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Book review : Learning WCF
Posted on July 19th, 2010 No comments
For future challenges, I’ll have to learn WCF in deep, so I decided to start with this book. Next one will be Lowy’s Programming WCF services book, which covers WCF even more in depth. But let’s talk about the book I’ve just read (written by Michele Leroux Bustamante, Chief Architect of IDesign and colleague of Juval Lowy). I found it was a perfect book to start with WCF : introduction to SOA and its tenets, teaching of the key concepts of WCF such as contracts, bindings, hosting, instancing & concurrency, reliability, security and exceptions & faults. And to help you master these concepts, each chapter contains several labs where you can put into practice what you’ve just learnt. A very effective approach. Just note that this book doesn’t cover peer-to-peer protocols (which is done in Lowy’s book).
Pros
- Great book, covers a lot of ground of WCF
- The labs really help in mastering all the concepts
Cons
- No cons for me. Just keep in mind that this book doesn’t cover peer-to-peer protocols
Conclusion
I recommend this book which will give you a strong knowledge of WCF on which you can build upon with Lowy’s book if you want to go even further.
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[FR] Livre : Visibilité sur le web
Posted on January 30th, 2010 3 comments
Visibilité sur le Web (dans sa version anglaise Search Engine Visibility) est un ouvrage de Shari Thurow, reconnue mondialement comme une experte du SEO. Au travers de celui-ci, elle nous enseigne les bonnes pratiques à suivre pour optimiser le référencement naturel d’un site web. Les sujets couverts vont du fonctionnement des robots d’indexation des moteurs de recherche à l’optimisation des pages web, en passant par l’optimisation des images, des fichiers multimédia, etc. Bon nombre de mythes sont également discutés et démystifiés. Pour finir, un chapitre traîte des mauvaises pratiques et les pièges à éviter dans le cadre d’une campagne de référencement. Les +
- Un livre écrit par une personne de référence dans le domaine
- Très instructif et très bien construit
- Couvre bon nombre de sujets du SEO
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- Pas un inconvénient mais plutôt une remarque : ce livre ne rentre pas profondément dans les détails techniques (pas de chapitres traitant d’alternatives d’implémentation, absence de bouts de code)
Conclusion
Un très bon livre qui constitue une excellente entrée en la matière. Cependant, le domaine du SEO étant très vaste, d’autres lectures plus techniques seront nécessaires à ceux désirant approfondir le sujet.
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Javascript - précis & concis
Posted on July 13th, 2009 1 comment
Javascript - précis & concis (in french) is a little, yet very interesting book for the beginner as well as for the expert in javascript. This multi-purpose book enables you to discover or improve your javascript knowledge in a fast and effective way. Covered chapters include the following :
- Introduction to Javascript (syntax, instructions, object oriented javascript, regular expressions, …)
- Client-side Javascript (the Document and Window objects)
- The DOM
- DHTML
- Event handling
- Dealing with security issues
- A reference of the Javascript API
Pros
- A small book enabling you to cover the main parts of Javascript in a fast way
- Very concise but well explained
- Useful for the beginner (intro to Javascript) as well as for the expert (API reference)
- Variety of the topics, giving you a nice global knowledge
- A reference of the Javascript API, which is very useful for further consultation
- The kind of book I like to read now : concise, fast and great added value. Because technologies are a vast and ever changing domain, we don’t always have time to read bricks of 2.000 pages
Cons
- Might not be easy for the new comers (shows code but won’t explain to them how to create the HTML document to contain it, doesn’t define some abbreviations such as API, …). Ok for the beginners having basic Javascript notions
- Some errors of translation (some Javascript functions or reserved keywords are translated into french)
- Don’t expect from each chapter to dig deep as this is a small book (but not really a con in itself)
Conclusion
Definitely an interesting book from which anyone will learn. Serves as a training book as well as a reference but of course won’t replace a bigger, more complete book, but who will also take much more time to read…
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