This is a review of The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Vital techniques of Java 7 and polyglot programming. Written by Benjamin J. Evans and Martijn Verburg. The book was published in July, 2012 and it contains 496 pages This is an excellent…

This is a small review of Zero Day: A Novel by Mark Russinovich If you are a windows user/developer then the name Mark Russinovich might seem familiar to you, Mark is of course the guy who started Sysinternals, he discovered the Sony rootkit on their…

I picked up the book Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 mainly to see what is in store for humanity in the year 2100. Having read Ray Kurzweil's 3 books on a similar subject, this was of inte…

Dejan Sarka and Davide Mauri have made available the book Data Quality and Master Data Management with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 as a free download on their site Here is a little blurb about the book This book deals with master data. It explains…

So everything is going fine, then *wham* you're in charge. Maybe it's responsibility for a small part of the infrastructure or a single system, maybe it's for a whole department. Unfortunately that switch doesn't come with any instructions, and most managers and team leads are left on their own to figure out what those instructions would have been, had they actually existed.

I just finished reading the NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook, part of Packt Publishing's Open Source series, and I've been really impressed. The book is written by Jason Dentler, whose blog I'm sure anyone doing frequent searches for NHibernate has run across once or twice in their travels.

What really stood out to me about this book was how easy it was to read. You can tell that Jason went out of his way to make the book approachable for people unfamiliar with the concepts (with...

The folks at http://sqlperspectives.wordpress.com are reviewing the SQL Server Deep Dives book a chapter at a time (one chapter per week). The review is usually done by more than one person, so far there are already 8 chapters reviewed. I think that this is a very cool idea, it is almost like a book club.

Since they reviewed my chapter about the minimally logged bulk insert, they asked me to do an interview. You can find that interview here:

I noticed Brent Ozar worked on a SQL book titled: Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting. This book is now available and I decided to ask Brent some questions about this book. This interview was conducted by email, enjoy.

Denis: Is the book geared towards a beginner/intermediate level user or do you have to be an advanced user to really utilize the information in this book?

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I was tagged by onpnt in his Goals for 2010 post. One of my resolutions goals of this year is to read more books. Right now I am in the middle of reading Daemon by Daniel Suarez. According to his bio Daniel Suarez is an independent systems consultant…

If you want to learn about Google Wave then check out the book The Complete Guide to Google Wave written by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash.

This book's contents are freely available to view online. Here is what is covered in the book:

Chapter 1 Meet Google Wave

Find out what Google Wave is and what problems it solves.



Chapter 2 Get Started with Wave

Set up your Wave account and create your first wave.



Chapter 3 Mana...