Book Description
In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.
Customer Reviews:
Only Made It Halfway.......2007-04-26
I ordered this book because I had read AHWOSG and found that pretty good. I was surely dissapointed in this book. The story just drags on and on and on and never really goes anywhere. I made it about halfway through before I decided to stop wasting my time with a "story" I didn't really care about. It seems like it could be a really good book but falls so short of its potential.
painful.......2007-04-10
very
hard to beleive this endless story is by the same author who wrote his other engaging novels
Good, but not great.......2007-01-23
As others have said, there are parts of this book that are so original, they blow your mind. But, Eggers is so self-conscious in his writing, for every clever plot twist, the reader can almost envision Eggers, the wheels of his brain turning as he writes what he considers to be extremely clever passages. It gets old. As with HWOSG, the book is far better in the first half than in the second. It was a good read, but not the great read I had hoped.
Loved it!.......2007-01-19
This book was just a straight up fun read. Eggers is a very talented, lively, provocative writer. His story follows two friends on their week-long trip around the world giving away $32,000. The resulting story is laugh-out-loud funny and poignant at the same time and it leads the two to learn things about themselves they never would have thought true. I would say this book had more contour and shape than his previous "Heartbreaking Work..." and also had more to say as a literary piece. I don't know if I would recommend this book to older readers though. I think Eggers tends to appeal to young-adult audiences and anyone much older than 30 probably will not connect with this book on the same level. Nevertheless, I think it's a great piece of contemporary literature with a lot of depth and will stay a favorite of mine for a long time.
An enjoyable read .......2007-01-04
Dave Eggers is wonderful in "You Shall Know Our Velocity". The book is very comical and sensitive. I have laughed outloud several times while reading. A great book for those interested in travel and those just looking for a engaging, humorous, and sensitive human story. Also suggest reading " A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Eggers. It's brilliant!
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Delivers 22 specific guidelines on how to manage your part of the organization for high-velocity culture change. You'll also learn how you can avoid the management traps that cause most efforts to fail. This handbook will prepare you and your management staff for the rigors of the agonizing process that is culture change. It will also prove how and why the pain is well worth the cost. If your management staff is going to achieve a dramatic culture shift in record time, High-Velocity Culture Change is a must-read for every player on your team.
Customer Reviews:
Very impactful. .......2007-02-23
Depending on the current state of you company's climate and/or culture, this book can provide some very poigniant insight as to how to manage yourself and your teams. The concepts and principles are dynamic, hard hitting, and thought provoking. I highly recommend this quick and easy read, if you presently find yourself in the midst of a cultural evolution.
Exactly what's wrong with modern management.......2006-12-08
This is perhaps the worst example I have encountered of terrible advice, wrapped in a package of nonsensical and even self-contradictory aphorisms. This is par for this sort of "book" (it's not a book, it's a pamphlet) - what is unusual is how violent the language of the book is... nothing like trodding over and destroying those who don't understand your vision for organization change. The book presents untestable hypotheses, uncited claims, and essentially no tools or mechanisms for actually doing the things they instruct you to do (not that anyone should do anything these authors suggest). If your organization is passing this book around, you should strongly consider whether this is an organization that values rational thought - and thus whether you should work there. Sad that you can't give negative stars - this book will hurt your organization.
Worse than Chinese Water Torture.......2004-02-27
If a fourth grader had written at this level I'd send them back to third grade. Follow up the poor writing with an approach which can only be described as derived from brainwashing techniques, and you come up with a book that is more painful to read than undergoing Chinese Water Torture. The writer bombards the reader with poorly worded rephrasings of the same thing, again and again. He throws the rephrasings at the reader multiple times. The author switches his words around and repeats the same premise over and over. Get the idea.
On TOP of this, the premises seem to go along the lines of:
Change is good.
Change must happen.
Promote Change.
If people don't like your change get rid of them.
There is no consideration given to analysis, progress, fixing actual problems. The upper level manager at my company who promoted this book also cost our company more than $31 Million because she was addicted to changing things. I call that sort of thing a Legacy change, as in "look at what a good job I did, I changed things." It promotes change over results. Change for change sake does not equal progress.
