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Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology Publisher: Jossey-Bass Authors: Paul Glen, David H. Maister, Warren G. Bennis Rating: 5/5  The �geeks� Paul Glen talks about in �Leading Geeks� are those employees involved in the �creation, maintenance, or support of high technology� from help desk technician to system designer to CIO. I can sympathize with technical people who resent the term "geek". I don't like it applied to myself -- but I understand the harsh reality that books need eye-catching titles. If you can get past the title, the contents are sane and sensible. Glen�s point is that the general management techniques enforced by most corporations are nearly always wildly inappropriate and self-defeating when used on technical staff. As obvious as that might sound to most technical workers, companies continue to teach a command and control approach using �bribes� to coerce staff into certain behaviors. As Glenn says, what is usually a magnificently effective technique for dealing with salespeople, is nearly always a disaster when applied to the introspective personalities common in IT. If you�ve ever delivered a morale-raising talk to developers and received only sniggers and eye-rolling in return, Paul Glen�s book will explain why. Also recommended: Peopleware by: Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister published by Dorset House Publishing ISBN: 0-932633-05-6
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Title: Professional Active Server Pages 3.0 (Programmer to Programmer) Publisher: Peer Information Authors: Alex Homer, David Sussman, Brian Francis, George Reilly, Dino Esposito, Craig McQueen, Simon Robinson, Richard Anderson, Andrea Chiarelli, Chris Blexrud, Bill Kropog, John Schenken, Matthew Gibbs, Dean Sonderegger, Dan Denault Rating: 4/5  This book is called *Professional* Active Server Pages -- and rightfully so. Believing that I was on the Professional level, I purchased this book and read most of it before placing it on my desk at work for reference. Every once and a while I picked up this book with a specific ASP question in my head and tried to find the answer within its pages. This was a mistake. If you're looking for a reference book, check out *Beginning* Active Server Pages -- also by Wrox press. Otherwise this book is great. The sections on ADO and XML are well written as well as the performance tuning sections. There is information on these pages that I haven't found elsewhere and for that reason alone, this is a great book to read. My only complaint is that there seems to be a lack of good examples. The text does contain some examples, but sometimes the concepts can overcome the reader and there needs to be a bit more clarification. More pictures, code examples and general explaining would have been very helpful. Overall, I've been very happy with this book. Wrox Press has been turning out some great books with the Web Applications Developer in mind and I hope they keep up the good work.
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Title: Sonet/SDH Third Edition Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill Authors: Walter Goralski Rating: 2/5  I can recommend this book to everyone who wants to get an overview on SDH/SONET capabilities and/or products but does not care for the protocol itself. But if you're looking for a good and correct description of the inner workings of the protocol you'd better not waste your time with this book. Check out the SDH/SONET bible: Broadband Networking: ATM, SDH and SONET by Mike Sexton and Andy Reid. It's expensive, but it's really worth the money. Goralski's book doesn't keep up with the promises of it's blurb. it has, like every book, some technical errors in it; errors which are IMHO worse enough not to buy this book. i wonder how this pointer-processing-example came into this book - horrors! ...
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Title: A Programmer's Guide to Java (tm) Certification Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Khalid A. Mughal, Rolf W. Rasmussen Rating: 5/5 A very good, detailed study guide. I felt the book was a bit dry, though. But as the preface states, the purpose of the book is not to teach the programming techniques.
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