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The next set of fifty quotation puzzles by master of the genre Michael Ashley. Each of his puzzles is always poignant or funny -- or both! Since so few books of crostics puzzles are produced, voracious crostics fans (and there are no other kind) eagerly anticipate each new volume.
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RANDOM HOUSE CROSTICS VOL. 9.......2006-02-01
A BETTER QUALITY PAPER, THAT IS, WHITER, WOULD MAKE THESE PUZZLES EASIER TO READ. A LITTLE MORE HUMOR WOULD MAKE THEM FIRST RATE.
Crostic Lovers -- check this out!.......2003-05-19
Fun and challenging crostics. The puzzles in this book are rated as medium difficulty, with the style halfway between "middle of the road" and "contemporary" (via the "Random House PuzzleMeter"). Nice size with steel spiral spring binding. Pages are good-quality paper that accepts pencil well, yet erases easily and cleanly.
LITTLE BIT OF A LETDOWN.......2001-01-27
Michael Ashley's previous four volumes of crostics were exceptionally good and fun to solve. Michael has given us crostics that don't rely on ridiculously esoteric clues, such as quotes from Shakespeare, unheard of islands, etc. Instead, Ashley uses contemporary clues to solve his puzzles. He also doesn't quote from stuffy writers, etc.
However, in this edition, he starts to show a little bit of that "traditional" clue giving, and is not as imaginative as in his previous volumes.
Still, he's head and shoulders above the rest, and I look forward to his future editions.
Crostic lovers should check out Peter Scher's "Cinema Crostics" for some really fun puzzles!
Fun, but not enough bang for the buck.......2000-01-13
The clues are plenty challenging and even tricky, chosen from a wide variety of subjects and levels of expertise, but the quotes at the end are not as interesting as in other acrostics I have done. They are taken mostly from popular humor books or self-help books or celebrity bios. I would rather see meatier quotes from history and science books or essays, or actual quotes from historical figures or documents like the Declaration of Independence. Too often I find that I have the quote figured way too soon and then it is a tedious job to go back and fill in the (almost impossible) clue words I couldn't guess. It would be nice if the quotes were longer and taken from more interesting sources to make them more difficult to guess. The puzzles are still fun, but the payoff at the end (finding out the quote) is too often a letdown.
Fresh and witty quotes - good for hours of fun........1999-04-04
I started "playing" with crostics in Games magazine a number of years ago and was delighted to have this puzzler recognized by Random House in volumes. Hope this Volume 3 is soon followed by another volume of fun although would also like to see a return to the original 60 games.
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No chunky erasers, heavy reference books, or prescription tranquilizers needed here. If you think doing puzzles should be relaxing rather than nerve-racking, if you're a casual solver or even a novice, just grab a pencil and leave the rest to us. Here's what you'll find inside Casual Crosswords:
• 50 brand-new puzzles with straightforward themes, recognizable words, and no gimmicks or wordplay
• Subtitles that help you catch on to the puzzler's themes
• Clues with helpful hint such as 2 words, hyphenated, and abbr.
• A solving tip on every puzzle page that relates specifically to that puzzle—but many of the tips can e applied to all crosswords
• For each puzzle, a freebie—an optional "giveaway" answer printed upside down and on a different page (to remove some of the temptation)
Veteran puzzle editor Mel Rosen has created a relaxing and fun crossword book that will also make you a better solver. By the time you're done, you might even be ready to kick it up a notch.
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Random House Crosswords, Volume 4 (RH Crosswords)
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·50 brand-new puzzles, specially commissioned by veteran editor Mel Rosen
·Varying sizes and styles
·Featuring the best puzzles from America’s best constructors
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Disappointed.......2003-01-02
Now that we have exhausted all of the Omnibus Crossword Puzzle books we were looking for similar spriral bound puzzle books. Since Mel Rosen edited the Omnibus books, we assumed that this book would be a like product. Oops, we all know that assume thing. This book is much smaller, the puzzles are too easy and the soft cover is very wimpy and doesn't provide much support for writing the answers. Considering that the Ultimate Crossword Omnibus books are the same price, this book provides much less value for the money. We suggest you find something else. If you haven't tried the several Ultimate Crossword Omnibus books yet, they would be a much better choice.
