Linux Web

Open Source Linux® Web Programming

Format: Paperback
Author: Christopher A. Jones
ReleaseDate: January, 2000
Publisher: Hungry Minds
Rating:

Scarily Inaccurate
Many of the example programs won't even compile as they have typos in them that would have been caught if the book had been given the most cursory glance by a technical editor. I don't know anything about the subject matter covered in the later chapters, but the Perl that the authors demonstrate in chapters 3 to 7 is some of the most badly written and buggy Perl that I have ever seen. I searched the IDG (sorry, 'Hungry Minds') web site to see what errata had been made available, but there didn't seem to be any.

why this book , should be re-written
. i belive this book lacked of information about database information and reference to C.

WEB programming and dont talk about Serlvet, C, etc...
. When i bought this book i was looking for a whole sight of the tools that i can find in opensource, not only a few.. this book needs a roadmap view.

Why? theres is no reference for C or JAVA. Why? theres no refence to modules for Apache? Why? theres no references to JDBC, DBD/DBI, databases in general. . . .

Anyway a good book? but with a quite good aproach to the problem.