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Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX Paperback – July 31, 1998

by III Egremont Carlton (Author)

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ActiveX has been around for literally dozens of months, but until now it has remained an inscrutable mystery to all but the most overpaid contract engineers, three Sufi priests, and Don from Nevada. Finally, here is a book that dumbs down the topic so it is understandable even to a piece of shoe leather. Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX begins with the basic building block of all computer software: the pixel. From here it digresses into a classic fantasy adventure story about a cute little talking bunny and a hapless everyman farmer/programmer on an amazing journey to the heart of component-based software. You will actually learn ActiveX by reading out loud to your children at bedtime! Don't miss out on all the fun in today's highly competitive and stressful technology industries. Let Mr. Bunny bring your web pages to life. (You do have a web page, don't you?) The sky will open and everything you ever desired will be showered upon you, so wear a hard hat. I'm tired of writing blurbs. Just buy the book. Praise for Mr. Bunny (intentionally blank)Other Stuff About Mr. Bunny "I slept with this book under my pillow, and now I have a flat spot on my head." -- Some Guy "This is a shockingly subversive book. Carlton Egremont III is a dangerous individual who sows the seeds of fear and confusion about computer technologies. Masquerading as both a technical guru and a children's author, he threatens to undermine the foundations of modern society with his Mr. Bunny books. Cute illustrations, though." -- Some Other Guy "Two thumbs..." -- Two Other Guys 0201485362B04062001

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Surely, our society must have passed some technological milestone in order for component software to merit a comic novella. Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX attempts to enlighten the reader about Microsoft's distributed-computing solution without actually explaining the technology, as more gauche programming books frequently do.

This book is funny! To wit (so to speak), an excerpt:

In Visual Basic, you form windows using forms. A form is a window that you form. At first forms are unformed. You must form your forms using the form designer (formerly the former). In the form former, an unformed form forms a uniform formation....

You get the idea. This book is a hoot and a half. The basic idea is that a smarty-pants bespectacled rabbit and a hick farmer travel around together, having metaphorical experiences that (more or less) help explain how ActiveX works. Hey, Mr. Bunny makes about as much sense as any other approach to COM documentation, and he's a lot less pretentious.

Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX will appeal to people who already have a pretty good grasp of what Microsoft's component architecture is all about--and who have realized it's a complicated morass worth a laugh or two. --David Wall

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First off, this was a fun book to read, work on and publish! It is a new technical book parody that will have you laughing in the first few pages - even if you don't want your boss to know you are reading a lighthearted book. It is aimed at developers with some knowledge of ActiveX or COM, who will appreciate the inside jokes, but the book is also chock-full of smart humor for Java and Linux folks.

Here is what a couple of recognizable folks had to say about Mr. Bunny.

The day I brought Mr. Bunny home, my 16-year-old daughter took one glance inside it and nabbed it for herself to read. I finally pried it away from her two days ago and read it through myself. It's hysterical! You can't afford to ignore anything. I thought it was all over, and then I looked *very* carefully at the Sound Effect definitions in Appendix C ---and had yet another belly laugh. Everyone who cares about good technical writing should read this book---no prior knowledge of ActiveX required. I'll be recommending this to my friends.

--Guy Steele

"Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX" is the most original computer book to come out in the last five years. Whatever prompted Carlton Egremont III to write this book, or Addison Wesley to publish it, or me to review it is beyond me. But this book is destined for cult classic status.

--Roger Sesions

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Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company (July 31, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201485362
ISBN-13: 978-0201485363
Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,843,680 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #15 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Web Programming > ActiveX
- #439 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Computers & Internet
- #1171 in Books > Computers & Technology > Networking & Cloud Computing > Data in the Enterprise > Client-Server Systems

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ByA customeron March 17, 1999

Format: Paperback

Before reading this book, I was blind. Upon finishing the last page, I was amazed to find that I could see. Thanks, Bunny, for restoring my sight to me!

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A perfect example of how to waste pink and ulp

ByPogdogs Magic Kennelon November 4, 2012

Format: Paperback

The only reason I gave this book one star is because Amazon.com does not allow me to rate it anything less than that.

I read this book in a night and found it to be not only verbose and incoherent, but uninformative. I walked away from this book learning almost nothing about how to fix the brake cable on my Hyundai.

If you are seriously interested in learning about small Korean car maintenance, you should steer clear of this book. Not only does it teach you nothing about the topic, but the author should be spanked for inferring it does. The $1.45 I spent on this book is perhaps the single most wasteful use of my money I have ever had (well... except possibly that time when I discovered that there were only 2,487 Cheerios in the box - 13 less than usual!! - oh boy did I write a mean revue on their website...)

The only word I would use to describe this book is one I cannot use here.

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It was embarrassing!

ByShawn C.on December 20, 2000

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I was on a train when I started to read this book. I usually don't laugh out loud, but when I was reading this, I just couldn't help it.
This is definitely one of the funniest "geek" books I've seen (haven't seen too many). My wife doesn't get it!

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Parody

ByJonathan Meltzeron March 9, 2000

Format: Paperback

This is not an Active X book. This is a parody of an Active X book written by an Addison-Wesley editor that has seen too many Active X books.
Very funny, but don't reach for it when you are trying to understand someone else's code ... (unless the other programmer is a rabbit)

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Hilarious (provided that you're a programmer and have wrestled with Microsoft's idiotic APIs).

Published 6 months ago by Nemo

Indespensible

It is an indespensible book for anyone in IT. I don't know how I survived without Mr. Bunny's Guide. It is that informative.Read more

Published on July 23, 2005 by John Doe

One of the funniest things ever in any medium on any subject

I'm not exaggerating. This is one of the best examples of whimsical humour ever, and I speak as a life-long fan of Monty Python, The Goons, Steve Martin, Beachcomber, John...Read more

Published on July 5, 2003 by Daniel Earwicker

The most enlightening experience I've had in months

An excellent book which clearly sets out the fundamentals of ActiveX programming in a concise and lucid manner. At 90 pages, there is no filler material.

Published on March 16, 2000 by Peter Crockford

A must read for any Windows developer with sense of humor!

Absolutely the MAD magazine of Windows programming! If you have a an "out there" sense of humor, and develop in VB or VC++, this book will keep you in histerics.Read more

Published on March 13, 2000 by TJones

Catch my breath, wipe my eyes...

Whew. This book was funny, in the purest sense of the word. Granted, the level of my enjoyment may have directly linked to the fact that I've been studying for the MCSD for the...Read more

Published on February 14, 2000 by Amazon Customer

It's a Parody, Stupid!

This book is a satire and a parody. It's not intended to teach you anything--other than the fact that we all might be taking some of this computer stuff a little too...Read more

Published on September 3, 1999

What is so funny about this?

This is the most painful humor book I have ever tried to read.
I understand that only certain types of people, computer programmers, may understand the humor in this book.Read more

Published on May 15, 1999

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