books about: frameworks     books:       CLR via C#, Second Edition (Pro Developer)39 reviews Jeffrey Richter Microsoft Press, 2006 Another five-star review Most of what needs to be said about this book has already been said. But I feel a need add my two cents, if only to toss another five stars out there. Really, this one is an example of what a good technical book should be. It's style is both understandable and unpretentious and it covers topics with depth and clarity. The overall organization is such that it never seemed like that terms, ...             Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional27 reviews Cristian Darie, Karli Watson Apress, 2004 Fully functional, basic webstore This is an exeptionally well written book for the beginning webstore developer with It walks you through a complete design of the side with the end result that you have a basic webstore that you could actually take operational. The only weakness in the credit processing section. It's written for a European credit card gateway. It would be nice if one of the more popular US gateways (e.g. ...             Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (Microsoft .NET ...29 reviews Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005 Passionate About Quality? I don't personally think that all developers will find this book useful. In fact, I have a feeling that some may find it highly useless and disruptive as it is abstract in a sense (one must apply the lessons to each library and scenario independently, taking into consideration many different aspects of usability and readability) and it does require some "retraining" of bad practices which have ...             DRIVEN: Business Strategy, Human Actions, and the Creation of Wealth69 reviews Joel Litman, Mark L. Frigo Strategy & Execution, LLC, 2008 Read this book. In Driven, Dr. Frigo and Mr. Litman provide the background to "Return Driven Strategy", which is a strategic framework that underlies the importance of integrating a business strategy, the execution of that strategy, and ultimately how those pieces relate to a company's valuation. Through their detailed research of high performing companies, Frigo and Litman provide example after example of how ...             Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making11 reviews Allan Savory, Jody Butterfield Island Press, 1998 Real sustainability is about decision making Sustainability has become the central drama of our time, yet within the sustainability movement there is a huge conflict. It isn't the environmentalists against the dam builders this time--it is between those who see nature mainly as a domain, reserve, or area, and those who see nature as a process. Both sides largely agree that there is a serious ecological crisis, we are on the brink, and that ...             Auditing and litigation in a market framework (Working paper)11 reviews Bharat Sarath John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Stanford Law School, 1991 More than you have any right to hope for... Not a mere antidote to political correctness in jazz criticism; Lost Chords is a prewar cultural history, a lesson in music structure, a history of woodwind instruments, a guide to innovations in guitar tuning, AND MORE. It shows the musicians as human beings with all their failings, humor, drives, hard work, and talent. I especially loved the account of the bass sax --- an instrument that ...             Programming WPF51 reviews Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 Ignore the 2 and 3 star reviews I say to ignore those reviews because they do not refer to this book. This is the second edition published August 28, 2007 with 863 pages. Those reviews are based off of the first edition published nearly two years before (September 12, 2005) and with only 447 pages. Using Amazon's 'Search inside this book' takes you to the 2005 edition also. That shows only 10 chapters while this edition ...             The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming (Microsoft .NET Development Series)13 reviews Joe Kaplan, Ryan Dunn Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006 Best book for AD & ADAM programmers This is definitively a must have in the bookshelf of all .NET AD Developers. I have been working with ADAM since .NET 1.1 and have always struggle to find answers to simple questions like how to make an LDAP query to run efficiently or how to define complex queries; this book has that and a lot more.             Domain-Specific Application Frameworks: Frameworks Experience by Industry13 reviews John Wiley & Sons, 1999 Excellent guidelines to build OO Application Frameworks This book in conjunction with the books "Building Applicaton Frameworks: Object-Oriented Foundations of Framework Design" and "Implementing Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Frameworks at Work" are a series of three books that constitute a complete and necessary guide for the design and implementation of application frameworks. They are based on multiple academic and industrial contributors ...             Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF)56 reviews Sams Publishing, 2008 Great content to match the great presentation! On first opening this book you are struck by the beautiful full colour pictures and syntax-highlighted code samples. [Though the experience was slightly marred by the tears and damage to the front cover which occurred during shipping, as was also the case with another book in the order.] I did a quick flip through and thought... "Beautiful presentation, but the content looks a bit ...             