Customer Review: Have gotten extensive use out of this book from my time as a cache developer. Good guide for a programmer who's new to cache, and then later on as a reference guide for an intermediate to experienced developer. Everyone in the dev team got some use out of this as a reference - good to have in the... more info
Customer Review: I absolutely recommend this book to anyone who has the patience and endurance to get through it. It is definately NOT easy reading. The material is extremely condensed with little or no redundancy, but it is the most complete and acurate technical book I have ever read. The excercises are great as... more info
Customer Review: Try Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterpise Application Architecture.
It has much better coverage in more useful context.
Also you can look at Hibernate or iBatis project for real application
of these patterns.
Customer Review: This book is targeted for PHP developers that are moving to PHP Data Objects (PDO) introduced in PHP 5. If you have limited experience with Object Oriented Programming (OOP), the book includes an appendix with almost 20 pages of OOP instruction with lot of PDO examples. If you don't need the OOP... more info
Customer Review: Less than half of this book really deals with what the title suggests. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are the only things of value to someone already familiar with the UML. The previous chapters try to give the database designer an overview of using UML for all project aspects; however, this is done much more... more info
Customer Review: "Object Oriented Database Design" is a book for beginners and,
as far as I have been able to investigate, it is a perfect walkthrough along the background of object structures.
Figures, exemples, syntax of codes and clear explanations
lead the learner through theory towards... more info
Customer Review: I'm an experienced Oracle developer and I use this book all the time. I have several books on SQL, and this book is by far the best. It has good examples. I highly recommend it.