This book is even more painful than an Ayn Rand novel.
Average customer rating:
- Not One Of Koontz's Best But Still A Great Read
- Yet another winner from Koontz
- good but lacking
- Neat premise, the usual overblown prose
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Velocity
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Book Description
Dean Koontz’s unique talent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul is nowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece that pits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speed limits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel, Velocity would break them all. Get ready for the ride of your life.…
Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don’t take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours.
It seems like a sick joke, and Bill’s friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it’s Bill’s fault: he didn’t convince the police
to get involved. Now he’s got another note, another deadline, another ultimatum…and two new lives hanging in the balance.
Suddenly Bill’s average, seemingly innocuous life takes on the dimensions and speed of an accelerating nightmare. Because the notes are coming faster, the deadlines growing tighter, and the killer becoming bolder and crueler with every communication—until Bill is isolated with the terrifying knowledge that he alone has the power of life and death over a psychopath’s innocent victims. Until the struggle between good and evil is intensely personal. Until the most chilling words of all are: The choice is yours.
Customer Reviews:
Not One Of Koontz's Best But Still A Great Read.......2007-10-02
This is by far not one of my favorite Dean Koontz novels but I buy all his books. He is a great story teller and this book is very much worth reading. I would definately suggest this book to anyone who like Dean Koontz. It is very entertaining.
Yet another winner from Koontz.......2007-08-22
I just finished "Velocity" and must say it was a thrilling read. As many have stated, it concerns Billy Wiles, a bartender with a past, whose only real tie to happiness is his fiance, Barbara, who lies in a coma but nevertheless spouts mysterious phrases to Billy, which gives him hope that she will one day wake up.
But Billy's hope is challenged by contact from a deranged psychopath who forces Billy to make choices over the lives of people whom the psycho (referred to by Billy as "the freak") will kill either quickly or slowly according to Billy's reaction.
The story moves at a rapid pace and is never for a moment boring. Billy is a well thought out character. At some point you are made to wonder if indeed the events are in Billy's head. There are characters in Billy's orbit that are fascinating yet because of the story, don't get as much time as I would have liked. Particularly the characters of Ivy and Barbara. Ivy is a young, beautiful employee at the bar where Billy works. She seems to have a great insight in the nature of death, and I hope Koontz will further expand upon her character in another book. Barbara, Billy's seemingly forever sleeping love, is the other character that bewitches me. Her utterings from her coma are eventually made clear but Koontz leaves me wanting more from her, and Ivy. With what story Koontz can bring them all back I can only imagine but I do not doubt his skill. It's the mark of a great writer that leaves you wanting more.
good but lacking.......2007-08-01
The book as a whole was good but the killers were portrayed as ruth less sick killers but they were killed to easy once they werefound out it left me wanting more but it was great a page turner despite what I stated above
Neat premise, the usual overblown prose.......2007-07-31
If you love Dean Koontz and get infuriated when someone writes a negative review of his books, go ahead and zap me now with your "unhelpful" vote. This review is mostly negative.
Velocity was my third Dean Koontz read, following Dark Rivers of the Heart and Sole Survivor. It's my favorite of the three, though deeply flawed like the others.
Dean Koontz, for this reader, is shaping up to be a like a new food with an off-taste - interesting at first, ultimately unpleasant, but interesting enough to come back and taste it again to make sure it was as awful as when you first tried it.
I give Velocity, like Sole Survivor, 5 stars for the plot premise. Koontz places Billy Wiles in an interesting scenario that gets your adrenaline going. He's a fine craftsman developing the plot and giving it velocity (no pun intended).
Where I struggle with Velocity and Koontz's other works I've read, is the dialogue - both internal and conversant - and the general language style. Human beings don't speak with each other in the wordy, bombastic, overblown, self-indulgent language Koontz puts forward as everyday fare. It's cloying, and detracts terribly from his plot ideas, many of which are interesting and exciting.
