QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook -- Java developers who need to add audio, video, or interactive media creation and playback to their applications find that QuickTime Java is a powerful toolkit, but one that's not easy to get into. This book offers the first real look at this important software with an informal, code-intensive style that lets impatient early adopters focus on learning by doing. You get just the functionality you need. Sample Chapter 5, Working with QuickDraw, 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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