Slate - books

Review - Deadlock by Collin Forbes

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:05:00 +0400

I finished reading two books from Collin Forbes - Deadlock and Sinsister Tides. Liked the former one more. Deadlock is about a Russian renegade on the verge of unleashing a holocaust.

Review: The Empty Chair by Jeffery Deaver

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:00:00 +0400

Just finished with Jeffery Deaver's thriller "The Empty Chair", coming from the same author of "The Bone Collector" which also has a Hollywood movie. The book is very well-written with plots and sub-plots around the character The Insect Boy, though it seems the end was hurriedly written having a very flimsy climax. Okay, I am not a great (or even a good) critic, but all in all its a good book to read.

Review: Elephant Song by Wilbur Smith

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:10:00 +0400

I had always liked the stuff from Wilbur Smith. Though I haven't read much from him. But "The Seventh Scroll" is still one of my favourite Read. And recently I also finished "Elephant Song", a typical Wilbur Smith, with a very detailed and descriptive notes on African Life.

This is a melodrama involving poachers of White Gold "Ivory" and the struggle of Dr. Daniel Armstrong, a naturlist, to stop the destruction of a species on the verge of extinction.

My current reads are a set of Christian Jacq titled Ramses.

Domino 5 Web Programming with XML, Java, and JavaScript

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:30:00 +0400

If you are a die-hard Lotus/Domino Developer, this is a must read book. It explores various methods/options available in creating web-based Domino Applications. Its also a good point to get yourself familarize with XML and using it in Domino.

Domino 5 Web Programming with XML, Java, and JavaScript provides the latest information about the newest technologies in the Domino Designer. Learn how to program client interfaces with the Domino Designer. Use JavaScript to enhance your Web user experience and access back-end database systems with Domino Java servlets or agents. Each of the Domino Object classes is described, making this a handy reference for Domino Java programmers. You'll learn advanced techniques such as how Notes and Domino interact with Java threads and how to create Java Server Pages by integrating the IBM WebSphere Application server with Domino. You'll learn secrets of component programming with Java Applets and JavaBeans. Each chapter ends with a set of questions that can be used to test your understanding.