Computing Internet Books

I just bought a second-hand copy of this book and although it has been published more than two years ago, it still contains a lot of valid information. Most of the concepts presented in here are still very important and many people have not adhered to these concepts. Just look at the section on CSS. This has been around since 1998, but not everyone is using CSS on his site. Same applies to many other technologies described here. While everyone knows about them, it does not mean that they use it or know how to use it. Great book for anyone interested in building up a good website.

This book is good.

I wanted a book to help me prepare for CompTIA's e-Biz+ examination, and I think my search is over. This book explains things so well and it gives you a complete picture. So far, I find it fun to read. It has to be the book.

The money will have been well spent.

A very nice book about e-business that even includes some very funny notes, such as: "In May 2000, the producers of the television show Big Brother tried to admonish anyone who tried to set up an unofficial fan page. In this case it is questionable if intellectual property is involved since the whole concept was
without content." I like most the sections about legal problems (which is free on the author's web page) and the chapter about new technologies.

The E-Business (R)Evolution provides a very detailed overview on the most important topics related to e-business. It provides not only insight into the technologies and businesses, but proves the different business models by providing some very good examples from around the world. While the hype is gone, e-business is still here and there is more than one reason for it. If you need to understand better what the next steps should be, in your e-business adventure, get this book and you will learn how to be successful!

This book has been the foundation of my classes for two years now and with this update it has become even better. Well done, please keep up the good work.

Cyber_Reader compiled and edited by Neil Spiller is an impressive and erudite anthology of texts and essays on the theme of cyberspace. Most of the essays are from the 1990s, though a few appropriate excerpts from earlier cyberspace history are included. An amazing and eclectic selection of learned opinions and analysis make Cyber_Reader an engaging, informative, seminal, at times challenging, and always highly recommended study of how virtual reality shapes our living world to this very day.

This book was great-- from the very beginning you are writing scripts and learning by example. Everything is very conversational and easy to understand, but without falling into the trap of seeming condescending to advanced users.

I'd recommend it to anyone trying to get up to speed on VBScript. (As an ASP developer, I find it invaluble.)

This book is perfect for learning the easiest scripting language around and the wonderful companion Web site will keep you going long after you've finished reading.

The format of the book is good. It allows quick access to vital information. It also shows key/new areas color coded in red. I knew nothing about VBScript before reading this book. Now I feel I can write basic scripts without problems. The book also did a good job by not spending too much time on unnecessary introductory topics, like operators, etc.

The drawback of this book is the multitude of typos and some mistakes regarding Microsoft's Document Object Model. I found it frustrating to try some examples and not having them work. However, I learned a lot from fixing the examples.

If you're a programmer and just want to know what are the basics of html and vbscript? This is the book to read. It's simple and concise. I really enjoyed it. [It] is a bargain.

Visual Quickstart Guides are generally comprehensive and easy on the eyes. However, I found too many errors in the sample codes of Thurrott's book to warrant anything above 2 stars!! Thank my lucky stars(!) that I am familiar with VB5 and VBA to correct most of the code "on the spot" while trying out the samples. All in all, this could have been a good book, but from all the frustrations in correcting the errors, I suggest that no one buys this book until the author uses a spell checker and/or at least goes through the book a second time to debug his own sample codes.

If you have a current installation of Eclipse and you are using JPA (ex: Hibernate), don't even think about using the book's update site. It will totally hose up your entire Eclipse installation and you are looking at a complete re-installation.

It's a shame, because otherwise the book seems to be very helpful. Rumor is that they are planning an update sometime late 2008, but none of the bookstores have a publication date on it yet.

I purchased 8 copies and distributed them to our team. Several team members went through each chapter, building the sample application on top of the Eclipse RCP. Each of us, whether or not we built the application, have learned a great deal about using Eclipse. I highly recommend this book to any software team that is starting a new product or that is in the throes of refactoring / recasting an old one. The book will jump-start your Eclipse experience.

I couldn't do my RCP application without this book. its example application goes growing showing everything we need to learn to make an RCP application.

I stumbled into Eclipse when researching OSGI as a framework for a system I was designing. I was not looking forward to the drudgery and complexity of building all the required infrastructure over OSGI to build an actual product - what a wonderful discovery to see this gleaming system with smoothly integrated parts ready to do my bidding!
The authors make the apt analogy of launching a payload into space - so much of the work goes into the launch vehicle and ground control,etc, whereas to the payload designer the only interesting work is at the very tip of the rocket. As software developers we love generating the cool idea (the payload) and are not so excited about the other 90% which makes the real product - complex UI workflows, help, update, packaging, etc. Eclipse provides all the mechanisms and plenty of automated assistance for putting together your total system.
Perhaps you will find some disparities between the book and your downloaded version of Eclipse (I haven't yet) but this is not Visual Basic, this is a relatively deep but elegantly designed system which does require a certain level of understanding before you really get cooking with it, but this book does an excellent job with that. Once you get going, it's like having a team of 10 great programmers at your command.