The internal dialogue of his characters is similarly Martian - loaded with self-indulgent phraseology and vocabulary choices that are unreal, and as a result, unnatural. One reviewer put it nicely - why go out of your way to use "masticate" when "chew" works perfectly fine?
My third criticism is Koontz's characters tend to moralize in a very dated form, similar to those in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Those novels were masterworks in their time, but their moralistic style translates as pompous and bombastic today. Velocity, like Dark Rivers of the Heart, sermonizes around the the notion of serial killer as "artist". The idea has potential for new exploration, but Koontz simplifies and waxes in a way that's tedious, familiar and trite.
I listened to Velocity unabridged on audio, narrated by Michael Hayden. Similar to the audio versions of Dark Rivers of the Heart and Sole Survivor, Koontz's spoken prose is so unnatural to the ear to be, at times, unbearable. Only the engaging plot keeps you going. Of the three works though, I found Velocity the most listenable, and at times most enjoyable.
Not the best.. not the worst.........2007-07-27
Well, I enjoyed most of the book, since most of it was page-turning. I love a great mystery, as this one was portraying. The ending was quick and too, eh, fake. He left really nothing to your imagination. . .
I guess he just got tired or rushed to finish the ending.
Oh well, I wouldn't read it again, but I gave the book to somebody else to read, if that says anything?
Book Description
Promotes an unconventional, quantum leap strategy for achieving breakthrough performance. This powerful new method replaces the concept of attaining gradual, incremental success through massive effort. Instead, it puts forth 18 key components for building massive success while expending less effort. Your staff learns to multiply their personal effectiveness, leverage their gifts, and leap beyond ordinary performance expectations.
Customer Reviews:
Simple language........2007-04-10
Great little book for learning how to take the leap of faith needed in business ventures.
The key in the approach.......2006-05-29
This is an excellent book which will help you multiply your effectivness. The key is not in trying harder but in changing your approach by focusing on the ends rather than the means.
Disappointed.......2005-06-29
I was very impressed with Pritchett's book "The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World" so I purchased this one. I didn't find it worthwhile. It seemed like it was simply a few pages of advice like take more chances which had no value.
"You 2" For Me.......2000-12-07
This book is the ultimate book for individuals who value success. Easy reading but it is quite powerful in it's message. "You 2" explains how to make quantum leaps in your personal and proffesional life. This is a must have selection for people who are in sales or self employed.
After reading this book I took a new understanding to the powerful message of getting "uncomfortable" to take things to the next level.
Book Description
Chris Baty, motivator extraordinaire and instigator of a wildly successful writing revolution, spells out the secrets of writing—and finishing—a novel. Every fall, thousands of people sign up for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which Baty founded, determined to (a) write that novel or (b) finish that novel in—kid you not—30 days. Now Baty puts pen to paper himself to share the secrets of success. With week-specific overviews, pep "talks," and essential survival tips for today's word warriors, this results-oriented, quick-fix strategy is perfect for people who want to nurture their inner artist and then hit print! Anecdotes and success stories from NaNoWriMo winners will inspire writers from the heralding you-can-do-it trumpet blasts of day one to the champagne toasts of day thirty. Whether it's a resource for those taking part in the official NaNo WriMo event, or a stand-alone handbook for writing to come, No Plot? No Problem! is the ultimate guide for would-be writers (or those with writer's block) to cultivate their creative selves.
Customer Reviews:
Perfect Preparation for National Novel Writing Month.......2007-09-29
*****
No Plot? No Problem! is written by Chris Baty, the founder of National Novel Writing Month, which takes place every November. During the month, people from all over the world unite over the Internet at NaNoWriMo.org and each writes their own 50,000 word novel (actually, a first draft) by writing 1,667 words per day.
I wasn't sure if I wanted to participate in the endeavor or not, because it sounded pretty overwhelming, but reading this book was truly the perfect preparation. It helped me to see what NaNoWriMo would be like, and gave me what I needed to decide if it was for me. (It is!)
