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Very graphic heavy for easy-to-understand layouts. A good place to start with understanding computers. If you are looking for a more systematic approach, this book might frustrate you a little. It gives you snippets of information without providing a "roadmap" to know how this fits and where we are going. But overall, a really good resource for the general public.Get more detail about How Computers Work (9th Edition).

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This book is the bedrock for my library of LinkedIn articles, write-ups and applications. The material is easy to follow and so comprehensive for beginners - I have lent this book to many of my LinkedIn newbie friends.Get more detail about LinkedIn For Dummies.

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The book starts with a general overview of HTML and CSS and then explains how to use CSS, HTML and JQuery to target some of WebKit's proprietary calls to make Web Apps mimic native iPhone app look and feel. It also covers using HTML5 local storage. The last chapter explains how to use a new third-party (open source) PhoneGap SDK to convert your iPhone app to a native application.

So why two stars? Well, there are a few problems with the book. For starters, the pre-face and getting starting portion is not going to prepare anyone. If you don't have a foundation in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc.. You're going to struggle with the content and the information in the first chapter is not going to be enough to help you. With the chapters that follow we get more step by step examples, far too much hand holding and NO SOURCE TO DOWNLOAD (this is unforgivable). Advanced developers will gladly pay for a book just to get their hands on the source and will learn quickly by reading the source code as opposed to reading the authors step-by-step instructions on how to write the source code. For all except beginner books, it's common with tech books that the source code is really what the reader is after and the book becomes a reference (as needed) for understanding the source code. This basic concept of tech book authorship seems to be missing here. This book is formatted as a beginners book but covers more advanced topic, this is a significant flaw in the approach.

Aside from my dislike of the authors approach, there are two other areas where I think this book should have been filled out a bit more. We get no information on using graphics. I know there are hundreds of books out there that cover graphics and animation with CSS/JavaScript, this author had an opportunity to give a chapter or two on this subject in the context of iPhone web app development; this is a huge opportunity missed. If you're looking to create a game app using the HTML/JScript stack to target iPhone this book will do you no good. With iOS4, Safari now supports a lot more of HTML5 which frankly changes a lot. It's not that the techniques covered in this book are all out of date, but there is a lot more that can be done now to make Web Apps mimic native iPhone apps. I realize tech books go out of date quickly, it's important you know this one has already been rendered obsolete in this way.

Finally, the last chapter covers PhoneGap. PhoneGap is an open source SDK that allows web developers to deploy their apps as native apps on many target mobile devices. In context of iPhone native app development, PhoneGap can only be used by developers with MacOS, XCode and the official iPhone dev SDK. It's useless to Windows and Linux developers for the purpose of creating native iPhone apps. Also, PhoneGap supports some really neat features like accelerometer events which this author does not even mention. This is another example of where if this book were just a bit thicker, it could have covered a lot more.

This is the first book I've purchased from O'Reily where I felt the book was a gimmick, written as an attempt to capitalize quickly on a hot subject matter. I can't think of any target audience that would really benefit here. I am very, very disappointed in O'Reily for allowing this one to get out the door. It's not that the author is incompetent, it's that he's not thorough on the subject and his book is not formatted for the advanced technical professional for which is was written.

The author does mention[...]. For the advanced developer (most people reading this book).
Download this library (currently in beta) and it will provide detailed examples of creating web apps the mimic iPhone look and feel. This free toolkit will quickly give you everything you need to know to do what this books aims to teach you and you will pay nothing for it.

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I have fancied all my "For Dummies" series books with the exception of this one. The author doesn't present the material in reference fashion. One cannot page quickly to the section to troubleshoot problems. When you actually finally page to the specific section, the information is not easy to decipher. I cannot recommend this text.Get more detail about iMac For Dummies.

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So far the information in this book has been of great value. No need to read through all the type on ebay's site when you have this book to highlight, mark pages and keep as a great reference to go to at any time you need it.
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This book is written for those who are new at making websites, and includes chapters on related topics such as preparation of web graphics along with basic discussions and exercises on html and css. The topic of css itself is so vast that the authors can only present an introduction. Chapters on positioning in css are excellent and very important, while the absence of discussion about font units is puzzling. To be specific, the exercises use points to specify fonts and don't discuss px or em or % which are far more commonly used on the web. I also would have liked a discussion of best practices in css; that would really help with writing and understanding stylesheets. Certain chapters seem to be leftover from previous editions - such as framesets, that now have only specialized uses.

