The Kung Fu Book of Caine: The Complete Guide to Tv's First Mystical Eastern Western

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Excellent TV Series...and Book!.......2005-02-08

When this TV show was originally being aired on ABC back in the early 1970's I was a teenager and never watched it.

But several years later in the late '70's while at college in California, reruns were being shown on some station out there in L.A. - and I became hooked.

The flashback scenes with Masters Po and Kan are FANTASTIC, teach insightful lessons of life to live by, and really are the essence of the show.

Pilato's "Kung-Fu Book of Caine" is an absolutely tremendous supplement to the series, and with all the interesting background information he provides, one can appreciate the show even more.

Yesterday I was even inspired to purchase the recently-released DVD of the first two seasons of "Kung-Fu" here on Amazon [...]

Kung Fu -- The Book of Caine.......2001-02-21

What a terrific way to re-live and reminisce about the great old days of the original Kung Fu TV show. The book gives a very interesting behind-the-scenes look at the creative and talented writers and actors who worked on the show, and follows with an episode-by-episode synopsis. The book, like the TV show, leaves you wanting more, so I can only hope that more will become available soon. In the meantime, the Book of Caine is a nice addition to any fan's collection.

A MUST FOR "KUNG FU" FANS!.......2000-04-16

This book has it all: a show by show guide, photographs, and more pertaining to the best television program ever. I have even more love towards the show after reading this book!

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Microsoft's .NET strategy embraces a vision for integrating diverse elements of computing technology and data services. The wireless Internet and mobile devices are core components of that strategy. Visual Studio .NET includes a powerful set of toolsthe Mobile Internet Toolkitfor developing websites and applications that can be accessed from all kinds of mobile devices .NET Wireless Programming provides the technical details you need to master to develop end-to-end wireless solutions based on .NET technology.

You'll learn to take advantage of the Mobile Internet Toolkit's automated deployment capabilities, which enable a single site or application to work with nearly any mobile device. Freed from the task of writing code to accommodate various devices, you'll be able to apply other skills to build a more powerful application: Work with styles and templates. Create custom controls. Read from and write to databases. And use Microsoft's Web Services in support of a distributed architecture.

Five case studies, including a mobile intranet, a contacts database, and an online game, illustrate solutions to real problems and techniques for maximizing application flexibility. A set of appendices provide detailed information on the WML language and the Toolkit's classes. This book presents its many code examples in Visual Basic .NET, but the greater emphasis is on Visual Studio .NET and the flexibility it gives developers in choosing the language they want to use.

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Microsoft's Internet Toolkit Put Simply.......2002-10-23

This book is a fantastic resource for those who are just entering into Wireless Application Protocol. It contains advice for users on how to get an IP address for their mobile phone through to developing complex algorithms for use on such devices. The terminology is clear and an example of this is the description of Blue Tooth Technology in Figure 3.7.

It is a dynamic book and has been created so that the reader can gain comprehension through the passages and the graphic screen shots.

Overall it is a very important tool book for those interested in the developing trends occuring in IT and the associated products.

An excellent reference.......2002-10-18

A great introductory reference for the novice WAP developer - easy to read, cumulative skill development, comprehensive examples. Also a good introduction to .net programming.

Integration-Ready Architecture and Design: Software Engineering with XML, Java, .NET, Wireless, Speech, and Knowledge Technologies

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Very exciting new approach to integration

Integration-Ready Architecture and Design: Software Engineering with XML, Java, .NET, Wireless, Speech, and Knowledge Technologies
Jeff Zhuk
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Written by a software architect and experienced trainer, the book brilliantly integrates theory and practice, going from foundations and concepts to architecture, design, and code examples. Through deep insights into almost all areas of modern CIS and IT, Zhuk provides an entry into the new world of integrated knowledge and software engineering. Readers will learn the "what's, why's, and how's" on: J2EE, J2ME, .NET, JSAPI, JMS, JMF, SALT, VoiceXML, WAP, 802.11, CDNA, GPRS, CycL, XML, and multiple XML-based technologies including RDF, DAML, SOAP, UDDI, and WDSL. The book turns these abbreviations into understandable concepts and examples. Students, architects, designers, and management benefit from innovative ideas and detailed examples for building multi-dimensional worlds of enterprise applications and creating distributed knowledge marketplace.

