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ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution (Programmer to Programmer)

Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Marco Bellinaso

ISBN: 0764584642
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Summary: kickass asp.net 2.0
I have gone through alot of asp.net books. This is one of the asp.net 2.0 books which superceded in quality to the infamous 1.1 asp.net 1.1 web site programming book.
This is THE asp.net 2.0 book. i S^&* u not.

Summary: A great introduction to asp.net 2.0
Let's get one thing straight. If you're looking for a reference book, this isn't it. Marco doesn't explain every property of every control that you MIGHT want to use. He explains the most common properties of those controls that you probably ARE going to use, and that's a good thing. I've got my share of 1000+ page Wrox reference books, and they're great for looking up specific items, but not so great for learning.

A comparison is in order. If this were a cookbook, you wouldn't find dissertations on the relative merits of different cooking oils, or obscure recipes requiring ingredients you can't get at the local grocery store. This is the cookbook in which you'll find basic breads, pot roasts, and pastas... the staples that you WILL need at some point. It also includes some dishes you didn't even know you needed until you see them the first time. That makes this book a great place to start learning ASP.Net programming, or a useful walk-through to lead you from v1.1 to v2.0. Either way, it's a great book to have around during the transition.

I also see myself coming back to this book down the road when I need to implement one of the common situations Marco covers such as sending out batches of newsletters, or leveraging the asp.net membership system. I'll be saying "Hey, didn't Marco do that in his book?", and pulling it off the shelf for a quick look.

Summary: A pleasure to read
I had already bought 3 books about ASP.NET 2.0, and I have many many more about ASP.NET 1.x, before I bought this one...and now I wish I took it sooner! Yes, because this book is no like anything else. All other books I read provide detailed reference to the controls and classes of the framework...and they may actually do a good job at that. However, they often provide un-realistic short examples that span a page or two...too simple to actually reproduce real situations, and in fact most of the times these examples leave you thinking: "well, this is nice, but my app is not that simple...how can I really put this in practice into a real website...that must be fast, easy to maintain, provide logging, designed with the proper 3 tier architecture, reusable components etc. etc. ???". If you've ever thought something like this reading another book, then this is book IS THE ANSWER. It explains how to develop an entire (and pretty complex actually!!!) site from start to finish, convering not only the code, but also all the design phase, with a lot of interesting considerations, suggestions, and discussion of alternatives! It's a dream come true for a developer like me :-)
For those that are at their first experience with ASP.NET 2.0 (but NOT with ASP.NET in general...read something else first if you're coming straight from ASP or some other technology) it also provides good descriptions of the major new features (master pages, themes, membership, profiles, gridview, objectdatasource, menu & sitemap, webparts, localization etc. etc.). (5+++++++++)

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Understanding the Linux Kernel

Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Authors: Daniel Plerre Bovet Marco Cesati

ISBN: 0596005652
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Summary: VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Are you curious about how Linux works and why it is so efficient? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Daniel Plerre Bovet and Marco Cesati, have done an outstanding job of writing a practical book that will help you find your way through the many thousands of lines of code.

Bovet and Cesati, begin by presenting a general picture of what is inside a Unix kernal and how Linux competes against other well-known Unix systems. Then, the authors explain how 80x86 processors include special circuits to address data in memory and how Linux exploits them. They continue by explaining how each process runs either in an unprivileged User Mode or in a privileged Kernal Mode. Then, the authors introduce interrupts and exceptions. Then, they discuss how synchronization mechanisms are needed so that all these requests can be serviced in a interleaved way by the kernal. Next, the authors discuss timing measurements. Then, they explain how Linux executes, in turn, every active process in the system so that all of them can progress toward their completions. They continue by describing the sophisticated techniques required to handle the most precious resource in the system. Next, the authors show you how the kernal copes with the requests for memory issued by greedy application programs. Then, they explain how a process running in User Mode makes requests to the kernal. They continue by describing how a process may send synchronization signals to other processes. Then, the authors introduce a general layer that supports many different filesystems. Next, they offer insights into special files and on the corresponding hardware device drivers. They also show you how to reduce disk accesses through the use of RAM. Then, they show you how user applications access normal files. Next, the authors explain the techniques used by Linux to ensure that enough memory is always available. Then, they illustrate the most frequently used Linux filesystem, namely Ext2 and its recent evolution, Ext3. They continue by introducing communication mechanisms other than signals available to User Mode processes. Finally, the authors explain how user applications are started.

This most excellent book helps you distinguish between crucial data structures and secondary ones. More importantly, this book helps you become a true Linux hacker.

Summary: Good coverage
Very good book. I would like to see more coverage of SMP
support.

Summary: No Kernel debugging :(
One thing that's really missing is a nice chapter on Kernel debugging -- using some existing kernel debuggers and how they all compare, interpreting those OOPS messages -- everything that goes with kernel hacking!
This book covers VMM so comprehensively that it's really meant for those who _actually_ want to work on kernel, so a 'Kernel Hacking' chapter was a must.

