Essential JavaFX is a well written introduction to JavaFX. It is written in a conversational style and there's lots of diagrams and screen shots to break up the text and show you the results of...
5 replies - 3144 views - 09/25/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
1 Introduction This is chapter does a nice job of introducing you to the book and giving you an idea of what to expect in the chapters that follow. While this book isn’t specifically for...
26 replies - 4918 views - 04/23/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
In Chapter 1, “Introduction”, author Scott Davis provides some pretty good arguments for learning Groovy; starting with this quote, “Groovy is what Java would look like had it been written in...
0 replies - 2887 views - 11/11/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
The subtitle for “slide:ology” is “The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations” – and that may have you wondering why I’m posting a review of it here. That’s a fair questions...
0 replies - 3327 views - 10/24/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
Before we look a the book in detail, let's get this out of the way. I've seem some reviews that say this book is little more than an informercial for Adaptive Path because it often uses projects...
0 replies - 2816 views - 10/03/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
Chapter 1 is the introduction, and in it Neal explains what productivity is and why he felt the need to write a book on how to improve it. This is followed by a nifty example of a tip that anyone can...
0 replies - 6027 views - 08/15/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
Chapter 1 (Getting Started with the NetBeans Platform) introduces the NetBeans IDE, which will be the basis for developing rich client modules in NetBeans, but will also be the platform used to...
1 replies - 3213 views - 09/10/07 by Matthew Schmidt in Book Reviews
