IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
I loved this book on SQL. Read it cover-to-cover (including appendices) and found it easy to understand and learn from
very efficiently. The author anticipates the special cases and questions that will occur to the reader following each exposition, and addresses them well. And I appreciated that it had an accompanying web site for downloading the example databases and scripts.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 4/5
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 4/5
This is a good book for intermediate to advanced VB programmers that want to get a good handle on e-commerce. There are lots of errors, and the WROX errata webpage is TERRIBLE. For a publisher of such great programming books, WROX needs to get a better web page, it is pure crap. There is also one irritating thing about this book. The author is from England and writes all the code from that perspective, putting in Englands equivalent of sales tax the VAT on all sales and does not give any suggestions to change that, which is not that big of a deal. The book, though, will give you great insight as to how ecommerce works. The step by step instructions are not hard to follow, however, some of the more complex tasks he simply tells you to code them he does not explain them.
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
Excellent coverage of ecommerce site building for anyone with some experience in html and preferably dynamic site building (not necessary) and sql. I am a professional JSP/Java coder and found this book to be very clear, precise and comprehensive. Highly recommended!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional Apache Tomcat
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Chanoch Wiggers, Ben Galbraith, Vivek Chopra, Sing Li, Debashish Bhattacharjee, Amit Bakore, Romin Irani, Sandip Bhattacharya, Chad Fowler
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional Apache Tomcat
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Chanoch Wiggers, Ben Galbraith, Vivek Chopra, Sing Li, Debashish Bhattacharjee, Amit Bakore, Romin Irani, Sandip Bhattacharya, Chad Fowler
Rating: 5/5
If you use Tomcat, this book is almost a must. This book will teach the reader not only how to install Tomcat, but configure it for optimal performance. In the first few hours with the book, I had learned how Tomcat actually worked, how to connect Tomcat with my Apache server, and how to configure those sometimes cryptic server.xml and web.xml files. The book also has a chapter on JDBC for readers interested in using web-based databases and has a separate chapter for two other open-source programs: Ant and Log4J.Some web-admin pros probably will not need this book, and yes, some of the information the book provides can be found for free sprinkled throughout the web. However, it cannot be denied that the Jakarta Project's own documentation on Tomcat (as well as the open-source Tomcat book on Sourceforge.net) are definitely not as thorough or good as "Professional Apache Tomcat," not to mention that the book provides a convenient one-stop source for all questions.Many other reviewers agree: "Professional Apache Tomcat" is worth its weight in gold if you use Tomcat extensively.
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
With very little PHP experience, but a fair amount of other language experience (Java, VB, HTML), I learned a considerable amount of information from this book. I'm very glad I purchased it, although I wish the book had at least been read by someone before sending it to the press.Many of the typos were glaring. Like: a word was supposed to be dotted-underlined to signify a foreign key (p. 184), or a table was referred to, but no table existed (sorry, can't find the specific referrence, but I know it was there).Either way, if a second edition comes out with updates such as XML, WAP, etc. with some editing, buy it with confidence. Other than that, buy it with the understanding that problems exist but you will still definately benefit overall.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 5/5
I have been a Visual Basic, Access/DAO programmer for about 5 years and was very excited when Microsoft brought out SQL Server 7. However, I could never find the right book to get me going with SQL Server 7 and the associated Active Data Objects (ADO). This book does it all from creating a SQL Server 7 database up through the development of a fairly sophisticated business application. The numerous examples are very clear and meaningful. I have yet to find an error in the examples. If you are a Visual Basic Programmer looking for a jump-start into SQL Server 7, this is the book for you.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: OCP Developer PL/SQL Program Units Exam Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Steve O'Hearn
Rating: 5/5
Title: OCP Developer PL/SQL Program Units Exam Guide
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Steve O'Hearn
Rating: 5/5
I used this book as one of my study guides for the new IZ0-147 "Oracle 9i: Program with PL/SQL" exam which I recently passed. This is an excellent book that covers many of the concepts found in the IZ0-147 exam. It, of course, does not cover everything needed for the IZ0-147 exam. Some things to look up elsewhere include LOBs, side effects (sql stmts calling functions are covered well in the book), and the 'call' command used in a trigger.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ronald R. Plew, Bryan Morgan, Jeff Perkins
Rating: 3/5
Title: Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ronald R. Plew, Bryan Morgan, Jeff Perkins
Rating: 3/5
For the price you gain a lot of knowledge in a short amount of time. 21 days or less it's easy to read thru a chapter or 3 and only spend an hour doing it. I wouldn't turn anyone away from this book, but a Novice or low level user should be aware that they may need to re-read a chapter more then once.it's a good book. covers a lot of information in a basic fashion with simple examples.Great if you understand some programming or basic Database concepts and you just want to get up to speed on some more advanced topics. Could also be good for novice users looking to start learning about SQL, I just think some of the examples and explanations might be a little hard for someone who's never used databases before. But, if they read each chapter twice if they feel like they are missing something, I think they will be fine and be happy with this book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MCSE Test Success: SQL Server 7 Administration
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Michael Lee, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 3/5
Title: MCSE Test Success: SQL Server 7 Administration
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Michael Lee, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 3/5
This book is an okay supliment to another book, but alone I wouldn't expect to pass the test with it. It would be an alright book for the novice, or to just brush up on your knowledge. It does not conatin enough information on TSQL statements. Everything they go over is geared towards using Enterprise Manager. Also, it doesn't go into enough depth on many critical topics. I haven't taken the test yet, I'm getting another book. I can tell from previous MS SQL exams that this book alone will not prepare me for exam 70-028.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Matthew Reynolds
Rating: 5/5
An extraordinary ASP E-Commerce book that stands out as simply as one the best. I'll just hit the high points.First, the author's approach is not only exhaustively complete, but is based on proven methodologies. The genesis of Mr. Reynold's methodology appears to be based in the core of ASP, COM, SQL, MTS and e-commerce object models making and excellent design with this fictitious web storefront called "Jo's Coffee". Highlights: (1) Many times in this 600 page book was the ASP, COM, VBScript products and technology mentioned, making this book as applicable for today standards. (2)The author focuses on ASP basic requirements, dedicating a good portion of the book to discovering and prioritizing E-Commerce business model that will drive how E-Commerce Store fronts could dynamically evolve to support those huge stores. (3) The approach is realistic, which is evidenced by one of many interesting techniques the author provides. (4) The book is structured in such a way that it follows the E-Commece architecture project phases and stages.I like the way the author uses the ASP code in combination with the components for this project and checklists provided throughout the book. I also like the excellent code illustrations examples that depict process flows of the store provided in the body of the book. This book definitely delivers.As an tenured E-Commerce Strategic Architec the planning methodology and framework of this book is a great approach for the beginner to intermediate ASP Developer. Even the most experienced consultant will learn a few new techniques, and those who are new to E-Commerce strategic planning will learn how to do it the right way. Five stars go out to this outstanding book and my compliments to the author.
