No comments about Operating System Design-Internetworking With XINU, Vol. II (Prentice-Hall Software Series).

5 comments about Advanced UNIX Programming (Sams White Book).

1. I think that it is a good book for biginner since it is easy to understand.



2. What I really expected was a new book that would cover true "advanced" topics in Unix programming, like IPC and terminals in some extend. What you get is many small chapters that cover the surface of Unix basics, for example files, directories and some IPC (not sockets), in a glance, without real life's examples.



3. This book has bread and butter info in it. The chapters on file locking, command line processing, and date and time functions were excellent. The code presented was very readable and consise. I am talking about production quality code that I added to my projects at work. Well worth the money for me. The other main book on unix programming is the Oreilly book Systems Programming in Unix. Or something like that. Other people at work have that one, but, in my opinion, this book is better. If you program in a Unix environment, and have to deal with it at a systems level, this book has stuff in it you can use.



4. I love it when a book starts with "This doesn't tell you XXX because if you haven't learned that from your first C book, this will be out of your league"

   Well, not exactly, but close.

   It's really good as a reference, and truly well-written.

   Gary (-;

   PS It's not Stevens's book, but I'd recommend it anyway.




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No comments about Oracle Data Manipulation Using ODBC.NET, OLE DB.NET, and Microsoft .NET Data Provider for Oracle.

No comments about Installing and Administering Microsoft Windows Server Operating Systems: A Projects Lab Manual.

5 comments about Unix for Programmers and Users: A Complete Guide.

1. This was not the suggested text for a systems programming course I took, but thank god I used it anyway! The book is very well written in clear, easy-to-understand language (unlike the suggested text). The sample source code really clarifies the concepts he covers. I got to grips with UNIX quickly with Mr Glass' book. I would heartily recommend it to students and users.



2. This book teaches you UNIX in a very well organized fashion. Unlike many UNIX books that claim teaching UNIX through a light coverage of the basic commands and concepts, this book makes a balanced coverage between daily normal user needs and advanced system concepts in a very clear and understandable language.The examples are very well written and the coverage of concepts such as shell programming or the different system utilities though not very much detailed but enough to put you on track. As a reference, I keep it always beside when I get stuck in poorly written or overly detailed manpages. I don't know if this book is very well known in the UNIX community but for all whom I recommended this book, it was a great delight.



3. I was one of the guys who thought that UNIX is such an operating systems that's so difficult to understand and work with as a Network OS. I even was disturbed in choosing the NOS that I should work with. Lots of people advised not to use unix because of its difficulties in understanding although its powerfull capabilities. But when I began reading this book, I knew that all of those ideas were rubbish. Although it was writen since 1992, but I guess they replaced 8 by 2 -> 1998 .. GO FOR IT.



4. the book is fine for people in a course studying the Unix OS. For an end user just wanting to get their feet wet it is a little advanced. I found the general information to be helpful but a little more explaination would be needed. Overall it is well laid out but too advanced.



5. I do like this book for all things it show to us.. Especially there are treated in a very good order the way how to be connected in a few days with the most usefull commands of Unix. But, the editing joe command not exist./ however really good book..

1 comments about The Symbian OS Architecture Sourcebook: Design and Evolution of a Mobile Phone OS (Symbian Press).

1. It should be an expectable book for Symbian fans. but even the table of content is not available online. less than sample chapters.

No comments about Operating Systems Principles.

5 comments about Mastering COM and COM+.

1. If you want to learn COM and understand COM+ simply read this book. I am not a VC++ developer but got as much value from reading the VC++ chapters as I did from the VB chapters. This book made me smarter :)



2. As a COM developer I enjoyed the style and explanation of the topics. This is by far the best COM+ tutorial I have read. The mix of VB and C++ was very interesting. As a VB developer I enjoyed the VC++ examples as well. Great job. Note: Understanding COM+ is also a good high-level book that you should read before jumping into this book if you are new to COM+.



3. This book is great for VB COM/COM+ developer but not VC++ developer. The bright side of this book is that is explains from COM/DCOM to COM+ in both VB and VC++. It provides examples for some hard chewing stuff and it explains the COM+ services such as CRM, Roles Based Security, Queue Component and etc...

   But the dark side is that those tips provided in this book is not accurate, which decrease a star from perfect. For example, the author recommended to use CreateInstance for object creation. This is fine with MTS but not COM+. In COM+, there are no separate runtime as in COM/MTS environment. Instead of the CreateInstance (which is MTS way of implementation) we should use the New operator to create object (which is the COM+ way of implementation).

   But overall, this is a great book to grab the COM+ in action with VB and VC++.

   TQ:-)




4. The author should not be writing any books but some spend time learning something themselves. I use his earlier book as a foot rest. It is one thing to glean ideas from other books and re-writing the sentences and another thing to copy ideas that one does not understand.



5. After spending over $100.00 on other COM+ books (no need to mention names here) I have finally found a book with the right balance of code and information. I can now claim to know COM+ and be able to prove it. Thank you for not ripping me off TB.

4 comments about Beginning Mfc Com Programming (Beginning).

1. I found the material in this book to be a bit difficult to follow. Although the author has more than a firm grasp of the topic, he conveys the ideas wthout remorse. If you dont already have a firm grasp on the C++ language and MFC, this book will serve quite nicely as a paperweight.



2. It always make me laugh when I read a review of a book by someone who has done no research to the type of knowledge you must have before reading the book. If you don't know C++ or MFC very well then this book is not for you yet, and if you look at the back of the book you can see it show this to be true. But if you do have a firm grasp of C++ and MFC but lack the understanding of MFC COM then this book can help get you coding MFC COM in no time at all. A fine list of books for further reading in appendix F.



3. This book makes COM easy to understand



4. I thought this book would be great because it talked about COM programming using MFC. Most COM books use SDK code, which is something I wasn't interested in. However, the minute I opened this book, I realized that Mr. Templeman must have wanted to be a college professor. There is way too much detail here, however that wouldn't be a bad thing if it was somewhat organized. Unfortunately, it wasn't and I was deeply disappointed in this book.

No comments about P.S. to Operating Systems.