I Programmer Book Reviews

Professional Node.js (Wrox)

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:35:26 GMT

Learn to build fast and scalable software in JavaScript with Node.js. After an overview of Node.js this book dives into the code, core concepts, and APIs. In–depth coverage pares down the essentials to cover debugging, unit testing, and flow control so that you can start building and testing your own modules right away.

Troubleshooting SQL Server - A Guide for the Accidental DBA

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Author: Jonathan Kehayias & Ted Krueger
Publisher: Red Gate Books, 2011
Pages: 370
ISBN: 978-1906434786
Audience: Troubleshooting DBAs and Developers
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Ian Stirk

This Book aims to provide solutions to the most common problems encountered by the inexperienced (accidental) DBA. How does it fare?

Programming Android 2nd Ed (O'Reilly)

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Get up to speed on Android programming, and learn how to create up-to-date user experiences for both handsets and tablets. This extensively revised second edition includes best practices for using Android 4 APIs. If you’re experienced with Java or Objective-C, you’ll gain the knowledge necessary for building well-engineered applications. See our review of the previous edtion.

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices (Addison Wesley)

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Guide to applying agile development and modern software engineering practices with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012. Subtitled "From Backlog to Continuous Feedback" it focuses on systematically eliminating waste, improving transparency, and delivering better software more quickly and painlessly.

Dart in Action

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:17:37 GMT

Author: Chris Buckett
Publisher: Manning, 2013
Pages: 424
ISBN: 978-1617290862
Audience: Object-oriented programmers
Rating: 4
Reviewer: Mike James

Dart is Google's "other language" but it could be important and there is a need for a good book to explain why Google thinks it's worth the effort.

Software Exorcism (Apress)

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Subtitled A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code takes an unflinching look at behavioral problems in the software engineering industry, shedding much-needed light on the social forces that make it difficult for programmers to do their job. Also discusses tools and techniques for effective and aggressive debugging.

Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches (Manning)

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Easy-to-follow guide that covers core scripting concepts using four practical examples to reinforce learning. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you add custom formatting, error handling, input validation, help files and documentation and more.

Beginning C for Arduino

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:34:44 GMT

Author: Jack Purdum
Publisher: Apress
Pages: 262
ISBN: 978-1430247760
Audience: Arduino beginners with no programming background
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Harry Fairhead

Working with the Arduino is usually seen as a hardware problem, but what about the software? This book aims to educate you about the C language as used by the Arduino.

Beginning R (Wrox)

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Open source statistical language R is fast becoming the de facto standard for statistical computing and analysis in science, business, engineering, and related fields. This book examines this complex language using simple statistical examples, for simple summary statistics, hypothesis testing, creating graphs, regression, and much more.

Professional jQuery

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:45:22 GMT

Author: Cesar Otero & Rob Larsen
Publisher: Wrox
Pages: 336
ISBN: 978-1118026687
Audience: Intermediate JavaScript programmers
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Ian Elliot

jQuery is mostly easy to use - it would have to be to become so popular - but that doesn't mean that there aren't some more sophisticated bits to discover. Professional jQuery sounds as if it should help.