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One of my open-on-table booksReview Date: 2006-09-21
good bookReview Date: 2003-02-21
Chapter 1 - Introducing ASP.NET
Chapter 2 - Introducing ASP.NET Web Forms and Controls
Chapter 3 - Using ADO.NET in the .NET Framework
Chapter 4 - Data Binding
Chapter 5 - Input Validation
Chapter 6 - User Controls
Chapter 7 - Custom Controls
Chapter 8 - Business Objectives
Chapter 9 - Working with ASP.NET Web Services
Chapter 10 - ASP.NET Applications
Chapter 11 - Caching
Chapter 12 - Tracing
Chapter 13 - Security
Part
II - Projects
~Project 1 - A Personal Finance Manager
Chapter 14 - The Design of the Personal Finance Manager
Chapter
15 - Chart of Accounts
Chapter 16 - Transactions
Chapter 17 - The Trial Balance Report
Project 2 - Web Services
Chapter
18 - Creating a Generic Database Web Service
Chapter 19 - Designing a Navigation System
Chapter 20 - Incorporating Web
Services in the Chart
Chapter 21 - Incorporating Web Services in the Chart of Accounts Form
Chapter 22 - Incorporating
Web Services in the~~~ Trial Balance
Project 3 - Inventory Management System
Chapter 23 - The Design of the Inventory
Management System
Chapter 24 - Inventory Masters
Chapter 25 - Inventory Movements
Chapter 26 - The Inventory Balances
Report
Project 4 - The GenEditAdd Control
Chapter 27 - Using the GenAdd Control
Chapter 28 - Extending the GenEditAdd
Control
Project 5 - Visual Studio.NET
Chapter 29 - Displaying Database Data Using a Strongly-Typed DataSet
Chapter
30 - Writing CRUD Applications with~~ Visual Studio.NET
Chapter 31 - Creating a Web Service Using Visual Studio.NET
Part
III - Appendixes
Appendix A: Installing the Sample Database
Appendix B: HailStormIndex~
Great real world examplesReview Date: 2002-06-11
Unsupported and Outdated?Review Date: 2003-12-31
The author's web site has not been updated recently. The versions of the source code available from the author and the publisher are different, and at least one of those versions appears to be based on a .NET beta.
The author's contact email address does not seem to be working. Neither does the contact form on his website.
Ok, but...Review Date: 2003-03-14
1) Appears to be based on an early beta.
2) Most of his coding examples produce poorly structure html. To borrow a phrase from the xhtml/xml world, it is not "well formed." In other words, it doesn't follow accepted w3 standards.
3) His use of CSS is just flat out not right.
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Great for beginersReview Date: 2008-08-18
What is this book about?Review Date: 2008-06-07
At the risk of losing a few readers I feel, therefore, that it is only fair to point out that this book says nothing about improving one's memory [ as far as I remember ;) ], and has only one chapter on presentation skills.
For presentation skills I have another complete book on the subject, in the same series, called "Successful Presentation Skills."
For memory skills I'd recommend checking out books by Tony Buzan and Dominic O'Brien.
Happy reading
Andy Bradbury
Lots of froth, little substanceReview Date: 2008-04-11
Apart from these quibbles it is well written.
Superficial treatment of NLP concepts !Review Date: 2008-03-21
Let's keep to the subject guysReview Date: 2008-04-13
Ive bought three copies of this book over the last ten years, one from each edition and believe it or not I didnt do that because its frothy or shallow.
I also agree with Andy Smiths review. Ive read quite a few books on NLP and Ive seen several which have good things to say but spend too much time getting them said. And some like 'Neurolinguistic Programming for Dummies' which would have been a whole lot better if they hadnt been published at all.
I like this book because I agree with Andy Smith that it packs a lot of information in to a pretty small space and without losing the important details. IMO its a great introduction to NLP and a useful reference book after that. Who else takes time to explain the presuppositions for instance? They arent covered in this much detail in any of the other NLP books I've read. Samething on the eye accessing cues. Andrew Bradbury doesnt just tell us what they are he shows how they work with the three main thinking modes (visual auditary and kinesthetic) and tells us how we can get the best rapport with someone in each mode. Great stuff for interviewers sales people and just about everyone else I should think.
So I would recommend this book to anyone who has a beginners interest in NLP. IMO its worth every cent.
