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Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook 14 reviews
Ken England
Digital Press, 2001
SQL best practices bible
I have been working with SQL for several years and always felt a bit weak in my understanding of best practices. I have only absorbed a few chapters so far on index structure and execution plans but already I feel like I have fast tracked into the clever peoples class. The layout is excellent and the language unambigous.
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Learning with Kernels: Support Vector Machines, Regularization, Optimization, and Beyond (Adaptive ...8 reviews
Bernhard Schlkopf, Alexander J. Smola
The MIT Press, 2001
machine learning via support vector machines and kernels
The authors are young researchers who did their Ph.D. research in this rapidly developing branch of pattern recognition. Because they are young and are at the state of the art in the filed the book has sevral advantages and disadvantages and what I see as a disadvantage someone else might view as an advantage. Anyway here is my view.
Advantage 1: Pattern recognition is a field of many ...
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Starting a Yahoo! Business For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))68 reviews
Rob Snell
For Dummies, 2006
Perfect for me
It is exactly what I was looking for. Hold me by the hand and talk to me like I am back in sixth grade (wait...I flunked sixth grade). It is hard enough trying to tie all of the pieces in the puzzle together, this is the type of information I needed and disseminated in the "Dummies" style that I love.
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Introduction to Linear Optimization (Athena Scientific Series in Optimization and Neural Computation, 6)10 reviews
Dimitris Bertsimas; John N. Tsitsiklis
Athena Scientific, 1997
Nice intuition and good coverage
The best part of this book is the first half, where the foundations of linear programming are presented in a clear yet relatively rigorous fashion, accompanied by numerous intuitive geometrical explanations of the abstract general concepts. This approach, supplementing mathematics with graphical insights, works extremely well for this topic.
The quality goes down somewhat, perhaps ...
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Applied Optimal Estimation11 reviews
MIT Press, 1974
great reference and guide to Kalman Filtering
I worked in the aerospace industry from 1980-1991. During my years at the Aerospace Corporation I got this book as a reference to the application of Kalman filtering to orbit determination and estimation problems. So my experience and appreciation for this book is very similar to my colleagues working nearby me at TRW or Hughes Aircraft and cosequently I am in strong agreement with some of the ...
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Mommy, Where Do Customers Come From?: How to Market to a New World of Connected Customers11 reviews
Larstan, 2007
Finally, Someone was direct and to the point!
"Mommy, Where Do Customers Come From?" was a fun and easy read! I run both and online and "offline" business and I certainly picked up a lot of nuggets that can be applied to both. Author, Larry Bailin was certainly direct and to the point.
Mike Dolpies
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Advanced FPGA Design: Architecture, Implementation, and Optimization8 reviews
Steve Kilts
Wiley-IEEE Press, 2007
The real design warriors guide
Finally! A book that actually talks about advanced design techniques instead of giving a historical overview of FPGA design.
I have to admit that I didn't read this book cover to cover. Rather, I use it for reference as needed. It's starting to get that same tabbed look that my other reference books have.
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Search Engine Optimization8 reviews
Richard John Jenkins
lynda.com, Inc, 2006
What I didn't know was hurting my online presence
I discovered search engine optimization after having a website up for 3 yeaars that never seemed to generate any business. In fact, I couldn't get my company name to come up when I searched for it myself. In doing some marketing research I discovered this process called search engine optimization (SEO) and what you didn't know about it could hurt you. And it was. I then discovered John's SEO ...
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Optimization in Operations Research16 reviews
Ronald L. Rardin
Pearson Education, 1997
Good operations research book
This book presents the subjects in a different and novel way which provides many new insights.
In it, there is a great concern with the practical, professional use of operations research, as can be easily seen in the modeling examples. This book could be named "Optimization theory with realistic applications". This book certainly enables the students to apply the theory learned in practical ...
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Sound Systems: Design and Optimization: Modern Techniques and Tools for Sound System Design and Alignment10 reviews
Bob McCarthy
Focal Press, 2007
Very readable and entertaining
What surprised me most about this book was how readable it was. OK, I know it's not going on Oprah's book club list, but I was expecting a book that I wouldn't be able to understand beyond certain basics. Kind of like my 10th grade math book. But the way McCarthy works his way through the subject was well organized, clear AND at time humorous. I think that it's an excellent book that most sound ...
