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Learn Excel from Mr. Excel: 277 Excel Mysteries Solved 72 reviews
Bill Jelen
Holy Macro! Books, 2005
Great excel reference
This book is filled with everything you ever wanted to know about excel. Great reference with fun tips like games and making your excel talk!
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Active Directory Cookbook for Windows Server 2003 and Windows 200076 reviews
Robbie Allen
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2003
In regular use on my office bookshelf
Very handy cookbook reference for my office bookshelf. I've used it a number of times, and it's more than paid for itself in expediting regularly-scheduled inquiries of our AD structure here at GEICO HQ.
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Photoshop Masking & Compositing (VOICES)78 reviews
Katrin Eismann
New Riders Press, 2004
EXCELLENT professional level training the skips worthless fluff
If you're a professional photographer (or aspire to be one), get this book.
Unlike other books, this book skips the worthless cheezy stuff that professionals
aren't likely to be interested in to begin with. This book focuses on tasks that
photographers and graphic professionals are most likely to need during post processing.
This book is simply a "must have" for those who want to get ...
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ActionScript : The Definitive Guide67 reviews
Colin Moock
O'Reilly, 2001
Superb
Finally, an actionscript guide that is superb in its production! My hat is off to Colin and Gary for this detail-oriented volume that has cleared the smoke out of my head and has made a programmer out of an artist. Bravo!!!
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The Photoshop Elements 5 Book for Digital Photographers (VOICES)105 reviews
Scott Kelby
New Riders Press, 2006
Buy this book
This is my fifth photo shop elements user guide.
I wish I bought the Scott Kelby book first- it is by far the best and the only one I use.
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Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL 3.052 reviews
Andrew Troelsen
Wordware Publishing, Inc., 2000
Fantastic book, maybe not for the absolute beginner
My current project at work required me to learn COM. I purchased several books to assist in the learning, and I must say that this book is absolutely indispensible, both as an instructional medium and as a reference. I highly recommend this book to anyone needing to learn about COM.
What's inside? It starts with a basic intro to COM, useful (dare I say it) for managers as well as the ...
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Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) (Unleashed)62 reviews
Adam Nathan
Sams, 2006
Absolute Must For Programming in WPF
I have read may books on WFP and this is the one I go to when I need to figure out how to do something. Mine is full of tape flags, post-it notes and dog-eared pages because it gets used all the time. Another book, Essential Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) is also very good, but it isn't a refrence book like this one. If you want to program in WPF you ...
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Expert One-on-One Oracle77 reviews
Thomas Kyte
Apress, 2003
Best $12 I ever spent!!!
I bought this book on cheap clearance after the original publisher went out of business -- the best $12 I ever invested. Remembering even 10% of this book makes you better than 90% of Oracle developers, modelers and architects. Mr. Kyte's real world experience and reliance on solid examples instead of folklore makes this light-years ahead of any other Oracle book; it's the only Oracle book I ...
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The True Story of the Three Little Pigs: Book & Tape Package149 reviews
Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith
Puffin, 1997
A new spin on an old story
This book is the classic story of the "three little pigs" from the wolf's perspective. It is a bit funny, sometimes very funny, but more important, it shows children, that even if you think you KNOW what happened, there is always two sides to every story. It is an entertaining way to teach children not to engage or believe gossip, but to seek out the truth. Additionally, it shows how both sides ...
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Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (Introducing Statistical Methods series)62 reviews
Andy Field
Sage Publications Ltd, 2005
Bless you, Andy Field!
This should be the first book you buy if you need help with stats and SPSS. When I first began doing empirical research I knew almost nothing about statistics or SPSS, and had to learn virtually everything I needed to know about complex multivariate tests on my own. I had suffered through many of the relevant, canonical books before I happened upon Field. It was a V-8 moment. Not only does the ...
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Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (Microsoft .NET ...29 reviews
Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005
Passionate About Quality?
