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Web Development
Editors, Stephen Plain and Brooke Gilbert November 9, 2001
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This month in Web Development, we present a host of good books that have caught our attention--from Jakob Nielsen's Web site deconstruction gem to a resource for Web services. Thanks to all who sent in requests, suggestions, and general must-haves for future columns.

--Stephen Plain and Brooke Gilbert

Please feel free to email any comments or suggestions to me also -
George Lonewolf, editor, Lone Wolf's Reviews



 

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by William L. Oellermann Jr.
Architecting Web Services is targeted at developers and technical architects who have heard about, and even started to work with, Web services. The book starts with a background on the evolution of Web services and their significance to future collaborative efforts via the Internet. It then reveals the architecture for Web services and the various relationships that can be established through their consumption. There's a short technical primer on XML and related technologies.

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Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed    Icon
by Jakob Nielsen, Marie Tahir
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