This book is a very detailed and at the same time hands on treatement of what the RCP paradigm is all about. It begins with how to create using Eclipse a very functional and easy to do Chat application. As it is this
application shows the most generic and neccessary aspects of how to start an RCP application all the way to branding and packaging within it's first serveral chapters. Its' full of suggestions and tips of why you're doing various things to what not to do and why.

This book is for anyone from someone just wanting to know how it's done up to a professional Eclipse developer level. The chapters are nice and short which helps when you want to read it between work and home.

It does read as though there was thorough thought and planning from a number of sources in the layout and planning of this book.

it also will satisfy anyone wanting to know the deeper meanings of why they had to do what they did in the first several chapters further on into this material.

To me the total material ranges from easy-do-it-yourself application build kit material to A-1 college material that could be used in a semester course of RCP and eclipse.

It also offers at the end several references to things like the OSGI model that eclipse is modeled on now as well as other interesting items you never knew but form the basis of this wonderful platform called eclipse.

Once you read this book and look at the references of what people have done with Eclipse (specifcally RCP) from Nasa to the banking industry,
you'll realize that Eclipse RCP is to Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux and MacOSX as VisualStudio is to .NET

After reading this book, I felt it was lacking in details and possibly had more than a few errors. Although it is a study guide, with some good challenging practice questions, I can not help but emphasize for a few dollars more you could get a better study guide that would be far more useful and prepare you better.

I would recommend using this book in conjunction with Microsoft 70-431 preparation guide and Measure UP's or Self Test Software's preperation and practice tests. Its hard to pass SQL 2005 depending only on this book (unless you have some experience working with SQL 2005). Good for quick final review before exam too.

I've been using ExamCram since Windows NT 4. :) Not all of them are impressive. This one is the same.

This is a good last book for quickly reviewing the key concepts to pass the exam. If the topics, such as Service Broker, XML, etc, are new to you and you have read the topic else where, you will appreciate how much the author has condense everything to the basic. It reminds me of the "cheat sheet" at work someone showed me.

Don't get me wrong this is NOT the only book to use to prepare the exam. When I say quickly reviewing, it took me under 30 minutes to finish chapter one because it is easy for me. But, it was snail pace for me on couple new features from sql 2005. To average readers, I think 1 solid day will be the bare minimum to review using this book. I wish author can share more mnemonic to help sponge up all these new stuffs. :)

ON the plus side, ch7, subtitle: "Activity Monitor For Here and Now". really speak out what Activity Monitor does!

On the neg side, I don't like the style of writing. To me, tech book written in present tense with action words is preferred. Also, it was "wordy". May be it is just me.

now for the technical correctness, the following are things that aren't entirely correct.
ch4, question 2, nodes() and value() can both be the answer.
ch5, Creating a Queue, ALTER QUEUE example used CREATE.
ch6, While describing FORMAT option and how it works, it ends with "The default behavior is NOFORMAT, and the media header is not written." So, a FORMAT option has default behavior of NOFORMAT? This is not clear.
ch 10, q 2, IN is a possible answer when used with NESTED query.
q3, the choice (a) should have said CLR User-Defined Type, which is different than the plain-o UDT.
ch 10, q20, can two jobs with different schedules need be scheduled with one schedule?
Mirror is on the exam and detailed steps was asked.
The prospects.xls mentioned in the book is missing. where to download it? where is the errata?

The exam has simulation which requires much hands on experience. One will easily fail if this is the only study material.

Overall is a good book, it is destined to be a 5 stars. It is hammered down by a few , yet, important errors. 4 stars.

As mentioned in previous reviews, this book is purely an exam preparation guide. If you are planning on sitting the 70-431 exam, this book is a worthwhile resource. It ignores irrelevant (non-exam) material and contains a few sample test questions extremely similar to ones found in the actual exam (which is what you're after).

If you are planning on becoming a proficient SQL Server DBA, you will need to look elsewhere. However, for what it is intended to achieve, I give it 4 stars!

This book was a good starting point, but I wouldn't suggest taking the exam after only studying it. I don't know what exam the author took, but there was a lot of stuff on mine that wasn't even alluded to in this book.

I've been a SQL Server programmer/admin for 10 years, so I went into this thinking my knowledge would just need a little brushing up. Breezed through the book and the sample tests and thought "This is going to be easy!" Wrong!

Given the MS 70-413 test is like all the other MS cert tests in that it is as much about getting past the trick questions as knowing anything practical, this book's example questions are waaaay too easy. The subject matter is extremely light weight, too.

Didn't try Transcender, but had coupons for MeasureUp and SelfTest preps. If I had it to do over, I'd devote most of my time to the SelfTest product. Its level of trick questions and general difficulty made it the best for this test. Unfortunately, I discovered this later than I should have.

I passed the test, but it wasn't pretty.

this book is a pretty typical dummies guide. i haven't taken the test yet so i can't say much. it's outdated now but since the new versions of server+ preparation guides are not yet available this is probably as good a test preparation book as you can get. i used the dummies guide for a+ certification and it was okay. lots of overlap between the a+ guide and the server+ guide--good luck to you, and good luck to me.

Best used as a starter or final prep but needs somthing more heavyweight for the exam.

