Applications Books

I am the primary co-author of this book, and don't know why I'm no longer listed as an author for it. But anyway, I still hear from people that our book is the best book they ever had for comprehensive Clipper programming, and that it was also a great introduction for them to OOP.

I used to do a lot of Clipper programming in the late 80s and early 90s, and I have a LOT of Clipper books in my library. This book was always my favorite of them all. Mike was much more to the point than the ever present Stephen Straley, whose books got more and more bloated for every new one he wrote.

In fact, though it has been several years since I read it, it has always stood out in my mind as one of the best computer books I have read, and it was always the one I kept returning to when I needed help in my programming.

Well...since I am the main author, I guess I'm a little biased. :-)

My goal when we wrote the book was to write the "K&R" for the Clipper language. Of course, few people are developing for DOS today, but it you are and you want to know the intimate details of how the Clipper language works, consider picking up a copy.

If you have a question for me (though I can't remember much about Clipper today since I've not used for over 6 years), feel free to email me at mikeschinkel@hotmail.com.

I have purchased a number of project management references in my career, including PMBOK, and most have ended up on the bookshelf. However, this book doesn't leave my side at my desk. It is a great resource that has already proven itself in my work on multiple occasions. I started by using just a few of the tools and experienced immediate results and accolades from my project stakeholders. I highly recommend this to anyone managing projects.

This is a comprehensive project management book. It follows the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and is an outstanding reference for any one who manages big and small. There are useful methodologies, processes and templates to make planning, managing and communicating during a project much, much easier. Having learned much of this information the hard way, i.e trial and error it is great to have a go-to reference that can provide a quick refresher. I found the examples especially useful as it is not limited to large projects and can be applicable to any size project. I know the success and failure of a project is largely dependent on the project management and the communication process--this book provides a one stop shop to enable anyone to be successful.

I got a copy of Project Management Communications Bible a week ago. I have been managing projects for about 15 years, the last 10 in the Technology space. I have always known that while I have the technical skills, that the field of Project Management is about communications. This book provides an excellent reference to map phases of the project with communication tools, for the different recipients of information (external customers, internal executives, project teams). I found a lot of new information in the book that I can see helping me on my Projects. I have added a new task to my projects in progress as well as those on the horizon to create a PM Communications Tools List Checklist to insure that I am using the tools to communicate effectively. I appreciate that many of the tools in the book have downloadable versions on the CD-ROM, many of which use the Microsoft line of software, so that I can download and edit different tools that I need. In particular, I downloaded the PM Communications Tools List, edited it in Excel, and am taking an inventory of which types of high priority tools I currently use, those I don't, those that are applicable and those that are not. It's amazing that the feedback I receive during a project is closely tied to the types of tools I use so I know where I can improve. I plan to continue to use this book as an ongoing reference guide and where I am having issues on a project, see if I can overcome them by adding some new communication methods. I can already picture the benefits of adding more communication on my projects.

Superlatives do not begin to describe how much this book means to me. I thought I knew everything anyone needed to know about pumps, but boy was I wrong! This book has caused me to rethink everything I know about pumps. It has literally changed my life.

Mike Volk

Superlatives do not begin to describe how much this book means to me. I though I knew everything any man neeedcd to know about pumps, but boy was I wrong! I have learned all I know about pumps from this book. It has almost changed my life.

Mike Volk

An excellent reference book which should be in any engineers library. Author has put together a well thought out book which is easy to read and which covers a tremendous amount of material. This book could serve as a "text book" allowing a person to gain a familiarity with pumps in an organized manner.

If you only buy one book on the application of statistics and probability to the creation of control charts (SPC) and acceptance sampling, this is it. Dale wrote the original first text on SPC back when the only literature on the subject was found in periodicals and research papers. It took him over 3000 manhours to write this concise text and it's bank of clear, understandable problems. The text earned him the title of full Professor at Southern Illinois University and a national reputation as it was used by Ford Motor Company and others for internal training. After teaching from it for almost 20 years I can assure you there is no better book on the subject in the field. (And, yes, I know Dale personally, but have had virtually no contact with him since his retirement many years ago).

This is a professional's book! It covers quality control at the level that you need -- whether a novice in the field or an experienced professional. It does an excellent job of interrelating all of the aspects of quality control, while letting you focus on the topic at hand; you never feel that you are "out of place" in the process. This book is so good that we are going to use it as the reference/source for our training programs that cover not only quality control but quality control's relationship with other aspects of operations management and program management. I have even incorporated it into an undergraduate course I teach on quality management and productivity. There's something in it for every technical professional in the workplace today.

Besterfield made a true tour de force respect the edition and contain of Quality Control. It provides you of abundant and concise information, explicit and deatiled around the last innovations and advances in this field.

More than a tool, this book is a must for you; in your daily job, as consult text, as fundamental reference for students and an invaluable supporting guide for teachers and professionals.

One of the most remarkable texts written in years. A monumental issue without any doubt. Go for it and you will be absolutely rewarded.

I have used many beginner-to-intermediate books on Java, but this has always been the best one I could find as a reference for GUI-related topics. It has excellent, practical examples on layouts, colors, and constructing basic GUIs. It's been the one book that I end up having on my desktop when I start any new GUI.

