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124 reviews
Ivor Horton

Wrox Press, 1998

As Good As It Gets
Above all else, book about software development should have loads of exmaples, and when describing the use of a specific compiler, leave very little to the imagination (compilers are too loaded with power that only their developers and heavy duty users understand. Horton's book does exactly this! I have been writing software since 1969 in all forms, but mostly engineering applications rather ...

Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0 (Beginning)

129 reviews
Brian Francis, Chris Ullman, ...

Wrox Press, 1998

Must Read
If you are a beginner, or simply need a refresher course on ASP this is the book for you. The authors give straight forward examples that effectively bring the power of ASP to you. WROX has established itself as a force to be reckoned with in recent years. I wish all of their books were only half as good as this one.

Professional ASP.NET Web Services

12 reviews
Andreas Eide, Chris Miller, ...

Wrox Press, 2001

This book is for EXPERIENCED programmers
I read the book several times. I did some of the examples. The examples worked with no changes necessary. On the [web page], the book has an errata list, which is pretty small. The source code for C# and VB are on the wrox website. This book is for EXPERIENCED programmers. Don't even try to read it if you have no prior knowledge of web services. The book has an excellent introduction to ...

Visual Basic 6 Win32 API Tutorial

13 reviews
Jason Bock

Wrox Press, 1998

Excellent Book for API Beginners!
Personally I thought this book was great for progammers just starting out with the API or Applications Programmers Interface. The examples are well laid out and the code is mostly bug free. Yes this book does not have the depth of some other earlier mentioned books, however it is important to realize that this is a tutorial. Because this book claims to be a tutorial it should be rated on how ...

Beginning ASP Databases

126 reviews
John Kauffman, Kevin Spencer, ...

Wrox Press, 1999

Perfect book for a Beginner or Intermediate Developer
This book is not just for a beginner....I include intermediate ASP developers as well. This book is perfect for a beginner though. It explains stuff in not too much detail but enough to understand the full explanation of how to do real-life transactions and a good bulk of what you need to know in Web Development. I'd say this book brings you to an intermediate level after you are done. The ...

Beginning Perl

3 reviews
Simon Cozens, Peter Wainwright

Wrox Press, 2000

Cozens is the man
There is a second edition by the same title coming out, but without Simon Cozen listed as an author. Cannot say whether the 2nd edition is any good, but the out-of-print 1st edition is excellent. The first edition can be found online. I believe Simon is going to take a break from writing for a while. I hope he finds his way back to writing about Perl eventually.

Professional Visual Basic Interoperability - COM and VB6 to .NET

2 reviews
Billy Hollis, Rockford Lhotka

Wrox Press, 2002

Practical advise and excellent working samples
I have been pouring through a lot of books on .Net and when I first pulled this book out of the box I thought there may not be much to it because it didn't appear too thick. I couldn't have been more mistaken. First, the print is smaller than most Wrox books I've seen. Second, this book packs in a lot of practical, heavy technical advice and samples in communication from .Net to COM, COM to .Net, ...

Professional SCWCD Certification

19 reviews
Daniel Jepp, Sam Dalton

Wrox Press, 2002

A must buy
"If you have it, you don't need ne other book."

Beginning Linux Programming (Linux Programming Series)

75 reviews
Neil Matthew, Richard Stones

Wrox Press, 1999

Great book
I bought this book 1996 when I was in high school. It was challenging, and now when I returned to it in 2006, I realize how much I skipped on my 96' reading. The great thing with this book (at least the 96 edition) is that is has such a nice flow. You will learn the concepts of Unix programming, introduced in a perfect order and pace. The source code compiles with no problems.

Professional Visual Basic 6 Distributed Objects

14 reviews
Rockford Lhotka

Wrox Press, 1999

Amazing. This book is a must for every serious developer
I read a lot of books in VB but THIS one is necessary for all professional developer. It's an expert book, so don't search for a lot of user interface code in it. It's all about engine under the hood. A MUST. I don't consider buying this book if it's your first start in VB. Try Beginning Object and Businness Object before this one.

New Masters of Photoshop (Friends of ed Designer to Designer)

14 reviews
Mike Cina, Derek Lea, ...

