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Google Web Toolkit Solutions: More Cool & Useful Stuff
by David Geary, Rob Gordon
from Prentice Hall PTR

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Not good to write a technical book with no source code
  I've tried at length to obtain the source code used in the book. Geary leaves it to the user to acquire the addons that he uses in his examples. Yes I've tried going the Safari route. Without signing up for a "90 day free then we charge you big" trial, you won't have any luck. I also read the previous post where he mentioned that he obtained the code from the website. If you go there now, the code has been pulled so I'm back to being forced to sign up for Safari which I won't do. I did read through the... more info

• Very practical, lucidly written
  You can easily find most of its content on the internet, but you may feel more confident having it somewhere near.
  Chapters 8 & 9 (Flex table & File uploads) were very helpful for me. I used that solution in my small project and it worked like a charm.
  Anyway, I give 5-stars only for books I consider outstanding. I'd give 4.5 if I could.
  My advice: read very carefully what is covered in the book, if you need at least 3-4 solutions (or you believe you might need it in the future)... more info

• My new review
  I posted a review (back in January, this updated review is posted in late May 2008) that slammed Prentice Hall for not making the code samples available from anywhere except through a 90 day free trail thru Safari (an online subscription based service).
  The editor and one author responded and let me know that the site was incorrectly missing in the book, but that a site (called coolandusefulgwt with the obvious ending.) was available and has all material easily downloadable. I have checked out this... more info

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