This book fills in a niche market between an OOP theory book and an advanced Java reference book. It shows you how to apply OOP and use Java for rapid application development. If you know basic of Java and want to use JBuilder for RAD, this book will help you.

Daniel Liang is one of the most reliable Java authors and this book for advanced programmers, who already know Java, is unique. It allows programmers to progress rapidly and use JBuilder's built in tools for creating state of the art Java programs quickly. Shows how to use Java Beans. It also comes with JBuilder.

Even if you don't want to read the book,the downloadable applications are worth your money. The apps work and are of good quality. I'm using the Class Diagram to draw UML diagrams. I find it easier to use than even Visio. Drawing is much easier using the author's application (in chapter 4). Other apps are fun too. The e-commerce ASP.NET app is also useful.

This is the best book .NET book i've read. The applications discussed are really real-world apps, and the author explains them extremely well. This book helped me write my custom Windows control and I'm really thankful. Get this book if you aim more than simple toy codes.
The other good thing about this book is the use of design patterns throughout the applications. It's good to see design patterns are really used in applications. The codes run with .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1

This book is one of the few .NET titles with some meat. I'm particularly interested in the
game application: Pacman-clone. The chapter explains very clearly, from the design, the patterns used, and implementation.
Other applications are useful too: FTP client app, XML document editor, etc.

This book opens a bright and clear way to resource management for the cyber decade.
It helps us to open our eyes to new environment with it's rapid changes forced by Information technologies and prevent our losts and damages by reengineering our staff .

Describes how information technology is impacting the human resources function and how to reengineer work processes and retrain staff accordingly. Examines current hardware and software applications. Includes a team readiness questionnaire. Recommended for all human resource executives.

This book draws on studies conducted by many colleagues from McBer and company, Hay management Consultants as information technology is transfoming HRM.
This book provide us to complete "how to" instructions for reengineering and description including activity-based costing,value analysis and work flow changing.
You can understand how to calculate both the costs and benfits of reengineering.

Was this review helpful to you?

ultrasonics in liquids and how to ultrasonic atenuation analysi

ultrasonics in liquids and how to ultrasonic atenuation analysi

This book provides a clear development of the technique of Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy both from a theoretical and an experimental perspective. It provides detailed information and extensive references for those who need it, but is well organized so that key points can be understood quickly.

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in measuring elastic constants, and for anyone whos work depends on such measurements by others.

The projects are very good, and you learn a lot just reading about them -- you don't have to do all 21 of them! The writer's style is very conversational and easy to read, you could actually read this book for pleasure, unlike most computer books. The title says it takes 21 days to learn it -- not really true. I got through it in about 10. You can skip the parts that cover apps you don't use, or read the whole thing to learn all about Office. You'll feel so powerful after you go through this book. There are creative ideas for using Office that I'd never thought of, and I had no idea all the things you can do with Word! I recommend this book to new and experienced users.

I don't have time to take a class and don't have the patience to sit still that long anyway, so I thought a book called "Teach Yourself" would be the next best thing. It was better.

If you learned Office by trial and error, this book will correct your mistakes and show you the right way to do things. You'll learn more stuff than youthought you could. You don't realize how much stuff you're learning until you try to do something on your own and realize you can!

Get this book!

This is a really good book. Before reading this book my experience with Office was mixed because we had Office 97 but I only used parts of it. I knew Word pretty well, but not much about Excel or PowerPoint, and I knew nothing about Access. When we upgraded to 2000, this book taught me things I didn't know about Word (and I thought I knew alot to begin with!) and now I'd feel safe saying that I know and can sucessfully use the rest of the suite too. I've been tracking our production schedules and employee data in Excel, and I put together a presentation in PowerPoint based on what this book taught me, and everyone loved it. I was very proud of myself! I've even started training some of our people, just based on what I learned in this book.

I recommend this Teach Yourself book because it really does let you learn at your own speed and its a great place to look things up if you get stuck. The explanations are clear and I liked the examples because they helped me think of practical ways I could use the software in our office.

I think this book is excellent. I found the material accurate and easy to follow. I brought this book for my whole project team, I thought so highly of it meeting it's title claim. I was able to take a topic and actually learn it in the alloted time. The beginning chapters provide a good overview of the topics and using MS Project, setting up the project, and good structured project design. When I have a team I need to get up to speed quickly on MS Project, I will again use this book as the tool.

This is one of the best software manuals I have ever used. If you want to learn the essential basics of MS Project quickly and easily, buy this manual. He uses the online templates to walk you through the steps to build a project. It was easy to follow his instructions. I had the outline prepared for my own project. Begining with chpater 3, I used the manual to build my project as I progressed through each chapter. This was a great hands-on learning experience!

This is one of the best software manuals I have ever used. If you want to learn the essential basics of MS Project quickly and easily, buy this manual. He uses the online templates to walk you through the steps to build a project. It was easy to follow his instructions. I had the outline prepared for my own project. Begining with chpater 3, I used the manual to build my project as I progressed through each chapter. This was a great hands-on learning experience!