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Summary: Technically Superb and a Page-Turner to Boot!
Review: This is a very informative book that is also a joy to read. The author is the prime developer of numerous high-traffic and technically complex websites, so he speaks from deep experience. He has a gift for presenting the subject matter with a fresh attitude that will keep you chuckling while you are learning. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Is Philip Greenspun the C.P. Snow of Web Publishing?
Review: I read this book on an airplane in the lost, exhausted state of mind which one might associate with long airplane rides.I was surprised at how much I learned, both in terms of depth and breadth. I'd talked over some interactive web page ideas with friends--we were pretty sure that our solutions wouldn't scale well, but didn't really know what to do about it. After reading this book, I think I know where our ideas fell short. I certainly have a better idea of how to use a relational database to make such things easier. Somehow, I also learned about publishing photographs on the web and absorbed a comparison of available web servers. Considering that I had little interest in these subjects before, this surprised me. Mr. Greenspun's aggressive, humorous style kept me focused on what he was saying; no matter how tired I was, no matter how un-interested in the topic I might have thought I was. And there's a photo of the Glen Canyon Dam which could have been a painting by Charles Sheeler. What else do you need?
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Summary: A fresh and insightful webdevelopment book. Lots of fun!
Review: This is an excellent book. In a straight forward manner, it offers a personal project to improve the quality of Internet services and the development of virtual comunities.
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Summary: Poetry on programming... really! Seriously!
Review: When I read the title on the spine, I almost passed it by, but I caught a view of the cover and just had to see if Alex was the dog (he is). I think the title is almost a kind of joke, because the book is infinitely more interesting than you would think. Kind of like calling Moby Dick "the whale" (it's subtitle). This book investigates *thinking* about websites more than anything else, and all the technical stuff is just example to prove the logic points. I hope someday I get to hear this guy speak.
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Summary: Chapter 16 is fascinating and useful.
Review: Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing is both thorough and reader-friendly. I needed to contact American politicians and found Chapter 16 fascinating and useful. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to take a stab at web-publishing and is afraid to try.
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Summary: Unusual first hand account of web design process
Review: An engaging discussion, very personal, of the web design experience. I liked the first book very much also. The new book has an even more interesting discussion and throws alot of conventional wisdom out the window. The photography is inspring. He looks kind of cute, too.
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Summary: Years of web-experience boiled down to a bouillon cube
Review: Philip willingly gives away his expertise to those who evidence their own good taste by paying attention to him. His years of running photo.net make him more valuable than academics and UI researchers; his genial and witty personality make him far more accessible than hacker high priests who disdain end-users. The web comes into its own as a new medium, with unique value for bringing minds together, when backed by well-designed connections to databases. Even though the entire text is available on-line, you should buy this book. Like Aldus' first pocketbook editions of Virgil, this will placemark you as one of the savvy visionaries who knew where the web was going.
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Summary: A Useful And Beautiful Book !
Review: Philip Greenspun's book will convert even anti-technologists to intelligent Web site design. If you want an innovative, insightful, funny, beautiful-to-look-at (those pictures inside are worth a book in and of themselves) compendium on Website design, this is the book for you.
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Summary: FINALLY
Review: Finally a book that captures what the web is all about. Finally a book that examines technical details without losing sight of the *much* larger picture. The first computer book I've read in a long time that was a true "page-turner" (and I read A LOT of computer books). HIGHLY RECOMMEND.
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Summary: A tour de force
Review: Everything you ever wanted to know about web publishing is packed into this authoritative guide. Greenspun's writing is engaging, clear, often hilarious, and always shows withering common sense. The photographs are so visually arresting that you'll want to put this one on the coffee table.
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