“Recently, I got hold of a book named Linux Debugging and Performance Tuning (Tips and Techniques) by Steve Best. The book positions itself as a programmers guide to debugging and ways of increasing the performance of the programs that you write. The book explores the various tools that a programmer can access to iron out the bugs that crop up in the programs that he writes.”
This is one of the best reviews I have read on the net regarding any tech book. After reading it I feel like going out and buying the book.
This is one of the best reviews I have read on the net regarding any tech book.
How could you like this so-called “review”? Or are you joking and I simply didn’t notice the irony in your words?
It’s not actually a “review”, it’s simply a chapter-by-chapter summary of the book’s contents and then concluding “I like this book because…”.
This is one of the best reviews I have read on the net regarding any tech book. After reading it I feel like going out and buying the book.
What have you been smoking?
This isn’t a review…This is more like an overview with a chapter by chapter summary and a concluding opinion.
If this is the level that the current generation of folks deem as a review, then there really isn’t any hope for the future, is there?
This is more like an overview with a chapter by chapter summary and a concluding opinion.
Exactly. An overview is a review. I really liked it. It gave a really good idea of what you get for the price you pay.
Definition from Dictionary.com
o·ver·view Audio pronunciation of “overview” ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vr-vy)
n.
1. A broad, comprehensive view; a survey.
2. A summary or review.
i felt the book was rubbish – it was merely a collection tidbits on how to use a few tools to help you do things like perf tuning. its bottom-up and not top-down. and even then it doesn’t cover all the base.
not recommended – and i wanted a book like this but one that lives up to its promise.