Wrox Press, 2001

Overall good book for advancing techniques.
This book is very helpful to people who know something about Photoshop already. What makes it different is that you are designing through the eyes of a usually good designer and learning step by step how to acheive interesting results by recreating their own works. Each designer is different so you learn to attack the same type of problems from different angles. Some of the designers ramble on in ...

Beginning Visual Basic 6 Database Programming

210 reviews
John Connell

Wrox Press, 1998

Hurray for John Connell
Hurray for John Connell he speaks to us beginners on our level. It was also very encouraging when he mentioned that he did not get it the first time, he had a light bulb moment. I have never heard a guru admit that before they usually give the impression that it came very easy for them. The exercises seemed to encompass a lot of VB functions, uses, and neat tricks. The explanations are complete, ...

ASP to ASP.NET Migration Handbook: Concepts and Strategies for Successful Migration

1 review
Richard Conway, Brady Gaster, ...

Wrox Press, 2003

Decent intro into the concepts behind migration.
This book can help many people new to asp > .net migration get into the swing of things. There are several parts of the book that take you through the logic of replacing old asp constructs to .net ones. Good example is a section of the book dedicated to explaining that old <%if... response.write stuff should be replaced with labels... the use of repeaters instead of manually building tables ...

Professional PHP4 Programming

37 reviews
Deepak Thomas, Wankyu Choi, ...

Wrox Press, 2002

Excellent
I just bought this book in my local BORDERS, and I gotta say this is by far the best PHP book out there. Took me 2 hours to decide which booh to buy, and in the end, this was the best. Extensive professional explanations and it's well worth the money.

Professional XML Schemas

7 reviews
Jon Duckett, Nik Ozu, ...

Wrox Press, 2001

Documents vs Data
This book is worth the price for its discussion of modeling documents vs modeling data. Coming from the document world, I have found relational database types have a hard time understanding the "model" of a document schema. This book explains the document analysis process concisely, but clearly. If you work in a place that is trying to bring the document and database worlds closer together, ...

Professional Visual Basic 6 Web Programming

20 reviews
Jerry Ablan, Matt Brown, ...

Wrox Press, 1999

Book was very useful to me professionally. But not perfect.
I rated this 5 stars because it has the most useful writeup on writing Server Components in VB for use with ASP - chapters 9-11. I wanted to do this and had trouble getting working samples and explanations. I feel that industrial strength ASP is very ugly and unweildy if you don't encapsulate the code into components. MSDN has lots of reference material about this but little, if any, useful "how ...

ASP 3.0 Programmer's Reference

18 reviews
Richard Anderson, Dan Denault, ...

Wrox Press, 1999

Much More Than Just an ASP Reference
Wrox is selling itself short on this one. Not only is it a great reference for ASP (lots of good examples and explanations), there are also several equally good chapters on ADO, CDO, XML, XLST, ADSI, MSMQ and Transactions. I've used it as a reference for these other topics as much or more than I've used it as an ASP reference.

Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop

4 reviews
Christian Holm, Mike Kruger, ...

Wrox Press, 2003

Unique and very helpful
I found this book to be very good -- excellent. I own about 20 C# books, and I have been programming in C# for about a year. At this level of experience, I found the book easy to read and full of great ideas and suggestions. With all the source code available (for the entire app), it is easy to get a clear picture of any details that are not covered in the book. But the things that are covered ...

Beginning Visual Basic 6 (Beginning)

101 reviews
Peter Wright

Wrox Press, 1998

An excellent book for VB 6 beginners!
This is an extremely well written book. Peter Wright has this way of writing that keeps you hooked on to the book. There is a sense of humor which helps. The book explains the topics in quite good detail with screen shots so that one won't get lost! The examples are bug-free and work fine. The chapter on objects and classes, though short gives quite a clear idea of object oriented ...

Beginning JSP Web Development

14 reviews
Jayson Falkner, John Timney, ...

Wrox Press, 2001

good but needs more examples
This book is a solid introduction that covers all the key basics. Be aware that over half the book is spent teaching Java, not JSP. Since I already know the basics of java, the numerous Java chapters were a distraction to the main point of JSP/Servlet programming. Also, being a beginner to JSP, I have to agree with an earlier reviewer that the book hurries on to each next chapter with only the ...

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