I don't personally think that all developers will find this book useful. In fact, I have a feeling that some may find it highly useless and disruptive as it is abstract in a sense (one must apply the lessons to each library and scenario independently, taking into consideration many different aspects of usability and readability) and it does require some "retraining" of bad practices which have ...
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Linux (Hacking Exposed)41 reviews
Brian Hatch, James B. Lee, ...
Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2001
The best hands-on Linux security book just got better
I'm a big fan of the Hacking Exposed style of writing. All offensive theory is backed up by command line examples, followed by defensive countermeasures. Hacking Exposed: Linux, 2nd Ed (HE:L2E) follows this tradition, updating the content of the first edition and adding 200 pages of new content. Although I reviewed the first edition in Sep 01, reading the second edition reminded me of the ...
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Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)32 reviews
Kirtikumar Deshpande, K. Gopalakrishnan
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2004
Bye Bye Cache Hit Ratio
This is one of my favorite books. It gives easy to understand descriptions and examples. It is a must have for tuning. It is nicely organized and highly useful in a "crisis" situation.
Hats off to Kirti & Richmond and to the editors I don't have to remember everything 'cept where I put this book.
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Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 836 reviews
David Powers
friends of ED, 2005
Excellent book to set up dynamic pages in Dreamweaver using php
I am a frontpage user that has set up static pages in a web site. I needed to move from static pages to dynamic pages using a database. I couldn't use PHP with FrontPage so I switched to Dreamweaver and needed a book that covered both dynamic pages and Dreamwaver. This book walked me through setting up the environment to have Dreamweaver work with Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin. I am ...
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Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development34 reviews
Rod Johnson
Peer Information, 2002
Excellent book - Needs updated code samples and J2EE 1.4 support
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, particularly well-thought out design guidelines for developing J2EE application with or without EJB. The author introduced several best practices particularly the concepts and usage of Spring and Hibernate based j2ee development is quite helpful. In addition to this book, I find patterns and bestpractices from "Core J2EE Patterns /Deepak Alur", "Core ...
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How to Cheat in Photoshop : The art of creating photorealistic montages - updated for CS2 (How to Cheat in)34 reviews
Steve Caplin
Focal Press, 2005
How to Cheat in Photoshop - A Have to Have Book
This is a very fun book to work thru. It comes with a CD that has photos to work with. You will install the CD and use the different effects over and over. I find myself going back to the book on many different projects. Most of the effects are ones that you can use in editing any type of photo. I loved the book and recomend it highly. Even beginners will find it easy to follow.
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The Gregg Reference Manual46 reviews
William A. Sabin
Career Education, 2004
Excellent Product
I really enjoy this book as our office as mandated to use this product. We thank you for your service and prompt delivery.
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Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions 33 reviews
Pearson Education (USA), 2007
Excellent book for Software Architect and Software Engineer
Many books have been written about SOA, but most of them are just about the theory of SOA. It's important for Software Architects and Software Engineers to understand the theory, but just knowing the theory is not enough to develop system utilizing SOA principles.
This book fits nicely to bridge the gap between theory and practice. It contains not only the theory behind the patterns that can ...
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CLR via C#, Second Edition (Pro Developer)
Jeffrey Richter
Microsoft Press, 2006
In this new edition of Jeffrey Richter?s popular APPLIED MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMING, you get focused, pragmatic guidance on how to exploit the common language runtime (CLR) functionality in .NET Framework 2.0 for applications of all types?from Web Forms, Windows® Forms, and Web services to solutions for Microsoft SQL Server?, Microsoft code names "Avalon" and "Indigo", consoles, NT Service, and more. Targeted to advanced developers and ...
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Access 2000 Developer's Handbook 2 Volume Set37 reviews
Paul Litwin, Ken Getz, ...
Sybex, 1999
Paid for themselves in a day
I am a software developer and have been in business since 1982. I have never gotten more bank for my buck than with these books. I didn't think Access was worth a flip for program development until I bought these books. I have since developed a vertical market package for the seafood industry that sells itself by demo. Thanks Ken, Paul and Mike.
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