SAP ABAP Handbook, Jones and Bartlett, 2011
This book will be useful if you are configuring a SAP system. Hardcover, 900 pages.
SAP ABAP Handbook
July 12th, 2010Got Sun? Go Solar
July 12th, 2010
Got Sun? Go Solar – Harness Nature’s Free Energy to Heat and Power your Grid-tied Home, Rex A. Ewing, PixyJack, 2009
Here is a practical introduction to home solar power for do it yourself people, with no engineering degree needed. 200 pages, many illustrations.
You Are Not A Gadget
July 7th, 2010
You Are Not A Gadget – A Manifesto, Jaron Lanier, Knopf, 2010
The technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered Internet software design. This book is difficult reading in places, but its message is important. Hardcover, 200 pages.
Modular Java
July 6th, 2010
Modular Java – Creating Flexible Applications with OSGi and Spring, Craig Walls, Pragmatic, 2009
Java programmers will want to read this, particularly if they are working with Eclipse plugins. OSGi is an improvement on Java’s classes and packages. The Pragmatic people explain it all so well. 240 pages.
Cocoa Design Patterns
July 6th, 2010
Cocoa Design Patterns, Erik M. Buck, Addison-Wesley, 2010
Mac and iPhone programmers will want to read this. It also applies to the open source GNUstep project, used on Linux and Windows. You need to know Objective C. 400 pages.
Horror Video Games
July 6th, 2010
Horror Video Games – Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play, Bernard Perron, McFarland , 2009
A collection of academic essays on the horror genre in video games. A couple of the authors are game designers. 300 pages.
The Politics of Procurement
June 29th, 2010
The Politics of Procurement – Military Acquisition in Canada and the Sea King Helicopter, Aaron Plamondon, UBC Press, 2010
Should the Canadian Military buy the best equipment available, or should it support the defense industries of Canada, or some combination of the two? This book for policy analysts tells the history of military helicopter acquisition in Canada. It might also interest Canadian taxpayers and the stakeholders in the industry.
Windows 7 pour les Nuls
June 25th, 2010Windows 7 pour les Nuls, Nancy Muir, First interactive, 2010
Yet another Microsoft user manual, en Francais.
SugarCRM
June 24th, 2010
SugarCRM for Dummies, Karen S. Fredricks, Wiley, 2009
This book on the open source Customer Relationship Management app is a very gentle introduction and user guide. 300 pages.
The Battery
June 24th, 2010
The Battery – How Portable Power Sparked A Technological Revolution, Henry R. Schlesinger, Smithsonian Books, 2010
This is mostly a history of battery technology, but it ends with a discussion of future portable power sources including ultra-capacitors, bio and nano batteries. Hardcover, 300 pages.