book reviews

Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions

"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 - 1219 views - 10/23/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual

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 - 672 views - 10/20/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Essential JavaFX

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 - 2688 views - 09/25/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Win Your Copy: Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

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 - 4773 views - 04/23/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Win Your Copy - Professional ADO.NET 3.5 with LINQ and the Entity Framework

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 - 1506 views - 03/19/09 by alashcraft in Book Reviews

Inside Steve's Brain

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 - 958 views - 01/18/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

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 - 607 views - 12/17/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Book Review: Silverlight 2 in Action - Free Copy For The Best Comment

Have you guys read Silverlight 2 in Action book?

2 replies - 2838 views - 11/20/08 by Michael Sync in News

Presentation Zen - Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

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 - 1013 views - 11/17/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Groovy Recipes - Greasing the Wheels of Java

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 - 2767 views - 11/11/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

slide:ology The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

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 - 3272 views - 10/24/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Subject to Change: Creating Great Products and Services for an Uncertain World

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 - 2768 views - 10/03/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

The Productive Programmer

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 - 5905 views - 08/15/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Oracle Essentials

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 - 1580 views - 01/23/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews