Kevin,
You have a lot of nerve to be so condescending. Before you write
little snide code snippets, you need to clean up around your own front
door. Or better yet, clean up your own books and code. Especially
when anyone can go to Amazon.com and see the reviews of your books.
Especially after you helped write one book with that squeaked out a 3
star rating after you bolstered it with your own 5 star rating.
Especially when you helped to write another that bombed outright.
Especially when and you are the only common denominator between the
two.
Especially when the complaints were that the code for BOTH books was
riddled with errors. One review said that 80% of the code was
incorrect in the Beginning SQL Programming book was incorrect.
Beginning SQL Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
by John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Kevin Spencer, Ian Herbert, Sakhr
Youness, Julian Skinner
3 Star rating based on 11 reviews - pumped up with your own glowing
"review" of your work.
"Overpriced for meager information", July 27, 2001
"Rubbish", November 22, 2002
"Absolutely Appalling!!!", October 18, 2002
Reviewer: MR M J O'Sullivan "gameshaven" (London) - See all my
reviews
"This has got to be the worst book on any computing subject ever
published. The try it out sections and code snippets throughout the
book are about 80% incorrect, honestly the level of errors and poor
coding is disgraceful. Wrox books are normally of a very high quality
but this one is absolutely terrible, I can't emphasised that enough. I
begun this book with high enthusiasm for this subject but now my
enthusiasm has totally diminished. Apart from the appalling level of
errors there is also a high level or repetition, which can only be
down to poor communication among its authors. Then in other areas
you'll find exceptional weak explanations or explanations lacking
altogether."
"Typos, inconsistent examples, sidetracked, advocate for Micr," August
16, 2001
Here you are, Kevin, gushing your opinion of your book and trying like
hell to get that perfect 5 star rating:
Beginning to End SQL Programming, April 11, 2001
Reviewer: Kevin Spencer (Pell City, AL USA) - See all my reviews
I am one of the authors of this book, so of course my rating is going
to be a little prejudiced. However, I must say that I'm very proud of
this work, and after reading the complete work, I thought it should be
called "Beginning to End SQL Programming." There isn't a single aspect
of SQL that is not covered in this book. While it is designed to cover
using SQL from the beginning, and written in a style that is easy for
novices to understand, it covers more about the actual use of SQL than
any other SQL book that I've seen. I actually use it as a reference
myself!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861001800/qid=1117079903
/sr=1 -2/ref=sr_1_2/102-9867468-7270568?v=glance&s=books
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Beginning Mac Programming
by Jeff Thompson, Kevin Spencer
1 Star rating - 1 reviewer. Come on Kevin, why didn't you give
yourself a 5 star rating on this one. Too embarrassed?
Comment:
"poor tutorial, but good overview of cocoa and carbon", February 24,
2002 "...Magic code appears in the project without ever being
introduced in the tutorial. There are multiple errors in the tutorial
as well. I guess it is good practice to be able to debug on your own."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931841004/qid=1117079903
/sr=1 -3/ref=sr_1_3/102-9867468-7270568?v=glance&s=books
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All of this and you have the nerve to bleat about on about the
grammatical and spelling errors that posters make and how so many
programmers are dumb and lazy.
You are a genius in your own mind only. No true genius would be
satisfied with mediocrity.