It seemed like a good idea to publish this list, it may help someone !! Either scroll up and down to browse the lists - or - point to and click on the title that interests you in the list below and it will take you directly to the details for that book.
Active Server Pages 2.0 Unleashed
Alex Homer's Professional ASP 3.0 Web Techniques
core JAVA Volume 1-Fundamentals
Developing XML Solutions
DHTML and CSS for the world wide web
Dynamic HTML - Reference and Software Development Kit
Hip Pocket Guide to HTML 4.01
jumping JavaScript
Microsoft Office 97 Visual Basic Programmer's Guide
Professional VB.NET
Pure JavaScript
Teach Yourself Active Server Pages in 24 Hours
Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours
Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours
Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days
VB Script Interactive Course
Windows Scripting Host
XML by example
XML in a nutshell
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Title : DHTML and CSS for the world wide web Author : Jason Cranford Teague Publisher : Peachpit Press ISBN : 0-201-73084-7 UK Price : £16.99 US Price : $21.99 Rating : ***** My comments : This is a really well written brilliant book. It is easy to read and very well written. It shows the code clearly and explains the reasons and purpose for each line in an incredible simple manner. If I could only keep one book in this list, this would probably be the one!! If you want to get an idea of the book, click on here. |
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Title : Developing XML Solutions Author : Jake Sturm Publisher : Microsoft ISBN : 0-7356-0796-6 UK Price : £36.99 US Price : Not shown on the book Rating : *** My comments : A good and interesting read. I learned some stuff from it. It will not make me the world expert on the subject tho' |
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Title : Alex Homer's Professional ASP 3.0 Web Techniques Author : Alex Homer Publisher : Wrox ISBN : 1-861003-21-8 UK Price : £35.99 US Price : $49.99 Rating : **** My comments : I bought this book for one particular paragraph to answer one particular question - it did that very well. It is not a book that I expect to read from cover to cover (I do for most of my technical books !!). It was a good investment - and is good as a work of reference. The word "Professional" in the title is very well justified. It professes to cover ADO 2.5, SQL Server 7.0, XML - it appears to do so ! |
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Title : Professional VB.NET Author : 17 of them - far too many for me to type here Publisher : Wrox ISBN : 1-861004-97-4 UK Price : £47.99 US Price : $59.99 Rating : ??? My comments : None yet - not into .NET yet. Also, I do not write VB - but I do use VBScript - bought half in error - and - half 'cos I think that maybe one day I will use VB - half 'cos it seems to me that .NET is an irresistible force (one day, I will have to use it !!) |
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Title : Pure JavaScript Author : R. Allen Wyke, Jason D. Gilliam and Charlton Ting Publisher : Sams ISBN : 0-672-31543-5 UK Price : £25.50 US Price : $34.99 Rating : ******** My comments : The BIBLE, without which I could not be. It is most certainly NOT a teach yourself book - it is a work of reference ! Any question about JavaScript, the answer is here !! |
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Title : jumping JavaScript Author : Janice Winsor and Brian Freeman Publisher : Prentice Hall ISBN : 0-13-841941-8 UK Price : £not shown US Price : $49.95 Rating : ***** My comments : The book from which I learned to write JaveScript. I still use it occasionally as a reference book. Easy to use - easy to understand - sensible, understandable examples. To be recommended. The book contains a CD ROM(that I have broken). |
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Title : Active Server Pages 2.0 Unleashed Author : Stepen Walther et al Publisher : Sams ISBN : 0-672-31613-7 UK Price : £44.99 US Price : $49.99 Rating : ***** My comments : The book from which I learned about ASP files. I still use it occasionally as a reference book. Easy to use - easy to understand - sensible, understandable examples. To be recommended. The book contains a CD ROM(that I have broken). |
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Title : Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days Author : Simon North and Paul Hermans Publisher : Sams ISBN : 1-57521-396-6 UK Price : £26.99 US Price : $29.99 Rating : *** My comments : It gave me a good grounding in the subject. Worth the money I think |
