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Part one is introductory material. Chapter one is about XML (eXtensible Markup Language), but is not very clear, especially in regard to the relationship between XML, SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), and HTML (HyperText Markup Language). Security concepts do not play a big part. The tutorial on cryptography, in chapter two, is very simplistic, uses obtuse language, and is much harder on the reader than is really necessary. Part two deals with the basics of XML. Chapters three through eight present some of the syntax and structure of XML documents, DTDs (Document Type Definitions), Schemas (particularly unclear), XPath, XPointer, and SOAP. That is about all they provide: the material is not helpful in explaining uses, or h... Rest of this review on the detail page
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This book presents a set of patterns that organize all the informal experience successful Smalltalk programmers have learned the hard way. Understand these patterns, and you can write much more effective code. Understand the concept of Smalltalk patterns and why they work. Then learn patterns for working with methods, messages, state, collections, classes and formatting. Walk through a development example utilizing patterns.Smalltalk programmers, project managers, teachers and students -- both new and experienced.
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This book is a compilation of the common "received wisdom" in regard to large scale software projects, and how not to let them get out of control. Although often repetitive (get your specifications done first), and rarely insightful, it serves as a useful reminder of the basics in project development. Norris states that this book is for the user, rather than the developer, but the book often assumes too much background in the software industry for this to be truly the case. There are a great many tables and figures in the book, but they rarely support the adjacent material, often being much less comprehensible than Norris' text. (The second figure in the book seems to imply that "commodity" software is of low value to the company in ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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The preface states, quite clearly, that this is a work for designers, programmers, and implementors. In other words, it's a very technical book. Even the preface, though, is written with a clarity that is unusual, and refreshing, in technical literature. Chapter one provides some background to communications security and encryption. The material is demanding, and is definitely not a primer. A number of items are glossed over, but the persistent reader should be able to glean some very solid explanations of important concepts. The "family tree" of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is given in chapter two, with a description of the development steps along the way. Chapter three outlines the basic, or most common, mode of SSL, and then provid... Rest of this review on the detail page
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This book is kind of about creating reusable software code. Beyond that, it is difficult to say much. It is kind of about Windows 95, and waited for completion until Win95 finished, but isn't tied to that OS. The samples should work under Windows 3.1 and NT as well. It isn't really about object oriented programming, although most of the samples come from C++ and use the Software Development Kit (SDK) or the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). The material is clear enough to follow (and the humour makes it amusing enough to read), but it is difficult to say how this collection of samples will help you build reusable software components any more than any other collection of algorithms would. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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