SWT: A Developer's Notebook -- Learn how to take SWT out for a spin, make it work for you, and turn it upside down--without tripping over wasted words and space. Each lab in this notebook details a specific task; you can read from the first page to the last, or look up just what you need to know. And then you can stick this book in your laptop bag so you have a quick reference when you forget how to create a multi-tabbed view. Sample Chapter 15, SWT CoolBars, is available free online.

I'm sitting on an airplane having just finished reading Hibernate. It's rare these days to find a book on a new Java technology that you can actually get through on a domestic flight. That this Notebook effectively and succinctly tackles object-relational mapping makes it, and Hibernate, even more impressive. Many books in this category would need to be checked luggage. With this book, you travel first class.

I found it to be a quick and easy read. I like that the book is short enough that I could finish it on this flight--a practical, how-to guide that fits within about 150 pages. It's pretty much everything I'd want to know about how to get started with Hibernate, and quickly.

-- Mike Clark, Independent Consultant and Programmer, Clarkware.com

A Developer's Notebook is just what it claims to be--the often frantic scribbling and notes that a true-blue alpha geek makes when working with a new language, API, or project. It's the no-nonsense code that solves problems, stripped of page-filling commentary that can often serve as more of a paperweight than an epiphany. It's hackery, focused not on what's nifty or might be fun if you've got some spare time, but what you need to simply make it work now. This isn't a lecture, folks; it's a lab.

Frantic scribbling and notes that a true-blue alpha geek makes.

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No-nonsense code that solves problems.

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