IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
This book took me from being someone who couldn't even spell XML to a guy who has just finished his third major SQLXML application. I'm not an expert yet, but the author of this book is, and if you work with SQLXML, you owe it to yourself to read this book.Ironically I was originally recommended this book based on it's stored proc content. That was also excellent, but the real prize here are the chapters on SQLXML.The first chapter, the XML introduction chapter, is simply genius. The example start off easy and build on each other. By the time I finished this chapter, I was creating complex documents and using style sheets and schemas to manipulate them.The SQLXML chapters take each of the Sql Server SQLXML topics and explore them in depth. The templates coverage is particularly excellent. I loved the discussion of how templates make use of RPC - something I'd never have guessed but that makes a huge performance difference in one of my systems.The section on working around SQLXML limitations is also excellent. sp_run_xml_proc is literally worth the price of the book all by itself. I was really disappointed when I found that I couldn't insert the results of a FOR XML query directly into a variable or table. With this proc, I can.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Php Fast & Easy Web Development (Fast & Easy Web Development)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 4/5
Title: Php Fast & Easy Web Development (Fast & Easy Web Development)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 4/5
Just like every computer book out there, beginning books coming out of every where, then the advance books that the newly trained beginners have to buy because every beginner book is the same in topics. There is no such thing as a beginner to intermediate or to advance. Julie did an awesome job of covering the book's objective. It is short and sweet. I learned a hell of a lot from this book, but I am thirsty for more and thus I ended up with the above scenario when there is no "Bible" persay of ANY technology field which is sad. I know one company that puts out IT "Bibles" but they never live up to the name and is pretty much a marketing hype.I recommend this book and give it 4 stars because it leaves me hanging :)
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hands On SQL Server 7 with VB6 (Hands on)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Wayne S. Freeze
Rating: 2/5
Title: Hands On SQL Server 7 with VB6 (Hands on)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Wayne S. Freeze
Rating: 2/5
The author has the right idea about how to teach a concept by building an example and using the tools and telling you how to use them. The problem is the foundation is built on swamp land and ridiculous errors. You only get so far and then give up cause you have to fix all the 'mistakes'Not worth the time..
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Understanding SQL
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Martin Gruber
Rating: 5/5
Title: Understanding SQL
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Martin Gruber
Rating: 5/5
I've owned this book for only 48 hours and have read it from cover to cover and I am starting with it all over again!The Author covers ANSI SQL clearly and in-depth with good examples!I would recommend this for anyone who wants to learn SQL and have an accurate reference.It's for beginner to advanced SQL folks! As a professional Visual Basic, SQL, and Pascal developer, I really needed a reference manual like this one! You know, for those times when you're in the middle of writing some SQL code and ask yourself a question like: "Now how do I format that 'Select' statement?"I've tried a couple of the "SQL For Dummies" books and returned each of them! I really did not think that a book like this existed, but here it is!Get this book!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
This was the first book I ever bought on PHP/mySQL. Usally you can find a good book on PHP or mySQL, but never both. Well, this is great AND it has both. I don't think I would be where I am today programming PHP if it wasnt for this book.Easy to follow and with great examples. I keep it by my side all the time!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: .NET Enterprise Design with Visual Basic .NET and SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Jimmy Nilsson, Jimmy Nilsson
Rating: 4/5
Title: .NET Enterprise Design with Visual Basic .NET and SQL Server 2000
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Jimmy Nilsson, Jimmy Nilsson
Rating: 4/5
This book is perfect for the VB developer who is interested in Enterprise programming, which I define as building apps that scale well and have a maximum amount of fault tolerance and are easy to maintain. It doesn't hold your hand with sample code or screenshots. Instead, it provides Jimmy Nillson's insight into how large, real-world programming projects are built. Its very well written, and Jimmy Nillson provides several different solutions to problems in addition to the one he prefers.It is well worth buying. One caveat is that this book doesn't cover the details of the language such as ADO.net data access, etc. so you'll want a separate book for that. This is actually the strength of the book because you can find all of that information in the helpfiles, whereas the information you'll find in this book won't be easy to find anywhere else.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 1/5
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 1/5
This book was an alright general introduction to PHP4 let down by a great number of inconsistencies between authors. They didn't introduce functions adequately in the latter parts of the book, for example in chapter 10 they start using new functions without any explanation of what they do or their usage, and the different authors didn't collaborate sufficiently as they use different ways of writing the same commands without any explanation (e.g. the echo "" and echo("") statements) and they also contradicted each other, for example again in chapter 10 the author uses typecasting while in a previous chapter we had been told this was unnecessary, and again no explanation is given as to why the author did this.The examples are also very tedious and in some places extremely repetitive (chapter 10 repeats the same example ten times with very little change).Overall a great dissapointment and it is also out of date as new PHP security means most examples will not work without changing to a weaker security setting.Not recommended, there must be more consistent books about for PHP.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guide to SQL Server
Publisher: Addison-Wesley (C)
Authors: Aloke Nath
Rating: 2/5
Title: The Guide to SQL Server
Publisher: Addison-Wesley (C)
Authors: Aloke Nath
Rating: 2/5
I would not recommend anyone even considering to buy this book. It is a big piece of crap, which doesnt contain any technical info, just plain business say.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 1/5
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 1/5
I've been using VB for years, ASP since 1.0, and SQL 7.0 since the beta. I bought this book hoping to learn some new stuff. By the first 4 chapters I've found find a lot of useless and offputting MS polemics, and a hodgepodge of information covering versions of Jet up to Access 9.0 (Office 2000?) and SQL 7.0. Makes fun of web applications because of thin-client metaphor - isn't there eenough room for all types of systems in our increasingly complex world today? This book needs to get a lot more focused. I can't believe the amount of time dedicated to even mentioning 16-bit platforms. If you need info on developing for legacy systems - use the legacy books already on your bookshelf! I recommend WROX's ADO 2.0 Programmer's reference for one - and it's smaller and cheaper. I'm not sure I'll even finish reading this one, and it definitely won't find its way into my most used books.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Learning SQL: A Step-By-Step Guide Using Oracle
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Authors: Richard Earp, Sikha Bagui
Rating: 5/5
Title: Learning SQL: A Step-By-Step Guide Using Oracle
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Authors: Richard Earp, Sikha Bagui
Rating: 5/5
This is a really good for a beginner to learn SQL using Oracle. The authors have very clearly explained the complicated terms and concepts, in a fashion we are used to learn in class rooms. It can also be used as a reference book or as a quick refresher course for someone who have not used SQL in a few years or so.I strongly recommend this book to everyone interested to learn SQL using Oracle.
