Book Review: Jumpstart NodeJS By Don Nguyen

February 21, 2014 at 12:30 PM | categories: Book review | View Comments
"Book Review: Jumpstart NodeJS By Don Nguyen"; Sitepoint This introduction to NodeJS is written in basic tutorial style. This enables you to learn by doing and getting your feet wet. It starts with an introduction to NodeJS and the...

Book Review: Perl One-Liners - 130 Programs That Get Things Done By Peteris Krumins

December 31, 2013 at 12:30 PM | categories: Book review | View Comments
"Perl One-Liners - 130 Programs That Get Things Done By Peteris Krumins"; No Starch Press Want to stock up on a bag of tricks and snippets to get your work done quicker, this is the book for you. Either...

Book Review: 21st Century C By Ben Klemens

September 13, 2013 at 07:30 AM | categories: Book review | View Comments
"21st Century C By Ben Klemens"; O'Reilly Media This intermediate level book provides guidance on new methods of coding in C as well as identifying the common pitfalls and providing workarounds to them. The book is split into two...

Book Review: Cloud Architecture Patterns By Bill Wilder

November 07, 2012 at 07:11 AM | categories: Book review | View Comments
"Cloud Architecture Patterns By Bill Wilder"; O'Reilly Media This book is a must read for any one involved in software development particularly cloud based applications. The book describes the popular patterns used in development of scalable applications, coverage is...

Book Review: Building a Windows IT Infrastructure in the Cloud

October 04, 2012 at 07:20 AM | categories: Book review | View Comments
"Building a Windows IT Infrastructure in the Cloud By David Rensin"; O'Reilly Media This book does a splendid job in describing the Amazon cloud products that can be used to provide IT infrastructure in the cloud. The critical components...

Book Review: Think Python By Allen B. Downey

September 19, 2012 at 07:11 AM | categories: Book review | View Comments
"Think Python By Allen B. Downey"; O'Reilly Media Being an introduction to programming using the Python language this book strikes a good balance between explaining the programming theory and translating that into the Python Language. All the fundamentals of...

Book Review: Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV By Kurt Demaagd, Anthony Oliver, Nathan Oostendorp, Katherine Scott

August 24, 2012 at 04:11 PM | categories: Book review | View Comments
"Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV By Kurt Demaagd, Anthony Oliver, Nathan Oostendorp, Katherine Scott"; O'Reilly Media A practical guide to get you started in the field of computer vision, this book is pitched to a wide range of readers...

Book Review: Intermediate Perl, 2nd Edition By Brian d Foy, Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz

August 16, 2012 at 07:07 AM | categories: Book review | View Comments
"Intermediate Perl, 2nd Edition By Brian d Foy, Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz"; O'Reilly Media Written as the followup to the "Llama book" this book introduces more advanced concepts of the Perl programming language to take you from writing...

Book Review: Postgresql up and running By Regina Obe, Leo Hsu

August 04, 2012 at 12:07 PM | categories: Book review | View Comments
"Postgresql up and running By Regina Obe, Leo Hsu"; O'Reilly Media A quick guide to the PostgreSQL Database for users with prior experience with other DBMS. The book sets out to highlight the interesting features in PostgreSQL not present...

Book Review: Introducing Regular Expressions By Michael Fitzgerald

July 27, 2012 at 07:30 AM | categories: Book review | View Comments
"Introducing Regular Expressions By Michael Fitzgerald" ; O'Reilly Media This book is intended as an introduction to regular expressions for readers who have no or limited knowledge of regular expressions. It does this particularly well by addressing all the...