Otherwise this book is just perfect - I give it 5 stars :)

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	Apple Pro Training Series: Shake 4 (2nd Edition) (Apple Pro Training) Publisher: Peachpit Press Authors: Marco Paolini
ISBN: 0321256093 List Price: $54.99 Amazon Price: $34.64 Usually ships in 24 hours Buy this book from amazon.com or from amazon.co.uk	Avg Cusomer Rating: 5 Reviews: Summary: learning shake4 One of the best books in this field.Very comprehensive tutorials that make you understand shake in a minimum of time. Summary: Nice book for beginers and students This book is really good for someone who wants to start of with shake, gives you nice intro and then takes you all the way up, this book is not only full of tutorials but it also talks about the technical side, the humor makes me feel as if I am talking to the author. Its a good buy at the price and also there is no other material available on shake, I would like to see a part 2 of this book which is for film crew (compositors) who work with real difficult challenges cause each shot is different from the other. Summary: Good Book Ho letto i primi 6 capitoli. Per ora sono soddisfatto e deve ancora arrivare il bello. Ottimo. Lo consiglio a tutti. Summary:

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ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution, C# Edition

Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Marco Bellinaso Kevin Hoffman

ISBN: 0764543776
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Summary: Unbelievable!
I've read through many of the reviews on this site, both positive and negative. The main point is that if you are a beginner to ASP.NET, C#, or both then this book is NOT for you. However, if you have some experience with ASP.NET and C#.NET and would like to learn more about an N-Tier approach (essentially programming in .NET the RIGHT way) then this book is a MUST. I can't understand why anyone would give this book less than a 5 star rating that meet the authors' intended audience criteria (which, by the way, is stated in the book). I have read the book cover to cover several times and constantly use it as a resource. The book is a series of examples leading up to one project, but I don't think the authors' main intentions were for us to try and build ThePhile.com. From this book I took away the understanding of how to build a scalable, portable, professional Web site having 100% control over it.

If you build web sites with ASP.NET as a novice or hobbyist and want to get to the next level, this book is for you! I own both the VB.NET and C#.NET versions and I highly recommend either one.

Summary: Outstanding ASP.NET Case Study
ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution, C# Edition by Marco Bellinaso & Kevin Hoffman is one of the most USABLE books I have seen. I stress the word USABLE because most books are either reference manuals or just teaching tools. Either one need is hit upon or the other, whereas with this book you get to have your cake and eat it too!

The whole design of this book revolves around designing a web site from the ground up, all using ASP.NET with C# as the programming language of choice. The authors assume that you begin with nothing and you need to have all the parts of your web site hit upon to get this up and running for corporate or personal use. Since .NET is still a very new tool, this book is a very helpful resource to have for any and all web developers.

The Authors break the book up into the following parts:

Design of the overall layout, database, look and feel
Setting up basic foundations like CSS, navigation, etc
Editing and viewing all files that make up the site hierarchy
A look at managing news (information displayed to the user)
How advertising can be set up to bring in revenue
Creating and displaying polls on your site
Working with Mailing Lists
Managing a Forum
Deploying the site to the world
A discussion of different data stores that can be used

The writing in this book is very clear-cut and easy to follow. Using the code supplied in this book, the user can modify as they see fit and get their own site up and running in no time.

As an ASP.NET case study, this is the best book that I have seen to follow a site from birth to adulthood. This is a fantastic book for all C#, ASP.NET, web developers and it's a great addition to your current staple of related programming books.

***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Summary: A reference book for developing a commercial web site
I did not like the layout of the matiral, a bit clombsy but as a refernce book for finding out how to develop a commercial web site it sure does the work.

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The Wizard of Oz (Great Illustrated Classics)

Publisher: Playmore Inc. Publishers
Authors: Frank L. Baum Deidre S. Laiken Malvina Vogel Pablo Marcos Studio

ISBN: 0866119590
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Summary: I LoVe ThIs BoOk!
I got this book when I was a little girl, about the age of 3 or 4, and every night my Mom would read each chapter too me. I loved this story, and I'm also a fan of the movie. I'm 13 now, and I still read the book sometime's (by myself, lol). I can't wait to show this book to my kids when I'm an adult! :)

Summary: Just follow the yellow brick road!
Dorothy, a little girl with no parents, lives on a farm in Kansas with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. But one day, a cyclone comes to Kansas and takes Dorothy & her dog, Toto away from Kansas and dropes them in Oz. The only way she can get home is to find the wizard of Oz. And on her way there, she meets some friends with some wishes of the own.

Summary: Great to read to your kids!
This is a version of the classic story, simplified for kids. (The written version is a little different from the movie.) Although it is simplified, the sentences are complex enough to stretch the minds of younger readers.

The book also has many illustrations (almost every other page is a black-and-white drawing). Unfortunately, the style of the illustrations reminds one of contemporary comic books (not a bad style in itself, but inappropriate for this book, I think). In addition, the illustrations do not always precisely match the description given in the text. Still, they do help to break up the text, and hold the interest of younger kids.

