IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 5/5
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 5/5
Excellent Resource with great working examples. I look forward to more PHP references and working code. I appreciate the efforts of Mr. Atkinson.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
I'm a newbe in PHP, and to tell you the truth this book took all the fear away that I had about PHP. I LOVE it! Trust me, if you need to learn PHP from the beginning, this is a great beginner book. I KNOW it was for me. It talks very detailed about PHP and how to program with it. It has a very good flavour of MySQL as well.GREAT CHOICE!!!!Ilir Kuqi
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Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning PHP4 Databases
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Andrew Hill, Chris Lea, Christopher Scollo, Deepak Thomas, Harish Rawat
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning PHP4 Databases
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Andrew Hill, Chris Lea, Christopher Scollo, Deepak Thomas, Harish Rawat
Rating: 5/5
Do not wish to use too many words. I can just say that this book was of great help to me. Though dabbling with PHP, I learnt a lot from the book, since it has dealt with lot of basic knowledge of databases. Was just the right one for a student like me who had very little knowledge of the databases. Kudos to the authors!!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 4/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 4/5
I bought this book because of all the hype reviews. But after having read it, I didn't find the book that good.This book is like another version of the Book Online documentation with fancy wordings inserted here and there to take up space. Also, I find the author's writing style difficult to comprehend. Phrase like "In this chapter, you will explored the ubiquitous, omnipotent Transact-SQL...". Gee, since when sql programming have to be written in POETIC language?I find this book boring to read after a while - lots of fast forward reading to find the BEEF! This book contains tons of code samples, but many of them dealt with trivial materials unfortunately (in my opinion); and having to compile these trivial materials can only strain your eyes and focus.Though there are some very good chapters in this book. Chapter 6 on the SELECT statement is very good. It covers a wide range of scenarios, such as sub-correlated and alias queries, plus some new features of Transact-SQL. Chapter 16 on performance is also good. Finally, chapter 18 on Full-Text search is excellent. Clear and concise, straight to the point with clean code examples. Also, it pointed out some very important issues. I don't regret buying this book at all. Infact, this book does contains some valuable tips that will no doubt elevate your sql programming skill. Unfortunately though, you will have to do a lots of filter reading to extract those goodies.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 2/5
Title: PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 2/5
I couldn't get past page 8 in this book. The mysqld-opt command to use to start the mysql server is not what www.mysql.com recommends for a windows machine. The book looks like it's easy to read. But I couldnt get out of the starting block with the mysql effort in the first chapter. It was easier to buy a mysql book and do it the correct way. Some URL's are needed in the install area that take one to some type of Mysql installation help. There are some at the back of the book, but I only saw those as I was dropping the book in the trash.It's probably not the books fault, but mysql installations on a windows machine... well you have to be lucky. There is no forum easily accessbile at mysql.com and google points mostly to linux resources...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Java Databases: JDBC, SQL, J2EE, EJB, JSP, XML
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Kevin Mukhar, Todd Lauinger, John Carnell
Rating: 1/5
Title: Beginning Java Databases: JDBC, SQL, J2EE, EJB, JSP, XML
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Kevin Mukhar, Todd Lauinger, John Carnell
Rating: 1/5
Having read over two-thirds of this huge volume, I am now of the opinion that it probably is not the best place to begin exploring Java database development. The word "Beginning" in the title is a bit misleading: you shouldn't approach this book without a solid grounding in Java and databases in general. True, the introductory chapters cover essential SQL and other database concepts, but there is a steady ramping-up in the difficulty level as the book progresses, and it doesn't ever really level off. For example, Lauinger's treatment of his own Java Layered Frameworks open-source project in Chapter 16 is long-winded and daunting. And the later chapters assume complete familiarity with XML, JavaBeans, Servlets, and other more "advanced" topics. So, all in all, for the JDBC beginner I think that this is not the best book to begin your explorations of JDBC.On the other hand, this is an exceptionally thorough book, very well written and with few typos. The authors are likeable, the price is affordable, the presentation and the coding are laid out well, the printing and binding excellent. So it may be just the book for you if you have the patience to plod through its 900 pages. Certainly, the book makes an excellent reference. However, it only covers the business logic of Java database applications. Most of the examples in the book are console-based programs for testing the business logic. There is no coverage of GUI-related topics, for example how to present data in a grid. As one of the authors remarks somewhere, their purpose in writing the book was not to present "pretty GUI's" but rather to concentrate on the internals, the business logic. While I can understand the importance of business logic, I also would have liked these experts to have given me some good pointers on how to present data in various data-aware controls in a GUI. After 600+ pages, I'm still waiting....
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle Pl/SQL Programming (Oracle Series)
Publisher: Oracle Pr
Authors: Scott Urman, Tim Smith
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle Pl/SQL Programming (Oracle Series)
Publisher: Oracle Pr
Authors: Scott Urman, Tim Smith
Rating: 5/5
This is part of the Oracle-Press series and, like nearly all
the books Oracle publishes, it is very well executed. The
information you need is all here and all accessible. Great
sections on subjects like tuning and debugging help set
this book apart from its peers. And a comprehensive index
makes this an effective reference. It's one of the four
books stacked next to my keyboard.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Visual Basic Developer's Guide to E-Commerce with ASP and SQL Server
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Noel Jerke
Rating: 3/5
Title: Visual Basic Developer's Guide to E-Commerce with ASP and SQL Server
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Noel Jerke
Rating: 3/5
This book gives an in-depth overview of technologies used to create e-commerce web applications with Microsoft technologies. It is great as a reference of SQL and ASP procedures, which can be readily used. The code examples are comprehensive and complete. I wish however, that the presented examples would be more consistent. For instance, the database design contains special tables for Product Attributes, but the Shopping Basket table does allow only for Color and Size attribute. Another issue is, that every ASP page accesses SQL script to fill the session variables, which should be set only once. I think, that the second thought may be given to this book for the next release, and then it will deserve much higher ratings.
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
There's no stone left unturned here. There's so much code here that I still haven't read through all of it. The commentary is right on - not too thick, not to light. The techniques shown are original and innovative - there's lots of stuff here I've not seen anywhere else. This book is unlike any other SQL book I've seen. It's one of my favorite programming books ever.
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: 2/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 2/5
I showed this to my students and it scared the s**t out of them. An extremely counter-productive experience!
