IT programming books related reviews
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
SAMS got it right with this book when realising that companies and web hosts are including PHP/MySQL combos all over the place. he.net has been doing it for years and as cgi-bins become less common and people want in-line code and dynamic sites, there needed to be the killer book on the duet that always ends up dominating: PHP & MySQL. Soon, O'Reilly is going to come out with one too but if its a good as their mSQL and MySQL book, don't bother and buy this one!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL server 2000 Stored Procedure Handbook
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Tony Bain, Robin Dewson, Chuck Hawkins, Louis Davidson
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL server 2000 Stored Procedure Handbook
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Tony Bain, Robin Dewson, Chuck Hawkins, Louis Davidson
Rating: 5/5
This is an excellent book! It points you in the right direction and lets you go for it. I found the advice given in book invaluable. It was to the point - clear and consise. Often the larger 1000 page books tend to waffle but at 260 pages this is an easy read. It provides a great foundation to build a solid SQL Server application using Stored Procedures. I recommend it to anyone who is wanting to get an birdseye view of SQL Server Stored Procedures, and at the same time, learn about the intracacies of the feature rich application.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 3/5
Title: Google Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Rating: 3/5
I do lots of web-based research for my job. I have to find obscure statistics, reports, papers, articles, and various other difficut-to-find information. I thought that this book would help me use Google more effectively, but really it didn't. It is more for computer buffs rather than researchers who use Google for research. A lot of the suggestions and tips involved using some kind of code which I didn't know what it meant and a lot of them were silly kind of things like how to make your screen appear backwards or upside down. It covered the basic important things like "word order matters," and how to use "and" and "or" when searching. There were a few slightly helpful tips, but not enough to make it worth it to buy the whole book. I'm sure the book might be great for other purposes, just not for your run-of-the-mill researcher who is pretty computer savy, but not really "into" computers for a hobby.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Web Server Administration and e-Commerce Handbook (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Scott Hawkins
Rating: 1/5
Title: Apache Web Server Administration and e-Commerce Handbook (With CD-ROM)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors: Scott Hawkins
Rating: 1/5
This book tries to cover so many things it ends up covering nothing. Apache is addressed on Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac platforms giving no depth to any single one. Literally half the book is appendices with some covering things like TCP/IP concepts and network troubleshooting. It's all over the map. No focus or usefulness.The e-commerce section (the reason I bought the book) is a joke. Only 30 pages with 20 of them devoted to a sample site using PHP.There are a lot of pages on the Web that do a much better, more focused, job of covering this material and it won't cost you anything. Rarely have I ever been this disappointed in a book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and PostgreSQL Advanced Web Programming
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ewald Geschwinde, Hans-Juergen Schoenig
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and PostgreSQL Advanced Web Programming
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ewald Geschwinde, Hans-Juergen Schoenig
Rating: 5/5
Dispite some minor discrepencies pointed out by another reviewer, the information in this book is very useful. If you want to build complex database web applications with PHP, then Postgres is the right RDBMS to use and this book is the right book to guide you. Well worth the money.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle PL/SQL Built-ins Pocket Reference
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Steven Feuerstein, John Beresniewicz, Chip Dawes
Rating: 4/5
Title: Oracle PL/SQL Built-ins Pocket Reference
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Steven Feuerstein, John Beresniewicz, Chip Dawes
Rating: 4/5
Being a pocket reference it could still use an "index" in the back of the book. But other than that it's great for non-beginners who forget the syntax of an Oracle Built-in package. Of course if you want more detail then get the full blown version of the book also by O'Reilly & Associates publishing.Gio
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 7 Data Warehousing
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Michael J. Corey, Michael Abbey, Ian Abramson, Larry Barnes, Benjamin Taub, Rajan Venkitachalam
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL Server 7 Data Warehousing
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Michael J. Corey, Michael Abbey, Ian Abramson, Larry Barnes, Benjamin Taub, Rajan Venkitachalam
Rating: 1/5
This book is a good primer on data warehousing but provides little usable information specific to SQL Server 7. The greatest dissapointment is the lack of detailed information on MS DTS...the core utility for data warehousing with SQL Server 7.
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
The content is reasonable. There are a large number of step-by-step processess with screen shots, which I consider filler.The self-test software on the CD is unusable. It has blank questions. There are also multiple-choice questions that should use checkboxes, but use radio buttons, resulting in only being able to choose one answer. If you happen to choose the first right answer, the answer is scored as correct even though you didn't answer the others.I'd like to get my money back for this book and buy a better one.I hope this review prevents others from falling into the same trap as me.Good luck with your certifications!
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
While this book does not dive into the details as some other reviewers have pointed out it does provide concise and easy to read chapters. I bought it specifically for the chapters on integrating with Apache and Struts. I found both chapters excellent not to detailed views of how each worked and what I needed to do to use it. This book will not hold your hand but is an excellent guide along the way.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: McSe Readiness Review Exam 70-028: Administering Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 (Mcse Readiness Review)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Jill Spealman
Rating: 3/5
Title: McSe Readiness Review Exam 70-028: Administering Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 (Mcse Readiness Review)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Jill Spealman
Rating: 3/5
This book is well organized. I used the book as a reference guide to tap into SQL Server 7.0 's Book Online. Don't depend on any single reference book on the market to pass your 70-028 exam. Your most authoritative source is the Book Online. This book made me to get familiar with the Book Online, and helped me passed the exam.
