Intranet Books

I try to read every SharePoint book I can get my hands on. I find this one refreshing and maybe even the best SharePoint 2003 development book I have read. It discusses lots of new development techniques in a SharePoint 2003 environment. The book is divided in chapters that can be read completely separately, which works out great for me. If you are like me and want to apply new technology to existing SharePoint 2003 implementations you will not be disappointed if you buy this book.

This book contains the following:(programming code)
1. asp.net into sharepoint
2. web parts using ajax.net
3. sql 2005 reporting services business intelligence
4. building handprinted workflows(windows workflow foundation)
5. building a domain specific language for connectable web parts
6. reusing presentation layers for web services
7. security- change code priviledges using impersonation etc
8 infopath
9 deep tranversal of sql extensions
This book is for people wanting to know web parts,web services for
moss. Programming code is interesting. I wish more people
would give their review.....

This book has helped me a great deal to pass the RFID+ exam. It contains almost all the important concepts, formulas, and procedures important for the exam. I used it as a quick review of my preparation for the exam after reading the Study Guide. It saved me a lot of time. Then I browsed through it just before the exam.
However, it's not a substitute for the Study Guide. Only use it for a quick review after going through the Study Guide. I liked the fact that it is very self contained. That means it will go with any Study Guide.
I highly recommend it.

A really well written book: smart and modern table of contents, intelligent style.

Very useful for new courses, from basic to moderately advanced, covering from IP subnetting to VoIP and QoS.

"Bravo" to the author.

A concise guide to Intranetware. An especially good explanation of the interface between NDS and the file system; I finally understand what's going on. Easily as much information as the "Novell's Guide to..." series without all the fluff. It lacks the drills and tests of other books, but if you want to get a feel for why things work the way they do this is the place to look. I've read the manuals, course materials, and dynatext. This book doesn't offer a new look at Intranetware; it just explains it better.

A must read for the entire IT department of companies trying connect their legacy host computer systems to the Internet. The book deals with the issues from multiple perspectives. One or more of the real world case studies are sure to address the challenges in any company. The book also details the infrastructure requirements for successfully implementing an integrated host to WEB network.

If you're looking to learn about different aspects of SharePoint development this is a great way to go that will get you up-to-speed quickly especially if you like to learn visually. Best practices for organizing and deploying code are shown in addition to covering a broad range of SharePoint development topics. I definitely recommend it.

Most ASP developers agree that if you're going to buy just one book to learn ASP, then this is the book to get. I agree. Based on other readers recommendations, I bought this book to learn the topic, read it from cover to cover, and afterwards felt very comfortable when handling any ASP-related task. However, be prepared. This book is a slow 1000+ page read, densely packed with both information and small type.

I read this book after reading Beginning ASP cover to cover. For those others of you that have, fair warning: There is alot of repetitiion in the first few hundred pages, albeit with sometimes better scope (sometimes though, the 1st one has stuff that's NOT in here!).

The book is not so smooth because it is plagued by typos and also casual switching from JavaScript to VBScript based on the chapter author's whim I suppose.

Speaking of that, the fact that there are 8 authors in this puppy means that the book does not flow well at times, with certain chapters repeating others and also some authros being much better that others.

Now on the positive side, there was a lot of material covered in this book, also with good examples and expert advice. I must say though, ASP Unleashed is the real gem if you want to be on your way to ASP Jedihood.

I had no ASP experience before I ordered this book and it has been great. The database chapters are good, and there are plenty of code examples to try.

This book has carried me now for two years. I don't need some end all be all bible - MSDN keeps updates on specific issues I have. This is a great ASP reference for the "working" programmer who just needs to see an example of "how it's done". Chalked full of sample code that WORKS!!!

Let me be honest, I hate programming, I don't like anything to do with the web, and the internet, but hey, it's good money right? and besides it's nice when you can add 'programming experience' to your resume. So I bought this book, at first it doesn't look too anything, but when I began reading I realized that the reason I hated it so much had to do with the fact that I didn't understand anything there, this books got me started and now I am an advanced programmer. I would like to recommend any book from Wrox publishing, it's all good!

If you work with DNS/BIND for a living, you either already have this book, or know someone you can borrow it from. It's the one to own.

Anyone running BIND should have this book. It is that important. If you're simply trying to get a resolver for your home, run a private domain with ddns, or be authoritative and exposed to the internet, this book has concrete examples and help for you to do anything. I strongly recommend it.

