Customer Review: More recent books on web application security are welcomed. The publication date of 2006 suggests it might fall into that category. The focus on the programmer is also welcomed. Many security books deal with threats, but the actual practice of programming to ameliorate those threats may not be... more info
Customer Review: Return this book if you've bought it. I bought a copy of this book without reading deeply into(my mistake) cause it looked like it would be useful. I am a C# developer and need to generate some Crystal reports for the project. When I got the book and started reading/looking up info, I found... more info
Customer Review: Okay, I got this book mostly to get into issues common to cross platform development. With focus on say, cross-platform gui libraries, and other cross-platform libraries. In that I was a bit disappointed, but I was very happy to see how many somewhat advanced design principles were covered, and... more info
Customer Review: If what you are after is a survey of available mutli-threading support across several operating systems, then look no further. There is a great deal of information about how generic multithreading concepts map onto specific operating system features. In addition, the author details where different... more info
Customer Review: I felt this book was poorly organized, and lacking in the type of information I wanted.
Chapter 1 is a history of the computer, starting with the abacus. (I'm not kidding.) Chapter 2 is an overview of XML, which might have been useful except that this book is clearly not aimed at people unfamiliar... more info
Customer Review: What makes a JavaScript desktop AIR application different from a Browser AJAX application? That is what this book is about. It doesn't waste all the pages in chatter or prolonged examples but has a nice mini-cookbook to show things off also. I would have liked just a tip or two on doing this in... more info