.NET Book Review:
Murach's SQL Server 2005
for Developers By Steven Mandel  This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts
being presented on each
page. If you're new to
SQL Server 2005 you'll
gain a lot from this
book. It... Feb. 14, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 4,456 |
.NET Book Review: Core
Internet Application By Steven Mandel  Buy this book! I don't
often give such a blanket
endorsement but this book
works on many levels.
It's one of the few books
that really addresses the
needs of more experienced
ASP.NET developers as
well as providing a well
thought out text that can
be used by instruc... Feb. 10, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 2,715 |
Build Your Own ASP.NET
2.0 Web Site Using C# &
VB.NET By Steven Mandel  This book contains 14
chapters and an appendix.
Its subtitle is 'the
ultimate ASP.NET
beginner's guide.' As its
two titles imply, this
book covers the basics on
a lot of ASP.NET topics.
The chapter titles convey
this: ASP.Net basics, VB
and C# programming
basics, ... Nov. 21, 2007 06:00 PM Reads: 6,184 |
.NET Book Review:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Stored Procedure
Programming in T-SQL and
.NET By Steven Mandel  With the release of a
major new version of SQL
Server, it's incumbent on
developers to take time
to refresh and enhance
their knowledge of this
new version of T-SQL
(Transact SQL) and stored
procedure programming.
The challenge is to find
a good book that will
cov... May. 31, 2007 05:00 PM Reads: 6,526 |
Head First HTML with CSS
& XHTML By Steven Mandel  I'm sure that there are
times when you visit your
favorite bookstore to
look at new books on your
favorite .NET topics and
you cringe at the weighty
tomes sitting on the
shelves. You open these
books and page upon page
of continuous print swims
before your eyes, but... May. 27, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 10,104 |
.NET Book Review —
Visual Basic 2005
Jumpstart By Steven Mandel  Microsoft released VB6 at
the start of 1999, which
is almost 8 years ago.
It's hard to imagine that
there are developers who
are still actively using
VB6, but from the blogs
and letters to the
editors of many .NET
magazines that I have
read, it seems that this
is truly the case. Dec. 17, 2006 08:00 AM Reads: 8,970 Replies: 1 |
ASP.NET 2.0: A
Developer's Notebook By Steven Mandel  There are many ways to
approach the presentation
of a major upgrade to a
software platform and how
to address its various
audiences. O'Reilly has
decided that to get
seasoned ASP.NET
developers up to speed,
it has added three new
books to its Developer's
Notebook ... Jun. 27, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 10,627 Replies: 1 |
.NET Book Review —
Best Kept Secrets in .NET By Steven Mandel  Lately, it seems that
every computer book that
you find is a weighty
tome of at least 500 or
600 pages. You groan just
thinking about having to
schlep another
monster-size book around.
It is so nice then to
inform you that sometimes
good things do come in
small pa... May. 17, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 12,279 |
.NET Gotchas By Steven Mandel  You might be wondering
what this book is all
about. As the author
explains, the
dictionary's definition
of a gotcha is 'an
unexpected usually
disconcerting challenge,
revelation, or catch'.
Mr. Subramaniam defines
the gotchas in his book
as 'those things that pop ... May. 10, 2006 04:15 PM Reads: 13,401 Replies: 4 |
ASP.NET Cookbook By Steven Mandel  The 'cookbook' format has
become quite popular in
recent years as a vehicle
for presenting ideas and
code. Each chapter
focuses in on a
particular topic. Each
topic contains a number
of 'recipes' that build
upon other recipes to
present ideas that may be
of value ... Dec. 9, 2005 09:45 AM Reads: 10,205 Replies: 3 |
Regular Expression
Recipes for Windows
Developers By Steven Mandel  One of the most powerful
tools that a developer
can use for validating
data is the regular
expression. A regular
expression makes use of
pattern matching to
determine if an item fits
within the definition of
the pattern. Some
validation that might
take many lines ... Dec. 8, 2005 10:45 PM Reads: 9,836 Replies: 1 |
Maximizing ASP.NET: Real
World, Object-Oriented
Development By Steven Mandel  After reading this book,
I spent a great deal of
time trying to figure out
where it fits in the
ASP.NET scheme of things.
The author states that
the book was written
because 'a lot of smart
developers are having
some problem making the
transition to the
object-ori... Oct. 22, 2005 07:00 AM Reads: 10,140 Replies: 3 |
Microsoft .NET XML Web
Services Step by Step By Steven Mandel If you are a beginner and
want to learn about
creating XML Web services
from a very structured
and detailed perspective
then you'll want to look
at this book. The authors
present the material by
building a Web service
that will validate credit
cards. Each chapter
... May. 20, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 10,896 |
Programming ASP.NET 2nd
Edition By Steven Mandel Now that ASP.NET has hit
its stride, the number of
books out that deal with
it on an intermediate
level has increased
nicely. The problem,
though, is that if the
books all cover the same
topics, how do you decide
which one to buy? May. 11, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 10,615 |
Book Reviews By Dan Maharry; Steven Mandel A very enthusiastic
recommendation by Steven
Mandel of a book for
VB.NET developers - aimed
particularly at beginning
or intermediate
developers - and a note
by Dan Maharry about a
useful desktop book on
XML Schema. Apr. 6, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 12,083 |
Book Reviews By Steven Mandel Christmastime has come
and gone, and the only
thing left to worry about
is the present for
yourself. You mean you
didn't reward yourself
for buying everyone else
presents and developing
like a mad dog? Why not
grab a copy of A First
Look at ASP.NET v2.0? Jan. 12, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 9,502 |
Book Reviews By Dan Maharry; Steven Mandel It's all a question of
balance. You can apply
these words of wisdom to
managing software
development projects and
to planning out the
contents of a book, but
it's still a tightrope
walk. Nov. 11, 2003 09:00 AM Reads: 10,676 |
Book Reviews By Steven Mandel Ms. Prince's goal in
writing this book is to
teach beginners how to
develop simple but
complete Windows
applications. She shows
users how to code, test,
and debug their
applications as well. The
book is divided into five
sections. The first
section teaches you how... May. 28, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 7,561 |
Book Reviews By Andrew Montgomery; Steven Mandel I came upon this book
under very odd
circumstances, to say the
least. I am a developer
first and foremost, so
the suggestion by my
employer that I sit
through a half-day
seminar on the art of
making technical sales
was greeted with less
than enthusiasm. Apr. 28, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 10,544 |