I Programmer Book Reviews

Software Exorcism (Apress)

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Subtitled A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code takes an unflinching look at behavioral problems in the software engineering industry, shedding much-needed light on the social forces that make it difficult for programmers to do their job. Also discusses tools and techniques for effective and aggressive debugging.

Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches (Manning)

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Easy-to-follow guide that covers core scripting concepts using four practical examples to reinforce learning. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you add custom formatting, error handling, input validation, help files and documentation and more.

Beginning C for Arduino

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:34:44 GMT

Author: Jack Purdum
Publisher: Apress
Pages: 262
ISBN: 978-1430247760
Audience: Arduino beginners with no programming background
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Harry Fairhead

Working with the Arduino is usually seen as a hardware problem, but what about the software? This book aims to educate you about the C language as used by the Arduino.

Beginning R (Wrox)

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Open source statistical language R is fast becoming the de facto standard for statistical computing and analysis in science, business, engineering, and related fields. This book examines this complex language using simple statistical examples, for simple summary statistics, hypothesis testing, creating graphs, regression, and much more.

Professional jQuery

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:45:22 GMT

Author: Cesar Otero & Rob Larsen
Publisher: Wrox
Pages: 336
ISBN: 978-1118026687
Audience: Intermediate JavaScript programmers
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Ian Elliot

jQuery is mostly easy to use - it would have to be to become so popular - but that doesn't mean that there aren't some more sophisticated bits to discover. Professional jQuery sounds as if it should help.

Programming ASP.NET MVC 4 (O'Reilly)

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Subtitled Developing Real-World Web Applications with ASP.NET MVC, this book helps you get up and running with ASP.NET MVC 4 and understand how the framework performs. It shows how to use its features to build modern server-side web applications. In the process, you’ll learn how to work with HTML, JavaScript, the Entity Framework, and other web technologies.

PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot (Packt Publishing)

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Covers the creation of ten apps that will run on multiple mobile platforms, from design to completion, using the PhoneGap (Apache Cordova) APIs. Begins with the importance of localization and how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript interact to create the mobile app experience. then proceeds through mobile apps of various genres. Enter our competition to win a copy.

Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:37:49 GMT

Authors: Scott Klein and Herve Roggero
Publisher: Apress, 2012
Pages: 290
ISBN: 978-1430243953
Aimed at: Developers wanting to work with Azure SQL database
Rating: 4.5
Reviewed by: Kay Ewbank

Writing a good app that uses a database is hard enough; doing the same thing in the cloud adds even more complexity and things to go wrong.

Excel 2013 Pivot Table Data Crunching (Que)

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:34:12 GMT

Even if you’ve never created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage all their amazing flexibility and analytical power. In early chapters, learn how to generate complex pivot reports complete with drill-down capabilities and accompanying charts. Then discover how to build a comprehensive, dynamic pivot table reporting system for any business task or function.

Cucumber Recipes (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Subtitled "Automate Anything with BDD Tools and Techniques" has over forty practical recipes for testing desktop, web, mobile, and server applications across a variety of platforms, giving you tools that you can use to automate any system that you encounter.