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Very exciting new approach to integration.......2005-04-12

This book was very solid technically, and a fascinating read. On the development side, it is filled with ideas and examples, some of which showed me completely different approaches to common problems. Conceptually, the book is even richer, not only explaining complex technologies in simple ways, but showing how some seemingly unrelated technological developments from the past few years can fit and work together. Overall, I think the book's most worthwhile aspect is the way it married its overall vision, which anticipates the future of integration and knowledge-driven computing, with very specific design and code examples that I could incorporate into my practice right away. A top book for people who want to stay ahead of the pack in the latest practical developments that will shape information architecture for the future.

WiMax Operator's Manual: Building 802.16 Wireless Networks, Second Edition (Expert's Voice in Net)

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Useful as a Chocolate teapot
Does not deliver as advertised
More design than implementation
One of the first books on WiMax

WiMax Operator's Manual: Building 802.16 Wireless Networks, Second Edition (Expert's Voice in Net)
Daniel Sweeney
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This second edition includes most of the material from the first edition, plus new discussions about the ultra-fast mobile telephone standard High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and the Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology. Other topics include mobile voice and entertainment, new backup systems, and changes to DSL technologies.

The book addresses the planning, construction, and day-to-day operation of a standards-based broadband wireless network. It examines the advantages of broadband wireless and how it constitutes an ideal solution. It also explains the unique difficulties, challenges, and limitations of broadband wireless.

This book illustrates how to plan and run networks, and indicates which specialized services should be secured. You'll learn how to plan a successful, profitable broadband wireless network in a short amount of time.

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WiMax Operator's Manual: Building 802.16 Wireless Networks is aimed at someone making primary decisions as to the design and implementation of an 802.16 based wireless public network. This is a manual on how to architect and operate a service network offering broadband wireless “last mile” access. The scope of the treatment includes all layers of the network and issues of management and administration. This operational handbook covers both the planning and construction, and the day-to-day operation, of a standards-based broadband wireless network. It explains the advantages of broadband wireless and where it constitutes a best solution, and it also delineates the unique difficulties, challenges, and limitations of broadband wireless. It does not attempt to summarize all knowledge relating to digital radio services or public packet networks, but provides essentials for planning and running the networks and indicates what kinds of specialized services should be secured to ensure the success of the undertaking. Highlights Include: ·This manual covers the new generation of smart, standards based broadband wireless networks ·Tells you what you need to know to plan a broadband wireless network for the delivery of profitable service offerings ·How to achieve spectral and operational efficiency to maximize your resources and minimize capital and operational expenses ·Puts broadband wireless in the context of the larger evolving service network ·How to scale your network for future growth

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Useful as a Chocolate teapot.......2006-03-31

let me say to those WiMax and Wireless technical experts out there, i have discovered that lazyness is a great crime when you are a technical expert. So i was being Lazy (confession) and decided to avoid writing an overview on WiMAX and an introduction to WiMax for my engineers, and decided that it would be good to simply buy a book and let them read it with their enthuast little engineering selves, as i did not want to get to the laymans level, could not be bothered, as i wanted to complete some traffic engineering work in WiMax i was working on. Well i could not beleive that a person could get away with selling such rubbish under the title of WiMax Operators Manual and Building 802.16, the whole thing is fraudlent in its entirity. I don't feel that i am in an arena to shout my credentials, lets just say i know a little about, 1G, 2G, 2.5G, 3G, WiFi, WiMAX and UWB and spends my time wondering about our gold fish bowl we call earth. Now in the record industry you can get away with recording rubbish because of who you know etc, i did not beleve that the same was possible in our technical intelligent community, i felt that i was part of an elite community, but it seems that we are being invaded by the dummkofs, with the relavent connections. Message to the dummkof that wrote this book try another career and the publishers, get yourself better technical people who know what they are reading and interperting and consiquently writing. Cause this book to me is an insult to my industry and fraudlent, would like my money back, but i know that is a waste of time. Lesson 1:- Not everything with written with the word Wimax is WiMAX (All that Glitters is not Gold) Can't even recommend it to my 5 year old he might throw it at me.