The description says that this is intended for readers at the grade school level, but my three-year-old twins enjoyed having it read to them. (Then again, they have very long attention spans.) I was worried that they would find it too scary (in this version, the tinman kills a bunch of wolves with his axe, and the scarecrow breaks the necks of some evil crows), but they told me they weren't scared, and they don't seem to have had any bad dreams. (Your mileage may vary! ;-)

This is part of a series, "Great Illustrated Classics." Based on this book (which I just happened to run across in a pharmacy), I am buying several more from the series online for my kids.

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	Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book) Publisher: Harvest Books Authors: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 0156453800 List Price: $14.00 Amazon Price: $10.78 Usually ships in 24 hours Buy this book from amazon.com or from amazon.co.uk	Avg Cusomer Rating: 5 Reviews: Summary: If you're reading reviews, you've already waited too long. This book has become my favorite, equal to a few others, but unsurpassed in its brilliance to me through its poignant insights, fantastic imagery, Calvino's exploration of his willingness to write in abstract terms, and, for lack of a better way of describing it, the sunlight that beams from nearly every page of this book. As others have written, to describe, or to try to describe the contents of this book quickly becomes irrelevant, for Calvino has opened doors through which, city by city, the reader not only visits but constructs cities of his own. This book, while short, is, nonetheless, the only one I have read twice in a row. Could be it's just my type of thing... I don't know. If you're a fan of science fiction, fantasy, or simply looking for a beautifully mysterious distraction, put it in your cart, check out, and wait by your door. Summary: it's entertaining, if you let it I read this decades ago, when I was barely more than a child. It is a brief volume. I recall that I burned through the first 50 pages before I even realized what was going on. Then I had to start over from the beginning so that I could really begin to appreciate it. This is a novel that fulfills all the usual requirements of a novel. But just not in any of the usual ways of a novel. There is poetry in it. And ideas. Ideas that shed light on ideas. And ideas that shed light on ideas, and maybe on people, but definitely on ideas. If you want something different, but not painful, then this might be it. But it wants to make you think, as Calvino usually does, so it might seem a little bit boring or tedious until you make the effort to try to understand. There's trying, and there's succeeding. All you have to do with this one is to try. Whether or not you succeed doesn't matter. If you just try, you'll have fun. Or at least that's what I recall from decades ago when I still expected greatness in this world. YMMV, &B^) Summary: A tapestry of voluminous nuance Immediately I can detect the luminous presence of magic in this slim volume. Although thin in pages, it is deep in meaning. Without much in the way of characters or plot, it sustains and enlightens. Laconic descriptions of fantastic cities woven together in a tapestry of voluminous nuance. Topics of memory, perception, vision, time, loss, longing, desire, death, signs, symbols and ultimately meaning are all carefully chosen and arrayed. Upon finishing this book, one has the feeling of have eaten a delicious meal too quickly. That upon reflection, it should have been savoured slowly. Summary:

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The Complete Pinball Book: Collecting the Game and Its History (Schiffer Book for Collectors) (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Authors: Marco Rossignoli

ISBN: 0764315862
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Summary: Great Pinball book with high quality pictures
You can't go wrong picking this one up. A must for any pinball enthusiast or beginner.

Summary: A Must Have For A Pinhead
This is a wonderful work of Pinball Book Art. I checked out this book from my local library and it is a must have. The book is heavy and very well made. The photos are very detailed as well. The book takes a certain aspect of the game such as scoring and breaks that parts of the game down, while the next chapter may focus on pinball sound. The book has so much information in it about history, features, and rare pinball features. A book of this size is bound to have a few mistakes and this book has a few small mistakes, but those are very minor and this is a very detailed work and there is no way one man can know it all about pinball. If you enjoy the game of pinball, you need to check out this book. It will not show you how to repair or maintain the game, its focus is history about the game and its evolution over time. I hope you enjoy this book and also keep enjoying playing the wonderful game of pinball.

Summary: Casi igual que jugar una partida de pinball
Muy buen libro sobre pinball. He recordado aquellos pinballs con los que empez� a jugar a principio de los 70.

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Paintings in the Uffizi and Pitti Galleries

Publisher: Bulfinch
Authors: Mina Gregori Marco Chiarini Antonio Paolucci

ISBN: 0821220845
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Summary: Excellent resource
This is a beautiful book. It contains pictures of all the paintings you will see at both galleries and much more. It is a treasure to keep to remind me of our trip to Florence.

Summary: one of the most beautiful art books I've ever seen
This is a spectacular and gorgeous book. It's truly the next best thing to visiting the museums themselves. If you've ever gone to a world-famous museum and wished you could have a copy of every painting there, then this is a dream-come-true book for you. It's pricey but worth every cent. This is the sort of book that will appreciate once it goes out of print and I'll bet it'll be worth several times its price in a few years.

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