"Designing Web Interfaces" is a very visual
book, which makes sense considering
the subject. However that also makes it difficult to do justice to it
in a
review like this one. So,...
0 replies - 1604 views - 10/23/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
Part 1: Welcome to Macintosh
Chapters one through four give you a nice introduction to
the Mac itself. Chapter one starts with the most important thing, (where
to find the power button on each of...
0 replies - 929 views - 10/20/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
Essential JavaFX is a well written introduction to JavaFX. It is written in a conversational style and there's lots of diagrams and screen shots to break up the text and show you the results of...
5 replies - 3068 views - 09/25/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
1 Introduction This is chapter does a nice job of introducing you to the book and giving you an idea of what to expect in the chapters that follow. While this book isn’t specifically for...
26 replies - 4896 views - 04/23/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
Professional ADO.NET 3.5 is divided into five top-level parts. The chapters in each of these parts focus on a particular aspect of data acces in .NET 3.5. Part I: Getting a Grip on ADO.NET 3.5The...
9 replies - 1555 views - 03/19/09 by alashcraft in Book Reviews
There are eight chapters to “Inside Steve’s Brain” and all but chapter seven (which is a case study) focuses on a different aspect of Jobs’ personality. Each chapter starts with a quote from...
0 replies - 991 views - 01/18/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
While "The Back of the Napkin" isn't about a new language or programming technique, it may be one of the best investments in time and money you could make. That's because what it does...
0 replies - 633 views - 12/17/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
Have you guys read Silverlight 2 in Action book?
2 replies - 2930 views - 11/20/08 by Michael Sync in News
Normally I don’t mention this part in a review, but Guy Kawasaki’s Foreword is excellent and a great example of the kind of impact a presentation can have. I don’t want to give it away, so all...
0 replies - 1061 views - 11/17/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
In Chapter 1, “Introduction”, author Scott Davis provides some pretty good arguments for learning Groovy; starting with this quote, “Groovy is what Java would look like had it been written in...
0 replies - 2865 views - 11/11/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
The subtitle for “slide:ology” is “The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations” – and that may have you wondering why I’m posting a review of it here. That’s a fair questions...
0 replies - 3319 views - 10/24/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
Before we look a the book in detail, let's get this out of the way. I've seem some reviews that say this book is little more than an informercial for Adaptive Path because it often uses projects...
0 replies - 2809 views - 10/03/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
Chapter 1 is the introduction, and in it Neal explains what productivity is and why he felt the need to write a book on how to improve it. This is followed by a nifty example of a tip that anyone can...
0 replies - 6007 views - 08/15/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
Chapter 1. Introducing Oracle
This chapter presents a brief history of the development of the
relational database, including a history of the development of Oracle
databases, as a context for...
0 replies - 1611 views - 01/23/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews
