List of programming books reviews starting with S
Substantially more than a style guide.
Sklar and Trachtenberg's Expertise Shines Through
SQL Server 2000 Developer's Guide
Sams Teach Yourself Sql in 10 Minutes
SQL Perforfmance Tuning
SQL Condensed
Soup To Nuts Engineering For Database Design, A Keeper
SQL for the 400/iSeries Cool!
Simply a great book
Something for everyone
Surprisingly easy to read
Shows you how to do cool stuff
Simply the best - is #1 in my top 3 books to "use".
Simply The Best
Sybex did it again!
Save Time - Get Up To Speed Fast!
Simply my bible for PHP and MySQL!
Smart, Innovative and Effective
Straight forward, no nonsense information!
SQL Server 2000 en 42 d?
SQLXML at its best
Sql in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference
Super Book - Take my word on it!
Strength of book is the many examples
Should be on every PHP Developers Bookshelf
Save time - Have fun
SQL For Real Programmers
SQL From the Ground Up helps a new programmer
sleek and purple
Stuff that really works.
Straight to the point
Simply the very best
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Web Application Developer's Guide
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Craig Utley
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Web Application Developer's Guide
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Craig Utley
Rating: 5/5
This book is an excellent guide for web application developers. It is very useful for VB developers who are moving to the web development world. All of the information that you need to develop a data-driven web site is included in the book. Building solutions using the n-tier approach described in the book will save your company or customer time and money in the future. I used the book as a source for a university class that I am taking this semester that requires ASP coding. The book contains all of the topics that an ASP developer needs to build a site that interacts with SQL Server 2000 and the conversational writing style makes it an easy read.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 (with CD-ROM)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Tobias Ratschiller, Till Gerken
Rating: 5/5
Title: Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 (with CD-ROM)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Tobias Ratschiller, Till Gerken
Rating: 5/5
No, this book is not for beginners. Maybe it's not for absolute gurus, either. But for those of us in the middle-to-advanced stage, it's a godsend.This is the first PHP book I found that explained the entire process and didn't just regurgitate the PHP function reference with a few extra snippets of code. The authors, by the way, have written some great PHP tools. If I hadn't seen PHPMyAdmin, I probably would not be using PHP or MySQL. They have had a huge impact on the PHP community and are extremely skilled at writing both code and books like this.Evaluate your needs. If you don't know anything about programming or PHP, start with Julie Meloni's book or the Wrox books. If you've been programming for 20 years, know how to create a complex application, know all about CVS and PHPLib, go get a function reference and dig in. If you have some PHP under your belt and are looking for a reference to help you understand application development, GET THIS BOOK.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Database Implementation Training Kit (Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Press Rating: 4/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Database Implementation Training Kit (Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Press Rating: 4/5
I used this as my main resource for studying for 70-028 (along with practice tests by STSWare and the online books). This was my last test for my MCSE and I passed first time, but only just. The test requires much more detail than this study guide (or STSWare) supplies. You really need to get down to the mechanics of how the various features of SQL Server work. This book just didn't supply it.My advice is either to use this and spend a lot of time reading the online books or wait until there are better third party study guides that are based on the release version of SQL Server (not the beta as most of them are at present) and the actual tests.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP 5 for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Janet Valade
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP 5 for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Janet Valade
Rating: 5/5
I like the Dummies books.OK, so I'm not sophisticated, professional, or even very smart. But so many computer books seem to forget the first twenty pages that explain just what the hell you are trying to do. Perhaps the Dummies books take 40 pages to explain what could have been donw in 20, but that's not a problem. I can read fast.It has often happened that I first read a Dummies book and then once I'm deep into doing something with that language I need to go get a more complete Bible type book. I haven't gotten far enough into PHP yet to know if this is true, but in moving a web site over to Unix (BSD), Postgre, Apache, and PHP; I don't have the time to read a Bible on each one of these. This book, along with some other Dummies books is getting me started a lot faster than I thought possible.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Google for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Brad Hill
Rating: 3/5
Title: Google for Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Authors: Brad Hill
Rating: 3/5
First, let me say, that I did enjoy the first half of the book. I learned several things. The best part of the book was learning about the answer feature of google that I knew existed but never ventured into it because of the fee-based feature. If anything, he said to check how the researcher use google to answer people questions.Good information! And several key word operators were helpful. So,as a reference to check into once in awhile is not bad.But at 22 dollars I will explain why I was disappointed.
Mr. Hill spends way to much time on silly, worthless topics that are indirectly related to google. For God sake, he talks about a site that called elgooG that emulated google but everything is reverse.Why would I want to know that and how will that help me find information on google?
After the first half, I was ready to dig into it and waiting for some concrete examples of doing research with google.
In part 3, Putting google to work for you, I thought this is it. But rather then give numerous example how you can use google (using the main features )to get what you want, he talks about downloading google toolbar, or changing the language interface, duh! Anyone that has use google for than 1 month knows all that.
The book misses an oportunity to show how an expert researcher will use google to acquire information. Rather than spend time on stupid google games, alternatives to google,google site that mirrors google in reverse, I wish more time would have been spend on google and how to do kick ass research using one example and going through all the features and operators.
