IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Hands On SQL Server 7 with VB6 (Hands on)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Wayne S. Freeze
Rating: 5/5
Title: Hands On SQL Server 7 with VB6 (Hands on)
Publisher: Premier Press
Authors: Wayne S. Freeze
Rating: 5/5
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Product: Book Paperback
Title: Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Bruno Mairlot, Gareth Downes-Powell, Tim Green
Rating: 3/5
Title: Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Bruno Mairlot, Gareth Downes-Powell, Tim Green
Rating: 3/5
The book seamed perfect to help me learn PHP and MYSQL using DWMX. Too bad it's so full of errors and mistakes. Remeber trying to learn how to drive a car. Now imagine trying to learn on a car that stalls and breaks down constantly. That's what the book feels like to me. I find myself trouble shooting all the code and that is pretty hard when you are just learning.
There is no CD but you can download SOME of the code. Having a final (working) version of the site would have made all the errors stand out a bit more.
I am learnig from it, it's just a bit frustrating and slow.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional Apache 2.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Peter Wainwright, Poornachandra, Dr. Sarang, Afrasiab Ahmad, Sean Chittneden, Vivek Chopra, Micheal Link, Stephen G. Wadlow, Mathew Antony
Rating: 5/5
Title: Professional Apache 2.0
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Peter Wainwright, Poornachandra, Dr. Sarang, Afrasiab Ahmad, Sean Chittneden, Vivek Chopra, Micheal Link, Stephen G. Wadlow, Mathew Antony
Rating: 5/5
Peter Wainwright has done another fine job of covering the installation, configuration and running of Apache, this
time focussing on version 2.0 of the application.Much of the material in this book was covered in his previous edition (Professional Apache), though the obvious
emphasis here is on Apache 2.0. However, Apache 1.3 isn't ignored and the book is still useful for anyone using
that version, as well as anyone simply migrating to 2.0.As before, it starts with a basic overview of the HTTP protocol, TCP/IP and server hardware. These are useful for
beginners, but I'd hope that anyone thinking of running a web server would have this knowledge already.The section on improving web server security has been expanded into its own chapter and includes plenty of useful
system security and integrity advice not peculiar to web servers, but crucial nonetheless. The chapter on
extending Apache with third-party modules has had an overhaul too, now covering the likes of WebDAV and
mod_python. mod_perl, which has changed drastically for Apache 2.0, is also covered in detail for both versions of
Apache.I've recently built an Apache 2.0 server from scratch using nothing but this book, and apart from a couple of
typos I've found it to have covered every step of the way without coming across any errors or omissions (the index
is very good but in the May 2002 print I have some of the entries are one page out). The book is still very
Unix-centric, though there seems to be more specific information for Windows users than in the previous edition.
But then who would run Apache on Windows anyway? The author makes his views clear near the start of the book that
Unix is a preferable platform, but for the masochists there seems to be enough information to get Apache running
on Windows.If I have any complaints it's that perhaps the chapter on monitoring Apache could have been expanded somewhat in
its description of log analysis tools. Only Analog is covered in any depth, though it is described in plenty of
detail from installation to configuration and is arguably the most useful analyser out there anyway.Professional Apache 2.0 isn't a bed-time read, but it's an excellent tutorial and reference for the Apache
administrator and far more useful than the online documentation. If you are planning to install or run Apache,
then I highly recommend this book.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 Administrator's Guide
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Ron Talmage
Rating: 1/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7 Administrator's Guide
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Ron Talmage
Rating: 1/5
I made the mistake of buying this book without really looking it over. I saw it in a book store, then ordered it online in order to save money. I assumed that, since it was a hard back book, it was a serious, deep treatment of the many perils facing SQL Server DBAs. I was sadly mistaken.The author has a habit of glossing over important details -- the real meat of the discussion -- through glib comments and generally poor prose. The coverage really amounts to little more than a hand-held review of the graphical tools. There's no real DBA advice here. I came away believing the author was either a poor DBA or a poor writer (or, more likely, both).Glib comments and shallow coverage do not a useful technical book make. IMHO, I don't think this book was worthy of publication. I do not know the author and don't know if he has written anything else, so I don't know if this is an aberration or if all his writing is this bad. However, I don't see much value in this piece of work for its intended audience -- SS DBAs -- therefore, I don't see why it was published.If you are looking for an in-depth treatment of SS administration, keep looking.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning SQL Server 2000 for Visual Basic Developers
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning SQL Server 2000 for Visual Basic Developers
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Thearon Willis
Rating: 5/5
This book will help those who know a little to a fair amount of SQL. Use this and then Wrox's "Professional SQL Server 2000" to ready yourself for Microsoft's 70-229. The book is well written and holds your interest. This is THE book for VB programmers. I found a problem with trying to make one chapter's stored procedure work and Wrox's tech support responded in one day to my email to give me a solution (SET NOCOUNT ON). Highly recommended book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt
Rating: 5/5
There are a lot of books available about using SQL with Relational Database Management Systems.
