IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
This is the standard for beginner SQL Server books. It cuts through the verbose theory in other books and gets straight to the syntax and applicability. Many other computer beginner books could learn a lesson from SQL in 10 minutes. The lesson is you don't have to try to cover every nook and cranny and confuse the hell out of people. Beginners are seperate from experts who are seperate from guru's. Speak to them in the language that they understand best. In other words, know your audience!! Ben Forta certainly did in this book. Bravo, Ben!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 4/5
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 4/5
This is a Great book, but it focuses on many items at the time and dont quite explain the items as they should. This book is allways a must, for all the people interested in getting started in e-commerce because it takes a tour to all the tech knowledge needed to implement e-commerce solutions.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MDX Solutions: With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: George Spofford
Rating: 2/5
Title: MDX Solutions: With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: George Spofford
Rating: 2/5
Unlike Whitehorn this author clearly understands MDX. MDX semantics are complex and mudled but he tries to explain them. However, the result is still as not clear as it could be. What does the filter expression *really* mean...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Developer's Cookbook (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski
Rating: 4/5
Title: PHP Developer's Cookbook (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski
Rating: 4/5
This book started saving me time the day it arrived. The little code snippets and examples apply to lots of common and odd tasks that many programmers will run into. The organization of the book also plays well with the on-line php documentation: it is grouped by function categories. I like consistency between documentation organization so multiple sources can function like a "super-manual". While I would not recommend this book as a reference it is a great adjunct to the php.net manual or a number of other books that are intended to be manuals.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 2/5
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 2/5
This book concentrates on transact sql for MS-SQL and Sybase. The book is well written and I covers a lot of ground. I bought it to write distributed stored procs. Well it gave me great examples and it also fills in the what if questions. Worth while. I keep it next to my desk.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 (with CD-ROM)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Tobias Ratschiller, Till Gerken
Rating: 5/5
Title: Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 (with CD-ROM)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Tobias Ratschiller, Till Gerken
Rating: 5/5
I've read *all* other PHP books and this is the best for more programmers with some experience. It is not only a reference but teaches alot about the programming principles such as style, debugging, version management. The coolest part is the one about extending PHP with C! I've already written a library for PHP using this book as reference and I'm soon going to contribute it to CVS!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: 501 Web Site Secrets: Unleash the Power of Google®, Amazon®, eBay® and More
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Authors: Michael Miller
Rating: 3/5
Title: 501 Web Site Secrets: Unleash the Power of Google®, Amazon®, eBay® and More
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Authors: Michael Miller
Rating: 3/5
There seems to be something akin to a credentials push between O'Reilly and Wiley. O'Reilly has a series of Hacks books, with 100 tips in each. Is that why we have this book, with 501 web "secrets"? One upsmanship?
Firstly, the secrets in the title is hype. None of the tips can really be called a secret. While Miller does admit this in his Introduction, it is irritating to see each tip labelled as a secret, throughout the book.
But let's leave this aside and look at the tips. Many are really obvious. Like tip 224 - "Fine tune your search with AltaVista's advanced Web Search page". People, the Altavista home page has an 'advanced' link right there. Or look at tip 27 - "Use Yahoo to get the latest news, weather and sports". Again, these links are right there on the Yahoo home page. Plus, the headlines of recent new articles are also shown on the page, as an inducement for readers to clickthrough.
These 501 tips are quantity stressed over quality. Many are stunningly obvious, like those above. And if we say "secrets", then they become inane. A far better approach would have been to reduce the number of tips, and give more detail on some truly innovative and nonobvious usages of the major websites. It would have required far more work and originality than evidenced here.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 (with CD-ROM)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Tobias Ratschiller, Till Gerken
Rating: 2/5
Title: Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 (with CD-ROM)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Tobias Ratschiller, Till Gerken
Rating: 2/5
I've read *all* other PHP books and this is the best for more programmers with some experience. It is not only a reference but teaches alot about the programming principles such as style, debugging, version management. The coolest part is the one about extending PHP with C! I've already written a library for PHP using this book as reference and I'm soon going to contribute it to CVS!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 3/5
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 3/5
Historically a great series, good info on all forms of data access, however, I was quite disappointed with the authors coverage and synopsis of the VB 6 Data Environment and Data Reports which I have used quite successfully on several large SQL Server database projects - this books lacks any useful information of the Data Environment.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Clearly Explained (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Authors: Jan L. Harrington
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Clearly Explained (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Authors: Jan L. Harrington
Rating: 5/5
This book is very simple and is geared toward beginners, does not present advance concepts provides a general idea
