Thursday, May 21, 2009

Creating your MySQL Database: Practical Design Tips and Techniques

Authors:Marc DeLisle
Pages:108
Publisher:Packt Publishing
ISBN13:9781904811305
Description:
This book is an innovative and essential short guide for everyone on how to structure your data and set-up your MySQL database tables efficiently and easily. If you're creating a dynamic web application using open-source tools, then you're probably going to be setting up a MySQL database. Getting the design of this database right for your application and its data is vital, but it's often an intimidating and little-known process for non-developers and developers alike. Written by the creator of the popular phpMyAdmin tool, this book is a short but complete guide on how to design good data structures for MySQL. For most of us, setting up the database for an application is often an afterthought. While you don't need to be a professional database designer to create a working application, knowing a few insider tips and techniques can make both the process easier and the end result much more effective.
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Build Your Own Database-Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL

Authors:Peter Wright
Pages:207
Publisher:SitePoint
ISBN13:9780957921818
Description:

This book is a hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles, and techniques needed to build a fully functional database-driven Web site using PHP and MySQL from scratch.

PHP & MySQL are the most widely used open source database and scripting technologies on the Web today. As a Web developer you can demand a lot more $$$ for your time if you can master PHP & MySQL.

Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL is a practical hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles and techniques needed to build a fully functional database driven Website using PHP & MySQL.

This book covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows, Linux, and Mac through to building a live Web-based content management system. While this is essentially a beginners book, it also covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, and cookies and sessions in PHP.
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Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition From Novice to Professional

Authors:Peter Wright
Pages:544
Publisher:Apress
ISBN13:9781590596227
Description:
Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition is the affordable, accessible route to learning the .NET programming languages. Author Peter Wright proved his ability to teach Visual Basic to over 100,000 aspiring programmers during the 1990s with his line of best-sellers. Now that Microsoft is launching its new Express products, Wright is repeating his mission to teach you how to program, providing a friendly, clear message along the way.

Wright helps you explore Visual Basic 2005 Express. You'll learn about core programming principles that will enable you to move towards more complex and rewarding programming tasks. This book guides you through every major aspect of Visual Basic 2005 Express, and guarantees that you'll learn how everything fits together--from the first programming principles to Express Start Kits that advance you in your own programming. By the end of the book, you'll be able to write your own programs.
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ASP.NET Database Programming Weekend Crash Course

Authors:Jason Butler, Tony Caudill
Pages:409
Publisher:Unknow
ISBN13:9780764548307
Description:

Written by expert web developers from Price Waterhouse-Coopers, ASP.NET Database Programming Weekend Crash Course will quickly enable you to create dynamic data-driven web applications using Microsoft's exciting new .NET technologies.

Open the book on Friday evening and by Sunday afternoon -- after completing 30 fast, focused lessons -- you will have mastered the skills necessary to begin creating robust, dynamic, data-driven web applications with ASP.NET. Starting with ASP.NET basics, expert authors Jason and Tony teach you what they need to know to begin creating ASP.NET applications quickly, and then dive into building database applications with ADO.NET, Web Services, SOAP, XML and more. This book is a must have for any developer building web applications on Microsoft's new .NET Framework.

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An Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic 2005, Sixth Edition

Authors:David I. Schneider
Pages:752
Publisher:Prentice Hall PTR
ISBN-13:9780130306548
Description:
Based on the newest version of Microsoft's VB. NET, this revision of Schneider's best-selling text is designed for students with no prior computer programming experience. The author uses Visual Basic .NET to explore the fundamentals of programming, building a strong foundation that will give students a sustainable understanding of programming. A broad range of examples, case studies, exercises, and programming projects give students significant hands-on experience. A "tried and true" text, this book has been consistently praised by both students and instructors.
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