studies & readings ...
SOME of my programming language and database studies are listed below; the list of articles and white papers, read, has far outgrown this sheet.
currently reading
- Pro PHP XML and Web Services by Robert Richards
- The Definitive Guide to SQLite by Michael Owens
- PHP 5 Recipes by Lee Babin, Nathan Good, Frank Kromann and Jon Stephens
- Head First Design Patterns by Freeman
- Head First Object-oriented Analysis and Design by Brett McLaughlin, Gary Pollice and David West
- Professional Web APIs with PHP by Paul Michael Reinheimer
read
- PHP in Action by Dagfinn Reiersol, Marcus Baker and Chris Shiflett
- Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP by Jaimie Sirovich and Christian Darie
- PHP Programming with PEAR by Stephan Schmidt, Carsten Lucke, Stoyan Stefanov and Aaron Wormus
- PHP Hacks (Tips & Tools for Creating Dynamic Web Sites) by Jack D. Herrington
- Pro SQL Server 2005 by Thomas Rizzo et al
- The Web Developer's Guide to Amazon e-Commerce Service by Jason Levitt
- PHP5 Objects, Patterns and Practice by Matt Zandstra
- PHP5 and MySQL E-Commerce by Christian Darie and Mihai Bucica
- PHP5 and MySQL by W. Jason Gilmore
- Advanced PHP Programming by George Schlossnagle
- Essential PHP Tools Modules, Extensions and Accelerators by David Sklar
- PHP and MySQL by Larry Ullman
- Learning the Bash Shell by Cameron Newham & Bill Rosenblatt
- Linux Desktop Reference by Scott Hawkins
- Microsoft ASP.Net Coding Strategies with the Microsoft ASP.Net Team by Matthew Gibbs &Rob Howard
- Programming Microsoft ASP.Net by Dino Esposito
- Programming C# by Jesse Liberty
- Databases with PostgreSQL by Stones & Matthew
- Core Java by Cay Horstmann
- Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel
- Java 2: a Beginner's Guide by Herbert Schildt
- SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedures Programming by Sunderic & Woodhead
- PHP and MySQL by Welling & Thomson
- Visual Basic 6 Business Objects by Rockford Lhotka
- Programming Visual Basic 6 by Francesco Balena
- Visual Basic 6 Programmers Guide - Microsoft Press
- Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic & SQL Server by William R. Vaughn
- Red Hat Linux 6 Server by Kobir
- Programming Access 2000 by Rick Dobson
- Web Development with Visual Basic by Davis Chapman
- Object Oriented Technology by Dr. David A. Taylor
- C++ Database Development by Al Stevens
- Object Oriented Databases by Setrag Khoshafian
- C++ Primer by Tom Swan (I did all the examples/exercises.)
- Effective C++ (50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs) by Scott Meyers.
- Introducing Visual C++ by Microsoft.
- Microsoft Access: Building Applications and Users Guide manuals.
- Microsoft SQL Server Books On-line and Tutorials
database articles & papers
- Rating your Dimensional Data Warehouse by Ralph Kimball
- Moving Forward with Relational by C.J. Date
- A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks by E.F. Codd
- Extending the Relational Database Model to Capture More Meaning by E.F. Codd
- Fundamentals of Relational Database Design by Paul Litwin
- Database Design: Redundancy and Normalization by Sal Ricciardi
- MFC: Using Database Classes with & without Documents and Views.
- MFC/Database Suppport for Long Varchar/Varbinary
- Fun with MFC: 33 Tips to Help You Get the Most out of C++ Class Libraries for Windows
- Designing Client-Server Applications for Enterprise Database Connectivity by Christopher Moffatt
- Introduction to the Win32 API
- Jet Query Optimization and Rushmore by Paul Litwin
- Visual Basic to SQL Server Connections by Larry Kostmayer
- Creating Multiuser Applications in MS Access by Paul Litwin
- Understanding Microsoft Jet Locking by Kevin Collins
- Database Optimization Techniques: Designing Applications for Maximum Performance by Neil Black
- Building a Logical Data Model by George Tillmann
- Multidatabase Development by Ken North
- Understanding Multidatabase APIs and ODBC by Ken North
- The Truth About OLAP by Maurice Frank
- Understanding OLE by Ken North
- Advanced Data Access Objects (DAO) for Client Server by Michael Mee
- MS SQL Server Locking Strategy by Elspeth Paton
- Object-Relational Hybrids by Maurice Frank
- Application Partitioning Tools by David Linthicum
never-ending studying ... of current data-processing technologies and trends