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Excellent applicationsReview Date: 2002-12-17
Thanks for a great book, Greg. I am waiting on Instant ASP.NET version 2!
Good Examples !! and very well defined.Review Date: 2002-07-25
VB Only?Review Date: 2003-01-28
Too Easy ApplicationsReview Date: 2002-06-28
Don't waste your moneyReview Date: 2003-02-24
If you are looking for a book that is enterprise strength (maybe not a starter), try ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution
by Marco Bellinaso, Kevin Hoffman by Wrox. They have one for vb.net and another one for c#. I purchased both which allows me to compare languages as well.
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Good starter for people looking towards Zope Zen.Review Date: 2002-03-16
which makes it rather easy to follow things when you don't
have a Zope box next to you. Sometimes they are a bit too
in-depth (like the listing of the SQLLevers in the ZPatterns
example) but most time they are selected wisely.
I found a lot of different topics explained (from Zope
for Newbiews, CMS, lots
of 3rd Party Products, System Administration,
ZEO) which all bring enough knowledge to you, to start working with
them
right after reading. (Or after downloading from the online
website that comes with the book.)
The Chapter (actually there
are 3) about ZPatterns is actually
the most important to me, because it helped me understanding
this complex topic in
a couple of days.
This book is a big must-read for all people trying to gain "Zope-Zen"!
Better than the rest - but lots of bad syntaxReview Date: 2002-03-11
That said - the examples in the book are short and clear and the authors _do_ seem to update the site and reply to emails when errors are found.
This is the _only_ Zope book I'd recommend.
almost the kitchen sinkReview Date: 2002-02-23
Because Zope is so expandable and versatile, however, they had to leave some things out. A topic that could have used a little more coverage (or maybe a lot, maybe a seperate book?) is database integration. It's a big topic, though, so I guess it makes sense that it isn't fully fleshed out.
Overall, I'd recommend this book to anyone who (like me) is still getting to know Zope. It's very clearly written and well laid out. Kudos to the authors and publisher.
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Outdated and IncoherentReview Date: 2002-08-31
just a collection of unrelated example projects only loosely
tied together by the common theme of managing some content on a
web site). You're better off with the Zope Bible (for Zope) and the Content Management Bible (for CM issues generally). However,
there are a few useful things in it so if you can get it for
$5-10 as a remaindered book, go for it.
A jumble of disconnected stuff...Review Date: 2002-08-11
This book is basically a walkthrough of several products for Zope (the CMF, ZPatterns, ZUBB, etc.) I doubt you'll find that you've learned much about how to use Zope or how to develop for it, rather than a thin bit about how to apply these products.
I also found that this book felt rather hastily put-together, without much continuity between chapters.
The only reason I'd recommend this book is if you're looking to learn about ZPatterns, and chances are, you aren't.
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Interesting but not compellingReview Date: 2006-12-12
art involves the whole brainReview Date: 2002-12-19
I give the exercises in this book 5 stars and I think it is great way to discover your creativity and experience parts of yourself that are otherwise untapped (although that it "heals" is yet to be proven-- it would be great to see the studies that prove this claim). It is the theory that the author is basing her claims on that is the problem. Artistic expression, even with a non-dominant hand, is a little more complex than the "intuitive" part of the brain or the right brain doing all the work. This idea has been proven incorrect for the last 10 or 15 years, it is time the author caught up with the literature in order to give her readers the best possible information on why art expression is a way to health.
Simply put, a good bookReview Date: 2003-02-22
An amazing concept!Review Date: 2008-02-21
My left handed writing sessions which I do a couple times a week have given me amazing clarity about the things I want, my priorities, how to handle tricky situations well, and how I really feel about things. Right hand tells me what I think. Left hand tells me how I feel. I am grateful to the writer for this book.
Lending a HandReview Date: 2007-01-22
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A shallow memoir with very little about writingReview Date: 2008-03-26
I wonder if this is a case of a professional who can deliver novels but who cannot really talk about the process, which would be a serious problem, since she spoke of teaching creative writing for years, or, was it just a case of lack of genuine generosity, whereby she just chose to hand us a morsel of her thoughts about writing, withholding the rest? Or, maybe "the rest" is to be spread out over 4 or 5 books to come, for, given the quantity and quality of what she gave in this one, it would take that many to make the contents of one REAL book?
