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Title: User Interface Design for Programmers Publisher: Apress Authors: Joel Spolsky Rating: 5/5  Most programmers hate user interface programming. They think UI design is in the realm of groovy graphic designers. But UI design is not art, it's just a set of rules. Joel Spolsky's cardinal axiom of all user interface design is to match your program model to the user model. In other words, your program should behave exactly as the user expects. If you can do that, and apply the other corollaries he provides, your program will be usable. In this 144 page color illustrated book, Spolsky shows you plenty of examples of what works, and what doesn't. You'll learn UI design rules you can apply to improve any user interface, from traditional GUI applications to Web sites to consumer electronics. Spolsky *sounds* like a programmer too, boiling things down to their essence with wonderful wit. Even if you have the best algorithms in the world, if users can't figure out how to use your program, it's practically useless. Giving users what they expect makes learning your program that much easier. But how do you find out what the user model is? Ask them. This is a great book written by an experienced software industry veteran. Recommended. From WebReference.com.
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Title: Ipod & Itunes: The Missing Manual (Missing Manual) Publisher: Pogue Press Authors: J. D. Biersdorfer Rating: 5/5 The iPod is of course a music player. Something like a CD player that is smaller, holds more music, can be down loaded to hold the songs you like. A simple minded, easy to use device. In truth, however, it's far more. For one thing, the iPod is a very small machine with an incredible amount of memory. What you load into the iPod doesn't have to be songs. It can be any kind of data that you want to carry from one computer to another. That's the sort of thing that you expect to get from the Missing Manual series. In this case, how to use the iPod for data storage is just one use you can get out of the little thing. Other such applications include calendar, address book, to-do list, notes, eBook, Game Machine and more. Likewise the book covers the iTunes software that connects the iPod to a computer (either Apple or Windows based). Not only does it cover the standard things you can do with the software, but it goes into the details of how to do a lot of things. The Missing Manual series is a great way to get more out of something you already have.
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Title: Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: DINO ESPOSITO (WINTELLECT), Dino Esposito Rating: 5/5 This is quite a good book on real techniques to solve real problems. It's still going to be useful if you use for you're development third party controls and frameworks, you still will find valuable information inside. I wouldn't recommend it for the very beginner that wants a Learn-This-In-1-Hour book (and keep yourself in the ignorance :-)). For anybody else with certain degree of familiarity with the .Net environment, the book is going to be extremely useful.
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Title: Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide Publisher: Brady Games Authors: Dan Birlew Rating: 1/5  This strategy seems at best less that a third finished. As pointed out by many other reviewers, it always redirects you to playonline.com. I'd like to play the game not surf the net. Second, where are the maps? I can't even find them online! I have never seen an RPG stategy guide without maps before. What information is left in the guide after taking out the tidbits for playonline is spotty and very hard to use. The few times that I have tried to use playonline.com it has been slow or down. The site itself is hard to navigate. I'd like to see an unofficial stategy guide that does not rely heavily on the net to give useful information. It would be hard to make a worse stategy guide than this.
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