Web Books

It's a very short book, and it teaches you by example. If you have previous programming experience with something that uses a similar syntax (C++, for example), you can learn the basics of PHP/MySQL in a casual week with this book, after which you can use it for a very useful reference. It doesn't delve into classes much, nor into security, but it serves as a great quick-start into PHP/MySQL regardless and will have you writing your first useful PHP-enhanced websites within a week or two.

There is a newer version of this book now, updated for PHP 5, so you will likely want to buy that instead of this one.

This book is just great. Unlike previous books I have looked at it offeres really useful, easy to understand and practical guides for working with PHP. Great for someone like me who just wants to start with the basics. The topics covered are very usful and easily applied to real projects.

This book is simply marvelous. It is straight forward and deals with all essential topics on PHP. This book begins with installation, configuration and testing of Apache and MySQL for the purpose of PHP. The rest of the book deals with basic PHP programming to advanced topics such as PHP & MySQL together. Every chapter of the book comes with tutorial and working code examples. Other topics includes 'Sending Email with PHP', 'File Handling with PHP' and 'User Authentication'. Mike McGrath did a good job by making this book concise, practical and handy. As an experience programmer, I find it the only book I need to get started with PHP. It gets you to understand how PHP works conceptually through the examples given. Highly recommended.

I spent time off and on looking at job sites on the Internet. While I was always intrigued by the sheer volume of information available, I became discouraged because of the amount of time involved. I also often didn't find job listings in my area of interest or jobs that were not in my geographic location UNTIL I USED THIS BOOK. I'm excited about actually learning a new skill that will be useful throughout my career. My job search is very much in my control with a complete and logical program that is easy to mange. Friends and family who are graduating from high school or college will get this book as graduation gifts; it's worth more to them than a check in an envelope.

This book is easy to read and lays out the exact steps to follow. If you want to want to put an Internet job search campaign together, this is an excellent way to do it. I recommend it to anyone who doesn't want to waste alot of time trying to figure out how to job search on the Internet.

I bought this book based upon the recommendations of 2 associates who, like me, lost their job because of a company reorganization. They were so high on the book that I decided to try it out. After an introduction designed for people with little or no Internet experience, the book immediately starts you on your job search. The author doesn't try to tell jokes or be cute. Instead, he lays out a very logical approach and technique for online job searching. Examples and exercises are put together so that you are actually building your own job search campaign as you work through the book. The book is comprehensive, easy to use, and really is "free of techno-babble" as the author claims. Don't buy this book if you want to curl up with something in bed. Buy it, though, if you want to use the Net to look for a job. I have seen other books that discuss Internet job searching. This one is absolutely the best I have seen.

This book is a must for anyone selling web services. It contains very useful information for any one starting or managing a web services business.

Now in a completely revised, updated and expanded second edition, Robert Brenner's Price Guide For Web Services: How To Make Money On The Informational Highway continues to hold its place as the industry reference "bible" for learning how to identify and categorize costs, partition jobs to the task level, set baseline prices, find break-even levels, and bid flat rates on any project. Brenner offers helpful tips, techniques and strategies for effective pricing tactics and explains how to select the best services to offer, when and how to raise prices, how to use coupons and rebates to increase sales, how to counter cutthroat competitors, and how to achieve maximum profits. Price Guide For Web Services is a "must" for all corporate and independent entrepreneurial operations with an Internet aspect to their marketing strategy and business plan.

I've been looking for a book about web pricing for a while now!
We all know Web Design prices is so "Secretive"! But, this book breaks down everything that you need to know and have! If you're a web designer just starting out and is in need of pricing help! This book is the book!

Yes I like this book. It is easy to read and is written very clearly.

Yang Groves

I really think that this book is very useful for beginners in ColdFusion. It is very well written, easy to read and have examples that helps you to understand every concept. I recommend it for learning ColdFusion.

I found this book to be very informative and it is very insightful.This book is for beginners who have no previous experience in object-oriented programming. A little knowledge of HTML is useful, but not essential. All the concepts you need to are explained clearly in step by step fashion which makes it easy for everyone to understand.

I searched for Quark books as I am taking a graphics degree and found the course books both years out of date and full of errors, tutors told me they were still the best available and looking in book stores and online I had to agree till I saw this tome and used it, excellent book of Quark and so very easy to follow.

I rebuilt my web site in 2 days using Quark 6.0 thanks to this book! I upgraded to Quark 6.0 in July, 2003 because of the demonstration showing the web site building capabilities. I don't want a flash movie! I don't want anything fancy! Just clean, simple pages assembled in an easy application. Michael Baumgardt has written a "cookbook" illustrating just that. He also has color screen grabs and illustrations on every page. He covers using Photoshop in conjunction with Quark, because that's what the average graphic designer is going to be doing. This book is for the mid-to-high level user of both Photoshop and Quark applications. There's some history on desk top publishing as well. I bought another book just before this one that barely covered the web site building capabilities - what a waste of time.

As an Evangelist for Quark, I get to read ALL the titles on QuarkXPress. During my many hours of reading, I found this amazing book "QuarkXPress 6 for Print and Web Design" by Michael Baumgardt. This was the book that I was looking for! Michael's book is a superlative read for the creative mind. It's great to find an author that puts into words the level of creativity you can build with QuarkXPress. I love this book and recommend it whenever I am speaking at an industry event.

Shellie Hall, Evangelist, Quark, Inc.

This book is not only an excellent guide to Ruby and Rails for PHP developers, it is, quite simply, an excellent resource on professional web development. It offers insight into how to properly manage a product and customer expectations, from the planning stages to site delivery. I cannot recommend this book enough.

