Review of "Enterprise Ajax: Strategies for Building High-performance Web Applications by David Johnson, Alexei White, and Andre Charland, " Prentice Hall PTR, 2007, ISBN 0132242060
Ian Stephenson, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 2007, $39.95, ISBN: 1846283442 RenderMan, a rendering API associated with film production, is an essential tool for creating many of the effects and images in recent animated films (such as Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo). Essential RenderMan is a self-paced tutorial that facilitates the understanding of many of the features of the API. The tone of the book is set in the preface, where author Ian Stephenson explains why he wrote the first edition (2003) and the reason for the second edition.