- From: Nigel McFarlane <nrm@kingtide.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:02:02 +1100
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Prentice Hall Professional Technical References has in the last month published "Rapid Application Development with Mozilla" ISBN 0131423436. This book includes a treatment of RDF that readers of this list may find useful. Books are infrequently announced here, but this one is noteworthy because it is the first a) to properly explain Mozilla's RDF implementation and b) to receive uniformly positive reviews (although reviewer literacy varies). Review examples are: <http://www.phppatterns.com/index.php/article/articleview/91/1/12/> <http://www.vbrad.com/pf.asp?p=Reviews/books/brRapidMozDev.htm> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131423436/> For those with a good grasp of RDF, this book accessibly and completely describes Mozilla's implementation, including its custom predicate calculus querying (unification) system. For those seeking to grasp RDF better, this book includes tutorial material designed to assist mere humans; it is written in plain and explicit terms and has many concrete examples. The RDF material has textual, code and diagrammatic content and therefore suits a variety of preferred learning modes. Approximately five chapters of the book are directly releant to RDF; those chapters interwork with the remainder. I hope this announcement is of value to you. regards, Nigel McFarlane (author). -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigel McFarlane nrm@kingtide.com.au Services: Analysis, Programming, Writing, Education Expertise: Software, Telecommunications, Internet, Physics Author "Rapid Application Development with Mozilla" ISBN 0131423436
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