IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle PL/SQL 101
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Christopher Allen
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle PL/SQL 101
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Christopher Allen
Rating: 5/5
This is an excellent book. I bought it mainly because of the nice reviews here at Amazon. They were right! This is a MOST book for anyone starting with Oracle. I had some experience with SQL on other databases but I wanted to learn Oracle's version. I just got a nice job where I'm going to be working with Oracle Forms and Reports so I needed a nice intro book. This is the book! Nice rythm and very easy to understand.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Programming PHP
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Rating: 2/5
Title: Programming PHP
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Rating: 2/5
Let me start by saying in general O'Reilly books have been the best books I've picked up to learn from. The usually cover the basics in depth and then provide excellent examples and more advanced topics to ponder. This book covers the basics, mostly, and then procedes to fail to provide good examples, and really doesn't enter into the depths of PHP.
Other more knowledgable people have said this already, I'm just helping drag the rating down to where it deserves to be, which is not more than 2 stars.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 4/5
Title: Professional PHP Programming
Publisher:
Authors: Jesus Castagnetto, Sascha Schumann, Harish Rawat, Chris Scollo, Deepak T. Veliath
Rating: 4/5
I purchased this book for a graduate class in which we were researching several server-side solutions for an online automobile insurance program. Fortunately, I had several years of experience in JAVA. I would not recommend this book to anyone who has never programmed using some object-oriented language. However, if you have previous experience in OO programing, then I would recommend this to any developer of PHP solutions. This book gave me the power to research some complex functionality that was necessary for my project. The book is not full of clues and solutions for every problem you may encounter (such as the PHP Developer's Cookbook). However, the book gives you a more powerful tool--the principles by which PHP functions. This book is directed at programmers and is a solid reference manual for PHP developed solutions.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Kalen Delaney
Rating: 1/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Kalen Delaney
Rating: 1/5
If the SQL Svr 7 book didn't exist, this would be a pretty good book. As it is, though its to much like it. Basically if you have the 7 book, you don't need this one. As other people have pointed out the two are very, very similar. But the book is still a good read if you don't have the version 7 book, its just to bad that there isn't more about SQL Svr 2000 in this one (like xml for example).
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MCSE Database Design on SQL Server 7 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-029)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Jeffrey Garbus, David Pacuzzi, Alvin Chang, David Pascuzzi
Rating: 4/5
Title: MCSE Database Design on SQL Server 7 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-029)
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Jeffrey Garbus, David Pacuzzi, Alvin Chang, David Pascuzzi
Rating: 4/5
This exam is tough. Questions are long, strain your brain to the last drop. But I still gives this book a four. Why ?? First, it explains database design concept in a sharp and crispy manner. Second, it lists down all the necessary refence systematically. I still use it today during my database design project. But this book is NOT for the exam. The exam emphasis on data modelling, concept and case-scenerio. This book is poor in this aspect. I think Transcender helps me more in the exam.In short, nice book as reference material, not for exam.
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
I have found this book to be the best book on this topic. Yes, I have read and own almost all the others. This book covers many of the little things that are left out of the other books, and I am glad of the things that they left out of this book.They left out the long indexes full of mostly useless stuff and the chapters and chapters of functions that some of the other books feel like they need to include while all that is online at php.net.I feel that this book is much better than the "core PHP programming book" and the only book that comes near it is the MySQL/PHP Database book by Greenspan and Bulger.If you have the Greenspan book you might be upset that many of the walk-though examples are nearly the same but this book adds more. I found it easier to understand the examples on the CD because they give a good explanation of what each page of the web application does.Certainly a winner.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Jakarta-Tomcat
Publisher: Apress
Authors: James Goodwill
Rating: 5/5
Title: Apache Jakarta-Tomcat
Publisher: Apress
Authors: James Goodwill
Rating: 5/5
I picked this text up three days ago and I am very pleased with everything I have read. It really takes the angle of administering the Tomcat server with the developer in mind.Some of the areas that I found most useful included coverage of Servlet Filters and Tomcat Valves, a chapter on embedded Tomcat applications, and a great Appendix covering the server.xml file.I recommend this book for any developer, or administrator, looking for the fast track to using Tomcat.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Jakarta-Tomcat
Publisher: Apress
Authors: James Goodwill
Rating: 3/5
Title: Apache Jakarta-Tomcat
Publisher: Apress
Authors: James Goodwill
Rating: 3/5
I've been using Tomcat for about six months. I've been figuring it out little by little with the use of the online material which IMHO is lacking. I was hoping to get a good book to explain the information not easily learned through the product doucmentation.Instead of a Tomcat focused book, I got a decent JSP and Servlet overview, coverage of web site configuration, descriptions of different Tomcat features and then short chapters covering Apache Struts, Log4J, and SOAP. Not what I bargained for, but not a useless resource either.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server Development with Access 2000
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Rick Dobson
Rating: 3/5
Title: Professional SQL Server Development with Access 2000
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Rick Dobson
Rating: 3/5
This book is aimed at the professional Access developer who wants to learn how to tap into the power of SQL Server, or for the professional SQL Server developer who wants to make use of the excellent front-end and reporting capabilities of Access. I found this book helpful and I don't fit either of the above categories!Rick Dobson explains in a clear and easy-to-understand manner everything that we need to get started... and then some! Everything from installing the database engines to publishing Data Access Pages on the Internet is covered. Provided that you have some experience with database development and/or programming, you will find this book to be one of the most valuable in your collection.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 4/5
Title: Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 4/5
The author shows several professional ways to build reliable, stable database applications. The subject is not easy so I don't think this is a book for beginners. I have several years experience in administering other DBMSs so I came along with this book and even more this book was the base for my first "real-life" SQL-Server7-VB6 application. But I have to admit that it is not easy to work with that book because the presentation and the arrangement of the contents could be better.