The title has to be taken with a large dose of irony, as does the "html5 coverage" on the cover (html5 is discussed on one page). html5 features are just now being introduced in web browsers so the use of xhtml is justified, but that cover made me expect more. "Introduction to Making Websites"is a more boring but more accurate title.

A book like this could be even more useful if it had a dedicated website with more discussion and examples tied to the published version.Get more detail about Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours (Includes New HTML 5 Coverage) (8th Edition).

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I wish I had put more weight into the other one star review over the others. I, too, felt this was a waste of time. As a small business owner that is into social media, I was hoping for some insights as to what I could do to help my business. Didn't really gain anything. I seem to know just as much about facebook as she does by just being a casual user for the last couple of years. It seems to be geared toward CEOs of major companies (like Coca Cola) who are 75 and have never used social media. A third of the book is dedicated to telling the reader about how computers started as mainframes and moved all the way to PCs and mobile apps. This book seemed more like a college term paper than a book on how to use social media to help your business. I am upset that I have wasted my money but more importantly, my time.Get more detail about The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff.

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I wish I had put more weight into the other one star review over the others. I, too, felt this was a waste of time. As a small business owner that is into social media, I was hoping for some insights as to what I could do to help my business. Didn't really gain anything. I seem to know just as much about facebook as she does by just being a casual user for the last couple of years. It seems to be geared toward CEOs of major companies (like Coca Cola) who are 75 and have never used social media. A third of the book is dedicated to telling the reader about how computers started as mainframes and moved all the way to PCs and mobile apps. This book seemed more like a college term paper than a book on how to use social media to help your business. I am upset that I have wasted my money but more importantly, my time.Get more detail about The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff.

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In the interests of full disclosure I have my own book about making a living in photography but it comes at the business from another point of view. That being said, I have just read Visionmongers for the second time and found it to be a great look at how to think about being in the business of photography. The strongest part of the book is about marketing. His examples are good and the story behind them better. He does a great job explaining what it takes to gather mindshare, in a positive way, from the top end of the market. The people with the most sophisticated visual palettes.

You won't learn how to handle your camera or which camera to use but you will learn a mindset for getting the kind of work you want. For the most part the book is an enjoyable read. And in many ways an "open kimono" about DuChemin. It verges on "new agey" from time to time but hell, I live in Austin, who am I to judge.

Would I recommend the book to photographers? Anyone starting a business in photography or thinking about it: YES.Get more detail about VisionMongers: Making a Life and a Living in Photography.

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Like Tufte, Few is a well-known evangelist for clear data visualizations that yield actionable insights. Unlike Tufte, Few is more of a craftsman and less of an artist: his style is less elegant than Tufte's, but for that reason I actually find his advice has greater practical value. Tufte's graphics inspire and awe me in the same way that a Bach fugue does, but I can scarcely imagine creating anything so elegant myself. Few gives examples that I can actually emulate in my work.

PS: I have met Tufte in person, but have never met Few though I'd like to!

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I used this book to supplement my college textbook. I found it useful because it explained concepts to me in a different way. The book is an easier read than a college textbook, however it hardly goes into any depth. Also, I learn best through examples. Textbooks go through a problem step by step, where as this book does not provide examples. It is more conceptual. However, the book is very easy to read and it very useful as a supplemental resource.Get more detail about Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics: Excel 2007 Edition.

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This was an all-in-all, good book. I have a pretty good technical background with my MS in computer science, but pretty new to Web technologies. Therefore, I was looking for a rather simplistic approach to JavaScript since I have NO background in that area. I always shy away from the "...For Dummies" books since I should at least be beyond that stage in technology, but this book is probably below the Dummies books. No programming background would be needed and not even much technical ability. Although I am biased, I have a hard time thinking how anybody would have trouble understanding this book or doing the exercises. A lot of the examples are overly simplistic and silly, but this could suit a non-programmer type well. As for me, ideally I would have liked a book that talked to programmer types more and was a little deeper. But my objectives were reached with this book: understand JavaScript code I run into, and be able to write little scripts to accomplish things I need to on my site. Before the book was finished I actually implemented some of what I learned to actually solve a problem on my site. That is pretty impressive.Get more detail about JavaScript, A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition (Beginner's Guide (Osborne Mcgraw Hill)).

