Foundation ASP for Dreamweaver 8

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

One of the recent books that I’ve checked out is Foundation ASP for Dreamweaver 8. Since I used to teach a course similar to the content provided in this book I thought it might be something good to review and let everyone know about.

Review of ASP For DreamWeaver 8 - Book Review
Rated as 3/5 on May 29 2007 by John

3/5

The first thing that I have to say is that you’ll need to be quite familiar with databases to get going with this book. If your not you may just have to take a little extra time with that part of the code and set up. With that said I think that this is an excellent book for someone who is new to either Dreamweaver or ASP. There are great examples, some that can be ported easily to real world projects that you might be working on right now. The only negative note is that there are a few errors in the code that closer review and testing would have fixed before releasing the book. Although, it’s always good to get some debugging under your belt when learning a new programming language or tool…right?!

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Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns

Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns
5/5

I was very excited to receive the book Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns I had heard great things about the book and was not disappointed as I read through it.

I just happen to be stuck in jury duty for a full day and as I waited for the city and county of Denver to decide if they required my services I was able to read through most in the book in a morning. The really nice thing about this book is the lack of fluff. It is very direct, very to-the-point and very useful.
There were quite a few lessons that I learned (one would be typing a variable to an Interface…tre useful!) through out the book. Not to mention to the descriptions of many of the more popular design patterns around. I’d say Joey Lott and Danny Patterson have done a fine job presenting ActionScript 3 as applied to development with a focus on design patterns.
The only complaint that I have heard, is that that it can become a little repetitive. If you are very familiar with ActionScript syntax, you may want to skim many of the chapters for items that catch your eye and look to be good tips or new to you.
Rated 5/5 on May 10 2007
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