Product Details

• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: DV Press
• DVD Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Run Time: 480 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000694XIU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #420,482 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor

Neal Ford is the chief technology officer at The DSW Group Ltd. in Atlanta, GA. He is an architect, designer, and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video presentations. Neal is also the author of Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques (Prentice Hall PTR, 1996) and JBuilder 3 Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 1999), and Art of Java Web Development (Manning 2003). His language proficiencies include Java, C#/ .NET, Ruby, Object Pascal, C++, and C. Neal’s primary consulting focus is the building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at numerous developers’ conferences worldwide. Neal is also an avid (but slow) Ironman triathlete, competing in several races a year of varying distance. He is also a voracious reader, loves to listen to very eclectic music, watch high-quality movies, travel to exotic locales, and eat at fine restaurants (sometimes enjoying combinations of the above). He has also been known to sit in front of a computer for vast amounts of time. When at home, Neal enjoys the company of his wife, Candy, and two cats, Winston and Parker.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Jumpy and Muffled, July 25, 2005

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E. Parsons (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginner's ASP.NET in VB.NET 2003 on DVD (DVD)

The sound quality was so bad that either I was turning up the volumn or being shouted down by it. Although the material was good and effective the presentation seemed not to have been well thought out. There were constant stops in the program just when the material was getting good. By the time it started again I had been distracted and had to start over. If they had given the content twice as much time between breaks and produced the CD correctly in reference to the sound quality, I think it would have been a very good product. Here's hoping they get it right next time.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sound quality horrid, roller-coaster learning curve, February 13, 2005

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constantine_reeder (Germantown, TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beginner's ASP.NET in VB.NET 2003 on DVD (DVD)

I should have looked at reviews of other DVDs from this publisher. Sounds (and appears on presenter) like a cheap lapel mic scraping across a collar button, plus various crackling and pops. But a few lessons sound very clear, so it wasn't the disc. Solid introduction to ASP.net veers tragically off course with irrelevant intro to O-O programming in VB. Too bad, since he's a pretty good presenter, and I learned some really useful details not clear in other sources.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars dreadful production - deserves a minus star, September 14, 2005

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maddog (New Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beginner's ASP.NET in VB.NET 2003 on DVD (DVD)

This is not a professionally done video course. It's just Neal Ford sitting in Front of his PC and droning on while he rapidly mouseclicks from one screen to the next.

Neal Ford is not a gifted speaker. He talks in a nasal monotone which begins to grate after a while. To make matters worse the sound quality is terrible, really its below home video quality, and it's just hard to hear what he says. After one chapter I couldnt stand to listen to it anymore.

IMO Amazon owes me a refund for this piece of junk.