If you are not thinking of joining NaNoWriMo, this book would be of limited usefulness for you, although it would be possible to use as a general writing guide---it's really all about NaNoWriMo. You find out what you need to do to get ready (including helpful exercises and equipment), what to expect during each of the four weeks, and most of all, motivation---why in the world would you want to do this? And how do you make it through? I found my answers in the book and they resonated with what my personal goals are.
It is written in a fun, sometimes hilarious style, and is very entertaining. Baty has recently written The No Plot? No Problem! Novel-Writing Kit, which I also ordered since I finished the book itself, because if it was half as helpful as the book it would be well worth it.
If you are reading this in the fall...hurry and buy and read this book as November is almost here!
Highly recommended.
*****
Not Like Other Writing Books - Which Is A GOOD Thing!.......2007-08-30
There are plenty of other well-written reviews here, so all I want to say is that after buying dozens of other books about the art and craft of writing, Baty got me to do something no one else had: WRITE A NOVEL! If anything, all of those other books (and there are some excellent ones) confused and intimidated me - and I've been writing professionally for decades. But Chris Baty magically took the pressure off, described how to approach the project in tasty, bitesized chunks and, miraculously, made it fun!
There are other books about technique which serious writers will do well to own. But this is the first and only book which somehow finally got me to do it. Not by pushing me, but by inviting me. Very highly recommended!
good... but the web site is better.......2007-08-25
The book does a nice job of going over the basics, but you get all the same information, and more, from the NaNoWriMo web site. I am a big fan of Chris Baty and the NaNoWriMo yearly event, and I own this book and enjoyed reading it, but I think it is more for fans of the site than a required manual on how to get a rough draft of a short novel done in 30 days.
Certainly a quick, and enjoyable read.
No Plot? No Problem...for a Rough Draft.......2007-07-13
This is a great book that works for some writers and not so much for others. Chris Baty's techniques are excellent advice for authors struggling to get their first drafts completed, although the timeline of 30 days is not "low-stress" as the cover states (I've found that 90 days is more appropriate for myself as a writer). First drafts are the largest hurdle to overcome, but are still just a piece of the puzzle: the real magic occurs during the rewriting stage. As fun as this book is, let's hope that Baty has a companion book on the revision process in the works.
Great Book For Writers!.......2007-06-25
Chris Baty is the founder of National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo, which I've decided to try out this year. In preparation for doing so, I decided to read his book, No Plot? No Problem! A Low-Stress, High Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days. That's exactly what NaNoWriMo is for those who are wondering: It's 30 days of non-stop novel writing madness. It starts on November 1st and ends on midnight, November 30th, with a goal of 50,000 words.
This book is excellent! I've been looking for a great book on writing and this one is superb. Though it's superb for a 30 day writing process...don't know if it's the right book for your typical novel writer, though it does have some great universal tips. This book is basically a guide for NaNoWriMo from someone who's obviously been through the process since he invented it. The first section of the book focuses on what you should expect, what you need to prepare yourself, selecting the right notebooks, selecting the right locations to write, selecting the right time to write, plot, characters, and basically how to survive during the process. The second section of the book is a week by week account of the writing process and you are supposed to read each chapter at the beginning of each week of the writing process (I obviously jumped ahead). The final section deals with what to do when the process is over and gives tips on rewrites, possibilities of publishing, etc.
I really enjoyed this book. Not only was it informative, but it was a fun read. Baty has a great writing style and totally entertained me. The book was right around 50,000 words so that the reader gets an idea of what a 50,000 word book looks like. Throughout the book there are quotes from past "winners" of NaNoWriMo so you're constantly getting input from others who have gone through the process and it sounds like a great experience.
Baty's main point here is that anyone can do NaNoWriMo and anyone can write a book. It just takes determination. The thing he stressed over and over again was "quantity not quality." Remember that the goal is 50,000 words in 30 days and that you're writing a rough draft. So just focus on getting to 50,000 words and rewrite later.
Great book for anyone looking for a little bit of motivation in the area of writing. I was considering participating in NaNoWriMo before, and I think that this book just about sealed the deal for me.
