Official Netscape LiveWire Pro Book: The Ultimate Web Database Developer's Guide

Rating:
Summary: It's O.K. but...
Review: I have a brief rule-of-thumb for evaluating techincal books; "If it saves me an hour, it was worth the price". This book saved me an hour. However, if you have a fast, reliable internet connection (ie. T1 or better) then I would recommend just using Netscape's Online Developer Reference and save a few bucks. By the way, Netscape has done a first class job with their online techincal references. This book is really just selected sections from there. I do like having a good ole book for late nite reading and the material is relative, but somewhat shallow. This book is advertised as a Windows NT and Unix reference, but it's really targeted to the NT users. I have not read any competing books and the only thing I can compare it to is Netscape's Web Pages which really out-shine!

Rating:
Summary: It's O.K. but...
Review: I have a brief rule-of-thumb for evaluating techincal books; "If it saves me an hour, it was worth the price". This book saved me an hour. However, if you have a fast, reliable internet connection (ie. T1 or better) then I would recommend just using Netscape's Online Developer Reference and save a few bucks. By the way, Netscape has done a first class job with their online techincal references. This book is really just selected sections from there. I do like having a good ole book for late nite reading and the material is relative, but somewhat shallow. This book is advertised as a Windows NT and Unix reference, but it's really targeted to the NT users. I have not read any competing books and the only thing I can compare it to is Netscape's Web Pages which really out-shine!