This week, we're delighted to have David Berube helping to answer questions about their new book Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails. They will hang out in the Object Oriented Scripting forum.

The promotion starts Tuesday, February 5th 2008 and will end on Friday, February 8th 2008.

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

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

Ulf reviewed Ajax Security by Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan and gave it 9 out of 10 horseshoes.

This book is billed as "The Hands-On, Practical Guide to Preventing Ajax-Related Security Vulnerabilities", and it delivers admirably on that count. ... It's hard to picture a web worker (be it developer, tester, producer or manager) that doesn't take away something (and more likely quite a bit) from this book.

You can read the full review and discuss it here.

Jeanne reviewed Core Servlets and Javaserver Pages: Advanced Technologies, Vol. 2 by Marty Hall, Larry Brown and Yaakov Chaikin and gave it 7 out of 10 horseshoes.

"Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Volume 2: Advanced Technologies" targets developers who already know Java and basic servlets/JSPs. Note this book's second edition does not cover the latest technologies. It uses J2EE 1.3/1.4 and Struts 1.3. ... Overall the book was fine although I would prefer to invest in a different title – either fully on Struts or fully on servlets/JSPs.

You can read the full review and discuss it here.