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Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming Third Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data ... 49 reviews
Joe Celko
Morgan Kaufmann, 2005
Great Book, Terrible Typesetting
+ Joe does a pretty good job
+ A great help
As a DBA, I use this book often. It's been helpful and I recommend it to others.
My issue with this book is not its content, it's the terrible typesetting throughout. The text is the raggedest of ragged right, sample SQL code wraps in odd places, diagrams are sloppy (redraw the diagrams by hand ...
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Microsoft Windows Internals (4th Edition): Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 31 reviews
Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon
Microsoft Press, 2005
The architecture "bible".
+ Pure internals
+ Excellent technical reference
+ Very thorough treatment of the subject matter
+ a "must read" for high level sysadmins
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Programming Perl133 reviews
Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, ...
O'Reilly, 1996
Awesome learning tool
+ Good book to have
+ Larry Wall is a genius.
This informal "bible" of Perl programming is an easy read for experienced programmers AND has a great index for reference. Walls and Christiansen team up well for us advanced beginners by welcoming us into the Club and giving us the straight scoop in a coherent structure.
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Assessing Network Security (Pro-One-Offs) 3 reviews
Kevin Lam, David LeBlanc, ...
Microsoft Press, 2004
The best pentesting book I've seen
+ An Excellent First Book on Pen Testing
+ the ring of truth, the sound of experience
Now, I've read some pretty bad books on penetration testing and nobody seemed to get this fun subject right! Good news - this time somebody did! This great tome ("Assessing Network Security") comes to us direct from the bunkers of Redmond. Written by three Microsoft security researchers, the book ...
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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective17 reviews
Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron
Prentice Hall, 2002
Everything you need to know as a programmer
+ Good Textbook
+ Needs a good instructor to go along with it
+ Nice Book!
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Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design47 reviews
Jenifer Tidwell
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
More Practical Concepts, Less Psychology
+ Visual examples for designing for Information Interchange
+ Excellent
+ A staple for your design library
+ Great interface component reference
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The Internet and Its Protocols: A Comparative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)4 reviews
Adrian Farrel
Morgan Kaufmann, 2004
A modern protocols book for all networking practitioners
+ Extremely Comprehensive Work by World Expert on Internet Protocols
+ Innovative approach, very good result
+ The Internet and Its Protocols
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The Object Primer: Agile Model-Driven Development with UML 2.011 reviews
Scott W. Ambler
Cambridge University Press, 2004
If you understand the target audience this is the best book on the market
+ Good Book
+ Well written and clear
+ Great book for analysts too!!!!
+ Read This Book!
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Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk (4th Edition) 40 reviews
Brent Welch, Ken Jones
Prentice Hall PTR, 2003
Practical? Very Practical!
+ Great Reference and guid
+ Excellent book to master Tcl and Tk
I am an experienced SW developer, having used many languages. I needed to "get up to speed" in Tcl/Tk in a hurry.
This book presented the needed topics in an orderly fashion, had clear examples, and doubles as a very handy reference.
I ordered some other Tcl/Tk books (to be on the safe side), ...
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Mastering VBA (Mastering)6 reviews
Guy Hart-Davis
Sybex, 2005
GREAT reference for beginners
+ Mastering VBA as learning tool
+ The greatest story ever told.
Thank you for finally publishing a book that all of us can use to learn VBA!!!
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C: A Reference Manual (5th Edition)44 reviews
Samuel P. Harbison, Guy L. Steele
Prentice Hall, 2002
Simply Indespensible
+ Nice Book
+ Best book on C99
+ The Best
+ Exactly what it was advertised
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DocBook: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly XML)6 reviews
Norman Walsh, Leonard Muellner
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1999
Definitive Guide
+ Great reference to help you build your DTD...
+ Nice, but not really required
+ A Useful Book for SGML/DocBook Authors
+ Good reference with a couple of flaws
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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide279 reviews
David Flanagan
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006
Best Language Explanation I've Ever Seen
+ Good book.
+ Comprehensive, a little boring
+ Almost Too Thorough. Not the best Choice for Beginners/Creatives
+ Easy read and understanding
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Essential System Administration, Third Edition76 reviews
Æleen Frisch
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2002
Great Overview
+ Good Book...
+ Handy for the mixed-platform sysadmin
+ Good writer. Easy to understand.
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XML and Perl12 reviews
Mark Riehl, Ilya Sterin
Sams, 2002
Well maybe you'll print this one.
+ need to already know Perl, but not XML
+ Using practical, real-world examples
+ Complete with great examples.
+ Useful guide to processing XML with Perl
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Word 2003 Document Automation with VBA, XML, XSLT, and Smart Documents (Wordware Applications Library) 3 reviews
Scott Driza
Wordware Publishing, Inc., 2005
It delivers on its promise!
+ Good Book to get Started with Word Automation
Quite often you see book titles that unfortunately do not match the subject content. This one certainly does! The back cover states that it sets out to explain how to:
- Automate documents with a minimum of programming by using Word's native functionality
- Use VBA to create document ...
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Discrete Structures, Logic, and Computability, Second Edition (Jones & Bartlett Computer Science)6 reviews
James L. Hein
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc., 2002
Second Review of Dr. Hein's Book
+ Deep, but overly dense
+ Excellent book!
+ A Good Text
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XML 1.1 Bible67 reviews
Elliotte Rusty Harold
Wiley, 2004
Sola Scriptura
+ Surprisingly Good, Surprisingly Useful
Review for XML 1.1 Bible (3rd Edition):
Elliotte Rusty Harold is that rare technical author who can write about anything and make it interesting. In this case, he has written 1,000 pages on XML providing us with an excellent guide book to this technology. Whether you are a beginner or advanced ...
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Database Administration: The Complete Guide to Practices and Procedures7 reviews
Craig S. Mullins
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002
Highly Recommended
+ Well Rounded Book That Does the Job
+ Database Administration: The Complete Guide to Practices and Procedures
+ used book for the iccp database administration exam
+ The DBA Book
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Information Modeling and Relational Databases: From Conceptual Analysis to Logical Design (The Morgan ...10 reviews
Terry Halpin
Morgan Kaufmann, 2001
A student of Dr. Halpin
+ Feeling alone in the arene of ORM
+ Award winning
+ Brilliant
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