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the examples are specific and lack the gee-whiz approach of a lot of cold-fusion books I have seen.

It answered three very specific issues I had very quickly and the examples seem to work which isn't always true of competing books.

The index seems o.k. but as with a lot of O'Reilly books is a little light.

A general whinge, and I know I don't have to read it, but O'Reilly's books acknowledgements sections deserve pulling out as a book all of there own. what ever happened to 'For Mum'?