IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 5/5
The book covers a lot of topics about programming in PHP and gives a reader good understanding about power of PHP. It includes useful examples. Very good for the people, who had an experience in ASP or Perl. Kind of "jump to PHP" bible. Unfortunately not all the topics keep the same level. I had a feeling that one of the authors just not as talented writer as his four friends are. Anyway it is a good book.
Product: Book Unknown Binding
Title: Rock 'n' roll times: The style and spirit of the early Beatles and their first fans (Google Plex Books)
Publisher: Square Times Publications
Authors: Jurgen Vollmer
Rating: 4/5
Title: Rock 'n' roll times: The style and spirit of the early Beatles and their first fans (Google Plex Books)
Publisher: Square Times Publications
Authors: Jurgen Vollmer
Rating: 4/5
The book is divided into two section. The 1st being selected beatle and beatle related images. the 2nd is of numerous rockers in germany and france from 1961 and 1962. The beatle second has several of the common jurgen vollmer pictures but also includes rare pictures and alternates. to accompany the pictures in this section is jurgen's memories of meeting and befriending the lads. Now even though the book doesn't contain all of jurgen's images it does contain many that are rarely seen. This book is a must for beatle fans everywhere so please pick it up.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 5/5
This is a great book for anyone who doesn't know anything about the PHP language. The book has good background information which leads into the meat of the PHP language. If you've seen php before, this book will help you along and makes an excellent reference book. I highly recommend this book, it's well written and easy to understand and includes illustrations of the code. It's a great book!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL*Loader: The Definitive Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick, Sanjay Mishra
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle SQL*Loader: The Definitive Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick, Sanjay Mishra
Rating: 5/5
I searched through several manuals and guides on Oracle only to discover that very few cover the SQL Loader tool in great detail. This book does so, and in a way that's fairly easy to read. It is a huge benefit over the sparse 2-3 pages of documentation you'll typically find elsewhere.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 1/5
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 1/5
This book is a wonderful overview of the history of data access using Visual Basic. It provides amazing insight into 16-bit programming and DAO. It doesn't even begin to provide an experienced developer with anything useful with regards to VB and SQL Server. There is nothing here that isn't in the manuals, and the author's sense of humor is an atrocity. I couldn't bring myself to finish this book. If you have never used VB for anything beyond Hello World, then maybe this might be useful, but I suspect that the material would go over your head. If you are a serious developer looking for some more info on ADO/VB6/SQL7 - keep looking.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Administration (Book/CD-ROM)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Mark A. Linsenbardt, M. Shane Stigler, Shane Stigler
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Administration (Book/CD-ROM)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Mark A. Linsenbardt, M. Shane Stigler, Shane Stigler
Rating: 4/5
As the authors stated in chapter 1, the book is written with experienced network administrators in mind. They try to explain the theory behind SQL and do so by bringing in-depth and well-founded information followed with tips and tricks from hands on experience. Accordingly this book is not suited for people who are completely new to this topic.
The book is divided into 13 chapters,
The first chapter, installation, explains the process of installing the SQL server in a fashioned manner.Chapter tow, system architecture of SQL, give in depth knowledge of net-library, command parser, storage engine, lock manager, memory, cache and checkpoints, disk i/o, the default databases objects and system tables.
Chapter three, security, includes server logins, database users, server and database roles, database, statement and object permission, security using views and sp. The other 10 chapters are devides into the following capters;
Data structure, Distribution and transferring of data, Backup solutions, Restore, Monitoring and optimization, Automating SQL, Replication, Troubleshooting and understanding of TSQL.
I have used both Sybex and MS press book for my SQL certs. They provide a lot of lab simulations but they lack the in-depth knowledge needed to pass the exam.
There are some conflicting use of the two words SQL Server 7 and SQL 2000. I suppose the bad typo can bring some confusion while reading the book, but it is so obvious and are easy to spot. The typo mistakes forced me to give the book only 4 stars, but I will highly recommend this book to anyone who is dipping into the mcdba track and other SQL interested people out there.
This book along with Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
by rob vieira, will make your life a lot easyer and provide you all the knowlege you can hadle for months to come.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle Web Applications: Pl/Sql Developer's Introduction
Publisher:
Authors: Andrew Odewahn
Rating: 4/5
Title: Oracle Web Applications: Pl/Sql Developer's Introduction
Publisher:
Authors: Andrew Odewahn
Rating: 4/5
I have been an Oracle DBA for several years, and I still find this book to be of great help in developing Web applications.I have developed about three systems that in production now, and could have spent time searching users guide for information on WEBDB functionalities, but the book helped me find what I was looking for fast.I am starting on site building and I believe that I will get all the help I need from the book.Every Webdb developer should have this book as a reference.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: OCP Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL Exam Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Jason Couchman
Rating: 4/5
Title: OCP Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL Exam Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Jason Couchman
Rating: 4/5
I got this book with OCP Oracle9i DBA Certification Boxed Set, so I didn't specifically select it based on skimming at a bookstore. Yes, it has errors. Errors notwithstanding (and there are many), this book has helped me greatly during my OCP training. However, it's important to know what there are errors, and to read the errata, else you will question your own sanity.To be fair, the book has proven more helpful than not, especially since the OCP course I am taking is fast-paced and the instructor tends to gloss over information that is more important that I realized in class.Be aware of the fact that this book does have errors, make sure you read the errata and you'll find it quite helpful.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle8 DBA: SQL and PL/SQL Exam Cram (Exam: 1Z0-001)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Michael R. Ault, Michael L. Ault
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle8 DBA: SQL and PL/SQL Exam Cram (Exam: 1Z0-001)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Michael R. Ault, Michael L. Ault
Rating: 5/5
This is a good book for people who do not have much time to study for the exams. This book has excellent tips. Even if you buy it only for the great tips and practice test, it's worth the money. If you read this book thoroughly you don't need another book for the exam at all. I highly recommend!!!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 2/5
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 2/5
As an experienced programmer, I found this book really frustrating. While it covers lots of other web-related subjects like SQL, LDAP, XML, etc., there's *no* reference manual, and no formal description of the language. If you have a very precise question (e.g.: how do you pass arguments by reference), you have to look at all the examples. Well, some useful information can be found, but you really have to look hard. What's more, the indexing is a joke.No, the title is a con. This is not a book for professionals. A more appropriate title would have been: "Building Web-Enabled Applications for Beginners" or something like that. It's not a bad book per se, but it is aimed at beginners and the title and the publisher's description fooled me into buying it.Experienced developers, stay away from this book!