Pragmatic has truly become the #1 resource on the market today for great Rails reference books and with 'Rails for PHP Developers' that tradition continues. With ~400 pages of material spread over 13 chapters, you will learn to get Ruby working with PHP and you will find that it's one relationship that is a happy one!

Rails is one of the newest "hot" technologies in the marketplace and it's due to ease of use and rapid deployment. PHP has been a web technology long popular for dynamic content. If you are an existing PHP developer that is looking to add Rails support to your web app, this is a great resource to have by your side. Content is good, and the "all bells no whistles" design serves well for the reader.

Easy to recommend, great to learn from.

***** RECOMMENDED

This is one of the first practical books to be published that is entirely Rails 2.0 focused, but its real strength is in the terrific, direct comparisons to how to accomplish the same tasks in PHP. By directly linking specific features, functions, and other programmatic process in PHP to Rails, this book lets you learn something new (Rails) by revealing the similarities (and differences) with something you already know (PHP).

The author is clearly an expert PHP programmer, and while you will certainly come away with an appreciation for the elegance and parsimony of Ruby the programming language and Rails the web application framework, the book is by no means "down on PHP." Indeed, I learned a couple of PHP tricks, that let me do a few (simple) Rails-like patterns in PHP.

In all, this is a terrific book, and if you're a PHP developer interested in learning about Rails, this book is *the* way to do it.

Excellent writing! I enjoyed this story very much. Found this one by accident. Will read it again. A self published book that needs more exposure. Thanks, D J Nold!

In 1998, Earth was narrowly missed by a 1 mile wide meteor which if it had impacted, could have levied a 100,000 megaton blast with terrible global consequences. Scientists believe that, at any given moment, the Earth could be minutes away from just such an event. Then what? Sci-Fi writer D.J. Nold explores just one possibility in her first novel, a science fiction love story, Raven's Fate.

Arriving on earth after a meteor crash releases a lethal virus, Major Raven Nighthunter embarks on a project to participate in the Aiding, a team that is frantically working toward a cure for the devastating disease. But she encounters much more than she had planned for when she meets Colonel Jorden Madwolf. Like metal on metal, they sharpen each other and build an unforgettable story.

Nold has definitely spent the time and imagination to develop the characters and the settings, artistically painting them into an enjoyable, action-packed plot. Nold grabs your attention from the first line with a writing style that has something of an Andre Norton meets Anne Rice flare.

The plot takes us away from the world we know, yet at its core is something quite familiar: the challenge to survive at a time when communication, even with all our technology, is still very difficult. The characters, although alien in their form, experience the joy, heartache and violence of cultures clashing. At times, it may take something not quite human to teach us about our humanity - this is the story of Raven's Fate.

~~D.J. Nold received a Certificate of Merit from the Writer's Digest 2001 Self-Published Book Awards Contest. The judge who reviewed the work wrote: "Nold has a good grasp of detail, most of which comes through in her use of setting and physical description of characters. She's created an interesting world for those characters to inhabit. Unlike a lot of the self-published novels I've read, this one takes its time to set up character and plot instead of rushing through the story... Nold really nails her dialog..."
~~Melanie Rigney, Editor of Writer's Digest wrote: "Thanks again for your participation and for confirming our belief that self-publishing is both a vital and increasingly appropriate option for today's writers. It is also one that is fully capable of rivaling the best productions of the commercial publishing establishment!"

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 is really the only book you need to help write your perfect resume. Author did a great job.

There are a number of books on the market today that will help people write the "perfect" resume. There are fewer books on the market that will help you design resumes specifically for posting online. This is one of them. Pat Criscito offers a considerable amount of instruction on how to design resumes that can be easily posted and properly viewed online. There is more to preparing a resume for online use than may be apparent at first. This book leads the way!

This is a great book for those seeking jobs who would like to present their resumes on the Internet for prospective employers to view. There are sections on scannable, e-mailable resumes and creating an ASCII text file for a resume. The book has a large section on how to find jobs on the Internet. It shows a list of job-related newsgroups, and a job-related mailing list on the web. There is a 27 page list of companies that accept resumes at their Internet sites plus a four page list of Internet job banks and databases. There are 70 pages of career-related Internet site addresses. In fact this book is packed with a vast amount of Internet links making it the best book for anyone seeking information about resumes and job hunting in cyberspace.

'The Sandscrapers' - A Forgotten Navy
'The Sandscrapers' is a novel about a World War II naval officer and the ship he commands from Norfolk, Virginia through the Panama Canal, and all through the south pacific. The storylines (and all the events) are so realistic, the book must be based on actual events. I have not read a novel that tells about this sector of the navy. Maybe that is why the title is 'A Forgotten Navy'. The book is so intriguing that not only a World War II history buff would enjoy the book, but anyone interested in a good story. I highly recommend 'The Sandscrapers'.

The life & times of the men & wives of a forgotten amphibious force of landing vessels serving in the Pacific during WWII.

Within the covers of this unassuming, modest saga, you will meet brave & true ordinary men as they serve their country in extra-ordinary times. You will read of their recruitment & maneuvers, their frustrations & heroism, their terrors & poetry. You will see patriotism in action, gruff & ready, tender & determined.

THE SANDSCRAPERS is a unique addition to any military library!

Nominated for the Third Annual Library of Virginia Fiction Award, Griffin Garnett's The Sandscrapers is a naval adventure novel set on the high seas, aboard the "Landing Ship Medium Program." Set in the southwest Pacific during the deadly days of World War II, The Sandscrapers is a story of heroism, struggle, sacrifice, and endurance, exciting, involving, and highly recommended reading from first page to last.