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I just received a copy of "Mac OS X Developer's Guide" by Jesse Feiler from Amazon. It is a large book, which might entice some to buy the tome on the theory that there must be _something_ of value in so many pages. Such a theory would be dead wrong in my opinion. What little of real value that might be gleaned is so overwhelmed by useless blithering that finding the nuggets, if indeed there are any, would be way too time consuming to justify the effort. I used the sparse index to search out possible answers for a host of issues that are still bugging me, and found zip in the way of enlightenment. Indeed, if the word superficial did not already exist it would have to be coined to describe this mish-mash. A pox on the author, the publisher, and anyone else involved in this miserable misadventure.

I will send the stupid thing back to Amazon, with a strong recommendation that they stop eroding their creditability by selling such junk, and if I can find an address for this Feiler fella I will let him know what I think directly. This waste of trees is nothing more that a con to pry money from the hands of folks frustrated by Apple's hit-or-miss documentation and seemingly total indifference to beginners like me, although Apple (and O'reilly) can now take comfort in knowing that their marginal at best effort, "Learning Cocoa," is no longer the bottom of a very shallow and muddy barrel.

Brian E. Howard
Cocoa Cult Central
still working on mysteries with too few clues

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