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| C |
Posted by
timothy
on Tuesday March 05, @09:45AM
Craig Maloney submitted this review of Addison-Wesley's entry in the tough field of books on C (book title: C), and pulls no punches in comparing it to others. He says it's slightly above average, but that "experienced programmers will likely pass on this book." Read the complete review below for his reasoning.(
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) Java RMI |
Posted by
timothy
on Monday March 04, @10:00AM
Reader amoon writes: "With the rise of XML-based RPC (e.g. SOAP, XML-RPC, APEX), the distributed computing world is starting to really unsettle from the CORBA-RMI-DCOM oligopoly of the 1980s and 1990s. Yet, XML-based RPC
is not a panacea (though it is quite cool), especially for those of us involved in the legacy and client-server worlds. Now,
what is fascinating: the publishing world is revving up the engines on not only the XML-based RPC stuff, but also the
RMI and CORBA stuff -- while rarely applied to the tech industry, the old adage, "what was old is new again," seems to
fit well here. This review describes this über-cool trend from the RMI perspective, with a focus on Java RMI (O'Reilly) by William Grosso." Read on for the rest of the review.(
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) Security Engineering |
Posted by
timothy
on Thursday February 28, @12:00PM
SilverStr writes: "With all the recent discussion on organizations rethinking their security strategies, I thought I would do a review on one of my favorite books. I have stayed pretty quiet on /. over the years, but security is something I don't think developers anywhere should be taking lightly. Hopefully some of them will get something out of my review and pick this book up." Read on for the rest of his review of Ross Anderson's Security Engineering.(
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) Building Linux Virtual Private Networks |
Posted by
timothy
on Wednesday February 27, @10:30AM
Richard Miller contributed this review of New Riders' entry to the field of VPN books. No suspense, he gives the book a big thumbs up -- read on below for his reasoning, in particular a comparison to the previously available alternatives.(
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) Running Weblogs With Slash |
Posted by
timothy
on Monday February 25, @10:35AM
Two Slashdot (and Slashcode) readers -- Alex McLintock of Openweb Analysts Ltd, and Dave Aiello of CTDATA -- have graciously contributed their impressions of the new O'Reilly book Running Weblogs With Slash. Since the Slash code is now used to run sites covering a huge number of topics (fly fishing, mountain biking, "news for nerds," etc.), it's time there was at least one printed reference to it.(
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) The Skeptical Environmentalist |
Posted by
timothy
on Friday February 22, @11:30AM
-cman- writes: "The issue of human impact on the global environment is one -- if not the most --important and divisive issues of our generation. There are two key questions involved; is human activity having a major impact on the climate of the Earth? What, if anything should be done to minimize that impact? It is within the lifetimes of most of Slashdot's readers that we begin to get answers to these questions. We will either begin to make policy and economic changes to protect the environment or we won't. And towards the middle and end of this century we will begin to see real-time data to validate some of the predictions being bandied about by environmental scientists. Amid all the uncertainty that the above two questions generate comes a new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist; Measuring the Real State of the World.." Read on for the rest of -cman-'s review.(
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) The New Chemistry |
Posted by
timothy
on Thursday February 21, @10:20AM
danny writes: "The New Chemistry is a survey of the science
behind many of Slashdot's technology stories - read on
for my review. (An older title of related interest is Chemical
Evolution: Origin of the Elements, Molecules, and Living
Systems )." Read on for the rest of Danny's review.(
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) Dot.Con |
Posted by
timothy
on Wednesday February 13, @10:15AM
markwelch writes:
"Late last year, I read a truly awful book: Stephan Paternot's A Very Public Offering, a poorly-written account of the rise and fall of TheGlobe.com. The company has consistently been
cited by critics as one of the worst/best examples of absurd internet-stock mania, but this book by the company's founder offered no real apologies, and provided very little insight. I don't blame Paternot, a young man who was willingly manipulated by market-makers, and who clearly is not a professional writer." Marc is less forgiving of writer John Cassidy, whose recent book Dot.Con he dissects below -- read on as he completes the thought.(
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) Bastard Operator from Hell II (Son of the Bastard) |
Posted by
timothy
on Wednesday February 06, @11:00AM
Sysadmins should at least pretend to be nice to their users, but we all can think of times when some of them aren't. Craig Maloney may not endorse cruelty to users, but he contributed the following review, which should amuse at the very least the bastards among you, and anyone who's chortled at previous Plan Nine books.(
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) Arguing A.I. |
Posted by
JonKatz
on Tuesday February 05, @10:45AM
Are intelligent machines transforming life as we know it? Or is A.I. yet another overhyped, self-serving fantasy by deluded scientists and technocrats talking mostly to one another, foisting their ill-conceived, poorly-engineered creations on an unsuspecting public? The discussion has rarely been better framed than in software-culture writer Sam Williams's short, readable and smartly-organized new paperback book Arguing A.I.: The Battle for Twenty-first Century Science," published by atRandom.com, the e-book division of Random House.(
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