I felt cheated. It should not have been marketed as a book about writing, the author spoke mainly of events in her life and showed us all her charming pictures.
Not only was the content of the book shallow, but the hardcover copy I got was written in large print on small pages, with lots of blank spaces and photographs. If you put its contents in an average sized book and set the font size to normal, they would not have filled 50 pages. A lot of effort seems to have gone in spreading the meagre contents of this manuscript to make it seem like a book. Deception was not just in content, but in form as well.
I honestly don't know what prompted the writer to consider this a finished book. It was terribly superficial, with some parts downright annoying, as that whole chapter about some "snoring" story, which was probably added just as a filler, probably for the sole reason of stretching her words into the minimum acceptable size for a printed book.
If that is all the writer has to say about her life and her writing, then it's really sad. Even as mere memoir, it was extremely shallow, as for being a book about "the writing life", it did not even rise to the level of a bluff.
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Had the writer been as generous with her thoughts on writing as much as she was with her personal photo album, then, perhaps, we'd have gotten something out of it. But then again, if you just want to listen in on some chatting and look at the pictures of a good-looking, and clearly very self-conscious person, be my guest.
A window into the mind and life of a great writerReview Date: 2007-10-23
Would be writers hoping to tap into her genius through this book will doubtless be surely disappointed. Though a Professor in an MFA program, Freed remains at best suspicious of the notion that one can be taught to be a great writer. That said, she offers a thoughtful guide to what makes for poor writing with observations about the dangers of nostalgia and hollow images. Readers of Freed's supple sparse short stories with their perfectly chosen words will take heart to learn exactly how much she agonized in her efforts to produce her artful characters that leap from the page.
On occasion Freed falls backwards, especially when she is considering the work of other authors. Though her pleas that the first requirement of the writer is to read, her observations arrive flat when dealing with specific authors, even as her obvious love of the written word shines through.
Readers unfamiliar with Freed would do well to begin their experience of her work elsewhere, I would recommend the sharp gripping collection "The Curse of the Appropriate Man." Yet for fans of Freed like me, who savor her stories and novels as if each were perfectly crafted wines that one can imbibe over and over again, "Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home" comes as a great gift.
Disappointed After the HypeReview Date: 2006-03-12
Holding the MysteryReview Date: 2005-10-18
Her voice is precise, elegant and shaped by ruthless self-editing. I recommend this book highly to anyone who appreciates writing. And for anyone who writes, this book is a must.
What Freed protests she cannot do in the classroom, she does with remarkable depth on the page.
Riveting Insights and Fabulous Grammar, tooReview Date: 2005-10-27
Though Freed has spent her entire adult life living in the US, her fictional characters always return "home" to South Africa. It is through revealing the landscape of her childhood that she has seen her greatest success as a novelist. Yet finding the right voice with which to expose her familiar world was initially elusive.
"For the young expat South African writer of the seventies and eighties, the perceived audience for her writing fell loosely between what I call the Out-of-Africa crowd on the one hand... and the Keepers of the Moral High Ground on the other," Freed writes. "And so, for a number of years, I occupied myself writing predictably horrified short stories placed in South Africa. They were full of fake daring, fake feeling, fake everything. And they were, of course, predictably rejected."
Not until a writing teacher encouraged her to "write about her family," did she discover the authenticity that had eluded her. Yet, with that realism came the prospect of truth-telling - her second major theme in the book.
In more than one essay, Freed explains why fidelity to subject and character in writing is more important than kindness. "The page will reveal the fake even when the writer is moving herself to tears," she states. To this end she describes the necessity of the writer becoming a virtual serial killer.
"Before they can even begin writing [writers] must kill off parents, siblings, lovers, mentors, friends - anyone, in short, whose opinion might matter. If these people are left alive and allowed to take up residence in the front row of the audience, the writer will never be able to get the fiction right. More than this, she will never want to get it right."
Telling the truth is not only expressed in revealing others for the flawed human animals they are, but in exposing herself. To this end, the third major theme of the book deals with writing itself - and her own arduous process. Freed is seemingly as free discussing her Mother's melodramas or the talentless, prima donna, students to whom she caters as a MFA creative writing teacher, as she is examining her own missteps and dark nights of the soul.
