Review on some of the books

Our user group members reviewed certain books in the holiday club. I apologize for being a little late in blogging the reviews. Like you all know I am not a blogger in the true sense but do love presenting all over the world. Last weekend I presented at Chicago code camp and talked about some of the books we reviewed. Here is list of some reviews and more are about to come.

"Silverlight in Action is perhaps the most comprehensive book on silverlight I have come across. Only Pete Brown could have written this great book. The author goes through the beginner level and slowly progresses towards the best practices on the silverlight platform." - Vikram Malhotra (independent consultant)

"Dependency Injection - The best thing i like about the book is how it compares IoC containers with code samples from different platforms. Being from the Java background and currently a dot net consultant, I truly appreciate the value it provides to understand the underlying concept regardless of the platform. Must read for all developers and a great read for those who have never worked on more than one platform. The book is simple and not bulky but cover dependency injection in totality"- Chander Dhall.

"C# in depth - It follows a totally unique approach and is worth appreciating. Having known C# for a while the last thing I want is to go over another book that covers just the syntax. This is a great book for intermediate to advanced level developers who want to get into the real life usages than get to know the necessary syntax only. " - Sam Shaw (Vice President - UTDallas .Net User group.

Lucene in Action - "The best thing about Manning in general is that they fill the void. Lucene in Action is probably the only book on Lucene and is in itself, the bible for Lucene. I have worked on Lucene for few years now but still this is my ONLY reference. - Ravi Alapati "(independent consultant)