Customer Reviews:
Classic stuff does not need a review.......2006-11-07
I am a serious piano player, almost went to music school to study it for life...And this is my textbook.
classic for technique.......2004-04-23
These exercises are invaluable to those looking to develop dexterity on the keyboard, especially in terms of digital independence. They have stood the test of time and are beloved for their simple progression of concepts and interesting patterns.
Educators and students alike will benefit from this collection of exercises. These studies are meant to played slowly with proper technique and then eventually faster and more confidently...thus, the School of Velocity.
Do yourself and/or your students a favor and pick up a copy of this book.
Product Description
Matthew Ferry's approach to sales is like nothing you've ever read before. These powerful techniques--simple and cutting edge--will give you the tools to attract sales effortlessly. Salespeople coached by Matthew have achieved jaw-dropping results. With ease and grace, you too will accelerate the sales process and create sales velocity. As you become a Conscious Salesperson, people who never would have done business with you in the past will suddenly start doing business with you. As you implement Matthew's techniques, you'll amplify your money magnetism, and you'll start to experience synchronicity in the sales process. Sales will seem to happen automatically. Frustration, anxiety, and the natural ups and downs of the sales process will disappear. You'll meet each morning with excitement and anticipation of a new adventure. It will be as if you know a secret that gives you an extreme advantage in life. Your future will become clear, your dreams will begin to crystallize, and your goals will start coming true, but you won't be able to explain how it's happening ... it will just be a natural result of practicing Matthew's techniques. The privileged salespeople who've been coached by Matthew personally report that their friends and coworkers start making comments like "Wow! What's going on with you? You seem like you're in such a good place!" or "How are you making so many sales? You make it seem so effortless!" You'll find yourself intuitively knowing exactly the right thing to say to get someone to buy. It will feel like you have ESP when you're with clients. Your fear of failure will nearly disappear, and you'll start to wonder why prospects ever said no to you. People you never could have done business with in the past will become your best clients. Problem situations and nasty clients will find your approach calming, and will appreciate you for your ability to quickly get things resolved.
Customer Reviews:
Good things come in small packages.......2007-08-21
Creating Sales Velocity is a dynamic, powerful book that has a wealth of information. As he suggests, I continue to read the book over and over again to reiterate the information, as it is so powerful. Since I have begun to shift my thinking as taught by Matthew Ferry, my sales have shown a marked improvement, and my attitude is more positive and powerful than ever before. This is Law of Attraction for Salespeople!
Simple and Profound.......2007-05-07
I've read the book three times and will read it as many times as it takes to get this information into the deepest level of my unconcious mind. This information, once mastered, will provide the reader with the best influence tools to do business in the 21st century. Third party examples show how simple mindset shifts can make dramatic changes in a person's ability to attract sales.
Calling anyone in sales!.......2007-01-13
This is one of the best books I have ever read regarding anything close to sales. Easy read and you'll read it more than once! The only problem is it wears out quickly. My pages are begining to fall apart. The content in this little book are some of the most valuble in all areas of ones life!
Not a priority book but is useful.......2007-01-10
Has a very valid exercise to create manifestation in your life. Glad it was a small book. It wasn't what I expected.
Average customer rating:
- Don't waste your money
- Good book, but not when it comes to frameworks
- Popular Java Frameworks
- Interesting look at framework architecture
- Good book, but just on the front end, and no analysis
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Art of Java Web Development: Struts, Tapestry, Commons, Velocity, JUnit, Axis, Cocoon, InternetBeans, WebWork
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Book Description
A guide to the skills required for state-of-the-art web development, this book covers a variety of web development frameworks. The uses of the standard web API to create applications with increasingly sophisticated architectures are highlighted, and a discussion of the development of industry-accepted best practices for architecture is included. The history and evolution toward this architecture and the reasons it is superior to previous efforts are described, and an overview of the most popular web application frameworks, their architecture, and use is provided. The same application is built in six different frameworks, allowing developers to conduct an informed comparison. An evaluation of the pros and cons of each framework is provided to assist developers in making decisions or evaluating frameworks on their own. Best practices covered include sophisticated user interface techniques, intelligent caching and resource management, performance tuning, debugging, testing, and web services.
