Edition: Pap/Cdr
Publication date: 2003-09-01
Dewey code: 005
RRP: £32.99
Price: £21.77
Review Code Optimization: Effective Memory Usage / A-List:
Publication date: 2002-02-01
Dewey code: 658.312402854678
RRP: £29.99
Price: £32.53
Review The ASTD e-Learning Handbook: Best Practices, Strategies and Case Studies for an Emerging Field / McGraw-Hill Professional:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2003-08-07
Dewey code: 005.276
RRP: £39.99
Price: £30.79
Review ASP.NET Unleashed / Sams:ASP. NET Unleashed is a chunky, detailed guide to Microsoft's Web development platform. Despite its similar name, ASP. Net is fundamentally different from older versions of Active Server Pages, which makes this in-depth handbook particularly welcome. A key feature of the book is that it does not use Visual Studio. Net, Microsoft's ASP. Net development tool. Instead, the author uses pure code for all examples, which means you can follow along with nothing more than the freely downloadable ASP. Net SDK (Software Development Kit). This approach is excellent for communicating how the technology really works, which can be obscured by slick visual editors. [+]On the other hand, developers who need a guide to ASP. Net development with Visual Studio should look elsewhere. The language used is Visual Basic, although those who prefer C# should not have much trouble adapting the code. The first part of the book is focused on controls, with a tour of built-in Web server controls, an introduction to creating custom controls and a quick look at third party products. Next comes ADO. Net, the database aspect of this technology, including an explanation of data binding. XML gets brief coverage. With the foundations in place, the second half of the book gets into more advanced topics, such as how to build a search page using SQL Server's full text indexing, form-based and Windows-based authentication, data encryption, session management and Web services. There is also an introduction to the. Net Framework and a helpful chapter on creating graphics on the fly with GDI+. It is not fully comprehensive, which given the scope of ASP. Net is not surprising, but there is a ton of excellent material here. -Tim Anderson.
Publication date: 2003-08-11
Dewey code: 005.8
RRP: £28.99
Price: £19.13
Review Hacker Disassembling Uncovered / Computer Bookshops Ltd:
Authors
- Eric A. Marks
- Michael Bell
Publication date: 2006-06-09
Dewey code: 004.068
RRP: £39.99
Price: £19.48
Review Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology / John Wiley & Sons Inc:
Publication date: 2003-09-16
Dewey code: 004.068
RRP: £34.95
Price: £10.17
Review Global It Management - a Practical Approach: A Practical Approach / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2008-02-11
Dewey code: 005
RRP: £62.99
Price: £60.11
Review Modern Operating Systems / Prentice Hall:For software development professionals and computer science students, Modern Operating Systems gives a solid conceptual overview of operating system design, including detailed case studies of Unix/Linux and Windows 2000. Readers familiar with Tanenbaum's previous text, Operating Systems, know the author is a great proponent of simple design and hands-on experimentation. His earlier book came bundled with the source code for an operating system called Minux, a simple variant of Unix and the platform used by Linus Torvalds to develop Linux. Although this book does not come with any source code, he illustrates many of his points with code fragments (C, usually with Unix system calls). The first half of Modern Operating Systems focuses on traditional operating systems concepts: processes, deadlocks, memory management, I/O, and file systems. There is nothing ground-breaking in these early chapters, but all topics are well covered, each including sections on current research and a set of student problems. It is the second half of the book that differentiates itself from older operating systems texts. Here, each chapter describes an element of what constitutes a modern operating system-awareness of multimedia applications, multiple processors, computer networks, and a high level of security. The chapter on multimedia functionality focuses on such features as handling massive files and providing video-on-demand. Included in the discussion on multiprocessor platforms are clustered computers and distributed computing. [+]Finally, the importance of security is discussed-a lively enumeration of the scores of ways operating systems can be vulnerable to attack, from password security to computer viruses and Internet worms. Included at the end of the book are case studies of two popular operating systems: Unix/Linux and Windows 2000. There is a bias toward the Unix/Linux approach, not surprising given the author's experience and academic bent, but this bias does not detract from Tanenbaum's analysis. Both operating systems are dissected, describing how each implements processes, file systems, memory management, and other operating system fundamentals. Tanenbaum's mantra is a simple, accessible operating system design. Given that modern operating systems have extensive features, he is forced to reconcile physical size with simplicity. Towards this end, he makes frequent references to the Frederick Brooks classic The Mythical Man Month for wisdom on managing large, complex software development projects. He finds both Windows 2000 and Unix/Linux guilty of being too complicated-with a particular skewering of Windows 2000 and its "mammoth Win32 API". A primary culprit is the attempt to make operating systems more "user-friendly," which Tanenbaum views as an excuse for bloated code. The solution is to have smart people, the smallest possible team, and well-defined interactions between various operating systems components. Future operating system design will benefit if the advice in this book is taken to heart. -Pete Ostenson.
