Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX

by Carlton Egremont III and III Egremont, Carlton

ActiveX has been around for literally dozens of months, but until now it has remained an inscrutable mystery to all but the most overpaid contract engineers, three Sufi priests, and Don from Nevada.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201485362
• ISBN13: 9780201485363
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 91 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Very funny parody of ActiveX and computer geeks

First off, if you want to learn about ActiveX, then this is not the book for you. However, if you want to be entertained by a parody of ActiveX, where wordplay, innuendo and absurdity about ActiveX are used to create some very funny jokes, then it is right for you. Mr. Bunny, the smart one with the glasses and pocket protector, and Farmer Jake, the guy in the overalls with the rake, are the main characters in a story about a "quest" for knowledge. Everything in the book is a joke; there is a very good one about CLSID registry entries, "Contrary to popular belief, the CLSID registry entries, when spelled backwards, do not contain the subliminal message `I worship Satan'." If you have ever had to write and use CLSID registry entries, you know how much devil there is in the details. Points of additional reading contain entries such as:* New York City Phone Book.* United States Internal Revenue Code.* ActiveX For Bunnies.I found the last especially funny, the parody in relation to the "For Dummies" series and this book is quite good. Even the exercises are jokes; the following are given as end of chapter exercises:* Optimize the following Visual Basic code: n = 1* Point* Click* Find the missing poodle. The book is very funny and a welcome change from the relentless detail that appears in some programming books. I recommend it very highly as comic relief.

It was embarrassing!

I was on a train when I started to read this book. I usually don't laugh out loud, but when I was reading this, I just couldn't help it.This is definitely one of the funniest "geek" books I've seen (haven't seen too many). My wife doesn't get it!

You May Enjoy This One

After reading through many books on ActiveX control and programming this book was a welcome relief. It is funny and witty and short.This book is written largly based on using ActiveX control in VB. Anyone familiar with VB (even if they don't know ActiveX)will get most of the jokes and diagrams.I would recommand this book to anyone that has had just a little too much technical documentation and would like a mental break. Hey, you may even learn something in the process.

The most enlightening experience I've had in months

An excellent book which clearly sets out the fundamentals of ActiveX programming in a concise and lucid manner. At 90 pages, there is no filler material.

Miracle Cure

Before reading this book, I was blind. Upon finishing the last page, I was amazed to find that I could see. Thanks, Bunny, for restoring my sight to me!