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Summary: Great content - worked for me!
Review: I bought this book because I wanted to learn some of the things it covered under OSX, specifically about system services and preference panes. The other chapters were a bonus. I think that each chapter covers its topic very well and essentially provides source code with a full walk-thru and detailed explanation. If you like this type of approach, you will enjoy this book. I guess it depends how advanced you already are and whether you like the content selection. It was perfect for me. I'm also starting to learn XML-RPC and SOAP specifically because of the book. A great buy!
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Summary: Gee, I kinda liked it
Review: I liked this book. It might not be "advanced" in terms of "you'll skip 7 years of industry experience by reading this book", but it does cover some things that the standard documentation doesn't. I liked the plug-ins stuff, covering it both from the Cocoa and Carbon points of view, so you can decide which way works best for your app. It's easy to read, and I especially like having all the code samples at the end for review.
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Summary: Scott Knaster would be proud
Review: Reading the chapters was a breeze. They evoked the ghostly image of of Scott Knaster tickling away at the Apple keyboard, dispensing his wit to lost newbie programmers. That said, as a lite book it does succeed as a breezy tour through the country side. I'm suprised SAMS titled this book, the way they have done.
Conclusion: Supplemental reading only.
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Summary: Scott Knaster would be proud
Review: This book covers a pretty random set of topics from basic introductions to Mac OS X and Cocoa to things like CFPlugins and NSStatusItems. The introductory stuff is not useful to advanced programmers and the other topics, for the most part, are of insufficient depth to be useful to most advanced programmers. In many cases, you can learn just as much from Apple sample code, and more from the Apple documentation. It seems like the author just identified a bunch of topics not covered by other Mac OS X programming books (which is good), but then just had very basic information about them.
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Summary: Solid, Deep, Unique, Excellent, Must Have Book
Review: This book is unique from any of the other books out there. It really shows what the OSX OS and developer tools can do. The book begins with a broad overview of all the great new stuff in OSX and then helps the reader the move through a program that demonstrates the rich new levels of OSX. This is a new begining for developers and Mr. Zobkiw has brought together a "Grand Tour" of the many new features and options, at the same time he gives you lots of actual code with a wonderfull example program application. If your an Apple dveloper you definitely don't want to miss this one.
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Summary: Waste of money
Review: This is a very interesting book that covers a lot of ground. There are several sections I found useful, and I'm happy I bought it. But I'm not sure that "advanced" is really the right word here. True, it is more advanced than any of the other OS X development books I have. It goes into more depth on the subjects it covers than the others do. But, really, I don't think that these are advanced topics. In a truly advanced book, I'd expect to read about things like kernel extensions, writing Cocoa UIs without using Interface Builder, the different Mac binary formats and so on. Yes, some of those could consume entire books on their own. Perhaps that's the problem. Still, I think "intermediate" is a much better word than "advanced" to describe this book. It's an excellent next step up from the beginning Mac OS X development books, but experienced programmers will likely be left wanting more.
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