books by Manning Publications     books:       Jaguar Development with PowerBuilder 7 (PowerBuilder Developer's Library)11 reviews Michael Barlotta, Mike Barlotta Manning Publications, 1999 Excellant, well written Excellant guide to getting started with Jaguar. Written for those users who know PowerBuilder and need to move to Jaguar. No distributed PB knowledge is required - Barlotta explains everything you need to know in plain english. The time it will save you in figuring out what you are doing is well worth the cost of the book and more. The examples in the book are good and source is available on ...             Microsoft Reporting Services in Action (In Action series)22 reviews Teo Lachev Manning Publications, 2004 The Book That Saved The Project The project: create a secure, distributed, Internet-facing, interactive ASP.Net reporting application for a Very Large Customer. The schedule: short. The budget: low. Amazingly, we got it done, and I credit Teo and this book with helping us meet our requirements. The Microsoft Reporting Services 1.0 documentation is not very useful to the newcomer, and with 7 months' experience now, I can ...             Oracle8i Database Administration13 reviews Noel Yuhanna Manning Publications, 1999 Most useful DBA book I've read so far As an Oracle Instructor and DBA I've had the opportunity to review numerous Oracle texts for DBA's and have to say I've been quite disappointed with most of them. Mr. Yuhanna's book however is an exception. Out of the many DBA texts I have on my shelf this is the one I goto most frequently. Unlike other texts which spend excessive amounts of time covering uncommonly used features and little to ...             Groovy in Action18 reviews Dierk Koenig, Andrew Glover, ... Manning Publications, 2007 Great Primer (if a bit dated) on a Great Language While getting a little long in the tooth (GINA was released pre-Groovy 1.0, Groovy is now above 1.5), the material presented in the book is still very relevant and helpful. The biggest issue is that some of the newer (and cooler!) features, such as ExpandoMetaClass, of the language are not covered. That being said, this is still a great introduction to the a language that will likely become an ...             Microsoft .NET for Programmers28 reviews Fergal Grimes Manning Publications, 2002 Strong from cover to cover. Now top 5 in my favorites list. I've been through many of the C# books, some from Microsoft Press, and some from O'Reilly, and on and on. For beginners there is no clear winner. However, for experienced programmers looking to expand their knowledge into many of the more advanced areas of C#, I recommended Grimes book, Microsoft .NET for Programmers. It's for intermediate to advanced, and it's quite a bit of fun working through ...             SQR in Peoplesoft and Other Applications30 reviews Galina Landres, Vlad Landres Manning Publications, 1999 *The* standard reference on SQR Aside from the fact that there is no other book that teaches SQR, this book is unique and valuable for following reasons: - It teaches good programming practices. Anyone who has developed in any procedural language (including scripting and query languages) can quickly learn SQR. Therein lies a problem that this book overcomes: the excellent advice given about program development and structure ...             Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 211 reviews Peter Armstrong Manning Publications, 2008 Great combination of technologies I have used Flex for about a year and I have only dabbled in Ruby/Rails development. I have been curious how I might back a Flex front end with a simple service layer that isn't hard to create, maintain or host. So far I have only worked with Java/Spring/Hibernate backend services which can take a little while to build and integrate (Grails is MUCH faster). After about 100 pages I'm in ...             JUnit Recipes: Practical Methods for Programmer Testing20 reviews J. B. Rainsberger Manning Publications, 2004 Excellent coverage of advanced unit testing Rainsberger does a very good job of detailing the techniques to unit test difficult code; including xml, ejb, servlets, jsps etc.             LINQ in Action23 reviews Fabrice Marguerie, Steve Eichert, ... Manning Publications, 2008 Very, very nice and good book This is a very nicely written book. Clear explanations, concepts are introduced gradually and build on each other with no forward references, simple and to the point code samples, good and appropriate pace, and very easy to read and understand. I was actually amazed by this book. I read a couple of books/month, and this book reminded me a lot of the quality of classic CS books, which is so ...             SCBCD Exam Study Kit: Java Business Component Developer Certification for EJB18 reviews Paul Sanghera Manning Publications, 2005 Very Good Book I used this book as a primary preparation tool for the Sun Certified Business Component Developer (SCBCD) exam. Being a beginner in EJB, I found this book to be very friendly. I liked the layout of the book in general and the writing style of the author in particular. Only relevant pieces of code are presented to focus explanation of topic in question. A complete running application may be ...             Taming Jaguar2 reviews Jason R. Weiss, Michael Barlotta Manning Publications, 2000 Good Read for Sybase Tools User I give the authors of this book a thumbs up for giving the Sybase Tools programmer a useful book for understanding the EAServer environment. It is easy to read and follow. An intermediate PowerBuilder / Java developer will find it helpful. I really like the section on using PowerDynamo with EAServer. I would guess that Michael Barlotta only carries over about 25% of the material he covered in ...             