Jeanne reviewed TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers by Lasse Koskela and gave it a whopping 10 out of 10 horseshoes.

"Test Driven" is geared toward Java developers interested in writing better JUnit tests. Despite the title, it is useful whether you want to write test first or test last. ... I got a sense of "in the trenches" realism from the book. Tradeoffs of techniques were clearing mentioned. The chapter on adopting TDD shows the experience of someone who has done it many times. ... I highly recommend this book.

You can read the full review and discuss it here.

This week, we're delighted to have Budi Kurniawan helping to answer questions about their new book Struts 2 Design and Programming: A Tutorial. They will hang out in the Struts forum.

The promotion starts Tuesday, January 29th 2008 and will end on Friday, February 1st 2008.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, BrainySoftware.

Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!

A rancher needs to add a private method to a class which relies on other methods being called first to set up the environment. Wondering how this method can be properly unit-tested, members discuss various options in this thread in the Testing forum.

This week, we're delighted to have Norman Klein, Max Carlson and Glenn MacEwen helping to answer questions about their new book Laszlo in Action. They will hang out in the HTML & JavaScript forum.

The promotion starts Tuesday, January 22, and will end on Friday, January 25.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Manning.

Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Jeanne reviewed Ajax Security by Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan and gave it a whopping 10 out of 10 horseshoes.

Anyone involved in developing/testing AJAX should read "AJAX Security." ... The writing style is quite engaging including a chapter walking you through an attack from a hacker's point of view. All the major known categories of attacks are included including resource enumeration, parameter manipulation (with SQL and XPATH injection), session hijacking, JSON hijacking, XSS, CSRF, phishing, denial of service, etc.

You can read the full review and discuss it here.

This week, we're delighted to have Bear Bibeault & Yehuda Katz helping to answer questions about their new book jQuery In Action. They will hang out in the HTML & JavaScript forum.

The promotion starts Tuesday, January 15th 2008 and will end on Friday, January 18th 2008.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Manning.

Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!

David reviewed Professional Apache Tomcat 6 by Vivek Chopra, Sing Li and Jeff Genender and gave it 9 out of 10 horseshoes.

The information is full of the sort professional advice and directions that I would expect from a book of this name, and that has been sadly missing from the other offerings I have seen. ... I [...] look forward to migrating our own servers to Tomcat 6 and tweaking the behaviour using the information provided. With this book in hand I feel completely confident that I have the know-how to set up the environment correctly.

You can read the full review and discuss it here.

Jeanne reviewed Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices by Shawn M. Lauriat and gave it 6 out of 10 horseshoes.

"Advanced AJAX" is targeted towards AJAX application architects. [...] readers should be comfortable learning by reading code. ... If you are a hands on PHP AJAX developer interested in architecture, this is an excellent book. Non-PHP developers or people who want to focus on architecture (rather than code) are better off with a different book.

You can read the full review and discuss it here.