Hi guys. Been reading through Manning's NHibernate in Action book, and it has absolutely been terrific for laying out a good, solid, easy-to-digest (relatively) foundation on NHibernate. Question is, are there any comparable [reference] books for MS' Entity Framework 4 as well? I'm feeling mighty biased for NHibernate right now, and tha...
Hi, I need some book where I can learn how to extend WCF 4.0 (ie. write some cusom behavior, custom factory etc.) ...
Any recommendations for a good book about Alfresco Development, including the basic concepts / philosophy Alfresco is built upon? I plan to dive into Alfresco, especially web development. So far I'm not familiar with Alfresco. I've tried the public Alfresco Share trial site. I am familiar with SharePoint Development, and I wonder how it...
I have a background in assembly, basic, pascal, ada, c & c++. All pc or embedded stuff. Decades of it. I also have a few years of PHP. I haven't coded any client-side stuff, and think that I would like to look into Ajax (is that the best compliment to PHP?). What's a good book to start me off? ...
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Do you know web site or book for Design patterns skill test? ...
I've decided I need to learn more about building scalable solutions. Given almost any programming problem, I can build something to take care of it. Unless that problem is "this needs to handle a billion hits a day". Where do I start? Websites, books, articles, etc are all appreciated. My primary languages of choice are currently Ja...
I started this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/q/3985423/473612 And it has been closed(disappointed), thus i tailored a new question that doesn't leave room for "subjective and argumentative" behavior. Please read the above thread so i don't duplicate its contents here and please provide whatever external references you have on the su...
This maybe is a very simple question, but i did not have any resources for hack. I searched google and there was nothing to help me out. I need to know some basic information about hacking. Questions in my mind are like these: What is hack? What can be done with hacking? what should we know (about stuff like OS, etc.) bef...
Hi, I've readen a book that uses Java's Timer class... something like: final Timer timer = new Timer(); timer.schedule(new TimerTask() { public void run() { /* Does something */ timer.cancel(); } }, 5000); Is there a way to implement that in PHP? I'm rewrinting the book examples in PHP. Thank you. ...
Hi, Is there a good, vendor-neutral, in depth guide to using source control in a team environment? Thanks ...
I want to purchase Knuth's Art of Computer Programming but I'm unsure of which edition to buy. What's the latest edition? Should I go with the latest edition or is another edition better? ...
What would be the recommended book to get an introduction to the field of sound synthesis from a programmer's point of view? I'm not looking into doing anything advanced anytime soon, so I'll boil it down to two points that I'd like to satisfy: Understanding what I am doing when I feed a bunch of bytes into some sound API capable of ou...
This question is regarding the html form in RSpec book (beta version b15_0), page: 301. The best way I could figure for that problem is this: <p> <%= f.label :genres %><br /> <%- @genres.each do |genre| %> <%= check_box_tag(genre.name, genre.id) %> <%= label_tag(genre.name) %><br /> <%- end %> </p> This forces me to chec...
Hi guys can anyone list if any books are available on mocking? for .NET Currently i am reading ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem - Design - Solution by Emad Ibrahim it's good book but you get lost with just code snippets. It would have been great if at the end of each chapter he had some artifacts ...
Hi All, I need a C# graphics programming book that contains the subjects such as the curves between 3D surface and 2D surface, 3D surfaces crossing each other, etc. Could you advise me a book name. Regards, Can ...
...I am not sure which book to go with. I came to conclusion and it's between those two: [Programming in Objective-C 2.0] vs. [Learn Objective-C on the Mac]. My programming experience/skill is fairly strict, as I just know a little C. I know some loops (if, if-else, while, for, do, case) and how algorithm work. That's pretty much it, I...
Is "Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models" by Martin Fowler (published 1996) still a good book to use for the content it covers? Are there other good books that cover the same content? Are there more up-to-date books? P.S. Would like answers explaining why it is a good book, or why the alternative or additional books are good books...
I'm wondering which books a non technical manager has to read to get a good understanding of software development, without an overrun of technical terms. Thanks in advance Edit The question is mainly about books which do not explain much technical, but more the general flow and common pitfalls that occur when executing a software proj...
Hey fellow ASP.NET MVC devs, I'm looking to buy ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action but I wanted to see if anyones read it and if they would recommend it/or another ASP.NET MVC book. I've already read NerdDinner and I really enjoyed it but am hoping to extend my knowledge and read something else. The description seems quite promising but as they s...