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Random House Club Crosswords, Volume 4 (Other)
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ASIN: 0812931246
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At one time, only members of the Uptown Puzzle Club and the Crosswords Club were privy to these finely crafted crosswords. Now one hundred twenty puzzles from these clubs are gathered in each volume of this series -- tailored to true crossword aficionados.
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Random House Editor's Choice Crosswords, Volume 4 (RH Crosswords)
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The cream of the crop! Longtime puzzle editor Mel Rosen commissioned this collection of 50 top-notch crosswords from a group of specially chosen puzzle constructors. The crosswords range in difficulty from somewhat easy to somewhat hard, but they are superb across the board. This is crossword craftsmanship at its best.
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Random House Masterpiece Crosswords, Volume 4 (RH Crosswords)
Stanley Newman
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Once again, Stanley Newman showcases some of the finest crossword constructors around, and not just their puzzles, but their personalities as well. Each set of puzzles is preceded by introductory comments from its creator. Sure, we all know how clever and devious these folks are when it comes to writing clues and fitting words in a grid, but it's also fun to sample their wit spread across a page in grammatical clusters and ending in periods. A worthy successor to the first two volumes of
Masterpiece Crosswords, the series lives up to its name.
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This great volume offers a collection of fifty superb crosswords in an elegant format, created by America's top puzzlemakers, with "liner notes" on each puzzle's interesting features. Matthew Modine, film star, has written a poignant introduction about his own puzzle experiences.
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Named "one of America's best Sunday crosswords," by Games magazine, Stan Newman's fourth volume continues his tradition of New York Times-quality puzzles that are a few notches less difficult.
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Great puzzles for Sundays when not in New York.......2000-10-15
Vacationing in a cabin with no dictionary, I found this book both challenging but doable. When stuck on one puzzle, I found myself going to the next one but returning to previous puzzles and eventually solving them. My only problem was to hide the book from my husband and his mother, both who kept trying to do my puzzles.
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- Maybe not "Ultra-Hard" but better than most.
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Random House Ultrahard Crosswords, Volume 4 (Stan Newman)
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Fifty of the most difficult crosswords ever put between two covers.
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Maybe not "Ultra-Hard" but better than most........1997-09-08
Finding a book of hard puzzles shouldn't have to include the fact that "Celibes ox" is "anoa".
I've done all four Ultra-Hard puzzle books and they are clever and pretty challenging. Some of the interlocks are awe-inspiring; Eric Albert's Ultra-Ultra Hard puzzles are true-brain teasers, but always innovative. (For instance, the clue "sales pitch" turned out to be "pie". Get it? Like Soupy Sales throwing a pie.)
highly recommended.
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- Concise and well written.
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- Useful narrative
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Book Description
Hibernate practically exploded on the Java scene. Why is this open-source tool so popular? Because it automates a tedious task: persisting your Java objects to a relational database. The inevitable mismatch between your object-oriented code and the relational database requires you to write code that maps one to the other. This code is often complex, tedious and costly to develop. Hibernate does the mapping for you.
Not only that, Hibernate makes it easy. Positioned as a layer between your application and your database, Hibernate takes care of loading and saving of objects. Hibernate applications are cheaper, more portable, and more resilient to change. And they perform better than anything you are likely to develop yourself.
Hibernate in Action carefully explains the concepts you need, then gets you going. It builds on a single example to show you how to use Hibernate in practice, how to deal with concurrency and transactions, how to efficiently retrieve objects and use caching.
The authors created Hibernate and they field questions from the Hibernate community every day–they know how to make Hibernate sing. Knowledge and insight seep out of every pore of this book.
What's Inside
- ORM concepts
- Getting started
- Many real-world tasks
- The Hibernate application development process
Customer Reviews:
Concise and well written........2007-04-02
A great book for getting going with Hibernate quickly.
Some parts are heavy going because it is packed with info. This pays off because there is little or no padding/rubbish.
Try their newer book instead.......2006-11-29
This book is for Hibernate 2. Hibernate 3 is covered by the same authors in Java Persistence with Hibernate
Useful narrative .......2006-11-09
I found this book useful and readable, and it helped me develop my first (and second) Hibernate applications. It begins with a brief overview of the kinds of problems which ORM solutions need to address. It then introduces Hibernate along with a couple of examples, upon which subsequent chapters build. (Some reviewers have criticized the examples, but I thought they were useful, and I didn't have trouble following them) One thing you should be aware of: while this book is a good narrative, it's not as useful as a reference. I find myself paging back and forth among several chapters which cover topics in different levels of detail. That shouldn't be a show-stopper since reference material exists on the web. You might be concerned is the book covers Hibernate 2.1, while Hibernate 3.x and Ejb 3 are out; the book is still relevant and valid, and I've used it along side Hibernate 3 with no problem.
Falls short of expectation.......2006-10-29
With this book, we have the rare circumstance where the founder and principal developer of the technology has authored the material. Moreover, the back jacket promises that the text would build on a single example to show how to use Hibernate in practice.
Sorry, dear reader. This book falls far, far short of its promise. Yes, you can download a single cogent example. But the authors make only loose reference to that example, choosing instead to offer dozens and dozens of snippets, out of context with the example. A first-class book, such as Mastering WebLogic, not only provides a robust example, but also walks the reader entirely through the example, from design choice, through coding practices, and ultimately into implementation decisions. In stark contrast, this book offers nothing more than a progression through various topics, illustrated via pieces of java classes, leaving the reader to hunt for the relevance to the downloadable application.
The book does have its uses. As you dive into various real-world situations, this book should serve, after some digging, to reveal an optimal approach to solving the problem at hand. The topics are covered to a healthy depth. I suspect this is the best treatise available on abstruse topics such as caching, transaction handling, and mapping to legacy data stores.
Good background info, but the "ultimate Hibernate reference" is google.......2006-10-28
This is not a bad book. I'm glad I bought it and glad I read it. Its problem is that it doesn't live up to its hype. It is not "the ultimate Hibernate reference" by any stretch. In fact, it's not much of a reference at all, so if your expectations of it are too high, you may end up disappointed.
If you are serious about learning Hibernate and want to get as much depth and background on as many aspects of it as possible, this book is definitely worth reading. The text is well-written and clear, and the information is straight from the most qualified Hibernate committers.
On the downside, this book is missing most of the important administrative and troubleshoting information you will want when you are actually using Hibernate, the book isn't organized so you can easily find any particular detail, and Hibernate is moving on, so some of the information is dated.
Ultimately, if you want practical information or a good reference on Hibernate, I don't think the question you want to ask is "what book should I buy?" You want to ask "why should I buy a book at all when I get much better info for free from google search?"
When you are first getting started, the "getting started" example from the online doc distributed with Hibernate is comprehensive and useful. By contrast, the "Hello World" example in this book is superficial and missing information you need. For example, the very first thing when you work with Hibernate you'll have to include about a dozen .jar files into your project, and you have several choices among alternative jars that you won't care much about `till you become more advanced. Some help is online, little or none is in "Hibernate in Action."
I think Hibernate is all-in-all a great piece of software. Object-to-relational mapping is a hard problem to solve, Hibernate does a great job at the basics of it, and the world is a better place because the boys from jboss donated us their solution. When it works it's like good magic should be. But when it fails, it fails hard, horks all over itself, and spews out a bunch of mostly unhelpful junk. Hibernate suffers from having been developed by an insular group of developers who are too close to their problem, and who have lucrative day jobs as consultants they need to get back to. The result is not much in the way of troubleshooting help, and troubleshooting help is what you'll find you need most. Hint 1 - you won't find such help in "Hibernate in Action" so go to google and type in the text of the error message you get. Hint 2 - you will find a lot more people asking the same question than people answering it. Perservere and be a good detective and you will figure out what you need.
References are organized so you can easily find that one little detail of information you need right now. References have things like short sections with short clear titles that are language keywords or clearly intuitive concepts. References also have long, detailed indexes with a lot of repitition. "Hibernate in Action" has none of this, and it is devilishly hard to find details in it even though you know they are in there somewhere. My copy has about 25 little sticky note bookmarks to help me find things, but most often I don't bother and I just go straight to google.
Finally, Hibernate has evolved since this book was published. My favorite change is that it now includes support for Java 5 annotations as an alternative to XML or XDoclet configuration. Hibernate is notable, like Struts, in helping you get out of J2EE-EJB hell, and into XML configuration purgatory. Annotations rock in relieving you of the keeping-the-XML-in-sync-with-the-Java torture, and you need a reference that doesn't steer you towards doing it the old way. AFAIK, as of this writing, that's only available online.
