Professional Asp Techniques for Webmasters (Wrox Professional Guides)

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Summary: One of the best, from the best
Review: I would love to give this book 5 stars; I would really love to. It has a bunch of real world examples that blow away the other books. It also deals with code, including the thought process behind it. But there is not enough of the why to satisfy my curiosity.

As a professional webmaster, I am looking for ways to take my apps to the next level. This book starts to give me some ways to optimize, and then drops me off short of the goal line. I was hoping this site would deal with optimization of code, a serious concern for the professional web developer, esp. in the light of how easily people are getting bored on the web today.

Now that I got my digs in. Here is what you do receive. ADO, cross platform scripting, controls, real world site logs...and much more. The real world aspect and code heavy nature makes it a perfect learning tool for the intermediate to advanced ASP developer. This is definitely not a book for newbies to Visual InterDev and Active Server Pages.

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Summary: Professional Asp Techniques for Webmasters
Review: If you are a webmaster or a ASP developer who deals with the whole project, from design to deployment, this is the #1 book I would recommend to you! It helped me a great deal for the work I have done. The book covers all the aspects of the ASP-based packages that webmasters and top ASP team leaders concern about.

If you are a new programmer trying to learn ASP syntax, however, it might help more if you read Professional ASP Programmer's Reference, another book in the series, before using this book.

Rating:
Summary: Professional Asp Techniques for Webmasters
Review: If you are a webmaster or a ASP developer who deals with the whole project, from design to deployment, this is the #1 book I would recommend to you! It helped me a great deal for the work I have done. The book covers all the aspects of the ASP-based packages that webmasters and top ASP team leaders concern about.

If you are a new programmer trying to learn ASP syntax, however, it might help more if you read Professional ASP Programmer's Reference, another book in the series, before using this book.

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Summary: A "Good Read" for Webmasters
Review: It's one thing to learn ASP, it's another to put its many techniques into practice on a real commerce site.

Homer's book is really about the Wrox site, and how it is set up and maintained. It's full of useful tips, and its eclectic coverage is exactly what you would expect for this type of study. As other readers have noted, it's not an ASP tutorial, but advice for those who already know the subject. Several of the techniques discussed have since found their way onto sites I maintain.

I would have to say it's one of the most enjoyable and stimulating technical books I've read in quite a long time.

Rating:
Summary: A "Good Read" for Webmasters
Review: It's one thing to learn ASP, it's another to put its many techniques into practice on a real commerce site.

Homer's book is really about the Wrox site, and how it is set up and maintained. It's full of useful tips, and its eclectic coverage is exactly what you would expect for this type of study. As other readers have noted, it's not an ASP tutorial, but advice for those who already know the subject. Several of the techniques discussed have since found their way onto sites I maintain.

I would have to say it's one of the most enjoyable and stimulating technical books I've read in quite a long time.

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Summary: Useful book, but not a great one.
Review: It's useful if you have full control and access to a live web server. Since I have some background in ASP, IIS 4 and site management, I only found some information is useful.

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Summary: strBook = "load_of_crap"
Review: Out of the dozen or 15 Wrox Press books we have at the office, this one is the only one I regret buying. If you own any other Wrox Press ASP books, DON'T BUY THIS ONE -- IT'S REDUNDANT to the nth degree! Truly, if you own ANY ASP books, or have any ASP experience, whatsoever, this book's probably not worth your money.

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Summary: Get it online instead....
Review: This is a book for webmasters without a high speed internet connection. Wrox's library for ASP is excellent but this book stands out as a brick (I'm currently using it to keep my stack of takeout menus from falling over). Many of these techniques can be found online at many fine ASP websites. Its not a bad book. It lacks focus and many of the topics can be easily covered in a few articles.