IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Real World Web Services
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Will Iverson
Rating: 5/5
Title: Real World Web Services
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Will Iverson
Rating: 5/5
Hurray. At last. A slender book that tries to show you the essence of Web Services, in as simple a fashion as possible. Unlike much larger texts on this subject, Iverson eshews a comprehensive approach. Instead, he strives to describe the gist of WS.
He gives this substance by showing how to hook into the WS APIs published by eBay, Google, Amazon and FedEx, to build a composite WS. This modular approach to constructing from independent sources is the driving force behind WS. The code examples are necessarily verbose. But not really that intricate. Here is your chance to be demystified about WS. Now if you find afterwards that you still want to continue, then you're probably ready, and need, one of those other texts.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Pocket Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Pocket Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Jonathan Gennick
Rating: 5/5
DB2 was completely new to me about 6 months ago and this book has helped me to learn the ins and outs of SQL in DB2. It is broken down as a reference guide and I find the majority of the commands very quickly. To be honest I have not read the book cover to cover because it is just so quick to find exactly what I need. The examples are great and with the explanations I have been able to successfully write and execute every command I have found in the book. Great desk reference book I use it every week.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Transact-SQL in 21 Days (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Lowell Mauer
Rating: 1/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself Transact-SQL in 21 Days (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Lowell Mauer
Rating: 1/5
I bought this book expecting a quick ramp-up on T-SQL. What I got instead was an amateurish romp through a variety of SQL Server-related technologies. The writing is poor and fails to stay on point. Worse, the tangents the author(s) gets off on are often loaded with incorrect/out-dated information. It appears that the MS SQL Books online have been virtually copied (and maybe even some of the examples!). I returned this one for my money.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 5/5
This is a superb book if you want to learn PHP without being overwhelmed by abstruse and unnecessary complexities at the beginning (as is the case with the _PHP 4 Bible_ by Converse and Park). Not only with you learn the basics of PHP quickly, you will understand how PHP works, why it works that way, and how you can use it to enhance your web pages. There is also a companion website run by the author himself.Larry Ullman writes very well. Everything about his explanations is meticulously clear and written for adults who are not necessarily part of the hardcore programmer subculture and are thus not interested in enduring all of the sophomoric would-be humor and in-jokes that pervade so many of these computer how-to books.As an example of how sensible and real-world oriented Larry is, here is what he has to say about the curious custom of beginning indexes with zero rather than 1: "As unnatural as it may seem, it's here to stay, so you have two possible coping techniques. First, manually start all of your arrays indexed at the position 1. Second, unlearn a lifetime of counting from one. You can decide which is easier but most programmers just get used to this odd construct." Plain, common sense insights and explanations like this are sprinkled throughout the book. If you're interested in learning PHP, BUY IT NOW.
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
I don't know how it happened, but somehow I worked in the SQL Server world for several years before I came across this book. I wish I'd had it two years ago when I started writing stored procedures pretty much full time. Like Mr. Soukup says in the Foreword, that would have saved me a lot of time. The book is by far the best stored proc book I have found.Before I found this book, I had about half a dozen topics that I was really struggling with in my work as a stored proc developer. An example would be error handling. I had discovered that trying to handle errors in my Transact-Sql code was difficult and didn't seem to work like I expected, but I didn't know why or what to do about it. It seemed there were certain errors that I simply couldn't detect or handle in my code, which left my bosses unhappy with me. Having read this book, I now understand completely where all the problems are and what to do about them. For that alone, the cost of the book was worth it.Another thing I struggled with was how to manage my source code logically. I coded for years in VB and dutifully checked my work in and out of Visual Source Safe, but had no clue as to how to do that with my stored proc source code with any mechanism even approaching efficiency. The instructions in this book on how to do this and how to avoid common pitfalls were a godsend. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's all clear to me now.I have read all the others and pick this one as the best stored proc book money can buy. It opened my eyes to whole new ways of coding and working.
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
The Guru Guide books are the best books available for SQL SERVER. I have all three and never ceased to be impressed with how much I learn each time I read one of them. Each book requires and rewards careful rereading. There is always more there than you glean the first time. I am still reading the first one nearly four years after I originally bought it. I never cease to find some new nuggest when I research a solution to my latest SQL SERVER challenge.I also like the non-technical writing in each book. The personal anecdotes, the essays, the quotes at the head of each chapter: they all give you the impression that you are being taught by, as Ron Soukup says, a veteran developer who knows what he is talking about because he has lived it.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Weekend Crash Course (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Hungry Minds
Authors: Allen G. Taylor
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Weekend Crash Course (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Hungry Minds
Authors: Allen G. Taylor
Rating: 5/5
This book is a streamlined, concise presentation of the ANSI-standard SQL:1999 that all implementations seek to match. It presents the SQL data types and commands and provides examples of their use. The book concentrates on the SQL functions that most people are likely to need, without getting highly technical about obscure, little-used features. It makes a handy reference for the experienced SQL programmer as well as an easy to follow introduction for people new to SQL.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Steven Feuerstein
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Steven Feuerstein
Rating: 5/5
A book which covered everything I needed and more
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 5/5
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: William R. Vaughn
Rating: 5/5
Pleasantly surprised at the good coverage of ADO 2. A 'must have' book for VB6 data apps developers.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Web Server Administration and e-Commerce Handbook (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Scott Hawkins
Rating: 4/5
Title: Apache Web Server Administration and e-Commerce Handbook (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Scott Hawkins
Rating: 4/5
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