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| On Wicked Cool Java and how it lives up to its title: "Wicked Cool Java was indeed wonderful, great, and everything I had looked up in the dictionary."
—Javalobby / dzone (Read More) |
| "The book works hard at delivering relevant, non-superficial information...and succeeds...WICKED COOL JAVA is for the programmer that wishes to continually learn and challenge themselves with new libraries and coding examples."
—Free Software Magazine, April 5, 2008 (Read more) |
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"With his book, Eubanks reveals a recipe for bringing fun back to programming projects... it is certain that the book's readers will be amply rewarded."
—Reviews.com, December 21, 2008 (Read More) |
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Book excerpt posted
—Java Boutique (Read more) |
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"This book made me want to program again and really look and think outside the box. Wicked Cool Java is a definite must have title that should be part of every Java developer's library."
—DevBookReview.com, December 9, 2006 (Read more) |
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"The books offers hundreds of cool tips to do all sorts of things with Java that are somewhat out of the norm, yet useful . . . I found that this book caused me to think about Java development in a new light, and gave me a lot of new ideas with which to use Java."
—Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Java Blog, May 22, 2006 (Read more) |
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"[No Starch Press has] one of the best titles in Wicked Cool Java and I recommend the book for its content."
—Arctic Region Supercomputing Center HPC Users’ newsletter, April 28, 2006 (Read more) |
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"Get a copy . . . It's a wicked cool book."
—The Rational Edge newsletter, April 2006 (Read more) |
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Included in Top 50 Picks with book cover image
—Jim Agnew's Book Picks, March 2006 (Read more) |
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"I did enjoy reading about many of the APIs that I was unfamiliar with. The text does inspire me to want to try out some of the material presented therein."
—JavaRanch, March 2006 (Read more) |
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Review followed by interview with author Brian Eubanks; "Shares a wealth of useful information about interesting Java APIs and available open source projects. You will think up all kinds of ideas as you read this book, and you will definitely want to check out the book's companion website."
—JavaWorld, March 20, 2006 (Read more) |
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"A good place to pick up ideas, to look at a range of projects and code snippets and find out about new libraries and useful APIs."
—TechBookReport, March 20, 2006 (Read more) and Newsforge.com, March 21, 2006 (Read more) |
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"Essential for any experienced Java programmer who wants more."
—California Bookwatch, March 2006 (Read more) |
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"I did enjoy reading about many of the APIs that I was unfamiliar with. The text inspires me to want to try out some of the material presented therein."
—JavaRanch’s Six Sides to a Box blog, March 6, 2006 (Read more) |
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"Where the book really shines is when it starts introducing other Java API packages that you either may not know existed, or heard of but never explored."
—Duffbert's Random Musings, February 25, 2006 (Read more) |
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"[Wicked Cool Java] is a great book. I loved it."
—Slashdot, January 25, 2006 (Read more) |
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7 out of 10 horseshoes: “There are core Java stuff, String stuff,
parsing stuff, Math neuro net stuff, RSS feeds, and more.” —JavaRanch, January 27, 2006 (Read more) |
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Book among finalists for 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence &
Productivity Awards —Sofware Development Magazine, January 27, 2006 (Read more) |
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"Points you to all sorts of cool utilities and open source projects... At the same time, it does not bore you with mountains of detail."
—The Java Specialists' Newsletter, January 13, 2006 (Read more) |
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"This is a fun book, kind of a grab bag of cool stuff to do with Java, things you might not have thought of."
—ADTMag, December 24, 2005 (Read more) |
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"Finding a criticism for this book is not easy to do… May be the most fun book that the Java programmer will have on his shelf."
—MacCompanion, January 2006 (Read more) |
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"For Java developers who are looking for interesting and useful APIs or for project ideas."
—Book News UK, December 2005 (Read more) |
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Mentioned in eMac Daily newsletter
—MacDirectory, November 18, 2005 (Read more) |
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Sample chapter posted for download
—AstaLaVista, November 14, 2005 (Read more) |
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