Publication date: 2007-09-01
Dewey code: 658.456
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.39
Review Plan and Conduct Effective Meetings: 24 Steps to Generate Meaningful Results (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series) / McGraw-Hill Professional:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2005-12-30
Dewey code: 658.0546
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.71
Review Unofficial Guide to Starting a Business Online (Unofficial Guides) / John Wiley & Sons Inc:
Publication date: 2006-12-01
Dewey code: 333.30688
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.97
Review Realty Blogging / McGraw-Hill Professional:
Authors
- Thomas Kalling
- Jonas Hedman
Publication date: 2002-01-01
RRP: £26.00
Price: £9.09
Review IT and Business Models: Concepts and Theories / Copenhagen Business School Press:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 658.827
Price: £10.59
Review The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to Build a Product or Service Into a World-Class Brand / Collins Business:As it becomes increasingly associated with impressive corporate gains realised in recent years by companies ranging from Virgin and Rolex to Daewoo and Volvo, "branding" has developed into one of the marketing world's hottest concepts. And for good reason, contend well- known strategist Al Ries and his daughter Laura Ries in The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand. "Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect," they write. "If you can build a powerful brand you will have a powerful marketing programme. If you can't, then all the advertising, fancy packaging, sales promotion and public relations in the world won't help you achieve your objective. " A no-holds-barred look at a diverse collection of successful-and not-so- successful- branding efforts undertaken by a number of high-profile firms, their book distills the most critical principles involved into a series of clear rules with straightforward titles such as "The Law of Expansion", "The Law of Contraction", "The Law of Consistency", and "The Law of Mortality". While some of their suggestions may at first seem counterintuitive, together they compose a logical blueprint for success in today's ever-more-competitive environment. -Howard Rothman, Amazon. com.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-02-25
Price: £8.99
Review Darwin Among the Machines / Penguin Books Ltd:"In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines. " In his challenging book, Dyson surrounds contemporary topics related to emerging information networks with historical context, illustrating an evolutionary dance between intelligence, nature and machines. Taking its title from an essay written by Samuel Butler in 1863, Dyson's story blends the antiquarian thinking of Thomas Hobbes, Erasmus Darwin and Gottfried Leibniz with modern research on neural networks and artificial intelligence. Dyson's perspective is unique and his style is deft, ensuring the readability of Darwin among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence. -Amazon. com.
Authors
- J.Michael Spector
- James D. Klein
- Barbara L. Grabowski
- Ileana de la Teja
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 658.312404
RRP: £25.50
Price: £19.55
Review Instructor Competencies: Standards for Face-to-face, Online, and Blended Settings / Information Age Publishing:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-08-20
Dewey code: 381.102854678
RRP: £17.50
Price: £2.30
Review Amazon Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools (Hacks) / O'Reilly Media, Inc.:
Publication date: 2008-03-10
Dewey code: 004
RRP: £7.95
Price: £7.33
Review CCIE 100 Success Secrets - Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert; The Missing Training, Exam Study, Certification Preparation and CCIE Application Guide / Emereo Pty Limited:
Authors
- Roland Barcia
- Tom Alcott
- Bill Hines
- Keys Botzum
Dewey code: 005
RRP: £39.99
Price: £26.58
Review IBM Websphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration (Information Management) / IBM Press:
Publication date: 2007-07
RRP: £12.70
Price: £7.96
Review No Business Like E-Business: The Spectacularly Simple Secrets Behind How You Can Create a Web Site and Make Money with It / Niche Words Publishing:
Publication date: 2004-04-01
Dewey code: 658.7028555
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.65
Review Managing Your Supply Chain Using Microsoft Navision 2004 / McGraw-Hill:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-08-31
Dewey code: 658.8
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.33
Review Launching a Successful EBay Store / QUE:
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