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The funky cube w/in translucent cube is cool. The "Mind" title is concise, yet enigmatic... i like it. The buttons, while clean looking, are a bit small. The login box is good, but not great - it seems a tad disjointed. All in all, not bad as a login page. Not so great as a book review though... :rolleyes:
I think it's cool that Shog's coding johnson is longer than everyone elses -- JoeSox 10/8/03
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The funky cube w/in translucent cube is cool. The "Mind" title is concise, yet enigmatic... i like it. The buttons, while clean looking, are a bit small. The login box is good, but not great - it seems a tad disjointed. All in all, not bad as a login page. Not so great as a book review though... :rolleyes:
I think it's cool that Shog's coding johnson is longer than everyone elses -- JoeSox 10/8/03
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The funky cube w/in translucent cube is cool. The "Mind" title is concise, yet enigmatic... i like it. The buttons, while clean looking, are a bit small. The login box is good, but not great - it seems a tad disjointed. All in all, not bad as a login page. Not so great as a book review though... :rolleyes:
I think it's cool that Shog's coding johnson is longer than everyone elses -- JoeSox 10/8/03
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I recently volunteered to write a book review for a local developer community. This is the first time I've written a review and I would like some comments and criticism from the wise and all-knowing CPians, so that I can do better next time. Thanks. All comments, good or bad, or "you suck" will be accepted. :) The review is here[^] [Edit] Sorry, that the above link is bad. I've put a copy of the review here[^] If any of you still feel like reading it, that is. :-O [/Edit] ps. I hope I'm not breaking any protocol or rules posting this here.
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Just a few. First, congrats - you get right to the point, and describe what the book is useful for. This can be the most difficult part to determine, especially when ordering off of a website such as Amazon (as opposed to spending an afternoon in the bookstore reading most of it...) Second, it would be nice for you to have listed the table of contents from the book. Not essential, but nice. Gives an idea of the divisions the authors thought were appropriate to the subject. Finally, you give a short critique of the authors' writing style. Quoting a sample (or samples) to illustrate your points might be nice also. this concludes my $0.02 :)
I think it's cool that Shog's coding johnson is longer than everyone elses -- JoeSox 10/8/03
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Just a few. First, congrats - you get right to the point, and describe what the book is useful for. This can be the most difficult part to determine, especially when ordering off of a website such as Amazon (as opposed to spending an afternoon in the bookstore reading most of it...) Second, it would be nice for you to have listed the table of contents from the book. Not essential, but nice. Gives an idea of the divisions the authors thought were appropriate to the subject. Finally, you give a short critique of the authors' writing style. Quoting a sample (or samples) to illustrate your points might be nice also. this concludes my $0.02 :)
I think it's cool that Shog's coding johnson is longer than everyone elses -- JoeSox 10/8/03
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I recently volunteered to write a book review for a local developer community. This is the first time I've written a review and I would like some comments and criticism from the wise and all-knowing CPians, so that I can do better next time. Thanks. All comments, good or bad, or "you suck" will be accepted. :) The review is here[^] [Edit] Sorry, that the above link is bad. I've put a copy of the review here[^] If any of you still feel like reading it, that is. :-O [/Edit] ps. I hope I'm not breaking any protocol or rules posting this here.
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Nice overall :), but just wanted to point out something that Shog9 didn't: Finally, one of the better concepts that i feel Microsoft Press in that they don't include CDs with their books. This sentence is a bit confusing. Might want to re-word it.
**"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car." -- Laurence J. Peter
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Nice overall :), but just wanted to point out something that Shog9 didn't: Finally, one of the better concepts that i feel Microsoft Press in that they don't include CDs with their books. This sentence is a bit confusing. Might want to re-word it.
**"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car." -- Laurence J. Peter
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The funky cube w/in translucent cube is cool. The "Mind" title is concise, yet enigmatic... i like it. The buttons, while clean looking, are a bit small. The login box is good, but not great - it seems a tad disjointed. All in all, not bad as a login page. Not so great as a book review though... :rolleyes:
I think it's cool that Shog's coding johnson is longer than everyone elses -- JoeSox 10/8/03
LOL!! Really good one :laugh: Smitha Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. -- Richard Bach
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I recently volunteered to write a book review for a local developer community. This is the first time I've written a review and I would like some comments and criticism from the wise and all-knowing CPians, so that I can do better next time. Thanks. All comments, good or bad, or "you suck" will be accepted. :) The review is here[^] [Edit] Sorry, that the above link is bad. I've put a copy of the review here[^] If any of you still feel like reading it, that is. :-O [/Edit] ps. I hope I'm not breaking any protocol or rules posting this here.
