IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
This book was great. It provides a great, hands-on guide to using PHP and MySQL. Once especially great feature is the chapter on debugging. This chapter has some good code snippets to show how to integrate debugging into your code and how to think about and classify problems. My only suggestion for future revisions is that, since many PHP features are compiled in. it would be nice to discuss how to figure out what your PHP binary supports if you've just installed an RPM rather than compiling from source.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Database Implementation Online Training Kit: McSe Training for Exam 70-029 (It-Online Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Press Rating: 3/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Database Implementation Online Training Kit: McSe Training for Exam 70-029 (It-Online Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Press Rating: 3/5
Good book for an overview but I found it lacking when taking the 70-029 test.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MDX Solutions: With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: George Spofford
Rating: 4/5
Title: MDX Solutions: With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: George Spofford
Rating: 4/5
This book is very helpful in mastering MDX and unleashing its potential after you finish studying Analysis Services architectural components from other sources. The author demonstrates good knowledge and expertise in the subject and provides very helpful examples and interesting implementations. The illustrations in the book also make understanding MDX easier, since MDX, like XPath, has some concepts like hierarchies and context that are best understood by visualization.However, his writing style is very parenthetical and rife with interludes, which is sometimes irksome and disrupt a smooth flow of ideas. Buy it if you're building a non-trivial UI for Analysis Services or asked to generate sophisticated reports. Understanding how MDX works will also improve your OLAP designing skills.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Pocket Ref
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Andrew Ford
Rating: 4/5
Title: Apache Pocket Ref
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Andrew Ford
Rating: 4/5
For material that's mostly already online, this book is a good investment. I get really tired of window-switching references, and sometimes I like to sit away from the computer while I'm looking up stuff on directive syntax or whatever. For that, this book is worth the price.I'd still like a more suitable binding for a small book with a font chosen for density. Lord, won't you make me said book so it will lay flat? That would make this dealie a five-star pick for me.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Web Application Developer's Guide
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Craig Utley
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Web Application Developer's Guide
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Craig Utley
Rating: 5/5
I reamed loads of useful insight from this book, great info on performance tuning and scaling. Has content I have never seen elsewhere about stuff like multi-dimensional recordsets that saved me hundreds of hours of slave labour! A great top to bottom reference for anyone doing ASP pages to a SQL backend.
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
Thanks for writing this book. It is exactly what I was looking for. The coverage of stored procedures and triggers is excellent, and the text flows as well as any computer book I've ever read. Thank you, thank you. This is exactly what the Dr. ordered.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Admin911: SQL Server 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Brian Knight
Rating: 5/5
Title: Admin911: SQL Server 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Brian Knight
Rating: 5/5
Normally, I don't buy books from Osborne. But this book blew me away with its tips. This book can save you hundreds of hours in SQL server downtime, and amaze your own DBA colleagues with tips and tricks that are largely undocumented. I won 8 books on SQL servers and this has been one of two books reference whenever there is a problem. Buy it, try it, and you won't regret it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Allen G. Taylor
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Allen G. Taylor
Rating: 1/5
Someone who is interested in getting the facts for rapid database development will find this book frustrating. Uses way to much filler.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP 4: A Beginner's Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: William McCarty
Rating: 2/5
Title: PHP 4: A Beginner's Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: William McCarty
Rating: 2/5
This is my first time to write the review. I hate to write some bad comments. But, I decide to do it. WHY? Because I saw a viewer giving this book "FIVE STARS" and very positive comments, then I bought this book---SO STUPID. The result is I am really disappointed buying this book after I read it. This book is not like others' same series(A Beginner's Guide) book when compared with "javascript: A beginner's guide".I am really impressive the author always using this sentence--"SPEND SOME TIME STUDYING THE PHP SCRIPT", when he dump the codes without any explanations. Well, that's funny. I think I need to write php codes rather than study/research them. Please explain them clearly. For example, he used "Trim()" function in pp.142, however, he never explain what this function do at the first time using. I got to search somewhere else. In Chap 11, I don't think he needs to explain so many junks about UNIX.
The author always separated the PHP code and HTML code into two files from beginning to end of book. This is sort of misleading concept for beginner, actually PHP codes usually mixed with HTML codes.IF YOU NEED PHP BOOK, GO TO OTHERS. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY AND TIME.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 2000 in 21 Days (2nd Edition, Book Only)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Richard Waymire, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 1/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 2000 in 21 Days (2nd Edition, Book Only)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Richard Waymire, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 1/5
This is a very poorly written book. It wastes thousands of words telling the reader what it is going to tell you...and then...after all the build up...it doesn't tell you as much as the built-in SQL help files. The writing is often obtuse, and sometimes cryptic. Microsoft's on-line help gives more information, more concisely. This book does not live up to SAMS books reputation.
