books by Apress     books:       Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality29 reviews Bob Walsh Apress, 2006 How-to for the small Independent Software Vendor Many "how-to" business books pretend they are going to show you how to take your business from nothing to hundreds of millions in sales overnight. "Micro-ISV" is refreshingly different. First, it is written specifically for those who want to bring personal computer software to the market through their own small, independent company. Second, it is about small companies. There is little ...             LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: The Mayan Adventure (Technology in Action)20 reviews James Floyd Kelly Apress, 2006 Learning the process The value of this book is not in the number of documented designs, but how it teaches you the process to come up with your own designs. It even does it in a much more entertaining way then my engineering classes did. Understanding the design process allows you to create any number of robots that do what you want them to do and this is an invaluable life skill. That is what this book teaches ...             The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners (Technology in Action)34 reviews Jacob Habgood, Mark Overmars Apress, 2006 The Game Maker's Apprentice This is a wonderful book! The instructions are easy to follow and all of the games are fun. I liked the fact that the finished games are on the CD so you could see what they are like while you are working on them.             Expert Oracle9i Database Administration17 reviews Sam R. Alapati Apress, 2003 Excellent source for Oracle 9i Administration An excellent book covering all essential DBA topics for Oracle 9i Administration. Explained very well covering In-depth details, Illustrations and examples makes this book invaluable. I use it as a true source of reference and I will strongly recommend this book.             Expert One-on-One Oracle77 reviews Thomas Kyte Apress, 2003 Best $12 I ever spent!!! I bought this book on cheap clearance after the original publisher went out of business -- the best $12 I ever invested. Remembering even 10% of this book makes you better than 90% of Oracle developers, modelers and architects. Mr. Kyte's real world experience and reliance on solid examples instead of folklore makes this light-years ahead of any other Oracle book; it's the only Oracle book I ...             Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 200828 reviews Apress, 2007 Learn LINQ = Buy this book I am always looking for new tools to make my job as a developer easier, more efficient, allow me to write code that is more easily maintained and just make things more exciting. The problem that comes with learning these new tools (such as LINQ) is finding the time to learn them to the point that they are useful. This style of this book made it very easy to read with excellent code examples, ...             Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional18 reviews Cristian Darie, Karli Watson Apress, 2005 Great ASP.Net 2.0 E-Commerce Primer/Reference This book covers it's topic E-Commerce very well. It also takes advantage of the new features found in ASP.Net 2.0 including some of the new ADO features. If you are getting ready to setup an E-Commerce site I highly recommend this book. I also recommend it for beginning developers wanting to know more about ADO and database design. The authors have a great approach to design that anyone ...             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. ...             Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions28 reviews Apress, 2005 Great book This book is accurate and undoubtfully an excellent source to learn more about the Oracle Database. Tom is an author full of humor with a versatile approach to performance. In his book he shows his approach to performance and put light on common practice like database independence and read-write consistency or like constraints enforced by triggers and autonomous transaction. No doubt I learned ...             Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional23 reviews Apress, 2007 An excellent introduction to Ruby I had heard quite a bit about Ruby, so I thought I would see what it had to offer. I went looking for an introductory book and found this one. I was hooked before the end of the first chapter. The author has an engaging writing style, and has done a great job of introducing the language and the community. The book is logically organized and presents the material in an easily comprehensible ...             Beginning SQL Server 2000 for Visual Basic Developers14 reviews Thearon Willis Apress, 2003 Taught me everything I needed to know... I had to learn SQL programming with Visual Basic 6 in about a month's time for a project. This book taught me everything I needed to know to deliver the application. Everytime I came across a stumbling block in my code or in SQL Server 2000 I found the answer in this book. This book will make you feel that you not only know how to make Visual Basic talk to SQL Server, it will make you feel you ...             The Definitive Guide to Stellent Content Server Development11 reviews Brian Huff Apress, 2006 This is a "must have" for all Stellent-ites! Well written, easy to understand and use, congratulations on a truly useful tool. I have worked with Stellent for many years, and have this book next to my keyboard at all times! Bex has always provided clear answers for the user group, but this provides a clear direction no matter what you need to do with your Stellent system. Kudos!             Intermediate Robot Building11 reviews David Cook Apress, 2004 Truly excellent! This book (and it's prequel, Robot Building for Beginners by the same author) is extraordinarily good. It picks up where the previous book (which is the best book in existence for the beginning roboticist, in my opinion) leaves off, getting into details of milling parts, microcontroller circuits, and such. A truly wonderful book. If you read the previous book, and then read this book, you will ...             Constructing Accessible Web Sites14 reviews Jim Thatcher, Cynthia Waddell, ... Apress, 2003 Guiding hand to accessibility The GlassHaus "Constructing Accessible Web Sites" book has been a great find. I began working to build sites and applications for use in Web browsers that had to be used by individuals with disabilities in 1997. Over these years I picked up a lot of hard won knowledge and experience, but have never run across a resource that fully backed what I had gathered. The GlasHaus Accessibility book not ...             Pro BizTalk 2006 (Pro)11 reviews George Dunphy, Ahmed Metwally Apress, 2006 Pro BizTalk 2006 for the Novice and Expert Every so often a book comes along which transcends the technology that it is intended to explain. If you are a BizTalk novice, this seminal work is for you. With a self-deprecating style, the authors guide you through the wide and deep integration waters. They tell you just enough so that you can be proficient and yet feel comfortable that you have chosen the correct course. What you might not ...             The qmail Handbook12 reviews Dave Sill Apress, 2003 Qmail made much easier with this book After a month, and hours of installing and reinstalling FreeBSD and Qmail, I finally got the mail server working right! This was my first attempt at a mail server which I use for my family members and a few friends. There are a few errors in the book in some of the scripts which did cause me many problems. That was a pain. But, even at that, I don't think I would have been able to get Qmail ...             Beginning Perl, Second Edition15 reviews James Lee Apress, 2004 Fantastic tool for beginners Beginning Perl is a great introduction and resource. It does assume the reader has some basic prior programming experience, but either way it is very logical and easy to follow. The book is well-organized so that you can easily find what you need. There are tips and shortcuts strategically placed throughout the book to help you along the way. I bought this book very recently, having no prior ...             The Art and Science of Oracle Performance Tuning12 reviews Christopher Lawson Apress, 2003 Great book to read Great book,nice and easy to follow approach,fine life examples. Among other things the author very intelligently also reiterates the importance of a good self image and the importance of a good relationship to co-workers in a very casual,realistic and non intrusive manner             Foundations of GTK+ Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source)10 reviews Andrew Krause Apress, 2007 Great book I got this book a few weeks ago and found it to be well written and to the point.             Real World Microsoft Access Database Protection and Security15 reviews Garry Robinson Apress, 2003 Excellent Resource for MS Access Security This has got to be the best MS Access resource book that I have purchased. Like others, I have found MS Access security hard to understand but with Gary Robinson's help I am now getting a grasp on how I can keep sensitive data secure. The book is aimed at those who are new to security as well as those with experience. 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