IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server: What Database Administrators Need to Know
Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
Authors: Jeffry Byrne, Jeffry L. Byrne
Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server: What Database Administrators Need to Know
Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
Authors: Jeffry Byrne, Jeffry L. Byrne
Rating: 5/5
I am a relative newcomer to the database server arena yet found enough in this book to get me well on my way. Very easy to follow.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCSE/MCSD: SQL Server 7 Database Design Study Guide
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Kevin Hough
Rating: 1/5
Title: MCSE/MCSD: SQL Server 7 Database Design Study Guide
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Kevin Hough
Rating: 1/5
When my company went to MS SQL 7 I wanted a source that tells me what I needed in a complete but easy to understand manner. This book does it in a manner that everyone should be able to take advantage of. I'm using this book so much at work and home that I bought a second copy.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Linux Apache Web Server Administration, Second Edition (Craig Hunt Linux Library)
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Charles Aulds, Charles Aulds
Rating: 4/5
Title: Linux Apache Web Server Administration, Second Edition (Craig Hunt Linux Library)
Publisher: Sybex
Authors: Charles Aulds, Charles Aulds
Rating: 4/5
If this book had included an electronic copy on CDROM, it would have been perfect! It is difficult to find an administration manual written for the network professional that covers the subjects in enough depth without making it impossible to grasp key concepts quickly. This book presents not only the operational knowlege needed but includes an inside front cover code listing table of contents making it easy to find those "how to" code examples we seldom use, but can never find when needed. The money and, more importantly, my time, spent on this book was well worth it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 2/5
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 2/5
I needed to learn PHP for an assignment quickly and this book was highly recommended. After reading it, I know why. It does an excellent job of explaining PHP in a logical order with very useful examples. It also manages to keep some of the drier topics like regular expressions entertaining while doing a great job of explaining them. If you need to learn PHP, this is The Book to buy.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server Query Performance Tuning Distilled, Second Edition
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Sajal Dam
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL Server Query Performance Tuning Distilled, Second Edition
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Sajal Dam
Rating: 4/5
I'm the author of the book "SQL Server Query Performance Tuning Distilled." To address the concerns of the readers of my book, I have started working with Apress. Apress understands the popularity of the book and has rendered the code samples for download at www.curlingstone.com. Apress is putting sincere effort in promoting the book. Meanwhile, if you find the content of the book highly useful for your database team, then I can consider sharing the knowledge with your team; if time permits, I may be able to deliver a good part of the content in a two-day presentation. If you feel that such an effort on my part will be useful for you and your team, then please feel free to write to my emailid sajaldam1@hotmail.com.
Product: Book Textbook Binding
Title: McSe: SQL Server 7 Database Design (The Training Guide Series)
Publisher: New Riders Publishing
Authors: David Besch, Sean Baird, Chris Miller, Denis Darveau, Wayne Smith, Deanna Townsend
Rating: 4/5
Title: McSe: SQL Server 7 Database Design (The Training Guide Series)
Publisher: New Riders Publishing
Authors: David Besch, Sean Baird, Chris Miller, Denis Darveau, Wayne Smith, Deanna Townsend
Rating: 4/5
MCDBA Certification was a long 11-Week Study Journey. This book was a companion on half the trip. It's well written and easy to follow. The examples and questions very good and in some respect did prepare me partially for the real test. The real test is Long, Demanding and requires very solid knowledge of Database Design and Normalizing. SQL's Books on line is also a valuable companion the helps supplement and take the reader through that extra step needed to pass the test with a good score. It's missing some needed details on a topic or two like DBCC SHOWCONTIG and Index covering, and solid examples on Transactions. I had to supplement that with Exam Cram Book. I Do recommend this Book but not as the only guide.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Robert Vieira
Rating: 4/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Robert Vieira
Rating: 4/5
I found this book to be very helpful. The author has given a lot of descriptive explanantions for the code in the book and the book is concise and to the point.Is much better than the other SQL Server Programming books out there.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional Apache (Professional)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Peter Wainwright
Rating: 4/5
Title: Professional Apache (Professional)
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Peter Wainwright
Rating: 4/5
First off, don't confuse this with a web design book: this book will not show you ANY HTML coding whatsoever. This is all about configuring Apache... and that it does with aplomb.Apache is really easy to get up and running, and although this book shows you how to do that, that's not the half of it. It's the tough stuff: virtual hosting, dynamic web sites, and the Apache modules, where this book really earns it's keep.In short, there's nothing you can do with Apache that this book can't show you, in my opinion. Quite obviously, it's not really aimed at the average Joe, but if you're running a medium sized web server or above, and you're running Apache, you'll probably benefit from reading this. Especially good is the content on dynamic sites and secure serving: this is, of course, the basis for modern e-commerce, which is probably what 90% of us buy this book for! More good stuff comes in the way of monitoring Apache, and tuning the performance - after reading this book, and applying some of the knowledge contained with, I found myself with a horribly reliable Apache setup which I no longer need to fiddle with. Job's a good 'un, as we say in Yorkshire!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Matt Zandstra
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Matt Zandstra
Rating: 5/5
I got this book thinking, "Hey, this might help me get a leg up on that new PHP 5 OOP stuff." That it did.
