Title: Likable, if cheesy, format.
Product review: Edd Dumbill and Neil M. Bornstein, Mono: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly, 2004)O'Reilly decided to try something a little different with this one, which is designed, as the subtitle tells you, to look (and read) more like a notebook than a textbook; this is hands-on material with not much theory, notes scribbled in the margins, and the occasional (photoshopped, one assumes) coffee stains. As such, it's a very effective learning tool, though some of the jokes are way too corny to have passed muster with anyone but those who wrote them. If you're a beginning Mono user (or a Visual Studio user who wants to get a lot more platform-independent), this is a very good starting point. ***
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