Book Description
Groovy, the brand-new language for the Java platform, brings to Java many of the features that have made Ruby popular. Groovy in Action is a comprehensive guide to Groovy programming, introducing Java developers to the new dynamic features that Groovy provides. To bring you Groovy in Action, Manning again went to the source by working with a team of expert authors including both members and the Manager of the Groovy Project team. The result is the true definitive guide to the new Groovy language.
Groovy in Action introduces Groovy by example, presenting lots of reusable code while explaining the underlying concepts. Java developers new to Groovy find a smooth transition into the dynamic programming world. Groovy experts gain a solid reference that challenges them to explore Groovy deeply and creatively.
Because Groovy is so new, most readers will be learning it from scratch. Groovy in Action quickly moves through the Groovy basics, including:
Simple and collective Groovy data types
Working with Closures and Groovy Control Structures
Dynamic Object Orientation, Groovy style
Readers are presented with rich and detailed examples illustrating Groovy's enhancements to Java, including
How to Work with Builders and the GDK
Database programming with Groovy
Groovy in Action then demonstrates how to Integrate Groovy with XML, and provides,
Tips and Tricks
Unit Testing and Build Support
Groovy on Windows
An additional bonus is a chapter dedicated to Grails, the Groovy Web Application Framework.
Early PDF chapters of Groovy in Action are available from the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) at http://www.manning.com/koenig. As part of this program, readers can also discuss the early manuscript with the author and help shape the manuscript as it's being developed by joining the Author Forum.
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You can't live without Groovy. You just can't........2007-08-18
I am going to make this short, because I want to get ONE message across to you, loud and clear. If you are working with Java, you MUST take a look at Groovy.
I cannot overemphasize the coming importance of Groovy on the Java platform, not just in web development, but everywhere. Just try it already. You'll "get it." Just trust me and do it!
Groovy in Action is a first rate introduction and reference, and you really do need a book for this language. I don't recommend trying to go it alone with online reference material, though there is plenty there to give you a taste of why Groovy is about to become your new favorite language.
Read the other reviews. I'm not going to repeat a bunch of stuff here. But whatever you do, TRY GROOVY. You will quickly come to wonder how you ever got along without it.
Cracking stuff.......2007-07-20
Whatever you think about the merits of Groovy as a language, a serious contender on the JVM, or a complete mess, you couldn't hope to find a better advocate for Groovy than this book.
One of the secrets of GinA's success is that it assumes the reader is already proficient with Java development, including Swing, Ant and JUnit. It would also help to know about XML, SQL, HTML, JSP and a vague idea of how MVC applies to web apps. You don't need to be an expert in these areas, though. If you've sufficient knowledge to decode the preceeding alphabet soup of initialisations, you'll be ok.
The reward for possessing this background knowledge is that GinA doesn't waste time with trivial examples, and barrels through Groovy the language in the first part, leveraging your existing knowledge of Java to highlight the important differences in Groovy. In particular, the advantages of interpolating strings, simple hash and array construction syntax, optional typing and metaprogramming are stressed. The big win in Groovy over Java is the use of closures and their used in a block-based approach to iteration, which is as well motivated here as the material in, say, The Pickaxe is for Ruby.
The second part of the book provides examples of the Groovy library. It begins with an excellent chapter on Groovy's Builders, which provide a very neat, uncluttered syntax for putting together hierarchical structures. An obvious application is XML, and by extension Ant scripts, which appears to have some major advantages compared to the challenging readability of vanilla Ant. Even more impressive is the SwingBuilder example, which builds a GUI with the minimum of fuss and a complete lack of anonymous inner classes.
Beyond the Builders, there are also compelling chapters on templating HTML and server side Groovy (Groovlets), writing DAOs and DTOs in Groovy to simplify database programming, and a chapter on XML, which even manages to find the space to introduce Groovy for SOAP, XML-RPC and REST web services.
The final part of the book describes some non-core libraries and other applications of Groovy. The chapter on Groovy extensions to JUnit is interesting, although perhaps this is one place where it assumes too little on behalf of the reader. I would have assumed that the average developer sufficiently motivated to pick up a book on Groovy knows enough about unit testing and JUnit that more space could have been given to the advanced topics. Particularly appealing is the idea of testing Java code with dynamically typed Groovy unit tests, which would make mocking and stubbing more palatable; I would have liked more on that subject.
Another noteworthy chapter is the last one, which introduces the web app framework Grails. This has a different style to the other chapters, being a dialogue between two of the authors as they build a simple app. This reader admits to finding it a little bit naff, but it does usefully demonstrate the grails way (which is a lot like Rails).
