IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Bible with CD-ROM
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Paul Nielsen
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Bible with CD-ROM
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Paul Nielsen
Rating: 5/5
This book is an excellent resource. The examples and real world insight are extremely valuable. I've been able to improve my skills and build better applications as a result of this book. Thank you very much!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 Reference Library
Publisher: Microsoft Press Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 Reference Library
Publisher: Microsoft Press Rating: 5/5
This book is more than reference, it helped me to understand everything what I needed and to resolve all the problems that I had have on SQL server 2000 (it is not for dummies). Very good organized (reed how to use this book carefully). DVD included inside the book, it is vary helpful. You can install the MSDN 2000 in your computer and if you have time you can watch and listen around 60 hours movies of discourses about MSDN 2000.
I was using different books reading on Replication Chapter but when I bought this book I understood almost every thing about Replication, it has 336 pages to reed and 3 hours movies discussion just for replication.This book is must have for them who gonna work with SQL server.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Allen G. Taylor
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Allen G. Taylor
Rating: 5/5
This book was just a good as my University's suggested text book. If you need to know something regarding SQL, it is IN HERE. Definitely worth checking out, you won't have regret or be disappointed.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Google Hacking for Penetration Testers
Publisher: Syngress
Authors: Johnny Long
Rating: 5/5
Title: Google Hacking for Penetration Testers
Publisher: Syngress
Authors: Johnny Long
Rating: 5/5
If you are responsible for IT resources you must have this book. If you are a security professional you must have this book.
This book will illustrate how Google can used by the bad guys to profile and enumerate your network infrastructure. Johnny Long does an excellent job explaining how Google works with advanced operators and how fiddling with syntax can yield interesting results.
He shows how a hacker can learn a ton of information about your network and company without ever sending a packet at your network.
You will learn how to find out information about misconfigured servers, "interesting" files left laying around servers, locating exploits, mapping networks and quite a bit more. But, you will learn how to defend and protect yourself against the evil Google hacker.
You will learn how to Google hack yourself as part of your penetration testing.
This is an easy read. You don't have to know about the OSI model or ACL rulesets. It should be on the bookshelf of every IT professional, and should be referred to often.
Hats off to Johnny Long for writing such an incredibly valuable resource.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers
Rating: 4/5
Title: Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers
Rating: 4/5
Web Services are a promising future for distributed computations on the net. So far there has been much speculation. But to develop anything nontrivial presents a severe problem to programmers. It is hard to simulate a large, multigigabyte database, that has credible applications.Luckily, two successful Internet companies, Google and Amazon, have done so. They offer access to their data via XML queries. The authors thus explain how you can sign up with these companies and use their Web Services as a testbed. They treat each company separately and show examples of how you can mine the data and possibly integrate it with your own data and display the results, typically in a browser fashion.The companies are used as learning examples, since many of you are likely to have already used their regular browser based offerings. The authors use this familiarity to motivate why and how you can get at the data, without all that HTML clutter of a pre-Web Service screen scraping approach. They also use this as a vehicle to explain how to use DOM, SOAP, XSLT and JSPs on your website, as part of your Web Service. Tomcat is chosen as the web container because it is very stable and, let's face it, free. So you do gain fluency in an impressive number of important packages.They even offer examples of how to use DAV. This, in the 10 year history of the web, refers to distributed authoring. It was present in the http specifications of 1992/3. But this has rarely been implemented in browsers or http servers ever since. A backwater that is now starting to attract attention. Especially when recast in the rubric of Web Services.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Linux Apache Web Server Administration, Second Edition (Craig Hunt Linux Library)
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Charles Aulds, Charles Aulds
Rating: 5/5
Title: Linux Apache Web Server Administration, Second Edition (Craig Hunt Linux Library)
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Charles Aulds, Charles Aulds
Rating: 5/5
Includes a handy chapter on HTML exchanges between server and browsers that will help sysadmins thrust into a Web server admin role. The book is clearly and professionally written, and contains excellent descriptions of the various configuration directives, with special attention paid to configuring multiple virtual sites on a single server.There is ample documentation on compiling Apache from source code. I'm sure that many new web administrators will not find this portion of the book necessary, given the now-ubiquitous availability of pre-compiled binaries in most Linux distributions, but it is nice to have the info as a reference.My sole complaint, which I also have with the other two Apache manuals I have read to date, is that after the first few chapters the books tend to get mired down in a line-by-line explanation of configuration directives. It would be much more valuable to system administrators new to Apache to have a few more process-oriented chapters. In other words, chapters which read "If you want to achieve x outcome, set y and z directives in the following manner, and this is why it works that way" are much more valuable to the new Apache admin with limited time on his/her hands than the more general "This is what directives x, y, and z do."Perhaps this complaint is really simply a problem with determining the target audience, which is spectacularly difficult to do online with these books, given the marketing hyperbole that serves as book descriptions - we'd all be better served by a Table of Contents on the description page. In any case, I heartily recommend the book as a desk reference for Apache configuration, especially if you need to run multiple sites on a single server, with the proviso that new Apache admins should look elsewhere for a more basic manual as well.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL for eServer i5 and iSeries
Publisher: Mc Press
Authors: Kevin Forsythe
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL for eServer i5 and iSeries
Publisher: Mc Press
Authors: Kevin Forsythe
Rating: 4/5
We are new to SQL and have found this book to be invaluable. Especially when added to some other books we have. Kevin has gone out of his way to answer questions and help. This is a must have book for any iSeries Shop that is using SQL and Embedded SQL.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Instant SQL Server 2000 Applications
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Greg Buczek
Rating: 2/5
Title: Instant SQL Server 2000 Applications
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Greg Buczek
Rating: 2/5
I purchased this book more for the quick and dirty SQL applications than for the detailed 'How-To'. Unfortunately some code examples were created with a very early version of Visual Studio.NET. The code is now obsolete, so you must spend a fair amount of time repairing the code and bringing it up to the latest VisualStudio.NET conventions. Even then you might not get it working. I wish the publisher would make code corrections and errata available on their web site, but they do not.
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
I have been around computers for years, but am just beginning to enter the programming world. This was a perfect book for me. In addition, when I did run into trouble, the author, Julie Meloni emailed me back right away, to show me where I went wrong.I tried David Medinets' book, but it was a little too advanced for me. Actually, now that I've read PHP Essentials, I'm sure the Medinets book will be more useful.The skills learned in "PHP Essentials" are presented in an easy and logical manner. The code is available 'online' at the book's website www.thickbook.com (if you need to copy and paste), but for beginners, I recommend actually typing all the code (as I did). It's a great way to learn.I can't wait for Julie's next book!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 4/5
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 4/5
If you want a great resource to maximize your Google search, the first 90 pages or so are for you. I have picked up quite a few tricks that I now use everyday in my research at work.The bulk of the book deals with the API, and writing applications with it, or integrating it into your exisiting web pages. The next 40 pages or so get you started and are at a level that almost any web developer can understand and apply.After that, the book hits the API pretty hard, and you are going to need a Google Developer key, and some knowledge or Perl or other scripting language to really make use of it. Even if you dont regularly use Perl, if you know any script at all you can follow along, and it is actually very interesting.If you are looking for a end-to end Google user's guide, you will find some of that here, but web developers will benefit most.
