That comment was made in utter ignorance. It takes a lot of skill and education to fight today's wars. Do you have any idea how much education and training our armed servicemembers have to have? Graduate degrees are required for officers who want to advance, plus constant training in their profession, plus continuous physical training, plus staff college. Most other people I meet are not nearly so well educated. Heck, I have one friend in uniform who has done two masters' and is an ABD in a third discipline.

Actually, that's "coup de grace".

First, in the interests of full disclosure, I'm the author's wife. Now that that's out of the way . . .

he reviewer seems to have several problems: 1) He doesn't like O'Reilly's starter guide series. 2) He doesn't like starter guides in general. 3) He couldn't be bothered to be polite enough to inform the author that the code samples had become broken sometime between publication and review. 4) The typography. 5) He needed to zing someone.

None of these are in the author's control so they can't possibly be the author's fault.

The one thing the author could do was fix the jsFiddle code samples the moment he found out they were broken, which he did.

So, why the vitriol against a new author who has written a highly-readable, highly-functional _starter guide_ to the Enyo framework?

I've been in a similar situation before but in my case, we decided to opt out of the purchase. It was the right decision for us at the time but I wished it had worked out better. Make certain, if you proceed, that you have negotiated residual rights to income gained from your intellectual property over the course of the next 5 - 7 years. Make certain that, if MegaCorp should default on any of its payments, that you get to walk away with your IP. If they're defaulting, there's a lot going wrong. Talking about a loose integration roadmap with the MegaCorp's principals might be a good idea too. Good luck!

As eager as I am to get to Mars, there something more important about Clarke's beanstalk. Does any body remember Heinlein writing that once you're in low-Earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the Solar System?