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Getting Married satirizes the status of marriage in Shaw's days. Very good ebook.

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Some of the material for the exams is not even listed inside this book. I have taken the 70-536 twice now, with 2 months worth of studying--and have still not passed. The second edition is still full of errors.Get more detail about MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft® .NET Framework Application Development Foundation, Second edition.

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I do agree with previous positive reviews. This book describes some novel attack vectors (e.g. related to social networking), which haven't been covered before anywhere else. It's a mile wide and an inch deep, but it will make you reconsider security of your organization.
Do get it. It's an easy read, thin, and a good addition to your bookshelf.
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Outstanding SCCM resource that covers many scenarios you might run into while setting up or configuring SCCM. It is well set up and a great reference book. It is a bit dry so reading it from cover to cover might be tough. I recommend it as a above, a reference book.Get more detail about System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Unleashed.

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I've been using Linux for a decade, but have only used Ubuntu for several years, my earlier favourite distros being RPM based. The Official Ubuntu Handbook provides enough information for someone reasonably competent in using computers to install and become productive with Ubuntu, Kubuntu or Edubuntu and does an excellent job of informing the reader of how they can become involved in the Ubuntu Community.

While familiar with the Open Source environment, I still enjoyed reading the book's introduction to Open Source, Linux and the successful Ubuntu experiment. Chapter 7 builds on Chapter 1, providing detailed information on the Ubuntu Community, Ubuntu Governance and the various avenues for involvement within the community. The Ubuntu related projects in chapter 10 I also found interesting, i.e. the officially supported derivatives such as Kubuntu (covered in detail in chapter 8) and Edubuntu (chapter 9), the server edition (chapter 5), the recognised derivatives (Xubuntu, Mythbuntu and Ubuntu Studio, etc) along with the infrastructure projects incorporated in Launchpad.

Chapters 2 to 4 walk you through how to install Ubuntu, how to use the Desktop and advanced usage and management of Ubuntu and comprise about 20% of the book.

The best description of the various uses of apt-cache and apt-get I've seen to date are in the Package Management section of the Ubuntu Server chapter (chapter 5), so I recommend desktop users read at least this part of the server chapter.

Kubuntu (my current Linux distro favourite) gets its own dedicated coverage of 44 pages in chapter 8.

If you are interested in using Linux in an educational setting, the book is worth getting for chapter 9 alone, where Edubuntu and Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) are covered in detail.

The coverage of the Ubuntu community and the supporting toolset means there is less detailed coverage of the finer points of installing and using Ubuntu, for example, in Chapter 4, when modifying fstab is mentioned, it is disappointing that mounting NTFS partitions is not even mentioned, given virtually no Windows PCs are now installed on FAT partitions. That said, the 55 pages of Chapter 6 cover many of the common problems new users are likely to strike and chapter 11 introduces you to the Ubuntu Forums, should you need further information or support.

The two appendices include an introduction to the command line, with a sufficient overview to get a new user productively using it and a list of equivalent Linux programs to common Windows programs. Finally, there is a very comprehensive 51 page index.

If you are very interested in the Ubuntu Community and how you can be involved or particularly interested in using Ubuntu in a terminal server mode, e.g. with Edubuntu, then you'll find this book will reward your investment. Those with different interests or wanting a more in-depth description may find another Ubuntu book, such as Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Fourth Edition, a better choice.

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Sir Walter Scott's short novel of 1816, THE BLACK DWARF, begins by presenting the back side of a tapestry: colors dull, patterns obscure. Mysterious, too, but not without clues leading from one isolated insight to another. Only at novel's end is the tapestry turned and all piercingly revealed.

