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The book is full of well explained examples that build up to a fairly sophisticated example by the end.
My favorite parts are the notes, warning and sidebars. The authors give lots of critical information that Palm left out. They'll tell you about things that Palm did wrong, and how to work around them.
Between the book and the CD, this should be everything you need to do Palm Web development.
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Readers of this book are spared excessive technical jargon and are instead are kept amused by the many lighthearted moments in the midst of perfectionism and high pressure to produce. This book gave me the context for understanding the hard work behind and rationale for distributed networks, packet-switching, and TCP/IP. I was intrigued by the "accidental" start of E-mail, which is one networking function I cannot do without. I was also inspired by the teamwork, passion and work ethic displayed by those involved, particularly because their intense focus often flew in the face of many detractors and disinterested parties who failed to appreciate the possibilities and usefulness of a distributed network.
The authors also describe the open culture that resulted from the collaborative work, which we see today. In contrast, the reluctance of BBN to release the source codes of the Interface Message Processors (IMP) was a harbinger of the intellectual property issues that would emerge in decades to follow.
So many players were involved in the creation of the Internet, that I found myself needing to back track to keep each person and his (all were men) contribution straight. Not a problem, though. The information in this book was fascinating. I found myself wanting to take my time to absorb as many of the details as possible.
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The ASP.NET section is almost useless - so few pages and so little information.
It would have been better if the book had been called .NET code access security and didn't bother with the other stuff.
Its only real failings are the lack of depth in a few obscure areas (details around simulating permissions that might be granted to an app deployed via the Internet and hosted in IE).
You could glean most of this information from the internet and spend a month doing it, like I did. Or spend $$$ and few hours reading this well written book.
This book is the definite security reference and guide to the new programming platform that Micrsosoft has shipped - and the only book of its kind on the market as far as I can see. It has been written by the people who have designed and implemented the security features and infrastructure in the .NET Framework that ASP.NET, C#, VB or Managed C++ applications run on.
Its stuffed with sample code and hands-on tips, and comes with extensive sections geared specifically towards developers and admins. Chapters are well contained and you get the kind of insider information only the people who have actually build and designed the system would be able to give you.
800 plus pages of security information for the Amazon price is quite a good bang for the buck,so I highly recommend this book as I think it will be a good learning aid in trying to understand .NEt security and remain valuable as a reference work afterwards.
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According to Chip, America has to mobilize to stop the "evangelical menance," by force if necessary, before it's too late and we can't get our daily dose of porn.
There are some genuinely scary right-wing groups (Christian Identity, Aryan Nations, etc. - none of whom are "evangelical" in any sense of the word) and some televangelists whose sociopolitical theory raises eyebrows (Pat Robertson, D. James Kennedy), but there is no anti-democratic, right-wing juggernaut like Chip alleges. Many of the groups and individuals that Chip alleges are part of this "vast right-wing conspiracy" have spent most of their careers working for the rights of prisoners, Sudanese slaves, racial and religious minorities, and other oppressed peoples. The only reason people like Chuck Colson and denominations like the Southern Baptists are labeled "right-wing" in Chip's mind is because they oppose abortion and believe in fairly conservative sexual mores (although their sexual views are nowhere near as conservative as those of Catholics, Muslims, and other groups - which ban contraception, divorce under any circumstances, and non-reproductive sex - that Chip rarely if ever attacks).
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But most importantly (dangers of) disguising of the old Right as New Right. The most likable thing in this book is that it is based on well researched works and intellectually it is very consummable material ! . Althought this book does not contain any Rhetoric whatsoever, yet It will occur to the reader that the Right Wing Extremism is undiminishing threat (just like Virus strain that changes with environments) = As the old right wants to be perceived as New Right.
The Book is (to me) a reference of the Dangers of the Right Wing's Dogmatic, Anti-Democratic Ideology -- It doesn't take long to realize and accept that The Right Wing Extremist are The Domestic Enemy #1 that USA may have.
Some the chapters go to such details to quite eloborate that the core and the base of many right wing groups in USA is very much in contradiction to the traditions, principles of liberty and freedom that are the very basis of succes of this GREAT Nation.
Read it and read into the lines --- !