IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle8 Pl/SQL Black Book (Black Book (Coriolis Group Books Paperback))
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Mark Gokman, Jonathn Ingram, Jonathan W. Ingram
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle8 Pl/SQL Black Book (Black Book (Coriolis Group Books Paperback))
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Mark Gokman, Jonathn Ingram, Jonathan W. Ingram
Rating: 5/5
This book is a great guide to PL/SQL, especially for DBA's and non-programmers. The reference section is especially good, and I can quickly find PL/SQL snippets to assist me.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Learning Oracle PL/SQL
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Bill Pribyl
Rating: 3/5
Title: Learning Oracle PL/SQL
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Bill Pribyl
Rating: 3/5
Listen Software Solutions: PL/SQL introduces a new dimension of power programming capability for the developer. The goal of reusable code measurely improves quality verse vast amounts of non-reusable SQL. PL/SQL packages describe function and procedure specification and body. The specification describes the package interface to the calling application. The package specification approach is part of good design. The package specification exposes procedures and their parameter properties to external applications. Each specification has a package body. Within the package body various data structures, such as arrays and tables can be referenced, functions called, and procedures executed. Developers new to PL/SQL often understand insert, update, and delete data manipulations; but are confused about selection. This is because they don't know about cursors. I recommend this book. As a developer having knowledge resource information is critical.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sybase Transact SQL Guidelines Best Practices
Publisher: Isosf Software
Authors: Mich Talebzadeh, Ryan Thomas Putnam
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sybase Transact SQL Guidelines Best Practices
Publisher: Isosf Software
Authors: Mich Talebzadeh, Ryan Thomas Putnam
Rating: 5/5
I work as a developer in NY with both MIcrosoft and Sybase. I have found this book very useful. It saves me from accessing Sybase manuals. The other book that I use is the O'reilly Transact-SQL Programming. However, that book only covered up to Sybase 11.5 and is well out of date. So I am pleased to see this new Sybase Transact SQL book out.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Web Wizard's Guide to PHP
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: David Lash
Rating: 4/5
Title: The Web Wizard's Guide to PHP
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: David Lash
Rating: 4/5
I teach an introductory web sequence that includes some PHP. I use this book because it has good explanations instead of doing lite coverage of everything that's done on the web.The book's website is hosed, however. Ignore it as they have ignored my pleas for fixing it. By Fall I'll probably have a version that does what the book says it does.Thin is OK if the book is good. This book is both.As you work through the book, get acquainted with the manual at www.php.net - it'll take you the next step.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Instant PHP 4
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Michael Walker, Robert Cox, Neal Anders
Rating: 3/5
Title: Instant PHP 4
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Michael Walker, Robert Cox, Neal Anders
Rating: 3/5
This book has several worth-while projects, including an on-line store shopping cart, a PHP information console, and an on-line address book, and a couple of others. If you already know a little PHP you can get some good examples from the book. If you're wanting learn PHP, look elsewhere. I also found it a bit $$Pricey$$ which is why I gave it 3 stars instead of 4.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Dejan Sunderic, Tom Woodhead
Rating: 5/5
This is one of the clearest, most useful programming books I have ever run across in 18 years of programming! If you are doing anything more than writing simple queries, get this book. Highly useful for those developing ADO.NET SQL Server applications, because it covers all the nuances of SQL stored procedures and triggers that you'll want behind your ADO.NET apps. Also covers the differences between SQL 7 and 2000 clearly, and goes into automating administrative tasks via T-SQL, including the Windows registry. Has a good introduction to SQL XML.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Rob Vieira
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Rob Vieira
Rating: 5/5
I have read both books that Rob Vieira has written on SQL Server (Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming and Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming) and have found that both books are great for mastering SQL Server. There is still a lot of SQL Server 7.0 applications and databases out there in the real world. If you are assigned to develop or maintain such a database, you need to read this book. You could combine this with Thearon Willis' book "Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0" to get a better understanding of using SQL Server 7.0 and Visual Basic 5.0/6.0 together (and also ADO/RDO/DAO).
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
The book flows more like a novel then a text book. A pleasurable read. The content is as fresh and empowing as PHP itself. Great for novice programmers with HTML experience and an excellent resource for experienced programmers new to PHP.For open source to survive, we need more authors like Atkinson.
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
This e-book is great for learning useful tips and tricks for Google. It has saved me tons of time searching. Anyone who uses Google regularly--anyone who needs information at their fingertips, really--will benefit from this book. And at 1.99 you simply cannot beat it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning SQL Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Kevin Spencer, Ian Herbert, Sakhr Youness, Julian Skinner
Rating: 1/5
Title: Beginning SQL Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Kevin Spencer, Ian Herbert, Sakhr Youness, Julian Skinner
Rating: 1/5
This has got to be the worst book on any computing subject ever published. The try it out sections and code snippets throughout the book are about 80% incorrect, honestly the level of errors and poor coding is disgraceful. Wrox books are normally of a very high quality but this one is absolutely terrible, I can't emphasised that enough. I begun this book with high enthusiasm for this subject but now my enthusiasm has totally diminished. Apart from the appalling level of errors there is also a high level or repetition, which can only be down to poor communication among its authors. Then in other areas you'll find exceptional weak explanations or explanations lacking altogether.The book skims over most of SQL, it doesn't cover it all by a long shot (as another reviewer has suggested). Also those who have praised this book must of read it like a novel, because if they really analysed and tested the code they would of realised most of it is incorrect. I just don't believe anyone who really examined this book could give it any praise, it really is awful.Some of the try it out sections constantly use parts of SQL that aren't covered till later in the book, so you're pretty much left hanging, or jumping back and forward. Confusion reigns. You'll also find that the authors apply a style of SQL common to the DBMS they each use most often, so you end up with different types of SQL. This is all very well for an intermediate or advanced text but not in a book for beginners, as this just adds to the already overloaded confusion level.The case study at the end of the book uses both ASP and VBScript so if you don't know those you can forget the case study. This is disappointing as case studies can really help your understanding of the language, and how it should be applied in the real world. The errata page for the book on the Wrox website only includes about 9 errors (at the time of writing this). I've been told that they haven't got anyone to do these updates yet, this has been the case for sometime. So if you encounter trouble you'll have to find a forum and a helpful techie to help you through instead of Wrox support. This is very annoying and extremely disappointing consider the volume of errors. So prepare yourself for some major headaches.If you complete this book you'll note yourself feeling numb and confused . You will have to buy another book to put all the wrongs in this book right in your mind, and believe me there are loads of wrongs to put right. This really is a very, very poor publication. DON'T BUY!!!
