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Summary: A must read for any Windows developer with sense of humor!
Review: Absolutely the MAD magazine of Windows programming! If you have a an "out there" sense of humor, and develop in VB or VC++, this book will keep you in histerics. Whether it be differences between COM, OLE and ACTIVEX (ActiveX sounds cooler, Com and ole together form ComOle - an Italian dish made of mozarella cheese and wine cork), or exercises to count the iinterfaces on your lawn ornaments, this book is a must have. It was just printed in China for crying out loud!
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Summary: A must read for any Windows developer with sense of humor!
Review: Absolutely the MAD magazine of Windows programming! If you have a an "out there" sense of humor, and develop in VB or VC++, this book will keep you in histerics. Whether it be differences between COM, OLE and ACTIVEX (ActiveX sounds cooler, Com and ole together form ComOle - an Italian dish made of mozarella cheese and wine cork), or exercises to count the iinterfaces on your lawn ornaments, this book is a must have. It was just printed in China for crying out loud!
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Summary: You May Enjoy This One
Review: After reading through many books on ActiveX control and programming this book was a welcome relief. It is funny and witty and short.This book is written largly based on using ActiveX control in VB. Anyone familiar with VB (even if they don't know ActiveX)will get most of the jokes and diagrams. I would recommand this book to anyone that has had just a little too much technical documentation and would like a mental break. Hey, you may even learn something in the process.
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Summary: You May Enjoy This One
Review: After reading through many books on ActiveX control and programming this book was a welcome relief. It is funny and witty and short. This book is written largly based on using ActiveX control in VB. Anyone familiar with VB (even if they don't know ActiveX)will get most of the jokes and diagrams. I would recommand this book to anyone that has had just a little too much technical documentation and would like a mental break. Hey, you may even learn something in the process.
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Summary: The most enlightening experience I've had in months
Review: An excellent book which clearly sets out the fundamentals of ActiveX programming in a concise and lucid manner. At 90 pages, there is no filler material.
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Summary: Miracle Cure
Review: Before reading this book, I was blind. Upon finishing the last page, I was amazed to find that I could see. Thanks, Bunny, for restoring my sight to me!
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Summary: An incredibly easy fairy-tale perspective of ActiveX
Review: Even if you are an expert on ActiveX, you will enjoy reading this funny-bunny book! It gives you permission to read a bedtime story again, and teaches you about ActiveX simultaneously. I read it with my night-light on!
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Summary: Think 'comic novella'
Review: First of all, I knew nothing about ActiveX before I read this book. Nothing. After I read it, I still knew... Nothing. But I laughed out loud most of the time and the "examples" he uses that are somewhat of ActiveX nature (or supposedly so) weren't at all difficult to undersand. I would reccomend this book to anyone that is thinking about using ActiveX or just likes tech humour. :)
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Summary: Very funny parody of ActiveX and computer geeks
Review: First off, if you want to learn about ActiveX, then this is not the book for you. However, if you want to be entertained by a parody of ActiveX, where wordplay, innuendo and absurdity about ActiveX are used to create some very funny jokes, then it is right for you. Mr. Bunny, the smart one with the glasses and pocket protector, and Farmer Jake, the guy in the overalls with the rake, are the main characters in a story about a "quest" for knowledge.
Everything in the book is a joke; there is a very good one about CLSID registry entries, "Contrary to popular belief, the CLSID registry entries, when spelled backwards, do not contain the subliminal message 'I worship Satan'." If you have ever had to write and use CLSID registry entries, you know how much devil there is in the details. Points of additional reading contain entries such as: * New York City Phone Book.
* United States Internal Revenue Code.
* ActiveX For Bunnies. I found the last especially funny, the parody in relation to the "For Dummies" series and this book is quite good. Even the exercises are jokes; the following are given as end of chapter exercises: * Optimize the following Visual Basic code: n = 1
* Point
* Click
* Find the missing poodle. The book is very funny and a welcome change from the relentless detail that appears in some programming books. I recommend it very highly as comic relief.
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Summary: Humorous but not worth the price
Review: I purchased this book at a Microsoft conference at the urging of one the speakers. At the time I was already quite familiar with ActiveX/OLE/COM via C++/ATL & VB. I enjoyed the wry humor that peppered the book and the constant strangeness had me laughing at loud at times. Still, the book is done in about 20 minutes and I thought it confused COM issues more so than brought them to light. I think it would have been better if ActiveX was ignored and the focus was just on Mr. Bunny & Farmer Jake.
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