language...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Wed, Apr 23 2008
Filed under: Filed under: C#, Java, General, Books, Book reviews
Book review: User Interface Design for Programmers (Joel Spolsky)

Resources Joel on Software (Joel's blog) Amazon Introduction This will be a brief review. It's a short book, after all - a mere 134 pages for the main body of the book. That's not a bad thing at all, mind - quite the opposite. This book is a quick read, and it's easy to read the whole...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Sat, Apr 19 2008
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