books

ASP.NET AJAX In Action

If you’re about to start playing with AJAX in ASP.NET it’s a good idea to read this book: ASP.NET AJAX In Action by Alessandro Gallo, David Barkol, Rama Krishna Vavilala (see on amazon).

It very well describes basics of AJAX and shows basic and more advanced techniques of applying it in ASP.NET. There are exaplanations of Microsoft Ajax Library, UpdatePanel, …

Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming

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After a while (busy days…) I’ve got a new book: Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming by Robert Vieira.

I’m not considering myslef a SQL Server expert but to be honest I was afraid of this beginning word in the title. Yet I’ve been using SQL Server for a couple of years (apart from Java, C#, etc. – so not full …

Head First Design Patterns

Another book I recommend reading: Head First Design Patterns.

I need to say I only managed to read it when I tried for the second time. First time I gave up after three or four chapters. Although I believed the provided definitions, examples, code snippets were good, I was fed up with all this Zen talks, interviews with design patterns, …

High Performance Web Sites

Recently I’ve been reading “High Performance Web Sites” (look at amazon).

I think it’s a good book who can be recommended to all who do even little bit of front end development. The book describes 15 rules (regarding CSS, JavaScript, etc.) that should be followed in order to deliver high performance web sites. It’s rather short (c.a. 150 pages) and …