Instant ASP Scripts [With CDROM]

I will send my great thanks to Mr Greg Buczek for an excellent and very good practical learning book ! I have read a great deal of the lately outcomming ASP book collections and I will say this is the best ! It is well structured and the different elements are presented in a crystal clear fashion. This is the book I needed to better understand how to doing the practical application of ASP. I recommend this book for sure ! Five stars !Again many thanks to the author, and I waiting for his new book comming soon !

This book rules! I'm primarily a graphic designer not a developer or spelling bee and the examples in the book are very useful and will allow you to be productive right off the bat ... but the cool thing about this book is the approach. He shows you the the finished product (what the scripts do) Then show the script in whole so you can try to understand it and then he breaks it down you and tells you what each part does. I've learned more in a week from this book than I've learn trying to learn asp for the last year.Very cool!

I own a lot of books on ASP but none like this. It is filled with examples of nothing but ASP code that can be used in a business environment as well as personal which are throughly explained. I have used his examples to write code of my own. I have installed his examples on my own web server and they always work correctly. The databases are written in SQL but not provided, which is not a problem because the code to generate them is included. I keep a copy of this book at home and at the office for reference. On occasion I have e-mailed Mr. Buczek with a question about an example, he has always responded and tried to help as much as he can.

I have been developing software for more years than id like toadmit and have been doing quite a bit of Microsoft stuff since therefirst product that could concievably be called an operating system appeared in 1995. I have also been writing quite a bit of ASP in the last few years and "Instant ASP Scripts" is a great resource for beginners and experts alike. The primary reason for this is its large and diverse set of complete working examples. All to often, programming language reference books go on and on blabbering about the semantics, syntax, history, theory, proper style, quotes from the authors favorite philosophers, ... Then the examples they present or either trivial and don't help you with what you are trying to do or they are gigantic and take hours to decipher. When I am developing software, I want a book that has relevant working examples that I can understand in 5 minutes and will show me how to do the things I need to do NOW. Mr Buczek has delivered exactly that in this book and I look forward to more of the same in the near future!I feel I must comment on a previous review that made some disparaging remarks about Mr. Buczek's code. I seriously doubt that the code is intended to be copied byte for byte into any enterprise application. This is a reference to quickly find out how to make something work in ASP and its the software developers job to leverage that infomation and make it "enterprise ready" in the target application. I am a seasoned ASP developer and I am not appaled by the code in this book! I take it for what it is, a great reference! One of the reasons I have pursued advanced degrees in Computer Science is my frustration with and desire to move far beyond these kinds boorish attitudes and petty comments about style, design, methodology, ... We are in the STONE AGE of computer software and the most eloquent design, the most advanced methodology, the most perfectly designed code or any other object oriented / state of the art c**p you want to apply will get you no where close to developing the software equivalent of goat brain! Does anyone know if the goat brain code is clean and wonderful? After a billion years of evolution, its probably a mass of spaghetti code, but there is no doubt that it is "a full featured enterprise application" far beyond our current pitiful capabilities.