If you have the slightest interest in Groovy, alternatives to Java on the JVM, or dynamic languages, GinA makes the perfect case for Groovy as a first class integration language for all the bits of Java where you really wish you were working with something like Perl, Ruby or Python. It's well-written, with good examples, clear explanations, and it's relentlessly practical, never forgetting its target audience. It's all the more impressive given lead author Dierk Konig's comment in the preface that English is not his first language. Kudos to him and his co-authors for what they've delivered.
One can only wish that every language had its GinA. Outstanding.
Mostly as good as everyone says.......2007-06-22
What more can be said of a book extolled by dozens of reviewers, a book that seems to have matched its subject in ubiquity, a book that will likely become to Groovy what the "pickaxe book" is to Ruby? As much as I would love to be a lone voice (or rather a lone whisper) of dissent, the clarity, simplicity, and accuracy of most of Groovy in Action cannot be overlooked. Let no one be fooled by the size of the book - to learn the gist of Groovy, all you really need is a leisurely stroll through chapters 2 through 7 (chapter 1 is the mandatory introduction/history chapter which, in the frustrating tech book tradition, doubles as the "free sample" chapter). Of course, most of its clarity and concision GIA inherits from the language it describes. Still, it is encouraging to have a book that is as valuable a reference as it is a tutorial, and GIA shines in both capacities.
With all its accolades, GIA does have two caveats. First, it is getting closer and closer to being out of date. Groovy 1.1 is already in Beta, and it has an impressive list of features not covered in this Groovy 1.0 book: EJB3 support, JUnit4 and TestNG integration and annotations, just to name a few. I am reminded of Pragmatic Programmers' Agile Web Development with Rails, whose second edition shipped a year after its first. I sincerely hope GIA 1.0 buyers will not be similarly cheated.
The second caveat is the coverage of Grails. Grails may be the single most attractive Groovy application to date yet its coverage in GIA is flaky at best. The authors decide to abandon their polished, clear, and concise writing style and instead author the entire chapter as a bland conversation amongst themselves. In addition to failing to grasp the humor in such presentation, I find that this style hinders me from following along with the tutorial. It makes scanning back for missed steps or clarifications extremely difficult. Furthermore, vapid attempts at humor occupy space that could be otherwise devoted to some omitted topics, such as mapping domain objects to specific tables or using data sources. Coverage of these topics would have been far more valuable than the authors' purported beer garden conversations with a DBA named Martin.
Despite the pour Grails coverage and the looming Groovy 1.1, Groovy in Action is a must-have for anyone who is even mildly interested in Groovy or dynamic languages in Java in general. Coupled with the ease, clarity, and downright beauty of the Groovy language, GIA can turn even a passing interest in Groovy into a burning passion.
Programming literature.......2007-05-15
It is a Gordian challenge to write an interesting and readable book about nothing but a programming language. Dierk König and his co-authors actually did succeed in cutting the knot. They even accomplished much more: they added lots of insight about object orientation, programming language design and good software development. As long as I only had the PDF availabe, it served me as THE reference for all my questions about Groovy. Now the printed copy makes my commuting time worthwhile. Cover to cover. 700 pages of computer LITERATURE.
An amazing journey.......2007-03-29
The book contains a lot of Groovy interesting features, with samples tested to work,asides the writting style exciting to you to discover the new programming world open in front of your eyes thanks to the exceptional Groovy features.
I consider it as much as a Groovy bible.
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There are dozens of Java frameworks out there, but most of them require you to learn special coding techniques and new, often rigid, patterns of development. Wicket is different. As a component-based Web application framework, Wicket lets you build maintainable enterprise-grade web applications using the power of plain old Java objects (POJOs), HTML, Ajax, Spring, Hibernate and Maven. Wicket automatically manages state at the component level, which means no more awkward HTTPSession objects. Its elegant programming model enables you to write rich web applications quickly.
Wicket in Action is an authoritative, comprehensive guide for Java developers building Wicket-based Web applications. This book starts with an introduction to Wicket's structure and components, and moves quickly into examples of Wicket at work. Written by two of the project's earliest and most authoritative experts, this book shows you both the "how-to" and the "why" of Wicket. As you move through the book, you'll learn to use and customize Wicket components, how to interact with other technologies like Spring and Hibernate, and how to build rich, Ajax-driven features into your applications.
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