In "False Starts and Creative Failure," she writes of her near-inability to produce the "second" novel for which her publishers were clamoring. She shares one stillborn opening paragraph after another; one meaningless title after another; as if getting either of those right would begin the effortless flow that produces a book.
"Of course, it was hopeless," she admits. "Still, I chased on. I thought that if only I had the idea for the story, I'd have the novel itself. I forgot everything I knew about ideas and fiction. But desperation and vanity does this to a writer; it makes her stupid."
Not only does Freed's writing come in egocentric fits and starts, but her life outside of this realm, is also variously marred and enlivened by ups and downs. She hates teaching for taking her away from writing. She worries that her constant travels have kept her from stability. And she probably isn't an ideal mother as she reveals in this short passage about her relationship to her daughter:
"Once, I tore her passport in half. Once, I drove the car pool in a devil mask and bridal veil. Once, I threw her clothes out of the window. Once, I locked her out of a hotel room and she had to bring in the Mexican police to break down the door."
Within the pages of this book, Freed presents herself as relentlessly ambitious, emotionally aerobic and unflinchingly astute. These are likely essential traits for a writer who can never stay in one place, yet can never go home.
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A good message... wrapped a little to basicallyReview Date: 2008-08-10
While it was good to read, it didn't hold me. However, for those who need a major life change in respect to their health and work-life balance... it is a good starting point; pick the book up and read it... then make the changes you need.
shaken, not stirringReview Date: 2006-07-26
Neither riveting reading nor high-stakes illumination, they simply get a message across effectively to the management reader who is not too concerned with aesthetics. Even the illustrations are garden-variety basic.
Yet these books have sold millions and they work.
The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life presents the usual contrived encounter between the One Minute Manager and another of the usual subjects, this time the Professor. Somewhat off the beaten path, this time it is the One Minute Manager Himself who is desperately in need. Since we last saw him contentedly setting the organization world right, he has foolishly transformed himself into an overweight, out-of-breath victim of his own success.
Bad One Minute Manager!
This gives him the chance to narrate his own turn-around process, a conversion that I must admit I find rather inspiring.
Along the way one is treated to the usual locked doors when he tries to slip away from responsibility for the situation. This habit of assigning personal responsibility is perhaps one of the keys to the success of this series.
If you need to balance work and life, pick up one of these little books on the cheap.
Setting the toneReview Date: 2002-11-12
There is a simple questionnaire (The Professor's dozen) that the one minute manager needs to answer. It applies to all of us. Depending on the score on this, one may decide the true state of ones "Tone", the word that is used to describe the physical well being of the individual. The four parameters (or moderators that prevent stress) responsible for sustained success in work and life are:
1. Autonomy : The availability of many choices that give good control in life
2. Connectedness
: Strong positive relationship at home, at work and in the community
3. Perspective: The direction, purpose and passion
about what one is doing.
4. Tone: The feeling about the body, energy level, physical well being and appearance.
In a remarkable way, the clear connection between Tone as the enabler for the other three moderators is brought out in this book. The illustrations that support the concepts are excellent.
Organizations spend billions of dollars in health care and suffer productivity loss due to the lack of physical well being of their employees. Employees on the other hand are sacrificing their health in the process of achieving career advancement. "In early life, people give up their health to gain wealth. Then, later in life they give up some wealth to regain health."
This book is for HR managers and employees at all levels to help achieve substantial gains for the Organization; through employee well being that needs serious attention; as much as we do for career planning.
Title is deceivingReview Date: 2005-12-16
The One Minute Manager Takes Care of Himself!Review Date: 2003-04-26
There are four components presented here to insure a fit, healthy life: autonomy, connectedness, perspective and tone. Autonomy pertains to getting control of one's personal schedule so that there is enough time for self-care. Connectedness refers to having a strong, interpersonal support network to keep on track with proper fitness, nutrition, etc. Perspective pertains to how well one views his own life. Tone refers to the actual physical condition and health of a person's body, mind and emotions.
This title should be at the top of the list for "One Minute" fans. The format is the same as all the other books in the series and the principles are life-changing. For some persons, this book may even be life-saving!
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A comprehensive and "user friendly" introduction to ZopeReview Date: 2002-01-14
This book picks up where "The Zope Book" left off...Review Date: 2002-05-06
Beautiful Graphics and PresentationReview Date: 2003-01-04
The information is organized logically and easy to find. There is a separate appendix in the back with a lot of the DTML and other Zope syntax listed in separate tables. For instance, last night I used it to look up the DTML string functions.