Let's look at the mysteries as they appear to the principal female of the BLACK DWARF, beautiful teen-age Miss Isabella Vere of Ellieslaw Castle. What does she know of herself and her family? Her long dead mother is buried in the castle's chapel in a tomb of Italianate beauty (Ch. 17). Her wealthy, stern father is a political schemer, aiming to become more powerful to restore the male line of the Stuarts. To that end he is pressuring Isabella to wed the odious Jacobite, Sir Frederick Langley. Yet Isabella herself is fonder of a young nobleman named Earnscliff. She is being visited by two cousins, Nancy and Lucy Ilderton. Lucy in particular knows that Isabella hates the one and loves the other. There is also some dark but hushed up ancient stain on Isabella's father's honor; he was almost killed in a brawl when his best friend, Sir Edward Mauley, saved his life by slaying his opponent. After a year's imprisonment for manslaughter, Sir Edward disappeared. Meanwhile Isabella's father had married Isabella's mother, a kinswoman of Sir Edward.

Isabella unknowingly meets her destiny one day in 1707 riding in the wilds of Scotland near the English border with her two cousins. They come upon a tiny hut recently constructed on Mucklestane Moor. They had heard that it was built by a strong but hideous misanthropic dwarf who calls himself Elshender the Recluse. In the few months he has been there, despite his constantly invoking the deserved doom of the entire human race, he has done much grudgingly offered good to the local people by way of healing and advice. From them he has earned from the names Canny Elshie and the Wise Wight of Mucklestane Moor (Ch. 5).

The dwarf dismisses with sarcasm the cousins after Lucy offers to pay to have her fortune told. But Elshender detains Miss Vere, whom he calls Isabel. He has known her parents.

Does he also know her, Isabella asks. "Yes; this is the first time you have crossed my waking eyes, but I have seen you in my dreams." He added that he was no common fortune-teller but knew that her life was beset with real and potential evils. These included "unsuccessful love, crossed affections, the gloom of a convent, or an odious alliance." Her sad situation combined with her kind words to him made the ugly little man shed a rare tear. Those tears had been a good deed done to him by her. The dwarf rewarded her with a rose from his garden and the promise that if ever she needed him, she should deliver to him in person that rose or one of its petals.

Who is this Wise Wight of Mucklestane Moor? Why does he except Isabella Vere from his general self-pitying loathing of the human race. It would spoil the ending to provide more clues. Suffice it to say that THE BLACK DWARF is a masterly study of what happens when a deformed but sensitive, generous young nobleman is betrayed by fiancee and best friend, loses his mind, partially recovers it and is caught up in a planned rebellion of Scots against Queen Anne and the recently created United Kingdom. -OOO-Get more detail about The Black Dwarf.

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This brilliant play was originally banned as immoral due to its subject matter, though now it's lauded for its astute view of the corruption at the heart of Victorian society. Shaw takes on the topic of poverty vs. immorality in the context of Victorian society with great style and wit.
In this story a very bright young girl begins to grow suspicious about the mystery and people surrounding her wealthy mother, and this leads her to a discovery that shakes her world to its very foundation but also explains the strange behavior of the people around her. This new found knowledge greatly complicates her life but also causes some hilarious situations to arise.
George Bernard Shaw created numerous masterpieces over the span of his writing career. He has the distinction of being the only person to ever be awarded both an Oscar and the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was a very humble and conscientious man, a political activist and a vegetarian. His conscientiousness shows in his work by his inability to write meaningless fluff at a time when fluff dominated the stage. His trademark is his classic use of ample humor in dramas with serious subject matter. It takes a special kind of genius to be able to pull that off as flawlessly as he did.
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I must confess I have not bought or read this book but I was astonished when browsing through Amazon.com I came across it. The publishers have chosen for its cover a portrait of Spanish novelist Benito Pérez Galdós, as painted by the great Joaquín Sorolla! I do not know about people outside the Spanish cultural mainstream, but I believe that a book about the laughable adventures of a semi auto-biographical journalist would be better introduced by a picture of Wodehouse himself, and not by the image of one of Spain's most thoughful and profound writers of all time. A shame.Get more detail about Psmith, Journalist.

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I must confess I have not bought or read this book but I was astonished when browsing through Amazon.com I came across it. The publishers have chosen for its cover a portrait of Spanish novelist Benito Pérez Galdós, as painted by the great Joaquín Sorolla! I do not know about people outside the Spanish cultural mainstream, but I believe that a book about the laughable adventures of a semi auto-biographical journalist would be better introduced by a picture of Wodehouse himself, and not by the image of one of Spain's most thoughful and profound writers of all time. A shame.Get more detail about Psmith, Journalist.