Does not deliver as advertised.......2006-02-24

The author is self-described as a "Business Reporter" and "Industry Analyst", which is fine and dandy in the context of delivering industry reports, etc. But it does not, in the least, qualify oneself as an expert on building wireless networks. And the author has never done so, which is glaringly apparent within the text.

I have designed, deployed, operated 15 wireless broadband networks, and had hoped that this book, as advertised, would provide insight into how designing and deploying WiMax networks would differ from current technologies (in terms of link budgets, costs, capacity, etc.), but that information is nowhere to be seen in this book. The author purports that the text is practical rather than technical, but it is neither. And then the author ensues on primarily technical treaties on wireless broadband, but unfortunately (in terms of RF engineering, the basis of WiMax), the author is as technically astute as a doorknob.

If you are looking to build a WISP (what this book is really about, not WiMax), there are much better books (Unger), written by people who actually speak from experience, and don't just write for a living.

More design than implementation.......2004-11-11

This relatively brief book is more network architect or designer centric, as opposed to a step-by-step walkthrough of network implementation. I personally find this high level approach refreshing, and I doubt anyone looking to set up wireless WANs would disagree as the problems are more in the design, signal propagation, spectrum planning and service provisioning. And these are the topic areas where the book excels.

One of the first books on WiMax.......2004-07-20

First up! Daniel Sweeney has come up with one of the first authoritative guides to WiMax. With the huge success of WiFi in many countries, some people have chafed at its short range of 100 meters or so, and its relatively low bandwidth. In response, the IEEE has come up with a standard, 802.16, better known as WiMax. It can offer some 70 Mbps, compared to 2Mbps for WiFi, and at a range of several kilometers. Very nice.

But WiMax introduces new complications, compared to a much simpler WiFi network. No one in the world has yet built an operational WiMax network that is available for public use. Though of course there has been small scale prototyping, which has undoubtedly helped the IEEE define the current WiMax standard.

Sweeney describes here what the features of a WiMax network would be. This book is not restricted to a hard core audience of hardware engineers or software developers. Instead, he has written it as a level accessible to technical managers, who might be considering such a network. There is roughly equal emphasis on both the technical issues of signal propagation and on the business issues of building and running the network.

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This book constitutes the reviewed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks, ALGOSENSORS 2006, held in Venice, Italy in July 2006, in association with ICALP 2006.

The 15 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions; they are fully revised to incorporate reviewers' comments and discussions at the workshop. Topics addressed are foundational and algorithmic aspects of the wireless sensor networks research. In particular, ALGOSENSORS focuses on abstract models, complexity-theoretic results and lower-bounds, as well as the design and analysis of algorithms for wireless sensor networks.

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Couple of gems, the rest are rocks!

.NET Mobile Web Developer's Guide
Wei Meng Lee , and Ken Cox
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Release Date: 2006-04-06

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The .NET Mobile Web Developer's Guide provides a solid foundation for developing mobile applications using Microsoft technologies. With a focus on using ASP.NET and the .NET Mobile Internet Toolkit, .NET Mobile Web Developer's Guide will give you the insight to use Microsoft technologies for developing mobile applications. This book will also show how to avoid having to customize the output of your application.

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Couple of gems, the rest are rocks!.......2002-04-05

Reviewing books is a very subjective process. The review is colored by personal reaction as your level of expertise runs up against who the authors and the editors expected as the prospective audience for the book.

Given that my level of knowledge differs from another person who may be interested in a book, I will try to provide as much info as I can so that an interested party can make their own judgment about a particular book. To that end, I will assign a pass/fail grade to each chapter. The pass/fail grade will be assigned based on the following context and assumptions:

* The book title. What specific technology does it focus on?
* Are the examples and explanations clear and to the point?
* Evaluation of the topics in the context of the title and intended audience of the book.

