Book Reviews
As well as tech reviewing book content for publishers, I also review the finished product for online and print magazines
By Johnson M. Hart
Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-25619-0, $59.99
In this present era of .NET programming, it's good to see that some people remember that Windows is itself still a COM-based entity with all its C++\C-based pointers, posers and problems. This series of books has always had just the one objective - to expose the Windows APIs so that those who have the need can access them directly and work with the Windows operating system itself rather than with an application sitting on top of it. This objective it achieves, and whether you're a newcomer to system-level programming or the book's intended audience...
Written by Bob Beauchemin, Niels Berglund, Dan Sullivan
Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-18059-3, $44.99
Databases are at the core of most software projects these days and there is a fair amount of competition between software vendors for a bigger share of a lucrative market. However, it would be fair to say that only DBAs really know what their database servers are capable of and maybe only half of them really everything that their software can do. One of the biggest arguments for this First Look At SQL Server 2005 book then is as a prospectus for all the developer-related features and functional nooks and...