A great benefit is the separate chapter that provides an introduction to Python. I had
also bought a separate Python book to help me get up and running with Zope, but I really didn't need one because this book
gives you the basics that you need.
This book is really a joy. If you can only afford one book I even recommend this
one instead of the The Zope Book.
Nice Idea TERRIBLE ExecutionReview Date: 2003-01-16
Now I'm a tech savy person and own a large library of tech books, so normally I don't have a problem with even the most dense and poorly written tech guides. This one, however, has proved useless.
The most glaring problem, one that you will find on almost every other page is that their figures and diagrams don't match up with their text. Moreover, you'll often even find that the figure doesn't even match up with the text cited with figure. Very confusing! At present I'm equating learning Zope to learning unix - real test of understanding complexity; a poorly organized text makes this process more difficult.
So, what do you do? Well, don't buy this book. The 'Zope Book' is very good and downloadable in pdf format. Also, the Zope Bible, which I've just started is very good. For more advanced topics try the 'Zope Web Applications and Content Management'. Also, Zope comes with a very nifty tutorial.
Well, hope this helps. Don't make the same mistake i did in buying this book.
This book picks up where "The Zope Book" left off...Review Date: 2002-05-06
Suspenseful and movingReview Date: 2008-11-06
Moving Book!Review Date: 2008-11-06
awfulReview Date: 2008-11-02
Unique Holocaust StoryReview Date: 2008-09-30
Erin Einhorn, a reporter, must have known she had quite a story on her hands, or at the very least a fascinating family history, because the little girl in the story was her mother, Irene Rozenblum Einhorn. Despite her mother's long reluctance and disinterest in speaking of her past, Einhorn is determined to find out who this family is who saved her mother and made her own life possible. This story has become The Pages in Between, an honest and revealing memoir which winds up going in a direction that most holocaust writing does not. Einhorn moves to Poland and is surprised to find that in this country that was ten percent Jewish before WW2, Judaism has now become trendy. There are Jewish restaurants and trinket shops and tours one can go on.
Einhorn visits Bedzin, the previous home of her family, and quite easily finds the house they used to live in, and in it, the family that saved her mother's life, the Skowronskis. The woman who cared for her has died, but her son lives there with his family. He remembers the little girl he thought of as his sister whom they had always hoped would return for a visit. Einhorn visits the family multiple times, taking a translator with her, and over time some frustration on the part of the Skowronskis is revealed. Einhorn learns there is a problem with ownership of the house, and the Skowronskis want to collect on a promise made by Einhorn's grandfather during the war.
Einhorn tries to do what she can to help them, and it turns out to be a terribly complicated and potentially expensive legal matter. At the same time, Einhorn is struggling with the somewhat turbulent relationship she has always had with her mother as well as some life-altering news.
I found this to be a quite compelling story and I enjoyed Einhorn's personal tone throughout the book. I was very impressed with the degree to which she tried to assist the Skowronskis. I felt as though they were giving her a pretty hard time and it would have been easy for her just to walk away. It's an interesting question, really. After what happened in the Holocaust, do people really owe each other for saving a life, or was it just the right (and obviously brave) thing to do? Who should property belong to? The people it was stolen from over 60 years ago, or the people who have since made it their own?
I found this to be a fascinating and unique story and recommend it.
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Very outdatedReview Date: 2002-07-19
please if this book can guide for how to create web pagesReview Date: 1999-09-06
Doesn't waste your time...Review Date: 1997-03-01
The most useful HTML (and more) guide ever!Review Date: 1998-01-22
This jam-packed HTML and more guide is the most useful HTML guide ever. It comes with a companion CD-ROM that not only has stuff used in the book but also other software thaty can be used for other purposes.
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The most helpful part of this book is author's business and architectural approaches.
There are some bugs in the code-examples, but!
Even if you're not experienced developer you can find and fix them.
More you can take it as sudoku puzzles.
Only one thing I would consider as a pros - is an examples based on the OLEDB non-SQL provider, which is little bit outdated, for small and medium-size companies.
Book is especially helpful for developers who specialized on the in-house extranet applications.
With the Best Regards to Author!