IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 5/5
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 5/5
This book is one that every computer geek should own. Google Hacks is a companion reference book for the mother of all search engines, Google. This awesome volume contains the history of how Google came to be, tips and tricks to get the search engine to give you exactly what you need, and fun games you can play on Google - such as the ever popular Google Whacking. I plan to not only buy a copy of this book, but also recommend at the next staff meeting that all my co-workers read at least the first part of Google Hacks.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days (4th Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ron Plew, Ryan Stephens
Rating: 4/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days (4th Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ron Plew, Ryan Stephens
Rating: 4/5
I've read this book at my work. So useful information for understanding SQL as a Language. SQL makes an RDBMS possible.
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
The publisher sent me a copy to review before publishing and I can only say that I wish I had had this book when I was learning SQL.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Unleashed (Unleashed)
Publisher: Sams Pub
Authors: David Solomon, Ray Rankins, David S. Solomon, Jeff Steinmetz
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Unleashed (Unleashed)
Publisher: Sams Pub
Authors: David Solomon, Ray Rankins, David S. Solomon, Jeff Steinmetz
Rating: 5/5
SQL 6.5 Unleashed has some great details on how the the db engine works, how to optimize queries along with what to avoid. This should be a definite buy!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Wireless Web Development with PHP and WAP
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Ray Rischpater
Rating: 2/5
Title: Wireless Web Development with PHP and WAP
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Ray Rischpater
Rating: 2/5
Not much meat, I think this book was a general waste of time and money
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 DTS Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Carl Rabeler
Rating: 3/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 DTS Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Carl Rabeler
Rating: 3/5
I have gone through half the book.The good part:
Walks you through many areas step-by-step. Repeats steps in other excerises. You will learn a lot.The bad part:
The book doesn't teach you a process from the making of a connection to processing a cube. I need to Extact, Transform, & Load, and then process a cube. The book teaches ETL. Try another book.TC
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Tomcat Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jon Eaves, Warner Godfrey, Rupert Jones
Rating: 5/5
Title: Apache Tomcat Bible
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Jon Eaves, Warner Godfrey, Rupert Jones
Rating: 5/5
It is always a wonderful thing to find an excellent technical reference that is also highly *readable* - the enthusiasm of the authors for the subject is obvious to the reader and their pragmatic approach most welcome. Regardless of if you are an experienced developer or beginner, I believe you will find a wealth of information in this book to justify the purchase. (I found the sections on how tomcat manages classloading and security of particular interest).I believe that if your primary development and deployment platform is tomcat then this book will be of great use. Although this book is somewhat Windows centric, those of us who use real operating systems (i.e. Unix based derivatives) will still find real value from this book. The authors obviously have deep experience with the platform and
I can only highly recommend this book to anyone working with Tomcat
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCSD: SQL Server 6.5 Database Design Study Guide
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Kevin Hough
Rating: 1/5
Title: MCSD: SQL Server 6.5 Database Design Study Guide
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Kevin Hough
Rating: 1/5
I passed this exam but NO thanks to this book. I think I spent more time cross-checking the content with SQL Server books online for accuracy. I have some relational database background and so, could spot some of the blatant technical errors in the book. But I pity the freshers who rely on this book to get them thru the exam. Doing the practice tests was so frustrating since so many answers were wrong. Example: Which type of data integrity is ensured by using a primary key? Answer in the book: Referential Integrity. I can't believe it carries a label saying "Microsoft Approved Study Guide".
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
I used to work a lot in Microsoft Access, but since Microsoft released MSDE as part of Access 2000, I am doing a lot more SQL Server projects. I recommend this book to you if you need to learn about TSQL and stored procedure development. However, this book is probably not the best place to start if you need to learn about basic database concepts like tables, indexes and select, update and insert statements. It's definitely for the intermediate to senior database developer. You should definitely get this book if you want to improve your ability to build complex stored procedures systematically.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning SQL Server 2000 for Visual Basic Developers
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning SQL Server 2000 for Visual Basic Developers
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 5/5
This is a brilliant book. I bought the previous version and this one is even better than the last.Thearons style is easy to follow, flowing, and well explained. All the examples are clear and concise. Although a Beginners book, you soon are up to speed and by the end, ready to tackle more advanced topics.I recommend this along with Rob Viera's Prof SQL Server book.