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Title : Teach Yourself Active Server Pages in 24 Hours Author : Christoph Wille and Christian Koller Publisher : Sams ISBN : 0-672-31612-9 UK Price : £17.99 US Price : $19.99 Rating : **** My comments : I learned stuff from this. Still use it for reference sometimes. Good value for a raw beginner to ASP. |
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Title : Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours Author : Dick Oliver Publisher : Sams ISBN : 0-672-31724-9 UK Price : £14.50 US Price : $19.99 Rating : *** My comments : I bought it because it was half price and I thought that HTML4 was very different to the HTML that I knew at the time. (It was not !!) Various folk that have borrowed it tell me that it is good. |
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Title : VB Script Interactive Course Author : Noel Jerke, Michael Hatmaker and Jonny Anderson Publisher : Waite / Sams ISBN : 1-57169-046-8 UK Price : £ ?? US Price : $49.99 Rating : **** My comments : Found this book at a Sunday computer market - did not pay much for it. It gave me my first grounding in VB Script. A useful CD ROM came with the book. |
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Title : Windows Scripting Host Author : Dino Esposito Publisher : Wrox ISBN : 1-861002-65-3 UK Price : £21.99 US Price : $29.99 Rating : ***** My comments : This book give a good start for folk interested in writing Visual Basic Script for the Windows Scripting Host. This is a very useful means of generating quick applications for Windows - I commend it to you. |
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Title : Microsoft Office 97 Visual Basic Programmer's Guide Author : None shown Publisher : Microsoft ISBN : 1-57231-340-4 UK Price : £22.99 US Price : $34.99 Rating : **** My comments : I had learned how to use the Windows Script Host. This book gave me the knowledge to be able to do things to Office files from within VBScript. It did what I wanted it to do. |
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Title : Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours Author : Joe Casad and Bob Willsey Publisher : Sams ISBN : 0-672-31248-4 UK Price : £17.95 US Price : $19.99 Rating : ***** My comments : If you need to know, this is the book to teach you !! |
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Title : core JAVA Volume 1-Fundamentals Author : Cay S Horstmann and Gary Cornell Publisher : Prentice Hall ISBN : 0-13-081933-6 UK Price : £ ?? US Price : $42.99 Rating : *** My comments : This book showed me
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Title : XML in a nutshell Author : Elliotte Rusty Harold and W Scott Means Publisher : O'Reilly ISBN : 0-596-00058-8 UK Price : £19.95 US Price : $29.95 Rating : ***** My comments : This is a brilliant book - it taught me in a very simple manner, stuff with which I had struggled in the past - I cannot commend it too highly !! |
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Title : Dynamic HTML - Reference and Software Development Kit Author : none shown Publisher : Microsoft Press ISBN : 0-7356-0638-2 UK Price : £46.99 (I got it for thirty something pounds from Amazon) US Price : $49.99 Rating : ***** My comments : This is a brilliant book - it is what it says it is on the cover. It has two CD ROMs that contain a shedload of helpfull stuff (particularly usefull are the .CHM help files on it). It might seem expensive but it has probably paid for itself already - in time that it has saved me. |
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Title : XML by example Author : Benoit Marchal Publisher : QUE ISBN : 0-7897-2504-5 UK Price : £21.99 (I got it for seventeen something pounds at an exhibition) US Price : $29.99 Rating : ***** My comments : This is a easy to read book - it is what it says it is on the cover. I have certainly learned things from it. I makes good bedtime reading. The listings shown in it can be downloaded from either of two web sites. |
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Title : Hip Pocket Guide to HTML 4.01 Author : Ed Tittell, James Michael Stewart and Chelsea Valentine Publisher : IDG Books ISBN : 0-7645-4719-4 UK Price : £13.99 (I got it for 9 pounds-ish at an Amazon.co.uk) US Price : $22.99 Rating : ***** My comments : This book was three nights bedtime reading. It is very good, saw several Tags that I had never tried. It has some wonderful seriously helpful lists in it. It is an instant clarifier/reminder of things that you only have in the back of your mind. I learned quite a bit from it. Worth the money !! You would need a big Hip Pocket - it is A5, spiral bound - paperback. |
This is just a start of a very big list - I will keep adding a few at a time until I have done the lot. Your comments would be welcome.