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Summary: One funny book
Review: This book won't teach you much about ActiveX, but it is one of the funniest books I've read. The foreward had me laughing out loud at the bookstore, and it only gets better. I had to wonder if the gnomes in this book were a reference to a COM book which shall remain nameless
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Summary: Entertaining if you're familiar with VB and ActiveX
Review: This is a clever and fairly funny book about ActiveX. The more you know about OLE, ActiveX, and developer studio, the funnier you will find it. From the slightly silly table of contents, to exploring COM objects supporting the IUnknown, ICame, ISaw, and IConquered interfaces, it's a treat.
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Summary: Hillarious
Review: This is not a technical book. It is a darned hillarious send-up of technical books, written by an author who clearly knows his stuff (and who knows The Funny). If you do component-based development using COM/ActiveX, you'll bust a gut laughing.
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Summary: Parody
Review: This is not an Active X book. This is a parody of an Active X book written by an Addison-Wesley editor that has seen too many Active X books.Very funny, but don't reach for it when you are trying to understand someone else's code ... (unless the other programmer is a rabbit)
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Summary: Best laugh anywhere. If you only buy one book, BUY THIS ONE
Review: This is the first review I've ever done, but for this book, I just had to break my silence. I only wish this rating system had more stars. In my 20+ years of reading "serious" computer tomes, this little gem of Mr. Egremont's is the single best investment I've ever made. My wife had to make me "Put down your book and come to dinner now." (That hasn't happened since Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" series came out. ;) Mr. Egremont's humor and creativity in the area that many of us have decided to make a living is truly unparalleled. Seriously, treat yourself to this little gem. I bought a dozen of them and gave them to friends, even "non-computer types" -- we all have loved them. I'm sure you will as well.
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Summary: What is so funny about this?
Review: This is the most painful humor book I have ever tried to read. I understand that only certain types of people, computer programmers, may understand the humor in this book. However, this programmer does not. I suppose I am not religious enough about Microsoft, or geeky enough about Windows, to make any sense of this strange book.
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Summary: Humorous but Lite Introduction
Review: This is without question the funniest book ever written on the topic of ActiveX, and it does a good job of describing some of the fundamental concepts of the technology. Don't expect anything too extensive, though; I was able to extract only about a page and a half of notes of "serious" technical information.
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Summary: Pokes gentle fun at our dysfunctional computing environment
Review: What is ActiveX? How is it different from ActiveY or Z? And why do your Windows(tm) applications always crash? For irreverent, nonsensical answers to these questions, be sure to check out this brilliant book. It won't teach you anything about ActiveX, but it makes up for that and more in entertainment value. If you're plagued with the horrors of Microsoft(tm) "technology", you need this book as comic relief.
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Summary: Catch my breath, wipe my eyes...
Review: Whew. This book was funny, in the purest sense of the word. Granted, the level of my enjoyment may have directly linked to the fact that I've been studying for the MCSD for the last two months, and after having read enough "tech books" to cross my eyes, this was a more-than-welcome relief. Maybe I laughed extra hard because my nerves are frayed. Still... slightly irreverent treatment of programming and ActiveX, but very funny, especially if you have a good understanding of Microsoft technologies. Even if you don't, you should still get most of the jokes (such as the chapter index beginning at 0 instead of 1). Take a break, put down that COM manual, and read this book.
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Summary: Catch my breath, wipe my eyes...
Review: Whew. This book was funny, in the purest sense of the word. Granted, the level of my enjoyment may have directly linked to the fact that I've been studying for the MCSD for the last two months, and after having read enough "tech books" to cross my eyes, this was a more-than-welcome relief. Maybe I laughed extra hard because my nerves are frayed. Still... slightly irreverent treatment of programming and ActiveX, but very funny, especially if you have a good understanding of Microsoft technologies. Even if you don't, you should still get most of the jokes (such as the chapter index beginning at 0 instead of 1). Take a break, put down that COM manual, and read this book.
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