Portlets and Apache Portals2 reviews Stefan Hepper, Peter Fischer, ... Manning Publications, 2005 Free download of the almost-complete manuscript from Manning The publisher, Manning, is certainly a good public citizen. They assembled an excellent team of subject matter experts to write a book on Portals and Portlet development. The team wrote the book, but Manning chose not to publish it. Consequently, it hasn't gone through the usual edit/review process, but it's still an excellent resource. Manning is offering the book, in PDF form, as a free ...             AspectJ in Action: Practical Aspect-Oriented Programming9 reviews Ramnivas Laddad Manning Publications, 2003 Best AOP book I have seen so far I have got this book at local Austin Java User Group meeting. First impression: different cover. Most of Manning books are either greenish or almost black-and-white. This one is yellow. Part 1 provides really good introduction into AOP. This is the first book I have read on AOP; all stuff I have seen before was online or magazine articles. One interesting fact is that this book took a while to ...             ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Action: Building Dynamic Web Portals (In Action)7 reviews Darren Neimke Manning Publications, 2006 Complete Guide for ASP Web Parts This a very thorough and complete guide to ASP 2.0 Web Parts. After reading this book, I gained more knowledge than reading countless internet articles, numerous blogs and a few cumbersome books on subject. This book is a MUST Buy for anyone who needs to understand and/ or implement ASP 2.0 Web Parts. One added new value is the concepts outlined in his book also work on ASP 3.5.             GWT in Practice2 reviews Robert Cooper, Charlie Collins Manning Publications, 2008 GWT In Practice deserves a spot on your shelf! GWT In Practice is an essential book for any web developer who works with or wants to work with the GWT toolkit. In addition to covering GWT fundamentals, the book really focuses on real world applications, not just Hello World type apps which are largely useless. The ample code samples throughout the book make applying GWT to solve something in your web application easy. I highly recommend ...             jQuery in Action7 reviews Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz Manning Publications, 2008 The Best Book on the Best Javascript Framework jQuery in Action is a practical book that explains how to use, and what's behind the magical framework known as jQuery. It's teaches by example, so you're never reading 20 pages of theory. The writing is clear and it really shows you how to get through some of the "gotchas" of javascript, like timing, animations, and our good friend Ajax. Good for beginners to Javascript, jQuery, and experts.             Internet & Intranet Applications with Powerbuilder 62 reviews Tom Cervenka Manning Publications, 1998 An Incredible Book This book covers every aspect of programming in PowerBuilder for the net. This is not a difficult subject, but it is complex. There are a lot of setup issues and there is a change in programming style from the traditional PowerBuilder. This book covers all of that in easy to understand style. It does so completely and in such a fashion as to make it easy to follow. I would recommend this ...             Distributed Application Development With Powerbuilder 6 (Powerbuilder Developer's Library)9 reviews Michael Barlotta Manning Publications, 1998 This book is terrific! If you are a Powerbuilder Guru, you must read this book, otherwise you'd take the risk to know less than your apprentices. If you are a novice, you must read it to become a Guru. Don't loose time with me, go to buy one!             iText in Action: Creating and Manipulating PDF5 reviews Bruno Lowagie Manning Publications, 2006 iText saved me! In January 2006 I was assigned to build a system that would create lots of PDF reports, typically with hundreds of pages of tables, and with tables nested in other tables. I started with an an open-source tool called BIRT that is well-designed and powerful, but it didn't quite give me sufficient low-level control over some aspects of PDF creation. When I realized that BIRT wasn't going to work ...             C# in Depth: What you need to master C# 2 and 311 reviews Jon Skeet Manning Publications, 2008 Flawless I've just counted, it's the fifth book I've read on C# this year (not to mention a dozen books on .NET) and this is by far the best. It's not just very good technically, useful and enjoyable to read, it's flawless. In fact, I didn't find as single typo, a single sentence that was slightly misleading or incomplete which, in my experience, is extremely rare for a first edition. On top of being a ...              search for books administration, application, applications, aspect-oriented, building, business, certification, component, creating, database, developer, development, distributed, flexible, internet, intranet, manipulating, microsoft, oracle8i, oriented, peoplesoft, portlets, powerbuilder, practical, practice, programmer, programmers, programming, reporting, services books:    randomly chosen book: Bonsai Book of Practical Facts: A Collection of Brass Tacks, Tips and ... Impressum - about us get your own shoutbox