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Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Thinking in Java (3rd Edition) Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Authors: Bruce Eckel Rating: 1/5  The Amazon review of this book includes a "topics covered" which lists, among other things, JDBC, JSP, servlets, etc., none of which are covered in this edition of the book! I am returning this book, which I had hoped to use as a guide for our web development team, but since it covers nothing more than the basics, contrary to what Amazon advertises, I will have to look for something more substantial elsewhere.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Ken Henderson Rating: 5/5  The thing that sticks out about this book is the quality of the writing -- it's par excellence. Computer books come and go, but this one has real staying power. It's a cut above the rest in terms of the prose. Unlike a lot of techie books out there, this is one you can't put down. I picked up the book only mildly interested in the subject material and couldn't put it down. It took me a week or so to read through it all (the book is _really_ dense), and, once I had, I was half tempted to go through it again. It's great to run into a technical author who knows how to write. In my view, this book is right up there with the best works in other genres. Kudos to Henderson for such a wonderful piece of work.
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: Security+ Study Guide Publisher: Sybex Inc Authors: Michael Pastore Rating: 1/5 As you see, there are reviews giving this book both good and bad reviews - the good ones praise its organization and readability, the bad ones point out its errors. There are indeed a fair number of errors, which is bad enough, but I found many explanations confusing and misleading - perhaps because I have 3 years experience with security, and 15 with networking. Organization is all very well, but to make an analogy, a well-written tour guide to Denmark is of little help in finding your way in France! Skip this one!!
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: Programming Windows with C# (Core Reference) Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: Charles Petzold Rating: 5/5 I don't see why some reviewers of this book continually state that this book is a C# book. I'm talking both good reviews and bad reviews here. Unfortunately, many people see remarks about what a great C# book it is, purchase the book, find out it contains exactly 40 pages of C# information and then return here to slam the book. It's unfair to the author and unfair to customers.Let's talk about what this book IS. This book is the very best book on the market for writing Windows applications in C#. The author focuses on the IO, Drawing and Windows Forms namespaces and types and in the end produces the best book of its kind currently available. The key to remember when deciding on this book is that there's a reason that both Tom Archer and Charles Petzold write for MS Press. Mr Archer focuses on C# and Mr Petzold on what to do once you've learned the language. A hint might also be gathered via the fact that this site sells both as a combination deal! In summary, I own both books (as well as Jeffrey Richter's fine internals book) and rarely am ever at a loss for answers in my .NET development (something I do 10 hours a day).
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