Human Dynamics : A New Framework for Understanding People and Realizing the Potential in Our Organizations7 reviews Sandra Seagal, David Horne Pegasus Communications, 1997 A Proper Examination and Explanation of Human Action If you have found most personality tests insignificant, unhelpful, or unrevealing, then perhaps this book is for you. Human Dynamics goes into much more depth and provides a greater understanding of human communication and actions than any simple personality test. While people can be placed into certain "dynamics," these dynamics are not nearly as restraining or stereotypical as personality tests ...             Frameworks - Genesis9 reviews Matis Weinberg Foundation for Jewish Publications, 1998 revives torah into once again being life not just learning rabbi weinberg has a unique ability to take the torah portions and their themes and create a vision of reality. based almost entirely on text he shows how the torah teaches more than just "religious practice" but is infact life. this makes every word of the parshiot ring not only with truth but with life and allows the reader to find themselves therein. gone is the childish reading of "bible ...             Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching8 reviews Charlotte Danielson Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 1996 Solid all-around guidance and structure tool. Now in a revised and updated second edition, Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching presents a framework for K-12 educators that is based on Praxis III: Classroom Performance Assessment criteria as developed by Educational Testing Service, compatible with INTASC standards. Chapters cover the four domains of teaching responsibility (planning & preparation, the classroom ...             MCAD Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C#(TM) .NET and the .NET Framework Exam ...9 reviews Amit Kalani, Priti Kalani Que, 2003 A Good Bet for Exam 70-320 This certification study-resource from Author Amit Kalani, served as a rather indispensable part of the revision portfolio for Exam 70-320 (XML Web Services and Server Components with C# .NET ). Simply put, it is a very useful & sound comprehensive reference for Exam 70-320. It served me greatly in gaining both an overview of all the elements that would appear on the 320 exam, but also served ...             .NET Framework Solutions: In Search of the Lost Win32 API10 reviews John Paul Mueller Sybex, 2002 Excellent companion piece to Adam Nathan's bible... If you are doing .NET -> Native interop., this book should pretty have almost all that you need. Note that it does not cover COM (RCW) interop in that much detail and does not talk about CCW (COM -> .NET). However, the coverage of MarshalAs() and the clever examples that show how to deal with the complex DirectX structures are alone worth the price of admission. What I liked best was ...             The Definitive Guide to symfony (Definitive Guide)9 reviews Fabien Potencier, François Zaninotto Apress, 2007 Also available online Well written and understandable for such a large chunk of software. You can be the judge yourself, of course, by reading it online before you buy the hard copy. I'd definitely recommend having the real thing if you're just starting with symfony though.. you can't dogear or bookmark the online version.             Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook: Solutions for VB 2005 Programmers (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))11 reviews Tim Patrick, John Craig O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 Perfect For VB 2005 Developers!! 'Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook: Solutions for VB 2005 Programmers' by Tim Patrick is a perfect reference and solution manual for any and all Visual Basic 2005 developers. Written in typical great O'Reilly cookbook fashion, this book is chock full of nuts with 700+ pages of goodness. Chapter Overview 01. VB Basics 02. Development Environment 03. Application Organization 04. Forms, Controls, ...             Managing Customer Relationships: A Strategic Framework8 reviews Don Peppers, Martha Rogers Wiley, 2004 Highly Recommended! This very extensive text on customer relationship management leaves nothing unsaid or unexplained. Authors and editors Don Peppers and Martha Rogers tackle the subject with admirable organization, clarity and depth. They define every important term and do not lose the reader in marketing jargon - a rare virtue in a book about marketing. The text, including contributions from other well-known ...             Network Application Frameworks: Design & Architecture9 reviews Eric Greenberg Pearson Education, 1998 Invaluable for MCSE's and CCIE's, Network Designers, IS/IT This book is an invaluable comprehensive guide to network design, distributed computing, and overall client/server architecture including security. Highly readable, it clearly explains important network design and distributed computing technologies-- how they work, what their key design constraints are, and how they compare. It is suitable for both beginners and advanced professionals ...             Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols and Practices9 reviews Leon Shklar, Richard Rosen Wiley, 2008 Takes intermediate developers to the next level This book is an ideal text for providing intermediate-level web developers with a solid grounding in architectural principles and more advanced techniques. Before going into why I like this book I do want to offer one caveat - the authors' approach is towards the Model-View-Controller paradigm, and is based on Java Standard Tag Library, Jarkata struts and Apache. 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