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#29060: "You've worked hard on the project for more than year." - There should be an 'a' in there! A mistake (no pun intended) in the first sentence o...more...
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18-May-07
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#29891: The start/stop times for the incident are given as 11:30 pm to 2:30 am Pacific time, with an approximate 3 hour duration. In all other places...more...
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17-Nov-07
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#28884: The thread dump appears to be from Apache Tomcat and not JBoss 3.2.5 as stated.--Brian E.

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01-May-07
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#29805: The last sentence of the middle paragraph --
"The actual code is show on the
facing page."

should have "shown" instead of "show."--Tom Cooper

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30-Oct-07
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#28379: At the very end of the page: "each of the patterns alleviate specific problems" should be "each of the patterns alleviates specific problems."

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07-Apr-07
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#32359: In section 4.4, a paragraph begins: "Remember the definition of capacity from section 8.1...". Seems odd to assume the reader will remember s...more...
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11-Jun-08
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#29892: Should "overriding the create() method" in 2nd paragraph be "overriding the get() method?--Steve Goldman

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17-Nov-07
74

#31440: Text beginning at top of p74 seems unconnected with text on preceding page 73. Could a paragraph or two be missing?--Shane Dunne

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24-Mar-08
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#28388: Paragraph 2: "naval-gazing" should be "navel-gazing"

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07-Apr-07
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#29269: On line 28 on can read: "Should you should make QA..."

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26-Jun-07
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#29806: Should "more than 100 hundred individual, load-balanced instances" be interpreted as meaning 10,000 instances? Or should "hundred" be stricken?--Tom Cooper

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30-Oct-07
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#29262: Nice book! It covers my own experiences and adds some interesting points. I have a remark about the section on configuration files in which ...more...
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25-Jun-07