IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Judith S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Judith S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky
Rating: 5/5
I am a student and was looking for a additional resource to go along with my jargon-ridden text book and read the reviews of the book. As a result of reading the reviews, I purchased the book and have found it a wonderful learning tool. My instructor was impressed with the book and mentioned it as a possible supplement to the textbook to my classmates.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: XML and PHP
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Vikram Vaswani
Rating: 4/5
Title: XML and PHP
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Vikram Vaswani
Rating: 4/5
Most XML books suffer from painful verbosity. Useful information on a relatively simple subject tends to be hidden in drifts of useless cruft.This book focuses on the core information needed to become competent using XML and PHP together. While it is not the most comprehensive reference on XML available, it is the first resource that I check.(Disclosure: I worked on this book project as a technical reviewer - take what I say with your own grain of salt. :)
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 4/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 4/5
The material is well-written, concise and to-the-point. No lengthy, ego-tripping novellas here. Presents information not always apparent when consulting the technical doc's. Provides some good examples. Good food-for-thought, that's presented for quick & easy reading. The included CD is totally useless (the s/w program didn't work, and even if it had, SQL Server's Query Analyzer is already available and DOES work.) Recommended for MS SQL Server programming tasks; NOT a DBA resourse.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Real World Web Services
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Will Iverson
Rating: 4/5
Title: Real World Web Services
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Will Iverson
Rating: 4/5
I think the book will appeal to two groups. Those people who want to use a web service from a company described in the book and people who are interested in learning about some real world applications using web services. The number of companies discussed are few, but they are the big players. I liked the discussion of web services in general and how they can be (and are) used in real world applications.
This book shows you - with copious amounts of code - how to use various services provided by real companies right away. For me, this book was a great way to gather ideas about different approaches to provide and interact with web services. It does a great job at proving how simple web services really are.
Although web services are not language-specific, the book and all the examples are in Java. You should be pretty comfortable with Java, Tomcat, and similar technologies to be able to get the examples working. The companies/web services discussed are: Amazon, eBay, Google, FedEx, PayPal, CDDB. It also discusses interacting with bloggers.
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
Oh wait...maybe it was just me. This is a great book for anyone wanting to learn PHP, or who doesnt feel like scrolling through that boring online manual. The included CD with Apache and Xitami (and examples) is very nice.
This is the kind of book that makes you want to buy more books, and then put them on your shelf and tell people you read all of them! I was so inspired that I took the time to teach my pet monkey, Mojo, to speak rastafarian!
GREAT JOB, LEON!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MySQL/PHP Database Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jay Greenspan, Brad Bulger
Rating: 3/5
Title: MySQL/PHP Database Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jay Greenspan, Brad Bulger
Rating: 3/5
I think this book is not so bad. It is good for beginners who don't have PHP/MySQL experience. Although the authors don't go into details of MySQL, you'd sort of pick it up along the way. You'll gain more from the book by playing and browsing through the CD.I installed Apache, PHP and MySQL on a Windows machine and everything works fine. Where other books are more targetted towards the Linux platform, this book assumes little about your underlying operating system.If you're experienced PHP programme and if you're looking for a book with detailed information, this is not the book for you.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 Programming Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Rebecca Riordan
Rating: 2/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 Programming Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Rebecca Riordan
Rating: 2/5
I am very new to SQL Server 2000 (or any SQL Server for that matter), so I wanted a book that was robust, but was easy to follow. "Step by Step" seemed to be the way to go, but this book leaves MUCH to be desired.It is WAY too basic. I mean, the language SQL Server uses is called TRANSACT-SQL, but not ONCE in the book does she go over TRANSACTIONS!! She reiterated the same points over and over, and used WAY too many screen shots. I would say at least 70% of the book is comprised of useless screen shots. You get hardly any actual content at all... and best of all, the examples are VERY weak.I am a big fan of WROX books, since WROX books are very complete and can be used as a desk reference. This book, however, is usless the second you finish it. I recommend it ONLY to people who have never programmed ANYTHING before, and to those who don't care about learning fundementals like transactions.The entire contents of this book can be learned from a 30 minute reading of some of the MSDN documentation.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
In less than a month's time I was up and running with a MySQL/PHP web site after reading this book. It just took a couple of hours a day. I have a very busy schedule, so the fact that I could learn this so fast and so easily is a testament to the value of the book.Easy to read, good screen shots. I now have a good handle on how to write PHP web applications and I've purchased a professional-level PHP book (also by Larry Ullman). I can't wait to dig into that one.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Instant SQL Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Joe Celko
Rating: 3/5
Title: Instant SQL Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Joe Celko
Rating: 3/5
I had a little SQL background before getting this book (background = seeing other SQL code and trying to figure out what it was doing).I bought this book hoping to really learn SQL, but didn't gather too much more from it. Now I have learned SQL more indepth, but still need a good reference book to look up typical "tricks" or common functions. This book is now useless.On the cover it says "exploit your database's full capacity"...which is entirely misleading because most of the exploits are not covered at all in this book.Great for beginner to get to intermediate stage of typical SELECT, INSERT, etc...but if you want to do more than typical, this book is NOT for you.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Jakarta-Tomcat
Publisher: Apress
Authors: James Goodwill
Rating: 4/5
Title: Apache Jakarta-Tomcat
Publisher: Apress
Authors: James Goodwill
Rating: 4/5
I bought this book with the expectation it would give me a "brief" explanation of key topics in Tomkat; like setup, Apache integration, SOAP ntegration, and the basics server configuration via the server.xml file. It Does!! I was pleasantly surprised to get an overview on some advanced features like embedding Tomkat, persistent session configuration, Log4J and a 10,000 foot view of Struts.
