Netbook / Joli Ballew, McGraw-Hill, 2010
Here is a user guide to netbooks. It claims to cover Windows and Linux netbooks, but the latter does not get much coverage. 300 pages.
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Netbook
Saturday, February 20th, 2010Microsoft SQL Server 2008 High Availability
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 High Availability with clustering & database mirroring / Michael Otey, McGraw-Hill, 2010
This book will help you configure a database server using Microsoft point and click tools. 300 pages.
Mastering Microsoft Virtualization
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Mastering Microsoft Virtualization / Tim Cerling, Wiley, 2010
How to configure virtualization using Microsoft tools. 500 pages.
Burning the Ships
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Burning the Ships : intellectual property and the transformation of Microsoft / Marshall Phelps, Wiley, 2009
Here is an interesting account of how Microsoft re-thought its approach to intellectual property during the 2000’s. It is written by a Microsoft executive who previously managed IBM and helped it reverse its decline by enforcing its patents. In this book, you have to read between the lines. Hardcover, 150 pages.
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 : administrator’s pocket consultant / William R. Stanek, Microsoft Press, 2008.
This book for the Microsoft web server admin looks useful. It is billed as a ‘pocket’ book: do you have large pockets? 500 pages.
Microsoft Windows Server
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant
/ William R. Stanek, Microsoft Press, 2008
This book for the Microsoft systems admin looks useful. It is billed as a ‘pocket’ book: do you have large pockets? 600 pages.
Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5 : LINQ and the Entity Framework with C# 2008 / Anne Boehm, Murach, c2009.
This is for the programmer who is developing web apps on Microsoft servers. It starts with very simple steps. Large format, 650 pages.
Microsoft Exchange Server
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 : administrator’s pocket consultant / William R. Stanek, Microsoft Press, 2010
This book for the Microsoft email systems admin looks useful. It is billed as a ‘pocket’ book: do you have large pockets? 800 pages.
Complete idiot’s guide to Computer Basics
Monday, February 1st, 2010The Complete idiot’s guide to Computer Basics / by Joe Kraynak, Alpha, 2009
Give this book to your father when he is having trouble with Windows XP or Vista. 400 pages.
Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework / Steven Sanderson, Apress, 2009
This well written book for web developers starts slow but rapidly gets advanced.
- Architectural background to ASP.NET MVC, including Model–View–Controller and REST concepts.
- ASP.NET MVC framework with detailed coverage of all aspects of the framework and the official MVC development toolkit.
- Test–driven development in action.
- Translation and comparison of features in classic ASP.NET to those in ASP.NET MVC.
- Security and deployment issues, including IIS 7.0.
550 pages.