Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Book Review, Now Available! (Windows Azure Platform by Tejaswi Redkar)
Monday 11 January 2010 @ 9:09 am
  For those of you that have been sleeping for the past year, Cloud computing is Hot!  Amazon more or less lead the way with their cloud computing platforms for the longest time with new comers like GoGrid, Google and Microsoft coming along with their own offerings more recently.  The offerings are quite complex, [...]

Book Review – Programming Entity Framework (EF) by Julie Lerman
Monday 14 December 2009 @ 10:36 am
  You all know that I’ve blogged quite a bit about LINQ2SQL.  That technology has saved me a huge amount of programming effort verses using ado.net directly.  We all know that LINQ2SQL is really just a stepping stone to Visual Studio 2010 beta 2.  It’s obviously not done, but from what I’ve seen, when [...]

Book Review of Object Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov
Sunday 30 August 2009 @ 7:55 am
  For the past year or so, I’ve been spending part time learning JavaScript.  My reason has been we use ExtJS extensively in my company and it’s written in JavaScript.  ExtJS is very object oriented so any book that tries to present JavaScript in an OO fashion is a big help.   [...]

ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking by Andrew Siemer (Book Review)
Wednesday 25 March 2009 @ 2:04 pm
  Structure Map (IOC) Error Handling Social Network Schema Designs (Friends and Groups) Messaging Data Layers (

A Great New Book on Business Intelligence Solutions and Sql Server 2008 by Lynn Langit
Monday 23 February 2009 @ 5:42 pm
  I’m sure many of you know SqlServer and it’s many offerings.  She’s always been a wealth of great information about those products and it’s great to see she’s got a book out about one of her favorite topics, Business Intelligence. So far, I’ve read the first four chapters and have skimmed the [...]

A New Book on Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Server
Thursday 12 February 2009 @ 12:03 pm
  Inside the Microsoft® Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (PRO-Developer): Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew: Books

An ExtJS book just published!!! (Learning Ext JS By Shea Frederick, Colin Ramsay and Steve Blades)
Friday 28 November 2008 @ 9:00 pm
  I’ve been learning ExtJS now for a couple months and it’s great to see someone has written a book for it. I just bought it and downloaded the E-Book version of it and from what I can tell it looks great.  I’ll post a more detailed review later, but for now, here is where [...]
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My Two JavaScript Favorite Books:, "JavaScript: The Good Parts" and "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide"
Saturday 11 October 2008 @ 9:20 am
I’ve been working on a project lately that requires a lot of David Flanagan.  It doe a great job of explaining in details all the little parts of JavaScript in a non-dense way.  It’s about 4 times longer than The Good Parts and does get a little wordy at times, but for me, I often [...]

C# In Depth by Jon Skeet Book Review
Thursday 3 July 2008 @ 12:22 pm

Jon Skeet published a great book titled C# In Depth by Manning Publishers. I strongly recommend getting this book


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A Book Review of Manning’s Windows PowerShell In Action by Bruce Payette
Monday 7 April 2008 @ 11:24 am

A book review of Windows PowerShell in action by Bruce Payette



Pro ASP.NET 3.5 and C# 2008 Released! Another Master Piece
Tuesday 18 December 2007 @ 6:25 pm

A short book review of Pro ASP.NET 3.5 and C# 2008 by Mathew MacDonald, one of my favorite authors.



Book Review: Pro LINQ Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 by Joseph C. Rattz, Jr.
Monday 17 December 2007 @ 7:54 am

A book review on one of the first LINQ books published. IMHO, an excellent book to add to your library



Really good Ajax using asp.net Book By Alessandro Gallo, ASP.NET AJAX in Action
Monday 26 November 2007 @ 11:29 am

Alessandro Gallo has written a great book on Ajax in ASP.NET. I strongly recommend this book. Read on for more details.



Pro WPF by Matthew MacDonald Book Review
Thursday 9 August 2007 @ 6:32 pm

A must buy book if you are learning WPF

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