You can find books that tell you how to do SQL with Oracle, how to do it with MS-SQL, with MySQL and so on, but hardly any of those books tell you when you are using a vendor specific feature, left alone what the SQL Standard would be.
So when switching to another database system one is often suprised how this system thinks SQL should be done.
If you are working with different systems at the same time, you are often left on your own.
Reading the documentation of the one system, comparing it with the documentation of the other system, can cost you a lot of time.
But a nice little book comes to your rescue, SQL in a Nutshell.What SQL in a Nutshell offers is a reference of all SQL99 Statements and functions. For every statement it shows you what the syntax should be according to the SQL99 Standard and how Oracle, MS-SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL implement them. How they differ from the standard, if the support a feature, if the support it with variations or if the do not support it at all. By the way, that the vendors stick to the standard is the exception.
True, you could get all these information from reading the standard documents and the vendor manuals, but it is so much easier and faster to have it all right there in a single book as a desktop reference.
So if you are using more than one of the covered database management systems this book will save you a lot of time and is well worth its money.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Black Book
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Peter Moulding
Rating: 3/5
Title: PHP Black Book
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
Authors: Peter Moulding
Rating: 3/5
I bought the book. I read the book and it is not to bad. The examples in there are good but not easy to read. When you look for a book with complete source code examples, then this is not the right book for you.
All in all it has everything in it, but as I said it could be easier to read. So for starting with PHP there should be an second source.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP Essentials
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 4/5
Title: PHP Essentials
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
Authors: Julie C. Meloni
Rating: 4/5
if you have no confidence about breaking into programming and want a _lot_ of hand holding, this is the book for you.. but I thought I was that sort of person and even still got tired of the pointless repetition of stated procedure. i give it a 4 because you Will have a basic shopping cart built by the end of the book, along with some forms. the most important thing you'll learn is that accomplishing that is a lot simpler and easier than you had expected.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP3: Programming Browser-Based Applications with PHP
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Medinets
Rating: 1/5
Title: PHP3: Programming Browser-Based Applications with PHP
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Authors: Dave Medinets
Rating: 1/5
This book was a terrible waste of money. The author uses bad examples that are often wrong, plus he confuses one example with another. It is very hard to find what you are looking for because the index is not big enough and not cross-referenced properly. I hope this help anyone about to buy book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
I searched for the smallest book on SQL, hoping to find a book that cut out the fluff and just gave me the essential information. I was coming from a programming perspective and didn't want a book that droned on and on about why I wanted to learn SQL, or how databases worked. I just wanted to learn how to write basic and not-so-basic SQL, and this is definitely the book. The pleasantly surprising part was that it actually does a great job of simply and directly explaining SQL, and it even serves as a passable reference once you've finished reading it.I just can't say enough for the format of the book. Ben Forta has divided the book into short comprehensible chapters and then used short, direct explanations of the concepts, followed by several examples of increasing complexity that build on each other to introduce the finer points. I read this entire book on a 4-hour plane ride with time to spare. It was an easy read and there was no problem remembering it all. I can't imagine how to write a book to teach SQL either faster, easier or more effectively than this book does. I can't really say how my opinion of the book might be different if I came from a non-programming background, but for my money (and not much of it at that), this is the first SQL book anyone should buy.
