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Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide

Educating start-ups and business owners on the topics that relates to the new Web 2.0 economy and business model.

0 replies - 743 views - 08/25/08 by Schalk Neethling in Book Reviews

Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

The intended audience for Spring Recipes is a Java programmer with no prior knowledge of Spring. The only other prerequisite with Spring as we all know, is working experience with XML.Reader with...

0 replies - 2091 views - 08/21/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

The Productive Programmer

The Productive Programmer is a book for those of us who willingly spend our lives creating software. We know that some of our skills and knowledge are constantly becoming irrelevant so we strive to...

0 replies - 2193 views - 08/15/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Persistence in the Enterprise: A Guide to Persistence Technologies

If you are using a home grown persistence framework, or considering to write one, or trying to move from one framework to another; you should read this book before you venture into either one...

1 replies - 3495 views - 07/17/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Book Review: Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service Oriented Architect

This book can literally be torn into two parts - one for the business focused stakeholders in your SOA initiative and the other for the SO Architect. Being an IBM Press book, there is the obvious...

0 replies - 1804 views - 06/30/08 by Aslam Khan in Book Reviews

Book Review: The ThoughtWorks Anthology

The book is aimed at several different audiences. The book's coverage of its subject matter is exhaustive and obviously expert. This book is for developers, managers, analysts, testers with varied...

0 replies - 2536 views - 06/11/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Book Review: Java Power Tools

This book is intended for Java developers. I should however say that Java is not actually the main focus of the book, and I believe this book would be of great interest to anyone concerned in...

5 replies - 6008 views - 05/27/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Programming Groovy - Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer

This book is aimed at experienced (though not necessarily expert) Java programmer. It is intended to bring the programmer up to speed in Groovy in a short amount of time.

2 replies - 2015 views - 04/14/08 by Dave Klein in Book Reviews

Book Review:Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java

If you're an experienced Java developer, or a new Groovy developer, who is interested in using Groovy in everyday Java development, this book is for you. The author in this book says and...

2 replies - 2954 views - 04/01/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Java EE 5

If this text was not intended as a textbook, it should have been. It reads like the best kind of textbook - clear, concise coverage of major issues; excellent working examples; a well-developed...

0 replies - 1407 views - 03/30/08 by David Sills in Book Reviews

Core JavaServer Faces (2nd Ed)

This book is for Java programmers that want to learn about this fairly new Java standard: JSF. I would say knowledge of Java and HTML/JavaScript is preferred, but not required.

1 replies - 1265 views - 03/25/08 by Stanley Kubasek in Book Reviews

Design Accessible Web Sites - Thirty-six Keys to Creating Content for All Audiences and Platforms

The intent of this book is to get designers and developers thinking differently about accessibility, not making accessibility it less important, but like the author states, We should think...

0 replies - 953 views - 03/23/08 by Schalk Neethling in Book Reviews

Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems

One of the reasons that I prefer short tutorials and articles over programming books is that books generally give you five pages of theory and one page of actual code. Many times, they assume that...

0 replies - 1832 views - 03/18/08 by David Walsh in Book Reviews

Beginning Spring 2

Unlike a much weightier and much more detailed Spring in Action by Craig Walls, Beginning Spring 2 sets more modest goals - to introduce the reader to the process of designing and building...

0 replies - 4767 views - 03/17/08 by Michael Smolyak in Book Reviews

Head First Software Development

The goal of this book is to help project teams to deliver good quality software on time and on budget.If you have just started software development, or even fresh out of college as a software...

1 replies - 3750 views - 03/06/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews