Intranet Books

... The book seems to contain a lot of rumour and hype, recast to look like facts and serious substance. The most immediate giveaway that the author needs to learn something about the topics he writes about is his complete failure to recognize that Java (tee em, the programming language) is a totally different thing from JavaScript (also tee em :) He has a section title introducing security issues with Java Scripts, but the discussion refers simply to "Java" some of the technical descriptions clearly relate to Java, the programming language, but most of the "threats" he identifies are nothing of the sort.

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After reading this book, I felt that the book was another high gloss advertisement for the author's security consulting firm. Even the glossary is not even close to some of the common definitions that are used in the firewall/internet and security industry. The mention of firewalls throughout the book is cursory at best and does not mention vendors that produce commercial firewalls. The Companion CD is at most mostly demos and could have been better documented. Most of the information in the book could have been acquired off the internet a lot more easily than it is mentioned in the book. I hope in the second edition or the errata to the book, that it is hea vily revised to accomendate the present status of the computer security/internet and firewall industry.

Instead of buying this book, is better to do a search on Google or go to MSDN site. This book is not more useful that you could find in MSDN site.
From MSDN Site at least you could copy and paste the samples.

As many books about HR this too is concentrating about the operative aspects of the HR process work out.e-HR is dealt from the very operative side,by this way the author leaves the reader the hard task of discovering and reorganizing the few strategical insights provided across the book.I would define it a poor value summary of many othere books,just trying to cover all the critical aspects of the argument but really not having an its own point of view.I shold have expected something really better from a book that has been realesed after an historycal period in which e-HR experiences have been tested in many organizations.In my opinion previously realeased books such as "Web-based Human resources" ,"A thousand tribes","Corporate portals" deal with the problem of the organizational process web-enabling in a more complex and meaningful way.
My suggestion is to enjoy other sources about the argument, first of all the IT systems vendors' sites whose material is really good value.

I regret buying this study guide. My first clue about this disaster in editing was the chapter 1 review questions. Most questions have almost nothing to do with the material presented in chapter 1. It is almost as if a random question generator was used to make up the review questions.

Example: This chapter is about Server Roles and Server Security. OK. The objects of the chapter are to plan a secure baseline installation, configure security for servers in a specific role, and lastly to plan security for these servers in their specific roles.

There are fifteen chapter review questions. Ten of the fifteen are questions about web security attacks such as DDoS, SYN floods, mail bombs, cracking into a VPN and so forth. There was nothing in the material about any of this. A couple of the 15 review questions were about FSMO roles and backup/restore scenarios. None of that is in chapter 1 either. Were the editors on strike?

When I received the book I kind a felt that well another waste of money due to size and amount of content I had been delivered. "Hey at least read what you have in your hand!" I said to myself.

Here comes the results:

+ This book has certain errors: Figure 1.3 (I- talking to AS instead of S-, S- is not talking to HSS)/1.6(S- is not talking to AS)/1.7 (S- is not talking to MGCF)/1.8 are all misleading in the name of 3gpp specifications. By chance we got Figure 1.9 that is cleaning all these errors done in previous pages.

+ SLF explanation has this phrase: "When P-CSCF needs to route a request for a subscriber session to the appropriate S-CSCF, the P-CSCF would access this function to determine which S-CSCF has been assigned to the subscriber" this means SLF is used instead of P-CSCF internal caching role.

+ Application Server (AS) has this phrase: "AS can communciate with other AS, for example; AS can act as a redirect server generating requests and sending responses to other SIP entities within IMS" I assume we are talking about SCIM here somehow but SCIM has not given explicitly and correctly in my understanding.

+ MGCF has this phrase: "SS7 message sent to MGCF mapped to SIP Request and forwarded to P-CSCF" without stating whether orig/half call services.

+ SIGTRAN variously explained over the book couple of times unnecessarly.

I encouraged my self to keep reading after all those chapters. If you are looking for a book that explains IMS and technical details in the light of 3gpp I strongly advice not to buy this book but take a look at other available ones (ex;Camarillo's book) instead.

Mr. Russell, I don't think that I am gonna buy your next book whose title given here (SIP).

This book appears to have been rushed through the review process. Chapter 1 contains numerous cases where sample code is repeated instead of showing the output. There are references to appendices, but the book has no appendices. I am in the process of requesting a refund from publisher

In spite of the publication date of 2007 - this article was written in 2000.

Somewhere buried in the text is a discussion of developing LiveWire applications, but I had a hard time finding it as I waded through all the fluff! In fact out of this entire book, only 3 chapters deal with LiveWire development and the LiveWire extensions directly. These chapters are:

Ch. 8. Using Server-side JavaScript (a quick overview)
Ch. 9. Writing LiveWire Applications With JavaScript (the basics of writing appliations)
Ch. 10. Writing Database Applications (the database example from the LiveWire documentation)

The rest of the chapters deal with Navigator Gold, Netscape Plug-ins, and lots of other stuff designed to inflate the book. Heck, there's an entire chapter that tries to justify why to use LiveWire. There's an entire chapter on installing LiveWire. There's an entire chapters that drones on and on about the LiveWire tools, which each have there own chapter anyway. There's so much talk that the real discussion is lost.

Printed in 1996, the material is already outdated and, therefore, does not deal with the options and technology available to trainers today. Also, though the book is 160 pages, the print is so large it could easily be one third or one half the size--the length of a feature magazine article. It offered little useful information to trainers interested in developing online training.