Customer Reviews

Silverstream (A hands-on Web development book)

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It's an outdated book covering 1.5 version (ver 3.0 soon to be realesed). It can be best described as a cut & paste operation from the Silverstream manuals. That too version 1.5 manuals!

I know currently this is the ONLY book available in the market but better wait a month or so and buy the NEW book that's being published by SilverStream Journal (check it by using the LINK on www.silverstream.com)

This book has wasted both my time and money. The only good thing I can say about it, is that it comes with a CD containing SS with 60 days license.

Is this book a joke? It appears that the authors closely paraphrased the Silverstream documentation and added gratuitous screen shots for filler. One wonders if Howard Block and Al Dunn even develop applications with Silverstream?

There is more self promotion and self serving praise to Howard Block than there is substance. He is certainly getting by in the industry without posessing a grasp of technology. Why anyone would buy a book written by Howard is amazing to me. When you read his writings you wonder how this guy ever graduated High School, let alone how he became a self proclaimed expert of anything. Howard completely re-writes the Silverstream On Line help databases and his book is no more than a blatent copy of what Silverstream has already written. Don't buy this book, unless you are Howard Block's Aunt or Uncle and want to give him money for no reason.

They may have a monopoly on the market right now, but that doesn't mean you should buy this book. There's precious little additional info that SilverStream's own manuals don't provide. And no sample code anywhere! The CD is SS' own server sampler. Let's hope this is just a rough draft for a real book on SS version 2.0

Most of the information in this book can be found at either the SilverStream web site or other articles found in technical journals. There is no detailed infortmation or code examples. I have never seen so many misspelled words or incomplete sentences.

This book is so very poorly written and I only gave it 1 star because there weren't selections for zero or negative stars. Everything that is written in this book about Silverstream is common knowledge and is contained within the Silverstream manuals, and on-line help. The book is completely worthless, and the authors are trying to pull a fast one on you by selling you this book.