Chapter 1: Introduction to the wireless web and the Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit

This was a rather long chapter (58 pages). It starts out with a general introduction to the various mobile devices and the their limitations regarding connectivity, screen size, memory and processing power. Along the way some rather interesting information on items such as Connectivity options and a basic introduction on how WML is delivered to Microbrowsers are covered. This was well written and I rather liked the background that was covered.

The next section of the chapter gets into the actual Mobile controls themselves with sample code snippets. The controls cover the gamut from the general input controls to list and validation controls.

All code samples are in VB.Net

Grade: Pass

Chapter 2: Introduction to the Microsoft .Net Framework

A fundamental assumption that I made when reviewing a book that is focused on Mobile .NET is that the reader already knows what the .NET framework is and also that the MMIT is an extension of ASP.NET. In short, I am assuming that the reader is already familiar with both of these ideas/technologies and does not need it repeated to them.

Well, this chapter does just that. It covers everything from getting and installing the framework to explaining what a web service is. I personally found this chapter redundant. Getting an introduction to the what the framework is was NOT something I was looking for in this book. In addition, there was no attempt to slant the explanation to anything remotely mobile related.

Grade: Fail

Chapter 3: Learning ASP.Net Covered the ASP.NET architecture and the web controls.

Items covered ranged from the usage of a DataGrid(!) to Validator controls. Again, I found this chapter redundant.
I am NOT looking for an intro to ASP.Net in a book that is supposed to talk about .net mobile capabilities.

Grade: Fail

Chapter 4: Using Mobile Device Emulators

A very detailed chapter that talked about the various mobile emulators that are out there, where to get them, installation and configuration instructions etc.
A very valuable chapter for any mobile developer that is targeting multiple devices.

Grade: Pass

Chapter 5: Developing mobile applications using the MMIT
This chapter was a disappointment for me. Given the chapter title, I really was expecting to get into the guts of the mobile controls at this point.

But only superficial examples are given. A majority of the information in this chapter seems to be a rehash of the MMIT documentation on MSDN. One of the more powerful controls that is present in the MMIT is the objectList. Beyond a written description of what it is, NO further information is provided. Very disappointing!

Grade: Fail

Chapter 6: Data Access with ADO.NET

One of the beauties of the MMIT, is that you can use all of the same data access technology that you use with Web forms and windows forms. Given that, I again found this chapter redundant in the context of Mobile applications.

I do NOT need an explanation of the ADO.NET object model, not to mention info on how to update/delete using ADO.Net. It did not teach me anything new that was relevant to my reason for getting the book in the first place, namely learning about Mobile .net technologies.

Grade: Fail

Chapter 7: End-to-End Microsoft Mobile Solutions

This chapter went into great detail about how to install and configure the Microsoft Mobile Information Server and how to configure Exchange 2000 to work with this product.

At the end of reading this chapter, I was ... confused. I had no idea why this chapter was in a book that was titled .NET Mobile Web Developer's Guide. Yes, the Mobile Information Server is a Microsoft technology that does allow you to deploy a mobile solution that allows you to read your exchange inbox from a phone and various other capabilities. BUT, it has nothing to do with MMIT!

Grade: Fail

Chapter 8: Creating a Mobile Movie Ticket Purchasing Application

I liked this chapter!. It gave extensive documentation on System/Process flow, Database schema, components that were built to abstract data access as well as a UI storyboard for the application. Then it got into the code.

It is a rather straight forward application, but the supporting design documentation made it very useful from a developers perspective especially as there was discussion of the code and design tradeoffs. In addition, it also provided extensive screenshots of how the app would look in a variety of devices.

Grade: Pass

Conclusion:

Based on my personal criteria, 3 out of 8 chapters passed. As mentioned above, your needs in what you are looking for in a book might vary, but hopefully I have provided enough info for you to make up your own mind.

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NET Wireless Programming
Mark Ridgeway Mark Ridgeway
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