Almost without exceptions I buy my technical books based in information in magazines, other books and of course searching with Google. Last two years I applied all these methods trying to find a book like Omar's - alas without success. They all were too narrow, too elementary or too fractured. So, I gave up hoping that there will be a book about design and implementation of a large Web 2.0 site - and started our own.
Last wee, visiting a book store with intent to buy a specific book, I spotted Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5
The title is well chosen, but what really got me excited in the next 10 seconds was a glance through the Index.
Now, few days after, I am convinced that Omar wrote the most exciting book I read in last 10 years (I would exclude some books written by Feynman or Steven Hawking as well as few books from the fiction category.
As my own design uses the same building block, it is still not too late to apply many of the great ideas andtechniques presented in this book. In that sense I feel a lot better off than the gentlemen who wrote the blog at http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2007/01/12/103457.aspx
In summary: this book is a must for anyone interested in building complex distributed web applications.
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