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. > > -- > Frank W. Zammetti > Founder and Chief Software Architect > Omnytex Technologies > http://www.omnytex.com > AIM: fzammetti > Yahoo: fzammetti > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
