It may sound odd but from time to time I get approached to review a book which is either due to be or has just been published.
I say odd because I’m just a regular developer – not a podcasting rockstar (or even a blogging one). Why would my option be worth a free copy of a book?
Maybe it’s because I’m just a regular developer – just like most of us.
Some of these I let pass me by, especially if I have no real interest in the content, i.e. a technology that I am not using and have no plans to use – F# for example. I frequently say that ‘you have to pick your fights when it comes to technology – you can’t win them all’.
So, when Packt asked if I would review this book it made me wonder:
“How much of a master can I be after reading a book that’s ‘only’ 200 pages?”.
I’m certainly not belittling the authors efforts, but I have a Microsoft Press book ‘Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms‘ which is more than twice that length and that doesn’t claim to be able to make me a ‘Master’.
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