Solid Code Review

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(More customer reviews)Poor value, watered-down treatment of topics, rehash of past material.
John Robbins gives a great foreword however, and the cover design is great with nice chapter quotes.
Visual Studio 2008 Team System is the minimum required software to work with the code.
Where's the beef? "Designing for Scale" was such a promising chapter, but instead offered platitudes and hardly solid advice. "Choose Scalable Application Designs: Design simple application architectures, Design to scale out, Partition data effectively..." And "Design Application Infrastructure to Scale: Load balance hardware..."
Disappointing title, as Writing Solid Code from 1993 was such a great (and aptly titled) book.
Better books IMHO:
* Code Complete 2 by Steve McConnell
* Rapid Development by Steve McConnell
* Secure Coding by Mark C. Graff and Kenneth R. van Wyk
* Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire (uses only C however)
* Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
See for yourself, hopefully at your library or bookstore.

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