This book is the best investment I have made in my knowledge of DNS. I think any network admin should have this book on their desk at all times. It should become a bed side reading for anybody who is serious about TCP/IP protocols. DNS may be a pretty tricky topic to understand for many people. It uses both TCP and UDP for its queries and gets pretty convoluted as you dive into it. This books demystifies it very well. There is a very clear distinction between zones and domains. I have not seen that many materials clearly explaining the difference between the two. The book gives you a taste of what threats you may face running a DNS server. It explains how to perform zone transfers and zone delegations and clearly defines which suite of protocols is used to accomplish it.
This book can be a reference as well as a textbook read. I recommend it to all people out on the internet.

Complete, well written and easy to understand even to foreigners (like I am). Congratulation to the Authors.

This book is a good in-depth resource for anyone who wants a very comprehensive understanding of DNS hosting and troubleshooting. You can use it as a reference, reading sections as you need them, or read it cover to cover. I've opted for the former and am about half-way through. So, far I've read about things I've never been able to find good information for on the web. Keep up the good work!

But I haven't found this book to be nearly as useful as I had hoped to after reading all these glowing reviews. My biggest problem with it is the lack of a simple Apache section governing all the real-world mods you might have to do on a regular basis. NOTHING in the book on, for instance, implementing SSL via .htaccess. In fact, it's because of the lack of treatment on SSL that I have to give this thing three stars. The CGI section is useful, the XML stuff is nice, the JavaScript reference is very valuable. But I have to say that without a comprehensive section on implementing SSL, this isn't a "real-world-ready" reference.

Perl in a Nutshell is quite complete. The 2nd addition covers CGI and Perl. This covers things that are specific to using perl on CGI. It is not a perl reference, it is a CGI reference.

This is not a tutorial for newbies but it is a fine book to get when you are a newbie. Obviously, since it is titled as a reference you will also want a book that is titled as a tutorial. (duh?)

I invested in a copy of the THIRD edition and am DELIGHTED. This reference does a good job of putting all the day-to-day needed information in one place. It saves me froming having to keep separate references on HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, CGI/Perl, HTTP, PHP, Apache functions, etc. right in my face.

I really applaud the compact and accessible way each chapter organizes and presents the details of syntax: they are clear yet take up much less space (1/5 the pages of books that are billed as references to each of the subjects included here) while giving you 95% of what a "comprehensive reference" might. I had been concerned that the information might be too compressed to be accessible, but in fact this volume is so much easier to scan through for an answer than many other reference styles. (Kudos to the book designers at O'Reilly!)

Although a reference work, it is not only a listing of syntax (as helpful as those lists are). The authors have compiled pretty readable and thorough mini-backgrounds and basic principles for each of the enormous realms that they document here. These are providing some reminders for me as I am ramp up my knowledgebase and skills; plus there are hints that I have not yet seen elsewhere in weightier tomes (e.g., on performance).

Readers may save themselves some money and desktop/bookshelf space + save some trees: this Nutshell is a vast storehouse that may enable you to forestall buying reference volumes for each of the topics covered here. Thanks to Spainhour & Eckstein for some careful work!

Note to aspiring (novice) webmasters: this IS a REFERENCE book. That is not a bad thing. You'll still appreciate having it by your side because you're regularly going to have basic questions about formating ("how do I say this in CSS instead of HTML?"). However, as one young reviewer below discovered, to BECOME a webmaster (or master) is going to require some "Quickstart" books, some instruction in DESIGN, and STRATEGY, etc. Bon voyage!

[ Further note from my earlier review: be sure you are NOT getting EARLIER edition. Complaints mentioned (below) in reviews of this book are rectified in the THIRD edition (ISBN 0596003579 ). It's probably a good idea to be watching as the reviews of that December 20002 volume to see how the work has changed.
In any event, with browsers and markup languages changing so fast almost everyone can be advised to jump to considering the most current edition -- even though (as of this writing) new copies of this 1999 second edition are still available. ]

This newly released Third Edition of "Webmaster in a Nutshell" indicates a promising improvement over the Second Edition. It is one of the few books that completely analysed all the contemporary web technologies we use today: JavaScript, Apache, XML, HTML, HTTP, PHP, CSS, and CGI. This book will benefit any web-developer (or enthusiast) who pays close attention to it. Most of the chapters have been revised, and additional updates embraced JavaScript, PHP, Apache, and CSS. The book's wide coverage makes it a dependable mini-reference text.

The book includes reference on HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, PHP, HTTP, Apache modules and configuration, and web server performance. While all of the material is covered in O'Reilly's other books, I was impressed with the layout and presentation of this book. I also found that the reference material that is buried deep in O'Reilly's other books, was very easy to find in this one. I was especially impressed with the JavaScript and HTTP reference, and feel that these two sections will be used by the majority of this book's readers.