I bought Beginning JSP Web Development from Wrox and it has eight authors and is 852 pages. That's about 106 pages per author. Sure having that many people working on it can speed up the process but in this case it made the book terrible imho. Each chapter used a slightly different writing style and in some of the chapters even the sample code was in a different style. Most of the chapters didn't really build upon the previous chapter, they all could have been their own little books. It seemed like the authors decided who would cover what and then didn't talk to one another until the book was done. There were a couple of instances where the sample code would use the @page directive and the chapter had never explained what it was. And it wasn't explained for several chapters.
Anyways I wouldn't recommend this book to others and I would be weary of other books from Wrox and other publishers that had a ton of Authors (Wrox's Professional JSP has 22 authors and is only 936 pages!).
On most large software projects all of the developers don't understand all of the sections of the code. There are just too many different things to keep track of. That is why you get different teams working on different sections of a project, ie: the kernel team, network team etc. And that is why *NIX are all made up of little parts all written by different coders working on the same project. logen
I live in southern ontario, canada. There is a pbs station in Buffalo NY that is going to air it next week but I can't get it. WNED in Buffalo has two channels, 17 which my cable company picks up and 23 which is antenna only. I get really really bad reception on channel 23 and they aren't showing Code Rush on channel 17! So if anyone knows where if this has been released on vhs so I can rent or possibly buy it please let me know! I would guess that it won't be posted to the net, since the film makers can still make money selling it to PBS, but if anyone knows a url please let me know..
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If you live in the US or Canada you'll have to get your Linux kit from ebay. As it appears Sony is no longer selling it in North America.
Man I should have bought it when it came out.
-Sam
I bought Beginning JSP Web Development from Wrox and it has eight authors and is 852 pages. That's about 106 pages per author. Sure having that many people working on it can speed up the process but in this case it made the book terrible imho. Each chapter used a slightly different writing style and in some of the chapters even the sample code was in a different style. Most of the chapters didn't really build upon the previous chapter, they all could have been their own little books. It seemed like the authors decided who would cover what and then didn't talk to one another until the book was done. There were a couple of instances where the sample code would use the @page directive and the chapter had never explained what it was. And it wasn't explained for several chapters.
Anyways I wouldn't recommend this book to others and I would be weary of other books from Wrox and other publishers that had a ton of Authors (Wrox's Professional JSP has 22 authors and is only 936 pages!).
-Sam
Get your knife and fork ready..
Vaio PCVMXS20 desktop with NetMD minidisc player built in. Although this only does audio not data.
On most large software projects all of the developers don't understand all of the sections of the code. There are just too many different things to keep track of. That is why you get different teams working on different sections of a project, ie: the kernel team, network team etc. And that is why *NIX are all made up of little parts all written by different coders working on the same project. logen
I live in southern ontario, canada. There is a pbs station in Buffalo NY that is going to air it next week but I can't get it. WNED in Buffalo has two channels, 17 which my cable company picks up and 23 which is antenna only. I get really really bad reception on channel 23 and they aren't showing Code Rush on channel 17! So if anyone knows where if this has been released on vhs so I can rent or possibly buy it please let me know! I would guess that it won't be posted to the net, since the film makers can still make money selling it to PBS, but if anyone knows a url please let me know..
-logen