Customer Reviews:
Don't waste your money.......2006-07-22
This book is terrible. There is nothing in this book that you can't find with a little searching on the internet.
Good book, but not when it comes to frameworks.......2005-12-11
This book provides many interesting ideas and examples, I am glad that I have purchased it. However I was most interested in Java Web frameworks comparison, and this is where this book is much less helpful.
The idea of building a two-page application to compare different frameworks isn't a good one. What can you demonstrate in such a no-brainer? Logic/presentation separation? I18n - l10n possibilities? User input validation? Code and functionality reuse? So what is being compared then?
In fact, the author has a rather fixed opinion about what a framework should do, and his ideas rotate very close around Struts and Struts-like frameworks. As a result, he completely failed to understand Tapestry, which is based on very different principles.
He states that "As demonstrated even by basic examples, Tapestry is a complex framework. To create the simplest web application, you must understand a fair amount about the architecture and components".
This is completely wrong, because Tapestry is a very user-friendly framework, if only badly described at a beginners level and having very few tutorials, but to prove his point, the author creates a 'hello world' application using Tapestry and doing this he extends Tapestry's ApplicationServlet to add some custom logging facilities. As a result, this 'hello world' application looks really frightening.
However, it should be noted that you don't usually need to extend the ApplicationServlet, even in the most complicated of web application. Not to mention that you would hardly need ANY logging facilities in a 'hello world' app.
To summarise, this is a good book in many respects, such as it shows a good style of coding and demonstrates some convincing examples of design patterns. But don't expect it to say anything useful about frameworks comparison. All the comparison in this book boils down to documentation and samples available, which might be useful, but far from being essential.
Popular Java Frameworks.......2004-06-29
This book is not for beginning web programmers as it assumes an understanding of the Servlet & JSP API's. It additionally is not a guide to Java Web Development as the title might indicate but rather a review of how and why to use several popular Java Frameworks. The books usefulness is that it compares and contrasts various ways to create "industrial strength" web applications.
Often it is difficult for a developer to understand the consequences of selecting a particular framework. This text resolves that dilemma by presenting six of them side by side. After reading these summary chapters a knowledgeable choice may be made or at least the options are narrowed down and a more exhaustive text obtained.
The author follows a teaching style as he explains his points using clear (and short) code examples. Practical loosely coupled designs are advocated thoughout the text. A section is devoted to summarizing common performance and debuging tips. It was nice to incude two IDEs although I'd have liked to see that part expanded to include *** WebSphere, WebLogic, NetBeans, Eclipse.***
One of the few disagreements that I have is about a common code oversight involving database resources.
The text provides a code sample showing how to connect to a database with all of the resources closed in a single finally block. IMHO, That's not a good style. I prefer to wrap each close in separate try blocks inside of the finally so that every close executes even if there are exceptions. Then reset object references back to null.
example:
// -- clean up all db resources after the usual try catch code
finally {
if(resultSet != null) {
try {
resultSet.close( );
}catch(SQLException sqle) { /* log or do nothing */ }
resultSet = null;
}
if(statement != null) {
try {
statement.close( );
}catch(SQLException sqle) { /* log or do nothing */ }
statement = null;
}
if(connection != null) {
try {
connection.close( );
}catch(SQLException sqle) { /* log or do nothing */ }
connection = null;
}
}// end
Another nitpick is the short publisher specific bibliography but, most would understand that choice as a marketing decision!
If you are considering using a web framework then you can save research time by reading this book first.
Interesting look at framework architecture.......2004-03-09
This book is about using frameworks for developing Java web applications. The author gives a thorough overview of some of the most popular frameworks and discusses the pros and cons of various web architectures. The discussion is almost exclusively in the Servlet/JSP realm with little discussion of back end applications servers. The audience that will find this book most useful are those who have some experience with Java web development and are looking to expand their knowledge of modern web architectures.
