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Review of SOA for the Business Developer

February 5th, 2010 No comments
SOA for the Business Developer: Concepts, BPEL, and SCA (Business Developers series)

This is a BPEL centric business approach which I really like. I think that the market is waking up for the concepts that this book discusses. The main issue is that many companies have not recognized the major contribution of standardizing business process modeling.
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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a way of organizing software. If your [...]

Review of Beginning JavaScript Second Edition

January 10th, 2010 No comments
Beginning JavaScript Second Edition

All of the reviews of this book from April 2004 and earlier are based on the 1st edition, not this new second edition which didn’t publish until the end of April 2004. The second edition adds some new great coverage of dynamic HTML in more recent browser versions and a new chapter on JavaScript and [...]

Review of Schaum’s Outline of UML

January 4th, 2010 No comments
Schaum

When I wanted to learn C language, the second book I picked up was this same series on C [the first one being K & R, which I read later to comprehend].
This book on UML follows the same tradition of “Teach a concept then give plenty of exercises to practice what you learnt”. It includes [...]

Review of Beginning JavaScript, 3rd Edition

December 27th, 2009 No comments
Beginning JavaScript, 3rd Edition (Programmer to Programmer)

I have used the first and second editions of this book as training courseware for several years.Allthough, I was never 100% happy with the book (some important topics had been left out, the content is not cleanly organized and the examples could have been better) it served its purpose.
When I heard that the 3rd edition [...]

Review of Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008, Second Edition

November 27th, 2009 No comments
Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008, Second Edition (Windows.Net)

Pro ASP.net 3.5: This book is a must to have book for anyone who is starting/ switching their careers to developing web applications using asp.net technologies. The authors Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta, has done a very good job of covering all sections that are useful for beginners as well as middle level developers.
For [...]