IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book
Title: Making Use of PHP
Publisher:
Authors: Ashok Appu
Rating: 5/5
Title: Making Use of PHP
Publisher:
Authors: Ashok Appu
Rating: 5/5
This book is sinply great for beginners who want to begin programming with PHP. The concepts are dealt with utmost care so as to impart the programming basics in the best possible way. The best part of the book is the unique methodology that it uses to deliver technical content. A real-life problem statement is included in the beginning of each chapter and aa solution is given at the end of the chapter. The code snippets in each chapter with output help the reader understand each concept properly.This book is indeed a great buy for beginners! I really was able to build a strong base for PHP after reading this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: From Access to SQL Server
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Russell Sinclair
Rating: 2/5
Title: From Access to SQL Server
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Russell Sinclair
Rating: 2/5
If you're trying to get into using Access Data Projects (.adp files) with Access 2000 and SQL Server data, this book is great in that most of the information you need is right here in one place. Russel has done us a great service, in that there is very little written about .adp's anywhere - for some reason Microsoft has kept it a "stealth" technology. I had to spend dozens of hours searching the web to come up with what's in Russell's book. In addition, Russell includes pretty much everything you need to know to get a very good start on working with SQL Server. In fact, outside of advanced SQL administration, the book is very useful as a SQL Server developer's reference. Russell has done a great job of packing a lot of useful information into this book. I've seen a number of books in the past few years with titles like "Client-Server Development in Access" that frankly were total flops. It's a hard thing to write about. But Russell has succeeded.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 4/5
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 4/5
I must say that I was shocked to see the poor reviews for this book. I use it on a daily basis, and essentially taught myself PHP using this book as a crutch. My only complaint in its format is the lack of output associated with the pieces of sample code. I *do* like the way it's set up with categorized functions to easily reference and practicality -- it doesn't BS around like most others (see: Professional PHP Programming [pub. by WROX]).
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide (Book/CD-ROM Set)
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Syngress
Rating: 2/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide (Book/CD-ROM Set)
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Syngress
Rating: 2/5
If you're preparing for the certification exam, the chapter material is more helpful than not, but the practice exams are terrible. The exam engine design is poor, e.g. After completing an exam, you cannot review questions you answer correctly. The exam questions are much worse than poor -- it doesn't appear that anyone even proof-read the questions and answers, e.g. You read the answers, chose the correct answer, A. 10 kilobytes, but its counted wrong because the solution is recorded as B. 10 kilobytes. Out of 50 practice questions, I had 14 incorrectly counted as wrong, and I can only guess at how many were counted as correct, that were actually wrong, since you can't review what it counted as correct. The book would be a 3 or 4 star, but the exam is almost worse than no exam at all.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning SQL Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Kevin Spencer, Ian Herbert, Sakhr Youness, Julian Skinner
Rating: 4/5
Title: Beginning SQL Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Kevin Spencer, Ian Herbert, Sakhr Youness, Julian Skinner
Rating: 4/5
I don't understand some of the very negative reviews here. If you are new to SQL, then this book will be a good compagnon.
This book worked for me, it's gives you the fundamentals you need to get to the more advanced stuff. This book is to teach SQL, as a reference I use o'reillys SQL in a nutshell. And the comment on the price? Well, i think all programming books are getting more and more expensive...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache in 24 Hours
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 3/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache in 24 Hours
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 3/5
I am about half way through this book and I have to say that while it is a good idea, the book is fraught with incomplete ideas and typos that have caused me significant frustration. For example, in hour 9 there is an exercise that has you saving state using a hidden form element -- which flat out doesn't work. At first I thought it was my typo, but then I tried to run the example file from the included CD, which also didn't work. AND the sample files from the CD are different (sometimes) than in the book. I have yet to get the email function working, though I have set everything up as describedin the book. And in Hour 10 the discussion of the is_executable() function completely fails to mention that it is not supported on Win32 systems.I like the step-by-step approach, but have to say that these little oversights are incredibly frustrating.
Product: Book Unknown Binding
Title: Sybase SQL Server 11 Unleashed
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ray Rankins, Jeff Garbus, David Solomon, Bennett W. McEwan
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sybase SQL Server 11 Unleashed
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ray Rankins, Jeff Garbus, David Solomon, Bennett W. McEwan
Rating: 5/5
I purchased this book hoping that it would cover all the topics for SYBASE system 11 (server configuration, BCP and fine tuning)and it has DELIVERED! I am very pleased with the detailed information and examples (I LOVE EXAMPLES) in this book and I would definitely recommend it to any DBA working on SYBASE system 11.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
I've never seen such a truckload of great technical info!! I can't believe I'm just now discovering this book. What a find! Here are the best parts:* performance tuning chapter - worth the price of the book all by itself* undocumented T-SQL chapter - another real gem* cursors chapter - the best coverage of these that I've seen (far better than Inside SQL Server)* transactions chapter - a good, no-frills discussion of everything you need to know to code transactions in T-SQLI could go on and on. Just one he|| of a book!B.W.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ray Rankins, Paul Jensen, Paul Bertucci
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ray Rankins, Paul Jensen, Paul Bertucci
Rating: 5/5
I have always loved the Unleashed series, but was wary after SQL 7 unleashed had some quality issues. This book restores my confidence in Sams and the Unleashed series. The quality of writing is exactly as it needs to be to give you confidence in the author's technical knowledge, and the topics and concepts are useful and accurate.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Windows 5: Developer's Guide
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Suneet Shah, Chris Griswold
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Windows 5: Developer's Guide
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Suneet Shah, Chris Griswold
Rating: 5/5
This book is oriented to an old version of SQLWindows (5) but it is still an useful book. Sqlwindows doesn't have many books and this one seems to answer more than one question. I have found myself many time stucked in a problem and then realized that in this book there is a solution to my problem. (No ActiveX issues nor Web).
