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Title: Digital Photography: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Authors: Gregory Georges Rating: 4/5  This is a wonderful book. I recommend it for beginners, and for mid-level digital photography enthusiasts that are having a hard time absorbing all of the technical jargon. I have my mind so full of computer jargon that it seemed there was no place left to "file" the lingo for my somewhat serious photography hobby. Each page has equal amounts of text AND example photos with explanation, and all IN COLOR. I'm not sure how others feel, but I can't read a book on photography that doesn't have pictures, or where the photographs are in black and white. (unless black & white photography is the subject of course) This gave me a new way to look at things, corrected some very big misunderstandings, and definitely made a BIG difference in the quality of my photographs. I use a professional digital SLR, and the hints and tips in this book have been keeping me interested and busy for more than two weeks now. You won't be disappointed!
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Title: Metadata Solutions: Using Metamodels, Repositories, XML, and Enterprise Portals to Generate Information on Demand Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Adrienne Tannenbaum Rating: 5/5  We have been struggling with metadata since our first data warehouse was built. Lots of problems have been slowing this process down. First, the definitions - not as easy as you think. We are still struggling with a "Customer" definition. Next, the source..some of our data results from many sources, some doesn't have a source. So how do we depict this? Everyone has an answer. I started looking to books. Read data quality books, data warehousing books. Only this book takes the "metadata problem" approach. The book is broken down into several parts. I thought some of it was beyond my understanding at first. I discussed some of the book's ideas with technical developers here, and when I went back to Part 4 (meta-meta land) and Part 5 (Sample Metadata Solutions), I understood what needs to be done in order to solve our metadata problems. I am not sure if we will ever come to terms on what is right and what is wrong, but with a "metadata solution", everyone can be happy before this decision is made. I recommend this book to everyone that has been struggling with existing metadata. Consider the methodology depicted in this book as a way to sift through all of it. Good book, and I keep going back to it as we plan our new metadata solution approach.
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Title: Windows Forms Programming in C# Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Chris Sells Rating: 5/5 Microsoft should make it mandatory to ship this with Visual Studio .NET for WinForm development. It contains more practical and usable information in one book than trying to search the help, MSDN, Codeproject, the tons of books in your current collection, or <Insert your favorite resource>. It even contains a center section of color pages of important figures that really need convey the importance of that particular demo. If your company doesn't buy it for you, suck it up and buy it yourself - you won't regret it!
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Title: Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity Publisher: New Riders Press Authors: Jakob Nielsen Rating: 5/5 Following Nielsen's suggestions to the letter, one would end up with the Web equivalent of the McDonald's cheeseburger...mushy and bland. But--also like that ubiquitous cheeseburger--always predictable, accessible and non-threatening. It's just an unfortuante truth that this is what it takes for a high-volume, low-maintenance commercial site, trying to support and attract existing and would-be customers or readers...every awkward point in a site's design is another potential to lose the customer's interest and/or loyalty. Go with the safe bet and they won't be disappointed. If you're building the next UPS, CNN or Amazon.com, read this book and make it your Bible. If, on the other hand, you just design personal web sites for fun, read what Nielsen has to say, but pick and choose as you like. Several places in the book, the author points out that his suggestions aren't optimal (such as using default link colors, or the use of a 'shopping cart' paradigm), but are simply the safe implementations that the user has always come to expect. It's only by bending The Rules now that we'll find new and better paradigms that will become the standard safe bet designs of the future.
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