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Dynamic Web Publishing Unleashed, Second Edition (2nd Edition)

6 reviews

Sams, 1997

Good book to sort out which various web technologies
I was looking for a book to help me sort through which web technologies I should use (Active Server Pages, Java servlets, CGI, client vs server-side coding, scripting vs compiled code, etc.) in designing an online resource for my employer's web site. This book assumes some technical background to be easily readable. It is definitely an overview of the available technologies (not an in depth ...

Powerbuilder 5 How-To (How-to)

4 reviews
Daryl Biberdorf, Keith Glidden, ...

Waite Group Press, 1996

An excellent addition to your powerbuilder repository
This is an excellent book on powerbuilder programming targeted mainly at intermediate and advanced level programmers and provides step by step code not found in other powerbuilder books. This book does not waste too much of time on theories ,but wherever possible provides useful hints.Till date, there is no powerbuilder book in the market that provides plenty of code,and this book does fill ...

Special Edition Using Perl 5 for Web Programming

8 reviews
David Harlan, Paul Doyle, ...

Que Pub, 1996

Very good if you want to make websites using Perl/CGI
I've read at least 6 books on perl, but if you want to specifically learn perl for websites, then this book is very good. It talks about databases (DBMs and SQL). Managing sessions and validating users, and it also talks about creating a shopping cart system. There is a chapter on CGI sercurity. Although the book was written in 1996 its a very good step in the right direction of making ...

Unix Power Tools, Third Edition

67 reviews
Shelley Powers, Tim O'Reilly

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2002

True to the Unix philosophy
Here is a quote taken from _Unix_Power_Tools_ which demonstrates the attitude, shared by the authors, that unix allows you to make things easier. "''Ugh!', you say, 'that's just what I hate about UNIX. All these long filenames and options I can't remember. Who wants to type all that stuff!' Precisely. That's why UNIX makes it so easy to create custom commands, in the form of aliases and ...

Shelley's Poetry and Prose: Authoritative Texts, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition)

5 reviews
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, ...

W. W. Norton & Company, 1977

Pure Intellectual Beauty
Shelley is the wild child of English poetry and his determined opposition to tyranny produced a huge variety of poetry, ranging from the rending lament of Keats in Adonais, to the defiant and taut sonnet Ozymandias. His single greatest work, however, is Prometheus Unbound, which a vast gothic ruin of neat poetry. One shot of it and you'll wonder why a) all the nice, obvious prosy bits seem to ...

Mastering Visual C# .NET

32 reviews
Jason Price, Mike Gunderloy

Sybex, 2002

The best all-around C# book!!!
As mentioned in the title of my review, this book is without a doubt the best general instruction (how-to) and reference book on Visual C# .NET that I have found anywhere. The topics are very clearly explained, the code snippets are concise enough that you aren't wading through a single project that grows as the chapters progress. Instead, the author begins with an into to C#, and starts with ...

Developing Asp Components

23 reviews
Shelley Powers, 1999

Shelley to the Rescue
I bought this book hoping to understand the relational concept of COM and MTS using ASP. I got much more. This book not only covers the topic in three programming languages, but it explains it in detail that is clear and thought provoking. Shelley's professional yet warm approach to ASP, COM, and MTS has enabled me to use these tools in everyday apps. Do not be fooled by the slim appearance ...

Painting the Web

4 reviews
Shelley Powers

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

Looking over the shoulder of the Web Graphics designer
In spite of the huge number of graphics on the Web, the practice is surprisingly underserved in terms of the literature. Of course, there are design books, books on software, but these focus on best use of a product. The nuances and requirements for the Web are harder to find. This book is a practitioner's book. And, it's a quite personal work. Written in a conversational style, it's easy to ...

Practical RDF

17 reviews
Shelley Powers

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2003

A huge time saver
This book is Practical RDF and not "Progamming with RDF (with examples)". Yes, you can find all of the information in this book by searching the Internet. The point is that your results will vary based on who you, how much time you have at your disposal, which day it is, and whether your phone is about to ring. What Powers and the editors have done in Practical RDF is put the most relevant ...

Professional Perl Programming

6 reviews
Aldo Calpini, Arthur Corliss, ..., 2001

An excellent book for advanced programmers.
This is an excellent, thorough, fairly advanced book. Until now, I was an o'reilly zealot, clinging to my camel book and my CD bookshelf as the Only True Word. Finally, here is the first real competitor to that series of books, with a fresh approach to the language that shows that the authors really know what they are doing. So far, the book has done a great job covering all my ...

Javascript How-To: The Definitive Javascript Problem-Solver (How-to)

5 reviews
George Pickering, Shelley Powers, ...

Waite Group Press, 1996

The most useful Javascript book I have found.
I find JavaScript How-To very well organized and easy to read. I find the information I'm looking for fast, which is what I need to complete my web projects. Very good examples on almost every topic make this book one of the best.

Essential Blogging: Selecting and Using Weblog Tools

14 reviews
Shelley Powers, Cory Doctorow, ...

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2002

Read this before you start blogging
Reading this book before you get started with a blog will save you time, money, and frustration. It will give you a fantastic overview of what is available as far as platforms and tools for blogging. It is not a reference, and it omits a lot of things one may wish to do with their blog. But it will be helpful to the novice. While this is a beginner's book, it is not written at a "Dummy" level, ...

Adding Ajax

4 reviews
Shelley Powers

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Any web programmer's collection should have ADDING AJAX
Ajax can be added to existing web applications without redoing everything - and ADDING AJAX by Shelley Powers is the perfect web programmer's guide to doing so with ease. Chapters not only cover methods of adding Ajax, but how to use Ajax to enhance an application, how to work with Ajax libraries and interactive elements, and how to understand the effects Ajax has on Web applications. Any web ...

Dynamic Html

4 reviews
Shelley Powers

John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers), 1998

Not bad, assumes alot...but Ok.
Well written and well thought out. It assumes a working knowledge of Javascript and VB Script. But it goes deeply into the issues of Cross-browser compatability. Which is a big plus.

Learning JavaScript (Learning)

21 reviews
Shelley Powers

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

Gifted author needs a gifted editor.
I've been learning JavaScript off and on, with some success, for three months. In doing so, I've skimmed about a half-dozen books and tried the following three, so far, "graded" below: Learning JavaScript (Powers B-) VQS JavaScript and Ajax (Negrino & Smith C+) O'Reilly JavaScript Pocket Reference (Flanagan B) Very good first draft. Powers either over-powered her editor (my guess) or ...

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