On 11/15/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I'm ready to endorse in writing and in public :)
>
> I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on the "incomplete feeling"
> it gave you... I actually got just the opposite impression, that it
> touched on a great many relevant things. Perhaps because it was
> admittedly shallow detail-wise in spots? The language issues I tend to
> gloss over because even store-bought books these days tend to have far
> more grammatical/careless errors than they should...


Errors in the title?? On all of pages 1, 2 and 3? At that point, I, for one,
have zero faith in the accuracy of the rest of the book.

how many errata does
> a typical tech book these days have?!?


Not typical, but see:

http://www.manning.com/books/bayern

There are no errata. ;-)

(Hmm, I wonder who did the tech proof for that book? ;)

--
Martin Cooper


I think for the target audience I forwarded it to here at work, it's very
> good... they just need to be made aware of a great many things and have a
> clue about them, not become instant experts in them. For those of us with
> more experience, we aren't likely to get much, if anything, out of it...
> although I have to say, I've seen a great many piss-poor attempts of
> explaining Tiles, but the brief few paragraphs in this about it was very
> clear, concise and understandable.
>
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> On Tue, November 15, 2005 1:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > It might be worthwhile to add your review (below) to the wiki page
> > http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsBook I, for one, was put off by the
> > language errors and general incomplete feeling of the document, but your
> > comments would lead me to give it a closer look.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:08 PM
> >> To: Struts Developers List
> >> Cc: Struts Developers List
> >> Subject: Re: Re: [Struts Wiki] Update of "StrutsBook" by
> >> GeorgeDinwiddie
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, November 15, 2005 12:53 pm, Martin Cooper said:
> >> > Very strange. The title says Struts Ti, but that is the
> >> only place in
> >> > the entire book that Ti is mentioned.
> >>
> >> I thought that was odd too :)
> >>
> >> I have to say, I spent about 10 minutes looking over this
> >> thing, and overall I thought it was quite good. Sure, there
> >> are some debatable points in there, some things that some
> >> might argue aren't "best practices", and there are some
> >> mistakes like you've pointed out (no more than most books
> >> that get published today I'd bet), but it looks to do a good
> >> job of covering a lot of topics in a decent way. I've
> >> actually passed a copy along to some colleagues that are just
> >> getting into the J2EE web development world now... I think if
> >> they read and understand even half of this it will serve them
> >> down the road.
> >>
> >> > My
> >> > favourite, though, is page 3, where is says "This book
> >> should be used
> >> > by". (That's the entire sentence.)
> >>
> >> Hey, that's flexibility man! :)
> >>
> >> Frank
> >>
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