IT programming books related reviews
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
If you are brand new to SQL Server, get a simpler book. If you've been working with SQL Server for awhile and want to improve you Transact-SQL skills, look no further -- this is the book for you. I've been working in MSSQL for many years now and this book taught me loads I didn't know the first night I opened it. Undocumented DBCCs, cool statistical functions, array handling, extremely useful administrative code (you can use lots of it right out of the box), etc., all combine to create the most comprehensive body of TSQL work I've ever seen.Note: the book requires and repays careful rereading. You will not be able to read it in one setting. I spent a week and a half on it the first time through, and that was hitting the book every night. It's very dense, and you'll want to study the annotated code listings to get the most out of them. Like the other reviews have said, this book is not just for gurus. It's also not for the faint of heart -- you will have to study it to get the most out of it. However, if you learn everything in it, you'll be a guru yourself when you get done. I'm still working on that one myself.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 1/5
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 1/5
I was greatly disappointed by the style of this book. The jokes are good. The side trails are interesting. But this book should have been edited before it went to the editors. I just don't have hours to spend reading for pleasure. I want to read for knowledge and understanding of a subject. Nothing agiainst the author - I'm sure he is a great speaker. But I want to know about SQL Server and this is the most indirect approach to any subject I have seen in a long time. I am in search of a book that can deliver on the facts of SQL Server and how to use it. Maybe Microsoft feels they owe this author free reign to write as he pleases, but this book does not do Microsoft Publishing proud. IMHO - I would like to see a Reader's Digest version of this book without all the babbling. After 200 pages - I'm looking for another book. I read as much as I can every day - but I expect to get something out of it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP4 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Deepak Thomas, Wankyu Choi, John Coggeshall, Ken Egervari, Martin Geisler, Zak Greant, Andrew Hill, Chris Hubbard, James Moore, Devon O'Dell, Jon Parise, Harish Rawat, Tarique Sani, Christopher Scollo, Chris Ullman, et al
Rating: 3/5
Title: Professional PHP4 Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Deepak Thomas, Wankyu Choi, John Coggeshall, Ken Egervari, Martin Geisler, Zak Greant, Andrew Hill, Chris Hubbard, James Moore, Devon O'Dell, Jon Parise, Harish Rawat, Tarique Sani, Christopher Scollo, Chris Ullman, et al
Rating: 3/5
Ok, so you have read PHP Programming for the Mentally Challanged, or Learn PHP in 23.5 minutes, or some other similar tome that seems to regurgitate itself every week or two...Now you are thinking, "What should I do to take the next step?"
Answer: Read this book.While this book has its share of typos, errors and other "burps" it is quite well presented, and if you take the time to use it, and truely study it, the errors will be easily fixed.I have been working with PHP for all too long now, and I have given this book to a number of collegues to get them up to speed, and I have not been disappointed yet.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server The Complete Reference
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Gayle Coffman
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server The Complete Reference
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Gayle Coffman
Rating: 5/5
I have been looking for this book for 5 years. There is no substitute for having a hard copy you can browse, that shows ALL the language keywords, ALL the system stored procedures, etc. An indispensable reference book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Developer's Cookbook (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski
Rating: 4/5
Title: PHP Developer's Cookbook (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski
Rating: 4/5
This book is quite handy to put in the next of your monitor. When you are facing problem on some implementations, open this book and it will give you insight how to do it. Every aspect of the problem solving implementation has covered in this book.
Cool.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: A Guide to Developing Client/Server SQL Applications (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Authors: Setrag Khoshafian, Arvola Chan, Anna Wong, Harry K.T. Wong
Rating: 5/5
Title: A Guide to Developing Client/Server SQL Applications (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Authors: Setrag Khoshafian, Arvola Chan, Anna Wong, Harry K.T. Wong
Rating: 5/5
This is a book for those who want to better understand how relation database management systems work and are built. I especially enjoy the comparisons made across some popular systems that indicate design tradeoffs by the vendors. The discussions on optimization are extremely valuable and insightful.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Bruno Mairlot, Gareth Downes-Powell, Tim Green
Rating: 5/5
Title: Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Bruno Mairlot, Gareth Downes-Powell, Tim Green
Rating: 5/5
I devoted a weekend to reading this book and building the tutorial. I started with no knowledge of PHP or any other web application languages besides HTML. It explains everything clearly and simply.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 4/5
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 4/5
Experienced programmers will find the first few chapters a bit slow, it seems to be aimed at people fairly new to any sort of programming. The pace picks up later in the book, with good sections on connecting to a MySQL database, using XML, generating graphics on the fly etc. The book concludes with a complete sample application using a backend database.For newcomers to PHP it's a good starting place, experienced web programmers/developers could probably jump straight in with Professional PHP.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 1/5
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 1/5
The book with its error and the stuff it give u, i bet u better look for any other book around.. if there is nothing else to spend in your money .. please do buy it
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Illustrator 10: Mastering Artistic Design
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Sae Nan Chong, Hyun Sook Seo
Rating: 2/5
Title: Illustrator 10: Mastering Artistic Design
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Sae Nan Chong, Hyun Sook Seo
Rating: 2/5
I was really struck by the projects in this book. I wanted a better understanding of Gradient Meshes and I hoped for some tips and techniques.
The projects really are appealing to do, at least most of them are. As a person who is totally willing to read a tutorial book from cover to cover, I was really disappointed. Right from the start there were glaring omissions from one step to the next.
In chapter 5 there was a heading titled "Adding Gradient Mesh Effects to the Petals" for a section about drawing the outlines of Egyptian characters. But, honestly, that was the least of the problems. Further, I felt the book lacked good technique. The first project has you create an hourglass. Instead of making the whole hourglass and then rotating the whole thing 15 degrees or so, each separate item was draw at an angle which made scaling and sizing the separate pieces much harder than necessary.
This book feels like it was proofread merely for typos while no effort was made to check the usability of the instructions.
I'm a fairly advanced Illustrator user and there were several times where I had to re-read a section several times and then throw up my hands and just do it my own way.
This is a good book for someone who just wants some artistic inspiration but doesn't much care about reading the instructions. If you browse the book, you will probably pick up a trick or tip or two, but don't expect any revelations. For [money amount]you can do better.
