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Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: Troubleshooting, Maintaining & Repairing PCs (Troubleshooting, Maintaining & Repairing PCs) Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill Authors: Stephen J. Bigelow Rating: 5/5  This is one of the finest books on PC troubleshooting ever written. Each chapter contains a list of symptoms, suggestions, and solutions in an accessible format, helping a technician solve even the most obscure hardware problem quickly. Any book that keeps you from looking like a fool in front of a customer is worth its weight in gold (and it hasn't let me down yet). This book is also good for aspiring technicians, presenting exhaustive (but not overwhelming) coverage of topics you are sure to see on the A+ or CST exams. The author is kind enough to include useful diagrams and historical tidbits throughout the work, making the arcane comprehensible and the boring bearable. How many computer books can you think of that accomplish such a feat? Mr. Bigelow, if you're reading this, I would like to thank you for producing such a wonderful book. Suggesting it to others is the least I can do.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Swing, Second Edition Publisher: Manning Publications Authors: Matthew Robinson, Pavel Vorobiev Rating: 5/5 Two years ago, the JavaRanch reviewer, Anmarie Ziegler, wrote this about the first edition: "Overall this is an excellent book, and I would recommend it for the intermediate to advanced Swing developer." The same can be said of the second edition of "Swing". This edition has been updated to bring it up to Java 1.4 with new examples, new components, and three new chapters. You should note that this book is not for beginners. If "threads", "anonymous classes", or "event handling" are foreign words to you then you should go over the basic Swing chapters in a Java intro book such as "Beginning Java 2" by Ivor Horton. If you consider yourself at least an intermediate Java programmer and are comfortable with the basics of the AWT and you want to learn Swing very well then you are ready for this book. The authors have written the Bible of Swing. This book covers not just the basics of Swing but goes beyond that to teach you how to build your own Swing components. The cover states that the book contains, "production quality code" and this is exactly what it contains. You will find no simple "Hello World" examples but instead demonstrations of how to make use of the real power of Swing. The coding samples you will find in this book are extremely detailed and well commented. If you want to learn how to be a competent Swing developer then you should get this book.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Building Web Services with Java : Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI (2nd Edition) (Developer's Library) Publisher: Sams Authors: Steve Graham, Doug Davis, Simeon Simeonov, Glen Daniels, Peter Brittenham, Yuichi Nakamura, Paul Fremantle, Dieter Koenig, Claudia Zentner Rating: 4/5  The coverage of WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI is clear and thorough. Even though the book has a number of authors, there's a nice flow between chapters and the writing is consistent and coherent. However, I gave the book only three stars because it has just a cursory review of Sun's Java Web Services Developer Pack. That's not surprising, considering JWSDP was in still in a larval stage when the book was written. But if you're a serious developer, you'll need to download JWSDP from Sun and go through the tutorial to learn the APIs.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers (Pro-Developer (Paperback)) Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: Giuseppe DiMauro, Francesco Balena Rating: 5/5 It is a much more demanding job to write a book about „how to do things" than about „what you can do". Overall the authors did an excellent job. Most recommendations are very practical and can easily be applied immediately. In addition many of the suggestions are put in context with a brief discussion over the pros and cons. But people looking for thorough academic debate on any theme will be disappointed. The book is tailored towards practicality. It is simply structured, uses basic and direct language and takes clear positions. That makes it easy and fun to read - yet it provides remarkably good information, not primarily on grand concepts, but on many small things that often get overlooked. It is the kind of book you take where ever you go when you just have a couple minutes to read. Open a random page and always get a little "aha".
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