Rating:  - Wonderful Book
This is a wonderful reference. It is not for the beginner, but it is easy to understand and very straightforward with great, consise examples. Truely a find, it replaced multiple other ASP books that I had. It has good descriptions of every ASP object, server side includes, global.asa ActiveX objects and more. Buy this book now.
Rating:  - Good lightweight reference
This book is good for what it's suppose to be: a light reference for intermediate or better programmers. It covers every important topic like ADO and FileSystemObject. It doesn't go into detail on every property or method, but it tries to cover all the major ones clearly with good examples. Don't look to this book as a tutorial or a comprehensive reference; it's more like a quick lookup for topics you're at least partly familiar with.
Rating:  - This book is terrible! Don't waste your money!
I am a longtime ASP developer, and I do this for a living. I've read any number of ASP books written by people who don't know what they're talking about, but this one is definitely the very worst. The book is poorly formatted, poorly written, riddled with technical errors, and is a total waste of your time if you a serious developer. I wouldn't waste my money on this turkey.
Rating:  - For the experienced programmer, not newbie
I had planned for this book to assist more in learning about ASP and use as a quick reference with examples; however I feel that this is for a more experienced programmer that just need a desktop quick reference (as it is sub-titled). I'm never disappointed with O-Reilly books, however I guess I had a different expectation for this book.
Rating: - Good reference for object model and components
This book is not for the complete ASP beginner, but for someone wanting an introduction and reference to the objects (e.g., request, response, session) and components (e.g., ad rotator, page counter, file access). Although the examples in this book are in VBScript this book should not be thought of as a reference for VBScript. Though short, the examples were enough to start me using the features, for example setting a session timeout, using a collections reference or sending email from a script. I did find the examples on the ActiveX Data Objects a little sparse and the author admits, "there are several more advanced topics". I had previously found the global.asa file and #include files somewhat mysterious so this chapter was helpful.
With the availability of online documentation, I found the author advise about using the feature or limitations more valuable than details of the parameters. There is enough of an introduction to give you the concepts in most areas. Additionally the specification of what driver is needed for a component can be helpful if there are problems. I will continue to use this book in conjunction with online documentation.
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