IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Functions Essential Reference
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Zak Greant, Graeme Merrall, Torben Wilson, Brett Michlitsch
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP Functions Essential Reference
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Zak Greant, Graeme Merrall, Torben Wilson, Brett Michlitsch
Rating: 5/5
This book is undeniably the best PHP Reference book I own. It's saved my butt in many situations while programming. Using an index in a regular book to reference a command is anoying and time consumable. Using this book to reference a command is so fast and easy. The index is setup so nicely. Think about it your not always looking for a way to use a particular command sometimes your looking for the command in general and sometimes you don't even know what the command would be under. For instance I had to figure out a way to make pages so they were refreshed at every visit. I didn't even know where to begin. So I went to the index and looked up Caching, boom right there, "preventing, page 238" less then 1 minute later my page is running smooth. I tried that previously in my other reference book (this book is awfull and will remain secret for their sake) impossible. Don't take a risk buy this book wether our an experienced programmer or new to php. Its awsome, I even like the size, easy to tote around and set next to your keyboard unlike these massive 2000 page bibles of unneeded text and garble.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 5/5
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 5/5
This book is outdated. Many of the examples only work on version 6.5. The book is seems fairly comprehensive, but targets an old version of the server. Much of the sample code seems to be even older -- I suspect much of it was developed for 4.2. Also, the syntactical differences between Sybase and Microsoft Transact-SQL are often blurred. The book should have focused on only one of them -- they are enough different to warrant this.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
Excellant reference for commands, but if you decide to get serious, step up to a $(dollar amount) book.If you're a checking it out, just starting out, struggling, or a student - A must buy.The average programmer can get up to speed with PHP using this book extremenly fast. (1-3 Weeks)Short chapters without 'fluff' makes for fast reading. I read the first 50 pages in seating.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP3: Programming Browser-Based Applications with PHP
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Medinets
Rating: 4/5
Title: PHP3: Programming Browser-Based Applications with PHP
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Medinets
Rating: 4/5
I bought this book because I had never used Php or MySQL and wanted to learn them both. I wanted one book not two. I also wanted a good introduction as far as getting started with Php. This book served me well. It contains a brief explanation and easy-to-follow examples to a variety of topics. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn the basics of what Php can do. I would recommend more advanced readers to get a more specific book (i.e., Php or MySQL) based on the specific needs.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 2000 All-in-One Exam Guide (Book/CD Set)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Perkovich
Rating: 1/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 2000 All-in-One Exam Guide (Book/CD Set)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Perkovich
Rating: 1/5
Why didn't I read the reviews before buying it? Because this is the book that the store had, and I wanted to start studying. Ugh. Yet one more reason to buy books at Amazon :)Anyway, the book is full of glaring errors, the questions/answers at the end of each chapter are often mismatched, and you learn very little by reading it. You might even be dumber after reading it. As other reviewers have said: stay away!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 2/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 2/5
This was laying around the office and I needed to pick up SQL so I gave it a whirl. [I would have never have choosen any programming book with the phrase 'in 10 Minutes' in the title! What a crock.]
I typically work in IDL and Perl and need to add a bit of mySQL.
To me reading this book is like trying to follow the path of a running squirrel. It's jumping all over the place. The thoughts are unclear and lack flow. It's supposed to be a primer but in the scatter shot approach it really makes a mess and winds up missing the connection between points.
I'm looking for something better, and it's certain to take longer than 10 minutes.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 5/5
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 5/5
I can't recommend this text to engouh T-SQL programmers (or dabblers). The content and layout make this one of my favorite SQL references. The clear descriptions of syntax make this one of the first (actual physical text) places I go when I need an explanation or some examples to refresh my memory. I feel that its an important part of any SQL reference library and I'm looking forward to a new edition in the near future.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
I picked up this book and had a databased web page within a few hours. It is easy to read, easy to understand, easy to work through.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL: Visual QuickStart Guide
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Chris Fehily
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL: Visual QuickStart Guide
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Chris Fehily
Rating: 5/5
Recently I was "redeployed" - which is the word that my company uses for "laid off if you can't find another job (quick) within the company". I speed-read this book, like cramming for an exam, and applied for the junior database administrator position and got it! Later, the senior DBA told me that I got the job because I knew subtle things about SQL and relational databases that the other candidates didn't know (or got wrong). For example, the difference between a database and a DBMS, why SQL doesn't stand for "Structured Query Language", the difference between server and desktop DBMSes, what the "relational" in "relational database" refers to, the normal forms, and the difference between SQL syntax and semantics. Most of these things were in the first few chapters. Author! Author!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL from the Ground Up
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Mary Pyefinch
Rating: 4/5
Title: SQL from the Ground Up
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Mary Pyefinch
Rating: 4/5
This book starts from scratch(from the ground up) and takes you to creating useful products. Uses tables(and data)from the free Oracle sample database(which was an education in itself loading on my machine using Oracle's documentation!) also has downloadable examples from Osborne Press and Microsoft.
