I got the impression that the book, itself, was incomplete and unfinished. Admittedly, I did not spend 10 minutes on it, as you did. You comments may lead me to give it a second look.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:29 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Cc: dev@struts.apache.org > Subject: RE: Re: [Struts Wiki] Update of "StrutsBook" by > GeorgeDinwiddie > > > 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... how > many errata does a typical tech book these days have?!? > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