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Nortel Networks Troubleshooting & Optimization6 reviews
Mahalingham, Ragho Mahalingam
McGraw-Hill Companies, 2000
Excellent reference manual for Nortel routers
This book is an excellent resource for those that have to maintain Nortel routers. Most of the Nortel router certification requirements are covered in this book. Ragho did an excellent job of providing in-depth information in an easy to understand format. Congratulations, Ragho, for a job well done!
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Approximation Algorithms6 reviews
Springer, 2004
Very nice introduction
This is a quite nice book by an author who is well-known in the field. The book is not thematic, instead it presents certain problems in each chapter along with the main approximation algorithms and correctness proofs. Yet, each new concept is well introduced with the problems. For instance, the author presents LP-based techniques on the same problem (set cover) in the second part of the book. ...
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Practical Methods of Optimization6 reviews
R. Fletcher
Wiley, 2000
Paperback reprint of 2nd Ed. from 1987
This is a good book from an award winning author and researcher in this subject. However, the 2000 publication date shown refers to the release of the paperback version. There is no new content since 1987 when the 2nd ed. was originally published in hardcover. I prefer Dennis and Schnabel's _Numerical Methods for Unconstrained Optimization and Nonlinear Equations_ for Newton-derived methods in ...
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Integer and Combinatorial Optimization6 reviews
Laurence A. Wolsey, George L. Nemhauser
Wiley-Interscience, 1999
One of the best...
I first used this book as a text for a graduate course in Integer Programming. At first it seemed to be a very poorly organized book, but as I read it and grew familiar with the subject, I realized that this is a hybrid textbook-handbook. Though the title says "Integer and Combinatorial", the authors go a step ahead and present topics in advanced linear programming, computational complexity, ...
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Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets7 reviews
Andrew King
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008
Practical, detailed, and thorough
Andy has written a very thorough, very detailed, relentlessly practical book about how to make incremental changes to your website that you can measure and prove to improve its performance and (most importantly) to increase your effectiveness and profits from internet commerce.
This book is detail oriented and presents a very methodical approach towards web development as a path of continuous ...
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Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization6 reviews, ...
Apress, 2006
A must-have
I have the 2000 version of this book, which I thought was outstanding. Not only does it have excellent content, but it's written as if you were sitting at a table talking to Mr. Davidson directly.
This updated version should be a staple on any database developer or administrator's bookshelf. There is a solid discussion of design, securing the database (new encryption capabilities of 2005) and ...
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Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction6 reviews
Donald E. Kirk
Dover Publications, 2004
Classic that never goes out of style
My professor chosed this book to use in an Optimal Control class partly because it is very affordable. On top of that, its contents are superb, giving very clear explanations of the fundamental principles underlying Optimal Control for nonlinear/linear systems.
Despite its long history, I would think that all material are still relevant, although there are available more "modern" numerical ...
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Ultimate Guide to Search Engine Optimization: Drive Traffic, Boost Conversion Rates and Make Lots of Money ...7 reviews
Jon Rognerud
Entrepreneur Press, 2008
Excellent Resource
I saw this book advertised in Entrepreneur Magazine and knew I needed help with my new ecommerce site [...] so I went on-line and bought myself a copy. The ROI on this resource tool is beyond measure. This 203 page book and accompanying CD contains so much useful information that it makes my head spin. Most of the content was easily understood by someone who is not a web master. I did not ...
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When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as ...6 reviews
Paul J. Nahin
Princeton University Press, 2007
More would be better !
Mr. Nahin states in his preface that 1st year undergraduate math and physics is enough to manage "a lot of mathematics in this book." He is fairly on the mark, discounting my comments about chapter six below. As usual, the reader must keep pencils and scrap paper ready to fully appreciate this book. I hoped to find a book based on applications of math and physics, an engineer's approach. This ...
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The SQL Server 6.5 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook6 reviews
Ken England
Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997
Short, Sweet, and Meaty
After you have spent 8-80 hours trying random combo's on the Server Configuration panel trying to guess what you should do, buy this book and score a direct hit! Microsoft should bundle this book with SQL Server. If a little more detail were provided on the internal data structures of SQL Server one could write a bulk loader that bypassed SQL Server entirely (I know its been done by others) and ...
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