Richard Wagner (2) (1966–)

It's a nice, well-written book, however it suffers from a little aging, and too much focus on the Apple platform.

Not that there's anything wrong with targeting Apple devices primarily, but as an implementer I really want to know if I am selling myself short on support for other platforms. Unfortunately, with this book you will be lead down a garden path. If you follow all the advice, what you build will work nicely on the iPhone, iPod touch (and even iPad), but much of the code breaks show more irretreivably on most desktop and non-Apple-mobile browsers. show less

It's a nice, well-written book, however it suffers from a little aging, and too much focus on the Apple platform.

Not that there's anything wrong with targeting Apple devices primarily, but as an implementer I really want to know if I am selling myself short on support for other platforms. Unfortunately, with this book you will be lead down a garden path. If you follow all the advice, what you build will work nicely on the iPhone, iPod touch (and even iPad), but much of the code breaks show more irretreivably on most desktop and non-Apple-mobile browsers. show less

I enjoyed this one. I even learned a few things. :) It's a good reference for C.S. Lewis' writings.

I like that Wagner acknowledges that his readers will not all be Christians, but doesn't attempt to soften Christian themes. And he explains things that those who are not familiar with Christianity might not understand.

There's a pretty glaring error on page 13. Page 12 ends with a complete paragraph, then page 13 has a picture at the top followed by the end of a sentence... I'm surprised that show more wasn't fixed in editing. show less

I wouldn't want to tackle this if I didn't have a thorough understanding of XML, but if you do know XML fairly well and want to come up to speed on XSLT then this is your book.