However, this book accomplishes much more than that. Zandstra sets himself a several goals and meets them all quite well. These include: providing an understanding of classes, objects, and interfaces in PHP 5; presenting a numbers of useful design patterns as expressed in PHP 5 terms; giving the reader information about and insight into advanced development tools and methodologies for large-scale PHP 5 projects.
A particularly valuable service provided by the author lies in the fact that there is a real dearth of material on design patterns for PHP developers, most of the literature on this subject being written with the assumption that the reader is highly proficient in Java or C++ (or possibly Smalltalk). This is all well and good if your background includes lots of work or study in one or more of these; however, for many Web developers, PHP is the primary and sometimes only programming language (and for many more, their only previous experience is with other scripting languages such as Perl, Python, JavaScript, VBScript, etc.). Zandstra goes to the effort of translating many of the classic "Gang of Four" design patterns into PHP 5 code and thereby makes accessible a realm that was heretofore unknown to many PHP developers.
If this were all that the book covered, it would be useful in and of itself for this alone. But the author also gives us a good, thorough grounding in both the mechanics of PHP 5's new object model and (especially important!) the rationale behind it. He also provides a nice tutorial on UML modeling along the way, and finishes up with a look at some current development tools like Phing and CVS. There are plenty of helpful and useful examples along the way.
I give this book 5 stars for having really helped me wrap my head round some advanced OO programming and design concepts. I've already got loads of use from it; my copy is about two months old, and it's already getting dog-eared. It's also a very enjoyable read, and a real cut above most of the "How To Program In ..." sorts of books. This is the perfect book for someone with some experience with writing PHP code who's looking to move up to the next level - creating real, scalable, enterprise-level PHP applications.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Rick Dobson
Rating: 5/5
Title: Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Rick Dobson
Rating: 5/5
I am the author of Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, and I am writing this review to offer an alternative perspective from the one Mr. Geary's review presents. I aimed to ceate a book that had special relevance for those creating solutions for SQL Server 2000 with Visual Basic .NET.
The book has two main sections. The first section takes you through typical database developer topics, such as creating tables, programming data access, and managing SQL Server security. This section also devotes space to other traditional topics, such as data manipulation and stored procedure programming. More space goes to views, triggers, and user-defined functions. Nearly all the programming samples in the first section are with T-SQL. The second section demonstrates how to invoke T-SQL code via Visual Basic .NET.
One special feature of the book is its coverage of SQL Server Web releases that focus on XML functionality. The first part covers two Web releases, and the third Web release gains focus in the book's second part. In addition, another whole chapter in the second section demonstrates how to program XML via Visual Basic .NET.
The second section drills down on .NET and how to apply it to SQL Server 2000 databases. This part contains over 50 percent of the book's page count. Instead of focusing narrowly on Visual Basic .NET, it takes a broad perspective and addresses topics such as .NET concepts, creating Windows applications with Visual Basic .NET, and ADO.NET. In addition, the book includes a couple of chapters on ASP.NET and XML Web Services. Despite the wide scope of the second section, the section provides scores of code samples that convey basic coding techniques for creating SQL Server solutions with Visual Basic .NET. You will discover samples on programming class inheritance, event programming, and error handling. Other samples demonstrate how to perform data access and data manipulation for SQL Server databases with code behind Windows forms and Web pages. The book's final chapter presents four samples demonstrating how to create and consume XML Web Services. Two of these samples demonstrate the use of the SQL Server 2000 Web Services Toolkit.
