IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Essentials
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP Essentials
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 5/5
Either of Julie Meloni's PHP books (PHP Essentials and PHP Fast and Easy) are great books to begin with for those who want to learn about PHP and MySQL. Julie teaches by example with simple scripts that build upon what was learned in those before it. The accompanying web site is very good, which I find essential for any programming book as there are likely to be bug fixes needed and updates posted.While her two books cover much of the same territory they use (mostly) different script examples so I found both of them to be worth having. The more examples I can see of working code, the better I can understand it. I will buy any other books that Julie writes.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MCSE Administering SQL Server 7 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-028)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Jeffrey Garbus, David Pascuzzi, Alvin Chang
Rating: 1/5
Title: MCSE Administering SQL Server 7 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-028)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Jeffrey Garbus, David Pascuzzi, Alvin Chang
Rating: 1/5
I studied this book to prepare for the exam. I eventually
realized that the topic needs more detail. I am now
working my way through the EXAM PREP version. If you want
to know the product, study EXAM PREP for THIS situation.Other EXAM CRAM books are ok. SQL 7 is very complicated. Hope this will help you -- Michael
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Server Administrator's Handbook
Publisher: Hungry Minds
Authors: Mohammed J. Kabir, Kabir
Rating: 3/5
Title: Apache Server Administrator's Handbook
Publisher: Hungry Minds
Authors: Mohammed J. Kabir, Kabir
Rating: 3/5
I don't doubt that Kabir knows what he's talking about in this book, but he's far from a great writer. While installing mod_perl, I found myself rereading the same paragraphs trying to figure out what he meant.
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
I showed this to my students and it scared the s**t out of them. An extremely counter-productive experience!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 4/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 4/5
This is a very good book and very helpful. I only have one disappointment about it. I found that it didn't walk you through making things from the ground up. Such an example is the Forum chapter. It takes an already made forum and talks about how it works. I personally enjoy working from scratch. Overall, though, this is a great book. It teaches PHP and MySql very very well!
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCSE Administering SQL Server 7 Exam Prep (Exam: 70-028)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Brian Talbert
Rating: 1/5
Title: MCSE Administering SQL Server 7 Exam Prep (Exam: 70-028)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Brian Talbert
Rating: 1/5
If you are planning to use this book as a preparation to take MCSE OR MCDBA exam, please do not use this. Its contents are basic SQL 7 material. Those who reviewed this book and said the exam questions were similar to practice questions in the book are simply lying! If you are studying for an exam, you are better of with Microsoft training kit. The questions in the exams are usually vastly different than anything you see in the practice questions in this book.
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
This book is loaded with great techniques that you won't find in any other book. Absolutely loaded. Take the statistics stuff, for example. No where else will you find so many useful functions (medians, anyone? runs and regions?) and so much code you can just drop into place and use. The OLE Automation chapter is similarly chalk full of original and useful code. All throughout the book you find reams and reams of fresh, astonishingly powerful code. The book says there are 600+ examples and I don't doubt it. It's worth twice the price for the code alone. Add to this the expert advice and techniques, and you have the best SQL Server book money can buy.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCSE: SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide
Publisher:
Authors: Lance Mortensen, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 2/5
Title: MCSE: SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide
Publisher:
Authors: Lance Mortensen, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 2/5
This book seems to be fairly thorough when discussing SQL. However, there are many bugs in the Exercises causing the student to spend a great deal of time debugging the T-SQL statements. It appears that the editors didn't understand the subject matter well enough to catch the typo's and other sytax errors. I finally gave up on this book and purchased the Microsoft Self Paced Training Guide where the Exercises actually work. Exam 70-028 is my 6th exam for my MCSE.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Itzik Ben-Gan, Tom Moreau
Rating: 1/5
Title: Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Itzik Ben-Gan, Tom Moreau
Rating: 1/5
Based on the physical size of this book, I thought it would be a comprehensive treatment of the TSQL language. Boy, was I wrong. I guess size isn't everything :-) The TSQL included w/the book isn't very advanced, despite the title. It's about the same level as the Books ONline -- not advanced at all. I haven't yet found a trick I didn't already know about, and I don't consider myself a TSQL expert. A far better book is Henderson's Guru's Guide book. It's an expert-level book written by an expert for those who want to become experts themselves. This one is just another sad tribute to dead trees.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MySQL and PHP From Scratch
Publisher: Que
Authors: Wade Maxfield
Rating: 1/5
Title: MySQL and PHP From Scratch
Publisher: Que
Authors: Wade Maxfield
Rating: 1/5
I bought this book before publication, being seduced by the title. I expected a beginners book with tutorials. Instead, it seems to be an abbreviated distillation of PHP and mysql syntax manuals, along with a very lengthy discussion of how to install PHP etc. Nothing in this book is helpful. For the beginner, get PHP Fast & Easy PHP Web Development by Meloni....lots of good tutorial examplies integrating PHP.
