Ebooks Review

Head First Excel: A learner's guide to spreadsheets /by Michael Milton (Author) .Do you use Excel for simple lists, but get confused and frustrated when it comes to actually doing something useful with all that data? Stop tearing your hair out: Head First Excel helps you painlessly move from spreadsheet dabbler ... Read more »

Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection /by Jay Beale (Author), Caswell (Editor).Called "the leader in the Snort IDS book arms race" by Richard Bejtlich, top Amazon reviewer, this brand-new edition of the best-selling Snort book covers all the latest features of a major upgra ... Read more »

High Performance JavaScript /by Nicholas C. Zakas (Author).If you're like most developers, you rely heavily on JavaScript to build interactive and quick-responding web applications. The problem is that all of those lines of JavaScript code can slow down your apps. This book reveals techniques and strategies ... Read more »

Essential SQL on SQL Server 2008 /by Dr. Sikha Bagui (Author), Dr. Richard Earp (Author).This book, written for readers who have little or no previous experience with databases, SQL, or SQL Server, provides a very systematic approach to learning SQL (Structured Query Language) using SQL ... Read more »

Introduction to Pattern Recognition: A Matlab Approach /by Sergios Theodoridis (Author), Konstantinos Koutroumbas (Author), Aggelos Pikrakis (Author), Dionisis Cavouras (Author) .An accompanying manual to Theodoridis, Pattern Recognition, that includes Matlab code of the most common methods and algorithms in the book, togeth ... Read more »

MediaWiki 1.1: Beginner's Guide /by Jeff Orloff (Author) .MediaWiki is the free, open-source wiki engine software that powers Wikipedia and many of the other popular wikis across the Web. Written in PHP, it possesses many features that make it the engine of choice for large collaborative wikis: flexible markup, comprehensive ... Read more »

MySQL Admin Cookbook /by Daniel Schneller (Author), Udo Schwedt (Author) .MySQL is the most popular open-source database and is also known for its easy set up feature. However, proper configuration beyond the default settings still is a challenge, along with some other day-to-day main ... Read more »

WordPress 2.8 E-Commerce /by Brian Bondari (Author) .WordPress is easily one of the hottest platforms for building blogs and general web sites. With the addition of the WP e-Commerce plug-in, it's also a competent platform for easily creating and running an online store, capable of selling physical items as well as services and dig ... Read more »

JDBC Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach /by Mahmoud Parsian (Author) .JDBC Recipes provides easy-to-implement, usable solutions to problems in relational databases that use JDBC. You will be able to integrate these solutions into your web-based applications, such as Java servlets, JavaServer Pages, and ... Read more »

LINQ to Objects Using C# 4.0: Using and Extending LINQ to Objects and Parallel LINQ /by Troy Magennis (Author) .Using LINQ to Objects, .NET developers can write queries over object collections with the same deep functionality that was once available only with SQL and relational databases. Now, for the first time, d ... Read more »

Beginning XML, 4th Edition /byDavid Hunter (Author), Jeff Rafter (Author), Joe Fawcett (Author), Eric van der Vlist (Author), Danny Ayers (Author), Jon Duckett (Author), Andrew Watt (Author), Linda McKinnon (Author).Beginning XML provides a complete course in the Extensible Markup Language (XML) with an unusually gr ... Read more »

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) /byMark Michaelis (Author) .Essential C# 4.0 is a well-organized,“no-fluff” guide to all versions of C# for programmers at all levels of C# experience. This fully updated edition shows how to make the most of C# 4.0’s new features and programming patterns to write code that is simple, yet powerful. ... Read more »

Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#,(2nd Edition) /by Bill Wagner (Author) .C# has matured over the past decade: It’s now a rich language with generics, functional programming concepts, and support for both static and dynamic typing. This palette of techniques provides great tool ... Read more »

Steel Detailers' Manual /by Alan Hayward (Author), Frank Weare (Author), A. C. Oakhill (Author) .This present second edition has become required, as explained by the authors in the Preface, by the extensive developments in steel construction which have taken place over the last decade, and by developments in the ... Read more »

Design to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last /by Tharon Howard (Author) .Social networks and online communities are reshaping the way people communicate, both in their personal and professional lives. What makes some succeed and othe ... Read more »