The first part of the book is a discussion of Java web architecture in general with a concentration on MVC architecture. The second part is an examination of some of the most popular frameworks in use today. This part is interesting as the author demonstrates the same application developed in the various frameworks. The section finishes with a list of criteria to use when evaluating any framework for your own development projects. The final part is a discussion of best practices in various aspects of a web architecture such as resource management, performance, and debugging. This section reads almost as a series of articles.
The book is not really a how-to guide to using the various frameworks. I had trouble getting a couple of the examples working exactly as provided and some of the discussion was a bit confusing. But the overall view of how to choose and then incorporate a framework into a well designed architecture makes the book a very worthwhile read.
Good book, but just on the front end, and no analysis.......2004-02-25
This book is a tome, but don't let that fool you, it covers a variety of front end technologies but doesn't cover the back end very well. It clocks in at 600 pages with judicious screenshots and lots of well annotated code.
What makes this book interesting is that it takes the same application and builds it using six different Java frameworks (JSP, Tapestry, WebWork, Interbeans, Velocity and Cocoon). What detracts is that while it provides pros and cons to each issue it fails to assert the best overall, or to provide an analysis of which would be best for a particular scenario. Chapter 11, which is about how to evaluate the frameworks actually doesn't do the evaluation. That is an exercise left to the reader. So if you like to choose between well documented options, you are in the right place. If you are looking for some Gartner style analysis and conclusions, you are in the wrong place (but there is no right place that I know of.)
The interesting chapters:
Chapter two provides an implementation in JSP and then covers the cons of that approach.
Chapter three provides a nice introduction to Tag Libraries as a way to increase reuse from the straight JSP model.
Chapter four is an excellent introduction to the Model 2 architecture.
Chapters five through ten cover the various frameworks. Strangely Velocity and Cocoon are covered when the author himself doesn't even consider them frameworks.
Chapter eleven provides a detail set of criteria to evaluate the frameworks, but does not itself evaluate them.
The chapters that follow are lumped into 'best practices' and cover a grab bag of technologies and issues including EJBs, performance, caching, debugging and unit testing, and axis. As if to provide a fitting end to a grab bag section the last chapters covers everything that 'would'n't fit in the book'. This whole section could probably be dropped with little damage to the overall work.
The book is fairly well written and edited though it does make some sweeping generalizations and grandiose statements that are all too often the hallmark of Java books.
If you are looking for a way to get information about a cross section of front end technologies for your Java application then this is a good book to look at. If you are looking for something that makes recommendations, you won't find them here. In addition, if you are looking for a book that covers the entire Java technology stack for web applications, this is probably not it. The book was probably mis-named.
(Full disclosure: I am a Manning author but I in no way allow that to effect my reviews.)
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This cross-disciplinary work offers an exceptionally relevant examination of those aspects of earth science dealing with seismic behavior of fractured media. It delivers a lucid exploration of rock mechanics, examining the strengths and weakness of structures beneath the earth's immediate surface. Deliberately non-mathematical and phenomenological in nature, this volume reviews examples of seismic measurements from various fields under widely varied conditions, supported by a wealth of figures drawn from a broad review of the literature. The last chapters delve into deeper, higher stress, and large scale applications, specifically fractured petroleum reservoirs and earthquake source zone interpretation.
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This important reference provides complete and current information on the applications of transcranial Doppler ultrasound in the evaluation of cerebrovascular diseases. The book gives practical instructions for performing examinations, explains how to interpret results, provides essential data on normal values, and describes the use of the technique in specific clinical situations such as stroke, head injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage and vasospasm, arteriovenous malformations, and monitoring during carotid surgery. Coverage includes thorough discussions on recent clinical studies, new refinements in transcranial Doppler sonography, and new applications such as monitoring of critically ill patients and detection of cerebral emboli in patients with suspected transient ischemic symptoms. The book also offers comprehensive guidelines on the pediatric applications of transcranial Doppler. More than 200 illustrations, including 20 in full color, complement the text.
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