At 700 pages, the Arduino Cookbook 2nd Edition is just slightly thicker than the first edition. The recipes, recipe count, layout, format are very similar.
This review was done on the printed version of the book.
Another review of this publication was done using the ebook version and
can be found elsewhere on this site.
Doug Hellman is probably best known for the Python Module Of The Week website (PyMOTW). This site has been de-mystifying Python modules for many users.
The Python Standard Library by Example takes that idea to the next level.
CouchDB, while tolerant of failure during writes and supporting replication, suffers a bit in that it's not designed from start for more sophisticated clustering (including failover and sharding).
If you have ever worked with Python, you have probably come across
Python Module of the Week (PyMOTW) or virtualenvwrapper. Both are the
work of Doug Hellmann.
The Arduino Cookbook is a hefty tome, weighing in at 631 pages with minimal space covering introductory material. Page xvi refers to “What was left Out” which has references for programming, electronics and hardware. I’m glad to see this material isn’t duplicated in this book.
Beginning Arduino is a great book to get started learning how to program embedded microcontrollers. The books contains a fun collection 50 experiments starting from the most basic to more advanced projects.
The author has done a fine job of presenting a practical discussion of how to use a popular Python framework, namely Django and using another popular Javascript library, namely JQuery to develop a nice application through the chapters presented in the book.
This is a comprehensive tutorial on using the mysql module for Python and for using MySQL in general. Although the author's native language may not be English, I found the oddly-phrased text to be quite understandable and easy to follow. I have been a MySQL user for a number of years now, and would have welcomed this book to my bookshelf several years ago when I was trying to solve some of the problems laid out in detail in this book.