Not a bad book but it just skims the surface on the topics present on the exam. Anybody who is going to take the Server+ exam make sure you get one of the larger study guides as well to get a more in-depth view of the topics that are on the exam. This book is more like an overview.

Ron Gilster and Mike Glencross have come up with an easy to read book with a little humor spread throughout with that Dummies aplomb. I found myself reading quickly through this book. This is not as meaty as some of the other Server+ books, but it does touch on all the exam objectives. My suggestion would be to use this book in conjunction with one of the other thicker books such as the Server+ Bible for more in-depth look for certain topics. The RAID and SCSI chapters were good and I also enjoyed the chapter review questions. However, the included CD with the Dummies book has many identical questions as the Server+ Bible CD and this may be due to them being published by the Hungry Minds.

I will also add that I emailed BOTH Ron Gilster AND the dummies press asking if any erratta was posted, and as of today, 2 months later, I have received NO REPLY from either party. This is most unfortunate considering that the book is well written, catchy, and makes a very dry subject a lot more interesting. So shame on the technical editors.

Some of the most important things that I as an educator and parent took away from this book was the involvement of both the parents and teacher in the education of their children. My asessment of the book was that he uses the computer to increase the communication of all family members and show the uses of the computer. The one thing that stayed with me the most was the saying "Not why the computer but how the computer". That means to think of ways to include the computer in your everyday life. This is a book that all educators should have and encourage their students parents to get.

I didn't have a full understanding of what Papert meant, when he spoke of typical schools and typical homes. He seems to be implying that children coming from these enviorments can't be computer literate.

The Connected Family by Seymour Papert is an enlightening approach to helping parents realize the importance of being in touch with technology. Our children are very familiar and his reference to the fact that we must close this generation gap is on target. This book has encouraged and still challenges me to learn all that I can about technology.

Seymour Papert's book was enjoyable to read. In the beginning of the book I felt that he elaborated on the chapters. A lot of the book was redundant. I felt as if he blamed too much of the children's lack of education and exposure on the teachers.I believe that those who read Papert's book with an open mind will truly benefit. The teacher who approaches this book on the defense unfortunately will feel worse for having read it. I don't think that this is the kind of book that the average parent picks up to read.So many of them will never have the opportunity to see what is printed here. I would recommend this book to other educators. I would also encourage them to have an open mind as they read this book.I feel that the computer age calls for all teachers to do all that they can to improve on the computer especially since children are so stimulated today.

Seymour Papert's The Connected Family is better suited toteachers than parents, since its chief criticism concerns schools' useof computers. He seems to believe that since schools are doing such a poor job of finding new and innovative uses for computers, he will target families in an attempt to allow children at least some positive experience with computers. While this is not a bad idea, I think his time would be better spent encouraging schools to rethink their use of computers. Certainly families should develop common interests and work together on projects, but children spend so much more time in school that changes there are likely to have a greater impact. I hope that many teachers find the time to read this book and consider making changes in their use of computers.

Teachers of very young students often recognize exploration as legitimate learning, but as the age of the student increases, the tendency is to decrease the time spent on exploration and increase time spent on instruction. This is done in the quest for efficiency in spite of the fact that we all know the most powerful lessons in life come from experience (exploring and experimenting.) It is Papert's idea that computers are best used as alternate universes in which students can continue to explore and experiment.

It used to be that you could explore a piece of technology and learn how it worked (picture peering into a manual typewriter,) but with increasing reliance on microprocessors this is laregly untrue today (picture peering inside your PC.) Papert's ideal of learning through exploration cannot occur when the working of the world is opaque. His solution for computers is to ignore the hardware (it is hopelessly opaque) and focus instead software. Don't ask children to merely use software but ask them to program a computer. This will reveal the workings of the digital age and remove some of the mystery of computers.

Papert poses some interesting ideas in this teaser of a book. I'd like to see more work done towards developing the type of software he imagines. The book's web site ... may have once had some of this, but it has now been replaced by ... a kid-oriented, but very limited site ...

Malicious bots is an interesting book.

It has about 100 pages of text, so it is expensive in relation to the price.

But is has a lot of valuable and significant information, and since the authors are so specialized in thier fields, this is data you can't get anywhere else.

As the previous reviewer stated, there are only about 100 pages of actual text. There is nothing inherently wrong with the book, it just isn't what I expected when purchased. Decent stories, but not a good intro to the subject. Would not make the mistake of purchasing this book if I had the chance over again.

I was looking forward to reading this book when it came out because the author Ken Dunham is a well-known, respected malware researcher. I was extremely disappointed when the book arrived. Aside from being extremely thin, there is nothing of value and nearly every chapter is old material. Chapter 5 made me want to return this book as it revealed why this book was actually written. Also there is a mitigation "Chapter" which is one page. Save yourself $60. If you are looking to learn the topic try " Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defense" or "Phishing Exposed".

I have taught a course using this text for a number of semesters. It is by far the best XML text I have found. The tutorial examples Patrick Carey includes in all his books are well thought out and demonstrate the best use of the technology he presents. I personally do not use the copy of XML Spy included with the text - I prefer other editors - but it is handy to have this trial version for someone who doesn't want to find an editor on their own.