List of programming books reviews starting with K
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 4/5
Title: Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 4/5
I'm a newbie, as far as ORACLE is concerned, I have used a similar Database management system - UniVision, which has it's own language (Vision), I found this book an excellent introduction/guide to SQL*PLUS. So much so, that I've recommended it to colleagues and customers who are more experienced than I am - and they all agree with me. Splendid stuff.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Upgrading to PHP 5
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Adam Trachtenberg
Rating: 5/5
Title: Upgrading to PHP 5
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Adam Trachtenberg
Rating: 5/5
I've been scripting PHP since PHP3. It was a good wakeup call to let me know I might not know everything about PHP anymore. Sessions were a cool new thing in PHP4, then superglobals in 4.1, and both were easy to understand and implement, but I couldn't seem to find a decent explaination of what was coming up in PHP5 and how to use it since there isn't a lot of code to read as examples (as of this writing). This was the answer for me. The book has 10 chapters; I got my money's worth after I finished chapter 2.
This book takes a seasoned PHP4 programmer and shows how PHP5 adds new features that reduce clunkyness that you just had to live with in PHP4. I can't even think how many different implementations I've seen of preventing SQL injections for MySQL queries. 4 pages explained how the MySQLi extension wiped out one of my complete MySQL classes that exists for nothing other than SQL injection and error handling. Albeit if I read the php.net manual, I could have figured some of it out on my own, but not with the helpful notes that Adam includes.
You should get this book if you write PHP4 classes, use MySQL <= 4.0.x, or you're thinking about switching to SQLite because you're weary about future support of MySQL in PHP and all the licensing changes from MySQL AB. I don't much like XML, so I skipped that chapter. I don't have any applications where I could use the streams, SOAP, Tidy, or Reflection functionality, so I can't speak on those either cause I skipped them, too.
Even though I didn't read half the book, the other half was worth it anyway.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Foundation PHP for Flash
Publisher: Friends of Ed
Authors: Steve Webster
Rating: 5/5
Title: Foundation PHP for Flash
Publisher: Friends of Ed
Authors: Steve Webster
Rating: 5/5
I'm from Bolivia I bought this great book that shows you the use of PHP in Flash, althought you must know about Flash it helps you to increase your abbilities [...]. Never in my life I saw the support that this book has. It is amazing how fast the authors respond to your e-mails. If you want to amaze people with Flash making really dynamic stuff this is your book. The only thing that disapoints me is that flash can't load Images dynamically, if that would be the case we you could almost forget of making things in HTML.
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
This book is unique. It doesn't read like all the other Sql Server books I have. Its totally different and fresh. The expert discussions of statistical functions in the language is like nothing else I've ever read. The full-text discussion, the Ole Automation discussion, and the undocumented chapter are all first rate. I loved the null values chapter and the DML/DDL chapters. They are also first rate.I can't think of a better value for the money than this book. It's very tight, and every page has some new tidbit that you'll be glad you read.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days (4th Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ron Plew, Ryan Stephens
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days (4th Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ron Plew, Ryan Stephens
Rating: 5/5
I use(d) this book as the basis towards my WIN2K MCDBA...It is superior to anything out there including Microsoft's Official MCSE [Exam 70-228] SQL Server 2000 SA Training Kit... includes everything one needs assuming one immerses oneself in the book from Day 1 through Day 21 in addition to Day 22 (SQL Server Analysis Services (OLAP)) and Day 23 (English Query).It is both a superior reference book and programmer's guide. After purchasing Microsoft's official references I found myself repeatedly (frustrated by their shortcomings and referring back to this particular SAMS text). Enough cannot be said about this book.
