List of programming books reviews starting with W
Windows geeks may not get it, but UNIX/LINUX geeks will.
White professional couple in 703 AC
Wonderful Intro and Reference
Well organized and a good read
Written for humans
Well worth the Price
Who Can Keep Up with Harold Davis
Well done. Oracle Education look out!
What? No arrays in SQL? Not anymore :-)
WOW!
Wish I could give it ten stars
Wish I'd had these books 5 years ago
Wrox does it again!
Woth the price for XML coverage alone
Wonderful Reference!
wunderbar
Well Suited to its Purpose
Will change the way you write code
Worth every penny
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache in 24 Hours
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 3/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache in 24 Hours
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 3/5
I have been a mainframe programmer for 13 years and have done web design for the past year. The following is my experience with this book.First the good news:
1. I was able to successfully install PHP, Apache & MySQL.
2. I was able to successfully complete all the projects in the book.
3. I published one of my projects on a website.Now the bad news:1. There were critical typos in the book--not just captions under the wrong pictures but incorrect code. I spent many hours debugging the PHP code for the projects. The code errors I found were not in the errata on the SAMS website OR on thickbook.com. I sent one code correction to the editors and received an acknowledgement, but I just checked and the code typo is not included in the errata. There are code errors on pp. 245, 406, 417. E-mail me if you are also having problems with the code on those pages as the SAMS people do not seem to be concerned or aware of these errors. 2. The installation of the products did not go as smoothly as I hoped either. The instructions on what to download did not match how the websites now look. There was some missing information. I was able to get it all working only with a lot of trial and error.This book contained projects that I was interested in learning: address book, storefront, shopping cart. With a little more diligence on the part of the proofreaders and technical editors, this book would have been great and I would have given it 5 stars.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example
Publisher: Que
Authors: Carlos Rojas, Fernando Guerrero
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example
Publisher: Que
Authors: Carlos Rojas, Fernando Guerrero
Rating: 5/5
An excellent book with both concise and informative content. I would recommend this book to anybody who is either knew to the subject or who wishes to further their knowledge in this area.
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
This book lacks so much crucial information needed to pass the exam. I read the first half which covered 228 and then grabbed the readiness review and was shocked at how little information the All-in-One book covered. I'm not even going to bother reading the second half for 229, and am looking for another title before attempting the 228 exam.
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
What I like the most about this book is the indepth explanations. No one explains complex technical topics better than Ken Henderson. No one. The attention to detail and the exhausting subject material coverage are everywhere in every book I've read of his. This one carries on that tradition. In fact, Ken really out does himself in this one - it's his best work yet. You might think with 600 code samples that this book would just be a code library, but you'd be wrong. The book is loaded with good code, to be sure, but it's also laden with great explanations and thorough topic exploration. I absolutely love the book and wish more were like it.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide (Book/CD-ROM Set)
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Syngress
Rating: 1/5
Title: MCDBA SQL Server 7 Administration Study Guide (Book/CD-ROM Set)
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Syngress
Rating: 1/5
This book covers the objectives for the SQL Server 7 administration exam in a reasonable way. However, it fails to achieve greatness because it is based on a beta version of SQL Server 7 (probably beta 3), and it came out long before anyone had seen the FINAL version of the Microsoft test. As such, the book has a few flaws and probably fails to cover some of the areas that will be important on the test. Even so, I found the book well worth the money I paid. In fact, unlike some of the other exam guides I've bought in the past, this one will stay on my shelf even after I pass.