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a) I'd swap the what it is / isn't paragraphs (i.e. "waht it is" first). Currently, it's hard to follow these two chapters, if the reader has *not* yet made up his mind on what s/he expects from the book. Also, maybe be more to the point with the "isn't part" - bring an example what is in, but what isn't (I think that's worth more than printing the entire contents table, which is usually much to long anyway) b) abbrevs: I usually find it more fluidly to read if you first use the full text, and abbrev in parantheses, and then the abbrev from this point on. I.e. Yadda Yadda Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Bubba Bubba IDE Yanucka. ..which should be not strangers... c) Kick out fillers. Like All that is good and well, but how comprehensible is the whole thing. Well, in general, the writing is pretty much concise and easy to understand. can be reduced to In general, the writing is pretty much concise and easy to understand. d) straighten the "no CD included paragraphs. Facts contained: - I like bools without CD, downloadable samples reduce the price. - the book has no CD (good) - it's expensive (bad) -------------------- On the downside, every now and then, the authors have a tendency to go pages without any break in the text That's why they call it a book, I guess ;P Nick Seng wrote: When the jokes work, this is not a problem; but when it falls flat, it leaves a kind a weird, unpleasant taste in your mouth, kinda like eating vinegar with bread Nick Seng wrote: kinda like eating vinegar with bread Um... I begin to see your point ;P
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a) I'd swap the what it is / isn't paragraphs (i.e. "waht it is" first). Currently, it's hard to follow these two chapters, if the reader has *not* yet made up his mind on what s/he expects from the book. Also, maybe be more to the point with the "isn't part" - bring an example what is in, but what isn't (I think that's worth more than printing the entire contents table, which is usually much to long anyway) b) abbrevs: I usually find it more fluidly to read if you first use the full text, and abbrev in parantheses, and then the abbrev from this point on. I.e. Yadda Yadda Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Bubba Bubba IDE Yanucka. ..which should be not strangers... c) Kick out fillers. Like All that is good and well, but how comprehensible is the whole thing. Well, in general, the writing is pretty much concise and easy to understand. can be reduced to In general, the writing is pretty much concise and easy to understand. d) straighten the "no CD included paragraphs. Facts contained: - I like bools without CD, downloadable samples reduce the price. - the book has no CD (good) - it's expensive (bad) -------------------- On the downside, every now and then, the authors have a tendency to go pages without any break in the text That's why they call it a book, I guess ;P Nick Seng wrote: When the jokes work, this is not a problem; but when it falls flat, it leaves a kind a weird, unpleasant taste in your mouth, kinda like eating vinegar with bread Nick Seng wrote: kinda like eating vinegar with bread Um... I begin to see your point ;P
"Vierteile den, der sie Hure schimpft mit einem türkischen Säbel."
sighist | Agile Programming | doxygenpeterchen wrote: ..which should not be strangers... :doh: I really need to run this through a spell checker first a) I was always a "save the best for last" kinda guy, so i guess that kinda translated into my writing. I'll try to work on that. b)Good point. c)Will do. I'll try to take out the storyteller aspect of me the next time. :-O d)Yeah, I received a lot of comments on that paragraph. I really need to work on grammer in that. peterchen wrote: Um... I begin to see your point :laugh: I was trying to come up with a good analogy, but that was the best I could come up with. Says a lot about me, huh. :-O Thanks for your criticism.
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I recently volunteered to write a book review for a local developer community. This is the first time I've written a review and I would like some comments and criticism from the wise and all-knowing CPians, so that I can do better next time. Thanks. All comments, good or bad, or "you suck" will be accepted. :) The review is here[^] [Edit] Sorry, that the above link is bad. I've put a copy of the review here[^] If any of you still feel like reading it, that is. :-O [/Edit] ps. I hope I'm not breaking any protocol or rules posting this here.
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You might want to tell your hosting to serve content to non-IE browsers properly. In Firebird it is sent as a text document and I get all the HTML :) (ouch, Angelfire) Works fine in IE, reading now. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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I recently volunteered to write a book review for a local developer community. This is the first time I've written a review and I would like some comments and criticism from the wise and all-knowing CPians, so that I can do better next time. Thanks. All comments, good or bad, or "you suck" will be accepted. :) The review is here[^] [Edit] Sorry, that the above link is bad. I've put a copy of the review here[^] If any of you still feel like reading it, that is. :-O [/Edit] ps. I hope I'm not breaking any protocol or rules posting this here.
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It's .NET, not .Net. *twitch* :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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You might want to tell your hosting to serve content to non-IE browsers properly. In Firebird it is sent as a text document and I get all the HTML :) (ouch, Angelfire) Works fine in IE, reading now. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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It's .NET, not .Net. *twitch* :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?