IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Google in 30 Pages or Less
Publisher: Timesaver Books
Authors: Timesaver Books
Rating: 5/5
Title: Google in 30 Pages or Less
Publisher: Timesaver Books
Authors: Timesaver Books
Rating: 5/5
Google, comes from the word googol, the name for a large number which can be represented as a 1 followed by 100 zeros. ~page 1
Timesaver Books are perfect for anyone who has issues with reading manual-size books with too much information. The truth is, less is often more and these books prove it. The books are written by top-notch authors and are updated on a regular basis.
This book covers:
The History of Google
How to Search for Information
Variations of Keywords
Phrases
Category Matches
Setting Search Preferences
Image Search
Toolbar at a Glance
They give excellent advice on how to submit your website to Google and then a "spider" can crawl all over your site and people can search for your information through Google.
These books are like a road map that gets you to the main streets. Then, you can follow the information at the recommended websites for more detailed information. The tidbits of interesting info throughout the books also make them very enjoyable to read.
~TheRebeccaReview.com
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Developer's Cookbook (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski
Rating: 1/5
Title: PHP Developer's Cookbook (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski
Rating: 1/5
I'm a intermediate-advanced PHP coder. I own 13 PHP books, some I use more than others. The only book of the 13 that has NEVER been useful for a single thing was this (sorry) "cookbook." Explanations are poor and the index is horrible. I wonder if the people giving this book high marks have really tried to use it. For real answers to how to do things give me Professional PHP or PHP and MYSL Web Development. Or if you're really stuck and need a clue, check out the DevShed.com forums. Cookbook? More like "compost heap." I think the authors just decided to take a bunch or random code they'd written and paste it all together into a "book." Gosh, maybe I should take some of my old stuff and publish it too.
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
I was looking for a PHP book that could develop a thread between unconnected and extremely vast bits of information from the manual. This book has helped me update my PHP skills apart from helping me visualize practical applications. Should be on every serious PHP developer's book shelf.
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
Here's a book that finally gets it right. It doesn't dwell on info already in the online docs, but it doesn't take shortcuts, either. It's lean, yet thorough. The stuff on transactions is typical of the whole book - it covers everything you need to know in depth, with real examples at every turn. There are lots of sections like this in the book. Frankly, I couldn't imagine programming in Transact-SQL without this book. It's definitely a winner.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Developer's Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Developer's Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
If you've tried finding answers about SQL Server on Microsoft's Web site, you already know that Microsoft's documentation is a mishmash of manuals, technical notes, and forum discussions. It's virtually impossible to get a clear picture of how to use SQL Server from this stuff. SQL Server 2000 Developer's Guide is a great "master index" to SQL Server 2000 -- it covers everything! But more than that, it provides complete, _working_ examples on the accompanying CD, which is a vast improvement over Microsoft's unusable code "snippets." I especially like the charts that relate SQL Server features to tasks and capabilities. This makes it easy to figure out what SQL thing to use to accomplish a particular task. Better, the book gives you step-by-step procedures so that you do things in the right order, rather than thrashing around in Microsoft's peculiar dialog boxes. This book doesn't cover every aspect of SQL Server in detail -- it's an essential adjunct to Microsoft documentation rather than a replacement for it. But I never needed a replacement to the manuals, just a map with example code and lots of helpful tips. That's what SQL Server 2K DevGuide is!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 1/5
Had my hopes up when I saw this new book on stored procs. Boy what a let donw. Don't bother with this one - its not worth the effort. Worst book I ever bought.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
In addition to the topics mentioned in the title, this book is the ultimate Extended Procedure reference. It shows you how to write them, how to utilize them in your own code, how to debug them, and how to make them handier to use. For example, there's a chapter showing how to build your own Extended Procedures from A-Z. It takes you through building several useful EPs. Want to know how to take control of SQL Server execution threads so that you can speed up your code? This book shows how to write an Extended Procedure that does just that.The book also shows you how to use EPs in user defined functions to basically do whatever you want. One of the example EPs is xp_exec which is basically an Extended Procedure version of EXEC(). Given that you can't call EXEC() from a user defined function this is really handy. You can execute any code you want.Another useful set of Extended Procedures the book shows you how to build has to do with arrays. Given that Transact-SQL doesn't have arrays, the book shows you how to build a set of Extended Procedures and user defined functions to add arrays to the language. You learn to build xp_createarray which is called by fn_createarray, xp_setarray which is call by fn_setarray, and so forth. Basically, you get arrays that look and feel like they're built into Transact-SQL by virtue of the ingenious use of Extended Procedures and user defined functions together to hide the details. They're speedy and handy to use.If you ever wanted to know how to build Extended Procedures, this is your book. In addition to all the other great info in the book, this alone makes it worth the price. In fact I would have paid twice what I did for it. Its that good.
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
OK, I've just been assigned to do a complete upward migration from SQL Server 7.0 to 2000. I especially needed details on data replication and DTS... I found everything I needed here and one of the best explanations of data replication I have ever seen.
thanks.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Matt Zandstra
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Matt Zandstra
Rating: 5/5
I tried other PHP books such as PHP Quick and Easy and PHP Developer's Cookbook but they all left me in the dark and were hard to follow. This book however assumes you know nothing at all which is pretty much what I knew. The book starts you off with the basics of PHP: different types of data, variables, functions, loops, etc. and takes you further even. This book is definatly one that a beginner with no coding experience or very little experience should look into.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic & SQL Server: William R. Vaughn (Microsoft Programming Series)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: William Vaughn
Rating: 2/5
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic & SQL Server: William R. Vaughn (Microsoft Programming Series)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: William Vaughn
Rating: 2/5
I have read many of Mr. Vaughn's books, attended his lectures at VBits and have personally conversed with him on SQL issues. Simply put, this book is a must-read for all serious VB developers looking to unleash the power of Visual Basic when dealing with SQL server issues. Written with a nice touch of humor, Bill does a great job of singling out both good and bad methods of data access. Previous commentors who bashed his books obviously have not even read them. My recommendation: BUY THIS BOOK!
