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Title: Building Dreamweaver 4 and Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 Extensions by Tom Muck, Ray West ISBN: 0-07-219156-2 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 28 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Okay if you've never written an extension.
Comment: If you need the basics of how to approach extension design, get this book. It will teach you how to build working extensions.
However, it's very limited. In spite of their claim that it includes "Detailed coverage of DW and DW UD internals", it covers very few of them.
But, worth it for beginners.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Very Useful Book For Hardcore Dreamweaver Users
Comment: This is a very useful book for those that are interested in extending Dreamweaver and UltraDev with their own objects, behaviors, commands, etc. You could find all the included information buried in the official Macromedia documentation, and amoungst the many excellent websites that deal with extensions, but for those of us that prefer an old fashioned book then this is the one for you!
So you might be wondering why I rated this book a 4 instead of a 5. While it is true that the content of the book is great, unfortunately I have a few minor niggles:
* There are typo's throughout the book (ie the word "it" when "is" was ment, "you" instead of "your", etc). While most books have typo's it is annoying.
* I wasn't overly impressed with the code samples. Don't get me wrong, I haven't found any actual bugs, but I don't like the way the code is layed out (ie indenting). For example, on page 44 there is an example that contains several JavaScript functions. Each function declaration starts in column one except for one (applyBehavior) which is indented underneath the code of the previous function. Sure, it doesn't affect the code, but it looks untidy. Maybe the authors should have run all their examples through a code beautifier.
I know that some people will think that my comments are needless and that I'm being overly picky; and to some extent I agree with that assesment. But it's these small things that have reduced what would have been a "great" book to just "good".
Rating: 2
Summary: Not enough Meat on this Bone!
Comment: I was expecting a book that would cover Ultradev Extensions a little better, only 26 of the 218 pages covered Ultradev extensions the rest was dedicated to dreamweaver. The book really only covers the basics and does not dive too deep, if you have a lot of hand coded routines that you want to make into extensions, this is not the book for it. Perhaps I as a programmer was expecting more of a developers book as opposed to a Web Page book. However on a positive note, the book is fun to read and contains good examples.
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Title: Dreamweaver MX Extensions by Laura Gutman ISBN: 0735711828 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 09 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: A Beginner's Guide by Ray West, Tom Muck ISBN: 0072191600 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 30 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: The Ultimate VB .NET and ASP.NET Code Book by Karl Moore ISBN: 1590591062 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 30 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 for Server Geeks by Nate Weiss ISBN: 0735713820 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 26 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: Training from the Source by Nolan Hester ISBN: 0201721449 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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