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Summary: Small but valuable case study
Review: A real life case study of a real project. What is interesting about this book is that all aspects from requirement assessment up till deployment of one specific project are bundled in one book.It is very rare that you can find a real life project completely documented in one book. This by itself makes the book valuable. The only criticism I can give is that this is a fairly small-scale project (one customer, one location). The author does reflect on this subject and does consider scalability. However, I fear that the reader gets a false impression that this project can be easily scaled up. In this respect I disagree with the impression the writer gives. Nevertheless, a brave attempt and valuable book. By the way, some others critics have some tough criticism. To me most of them are biased. His choice of an 'all Microsoft solution' might not be yours but it is a solution! IT is not science, there is no single right way of doing things.
I am biased too, that is, I would have chosen a different architecture, design, tools, and implementation model. But that is not the point!
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Summary: A superior book with a solid example,
Review: After studying OOP, I still wasn't clear on how to actually work with it. This book provided a solid example of appropriate methodology and greatly increased my confidence.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: Chapter 1 alone is worth the purchase price. The rest of the book is the case study itself, which I consider to be icing on the cake. Jesse Liberty recounts the challenges of a real project for a real customer. I enjoyed reading about the way they tackled decisions, the order in which they did things, and the mistakes they made.
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Summary: Chapter 1 is reason enough to buy the book
Review: Chapter One: The business of software Chapter one is the chapter I return to again and again to gain some insight into the madness of IT. Anyone involved in software development will be able to relate to the problems described here. Get your managers to read it as well!
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Summary: Excellent behind the scenes look at software development
Review: Clouds to Code is the book for anyone who's ever wondered what it's like to develop software. Get away from tutorials and into real life! Jessie gives us everything from code samples to what book he read to what tools he used. Awesome book!!
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Summary: how to make bug-ridden software
Review: get a real book and put in real efforts... there is no short cut to oo world... or there is no free ride in any profession that requires solid skills....
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Summary: no where close...
Review: get a real book and put in real efforts... there is no short cut to oo world... or there is no free ride in any profession that requires solid skills....
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Summary: Clouds 9...up to Code
Review: I bought this book a few years ago and finally started to dig in the other day. Crikey! This stuff is awesome! I have a bad habit of not underlining stuff in otherwise great books. But the first chapter is turnin' yella. So many gold nuggets in this thing. Pg. 25 "Don't Build It, Buy It", referring to programmers' natural inclination to mine/extract/mill the natural resources to make the wheels they often reinvent. Jesse is very savvy on the business of software, like no one I've ever seen--or at least not as bluntly. He also understands the essence of true free enterprise which I applaud. Some of the reviews of this book actually prove one of his points. I've been amazed for years about how many technology bigots are out there. "I'll do anything as long as it's not Microsoft!" How idiotic. They've produced some good software and they've produced steaming electronic piles of crap. These days I'm quite technology agnostic--I use whatever I can to make the customer happy! I do not see that Mr. Liberty (great name, BTW) gives too much nod to MS...he even suggests his hesitation about using VSourceSafe. I concur, it's not one of the better SCC systems. My suspicion is that most so-called developers really don't know how to build projects, start-to-finish but how many of us will admit it? I was surprised, and refreshed to know that I was basically on the right track, though Jesse congeals some things and illuminates others in a way that most people can comprehend. Summary: if you want thick over-inflated theory, there are tons of Rational publications to jam up your synapses. If you want simple, solid principles on how to build reliable systems the red book's for you!
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Summary: Clouds 9...up to Code
Review: I bought this book a few years ago and finally started to dig in the other day. Crikey! This stuff is awesome! I have a bad habit of not underlining stuff in otherwise great books. But the first chapter is turnin' yella. So many gold nuggets in this thing. Pg. 25 "Don't Build It, Buy It", referring to programmers' natural inclination to mine/extract/mill the natural resources to make the wheels they often reinvent. Jesse is very savvy on the business of software, like no one I've ever seen--or at least not as bluntly. He also understands the essence of true free enterprise which I applaud. Some of the reviews of this book actually prove one of his points. I've been amazed for years about how many technology bigots are out there. "I'll do anything as long as it's not Microsoft!" How idiotic. They've produced some good software and they've produced steaming electronic piles of crap. These days I'm quite technology agnostic--I use whatever I can to make the customer happy! I do not see that Mr. Liberty (great name, BTW) gives too much nod to MS...he even suggests his hesitation about using VSourceSafe. I concur, it's not one of the better SCC systems. My suspicion is that most so-called developers really don't know how to build projects, start-to-finish but how many of us will admit it? I was surprised, and refreshed to know that I was basically on the right track, though Jesse congeals some things and illuminates others in a way that most people can comprehend. Summary: if you want thick over-inflated theory, there are tons of Rational publications to jam up your synapses. If you want simple, solid principles on how to build reliable systems the red book's for you!
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Summary: Do not waste your money and your time
Review: I bougth the book "Beginning Object-Oriented Analysis and Design" from Jesse Liberty and this book covers everything from OOP to SQL including operating systems, CORBA, Use Cases and Architecture Design. I read this book and I didn't learn anything. There isn't a pice of code that really works. And since Jesse Liberty try to cover everithing on this book the only thing that is present on all the book is text and figures. It isn't practical at all. I bougth it because the reference "While there are plenty of books on software-engineering case studies, most are big on theory and short on real-world detail". You rather try any book from the "Special Edition Using ..." series from QUE or any book from O'Reailly or SAMS they are really proffesional.
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