IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book
Title: How to Use Google : The 30 Most Important Tips, Hacks and Tricks
Publisher:
Authors: Tod Sacerdoti
Rating: 5/5
Title: How to Use Google : The 30 Most Important Tips, Hacks and Tricks
Publisher:
Authors: Tod Sacerdoti
Rating: 5/5
Are you new to the web ? Did you see Google for the first time yesterday ? If you answered Yes, probably this Book is perfect for you. I am a Search Engine Optimization Consultant and I bought this book for a client of mine. After reading this Book he is happy and then I am all set here to say, This book/ebook is Good. Worth the price for the effort by Tod Sacerdoti. If you need more details about this ebook from me, feel free to reach me. My contact details are available at www.nakulgoyal.com !!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Rescued by SQL
Publisher: OnWord Press (Acquired Titles)
Authors: Ted Brockwood
Rating: 5/5
Title: Rescued by SQL
Publisher: OnWord Press (Acquired Titles)
Authors: Ted Brockwood
Rating: 5/5
I stumbled across this book by chance. I gambled and bought it. It is very, very easy to use. Got me up and running with both MS SQL and MySQL (which I downloaded for free). Book covers both -- lots of hands on examples -- each lesson (doesn't use chapters) takes about 10 minutes -- very focused, easy to follow.Looking for something similar now on Active Server.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Official Sybase SQL Anywhere Developer's Guide
Publisher: Itp New Media
Authors: Ian Richmond, Steve Clayton, Derek Ball
Rating: 1/5
Title: Official Sybase SQL Anywhere Developer's Guide
Publisher: Itp New Media
Authors: Ian Richmond, Steve Clayton, Derek Ball
Rating: 1/5
Got to the index, and it is for ver 5.0. Very disappointed
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Programming PHP
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Rating: 4/5
Title: Programming PHP
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Rating: 4/5
This book is a good introduction to the language. Veterans may not get a lot out of it, but might still find the chapters on dealing with databases, images and PDF useful. Newbies, beginners and intermediate users will probably benefit most from this book. PHP is a fairly easy language to learn, and this is a very good book to learn it from.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 1/5
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 1/5
I'm giving this book 1 star because there's no reason it shouldn't cover version 7.0 better than it does. SS 7.0 shouldn't be stuck away in an appendix. Moreover, the coverage of Transact-SQL as a language is quite dated, even for previous versions. Specifically:- The book shows outer joins using the antiquated *= syntax in the WHERE clause. Such joins will produce incorrect results in certain cases, as Henderson aptly points out in the first chapter of The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL.- You should not query the system tables unnecessarily. Many of the sp's and example code in this book query the system tables directly when ANSI-compliant INFORMATION_SCHEMA views exist that return the same info.- The coverage of topics is not systematic. It does not proceed logically. You get the impression that these guys took little ditties they'd written over the years and simply wrote a book around them. Coverage of the bcp command line utility, for example, does not belong in a Transact-SQL book.That's my problem. I'm sure the authors know the subject material. Unfortunately, the book indicates that their knowledge may be a bit dated.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
I've just finished reading this book. The style is excellent, no typos, no garbage and I'd be hard pressed to find any mistakes in the content. This book is an excellent choice for anyone using SQL Server 7.0. I especially liked the many examples given for a certain scenario scaling up from the poorest solution to the best. BOL gives you the "how", this book explains the "why". Thank you Kalen and Ron!
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Rating: 5/5
I purchased three things to help me prepare for the 70-029 exam: This book, the Exam Cram Book, and Transcender. The Exam Cram is garbage, but this book consistently presents the material in an accurate and logical fashion. It fully explains the concepts to the degree that fosters understanding as well as retention. Concept explanations are followed up by numerous examples and it's written in a way that makes a relatively dry subject interesting. It's impossible to go wrong with this book either as a reference or as a study guide.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: XML and PHP
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Vikram Vaswani
Rating: 5/5
Title: XML and PHP
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Vikram Vaswani
Rating: 5/5
I've just started getting into PHP, and have been redeveloping my own site
in PHP. I thought I would experiment with XML also - and this book was, and
still is, perfect for me. The main focus of the book is real-world applications - using XML with PHP
to create XML-enabled web sites. It discusses lots of XML technologies like
XML, XSL, WDDX and XML-RPC, but always keeps the language simple and the
examples easy to understand. However, this does not mean that it is only
useful to novices - each chapter escalates in difficulty to advanced
examples and concepts. All the examples are well-commented and can be understood just by reading
the source - or you can just jump to the explanation for the things you're
confused about. Also keep an eye out for the quotes at the top of each
chapter - they are so cool!! Frankly, this book rocks. It is even fun to read.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt
Rating: 4/5
SQL in a Nutshell is not for those who don't know SQL. What it is, is a very good reference resource when you can't remember how the syntax goes. Breaking each command down to highlight the syntax differences, and in fact the workability of each command, between the basic relational databases. One interesting feature is to let the reader see how far some (Microsoft SQL Server) have deviated from the SQL standards. You're not going to (most likely) read it from cover to cover, rather you will jump to the section(s) that you want and try to absorb the information. Rarely does time pass when I do not find myself referring to this book, just to check to little details. Highly recommended.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: VB.NET & SQL Server 2000: Building an Effective Data Layer
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Tony Bain, Denise Gosnell, Jonathan A. Walsh
Rating: 1/5
Title: VB.NET & SQL Server 2000: Building an Effective Data Layer
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Tony Bain, Denise Gosnell, Jonathan A. Walsh
Rating: 1/5
I own about 20 Wrox programming books. This is one of the more disappointing ones in my collection. I bought the book because I was specifically interested in "Building an Effective Data Layer" with VB.Net, i.e. implementing n-tier applications and specifically the Data Access tier. Unfortunately this important topic rarely came up in the book and when it did it was lost in the details. It does cover the SQLClient, and DataReader, ADO.Net, Data Binding and Stored Procedures. However, other books already do that. It never specifically covers the "Concept" of tiers, nor the strategy for implementing them (e.g. strategies for passing information between tiers, or using VB.Net's more object oriented features to implement the layers). The organization and emphasis was weak. The Second Chapter "The SQLClient Namespace" should have been an appendix. The very last chapter is a Case Study which involves a data layer, but the authors fail to explain the strategy and implementation of data tiers using VB .Net. All-in-all it was very, very disappointing.
