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Title: Thinking in Java (3rd Edition) Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Authors: Bruce Eckel Rating: 5/5  A *must* on any Java bookshelf
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Title: Excel 2000 Formulas Publisher: Wiley Authors: John Walkenbach Rating: 4/5  I already had a reputation at work as the Excel Wizard, so I was a little cautious about investing in a 'how-to' book on the subject. I have to say though, that Excel 2000 Formulas is worth every last cent and more. Even skimming through the early chapters, where I doubted I would find anything new, I chanced upon several easy tips I'd not known before. Excel 2000 Formulas is arranged in a simple-to-reference way and the page layout is excellent, giving easy-on-the-eye icon notes, references and tips. Even so, I quickly found myself grabbing a colored highlighter to pick out the bits that were important to me. The author also has a flowing style of writing so you don't feel you're working through a manual, It's more like a fun day out, with new discoveries on every page. Particulary interesting and useful was John Walkenbach's section on creating megaformulas. Though I was already familiar with the concept, and have used it to good effect at work, I found Walkenbach's methods even more concise and precise. In no time at all, you're building a relatively simple 229 character formula that does the work of 51 intermediary formulas. Not only is this more efficient and streamlined, it saves space in the workbook, thus making calculation quicker and more effective. Also of great value was the section on debugging formulas. VBA had always remained something of a mystery to me (excluding elementary macros) until I got stuck into 'Excel 2000'. Now (with a bit of prompting from John Walkenbach) I'm really getting the hang of it, and finding, again, that I can streamline my workbooks and impress my colleagues. I've already bought 'Excel 2000 Power Programming with VBA' by the same author, and look forward to improving my skills in this area. If ever there was a technical book that deserves more than five stars, this is it. If you need to improve your Excel skills, there's no other book you should consider - Excel 2000 Formulas has it all.
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET 2003 in 21 Days Publisher: Sams Authors: Jason Beres Rating: 3/5  Very good overall but but has some mistakes in it. Also has some gotchas. For instance the first web application project you create also silently creates a "soloution". VS documentation recommends you explicitly create a solution first then any projects. Advice = DON'T try examples on production server.
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Title: Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity Publisher: New Riders Press Authors: Jakob Nielsen Rating: 5/5 The book really helps to organize material on the web and understand what makes or breaks a web page . It really helpe me to keep the user in mind while designing artistic sites. The author is not very artistically inclined but he is a great expert on organizing information on the web as well as creating the most ease for users.
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