Title: Pragmatic Unit Testing Authors: Andrew Hunt, David Thomas ISBN: 0-9745140-2-0 pages: 150 This book gives a good introduction into the different aspects of unit testing. It’s easy readible and aims on developers without much (any) unittest experience (but it’s also worth reading for developers with more experience). The authors […]
Book reviews and Publications
Book Review: Beginning Oracle Programming
Title: Beginning Oracle Programming Authors: Sean Dillon, Christopher Beck, Thomas Kyte with Joel Kallman and Howard Rogers Publisher: Apress ISBN: 1-59059-286-7 Publication Date: Sep 2003 Website: http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=253
Book Review: Mastering Oracle PL/SQL: Practical Solutions
Title: Mastering Oracle PL/SQL: Practical Solutions Authors: Christoper Beck, Joel Kallman, Chaim Katz, David C. Knox, Connor McDonald Publisher: Apress ISBN: 1-59059-217-4 Publication Date: Dec 2003 Website: http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=276 More info can be found at the Publisher’s website. The source code is available for download.
Book Review: Oracle Database 10g A Beginner's Guide
Title: Oracle Database 10g A Beginner’s Guide Authors: Ian Abramson; Michael Abbey; Michael Corey Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media ISBN: 0072230789 Publication Date: March 31, 2004 Website: http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072230789.html The setup of the book is nice, with progress checks to monitor how well you understand the chapter you just read and sample […]
New Books Shipment in – April 2005
The April shipment of new books has arrived. Some books are in the library, others immediately went home with some of my esteemed colleagues. Some of the books in this shipment: Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB by Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller # Publisher: Wrox (June 21, 2004) (two copies) […]
Book review: Business Process Execution Language
Title: Business Process Execution Language Author: Matjaz B. Juric, Benny Mathew, Poornachandra Sarang Published by: Packt Publishing ISBN: 1-904811018-3 Publication Date: 2004 Details: 270pages, $59.99; www.packtpub.com I recently read this nice book about the growing BPEL standard. The book gives a fairly good overview about what BPEL (Business Process Execution […]
New Books Shipment in – March 2005
The first half of the March shipment has arrived. Some books are in the library, others immediately went home with some of my esteemed colleagues. Some of the books in this shipment: Oracle Database 10g XML & SQL: Design, Build & Manage XML Appl. In Java, C, C++ & PL/SQL […]
Book Review: Mastering Oracle SQL
Title: Mastering Oracle SQL, 2nd Edition Authors: Sanjay Mishra, Alan Beaulieu ISBN:0-596-00632-2 Publication Date: June 2004 More info can be found at website of O’reilly. There’s also a sample chapter for download. This weekend I finished reading this book on Oracle SQL. So it’s time to write a review. After […]
Effective Oracle by Design
Title: Effective Oracle by Design – Design and Build High-Performance Oracle Applications Author: Thomas Kyte Published by: Oracle Press ISBN: 0-07-223065-7 Publication Date: 2003 Details: 664 pages, $59.99; www.OraclePressBooks.com I recently read this nice book written by Thomas Kyte. In this book Kyte addresses a lot of different design issues […]
Book Review: Oracle Database 10g New Features – Oracle10g Reference for Advanced Tuning and Administration by Daniel Liu, Don Burleson, Madhu Tumma, Mike Ault
Title: Oracle Database 10g New Features – Oracle10g Reference for Advanced Tuning and Administration Authors: Daniel Liu, Don Burleson, Madhu Tumma, Mike Ault Published by: Rampant Tech Press ISBN: 0-9740716-0-9 Publication Date: 01 December, 2003 Details: 530 pages, $34.95; code depot at: http://rampant.cc/new.htm SummaryIt is not a reference, it is […]
Publications written in 2004
Name JHeadstart 10g – Productive J2EE application development without coding Java date Thu, 25 Mar 2004 Article in ODTUG Technical Journal (March 2004) The ODTUG Technical Journal is the most important international technical magazine for Oracle developers. This article describes in 21 pages the productivity and ease of development that […]
Better Faster Lighter Java
This probably is one of the best books (on Java that is ;)) I’ve read in years. The book addresses the growing complexity Java designers & Developers face these days, by sticking to 5 simple principles: Keep It simple Do one thing and do it well; i.e focus your code […]
Free J2EE and XML Development book
Four your information, the book J2EE and XML Development by Kurt Gabrick and Dave Weiss can be downloaded for free at the serverside.com. Topics include Java and XML (e.g. JDOM vs. DOM, JAX-B), XML & persistency and XML & application integration. [edit jasper] Free service for the _really_ lazy: here’s […]
Summary "Expert one-on-one J2EE design and development"
Tip: free Struts book
The Apache Struts web application framework is is a flexible control layer based on standard technologies like Java Servlets, JavaBeans, ResourceBundles, and XML, as well as various Jakarta Commons packages. Struts encourages application architectures based on the Model 2 approach, a variation of the classic Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm. Want […]
Pro Jakarta Commons
Title: Pro Jakarta Commons Authors: Harshad Oak Published by: Apress Abstract This book describes in some detail all functionality in the Jakarta Commons components. Jakarta Commons actually is a collection of common tools which were sprung to live during the development of other Jakarta Projects. As the name suggest it […]
JUnit in action, Vincent Massol with Ted Husted
|*Title*: |JUnit in action| |*Authors*: |Vincent Massol, Ted Husted| |*Published by*: |Manning Publications Co.| h3. Abstract Although the emphasis in _JUnit in action_ is on unit testing (of course!), it offers more. It details the JUnit test framework, while at the same time putting unit testing in a broader context […]
Publications written in 2003
Name Bob the Warehouse Builder meets Don the DataMiner: From Creative Bookkeeping to Fortune Telling date Wed, 16 Apr 2003 Paper on the Oracle 9i Business Intelligence (prepared for the ODTUG 2003 conference and nominated for the Best Presentation Award): The functionality offered by Oracle 9i DataWarehousing, OLAP/BI and DataMining […]
publications written in 2002
Name JHeadstart Designer Generator – How (when and if) to approach a migration from Forms to a J2EE architecture date Sat, 15 Jun 2002 This paper was prepared for ODTUG 2002 (while the presenter was still working for Oracle Corporation)An introducton to the JHeadstart Designer Generator (JDG), a tool for […]
Publications written in 2001
Name From Task description to Product Release – Managing Software Development using Oracle SCM date Thu, 12 Apr 2001 This paper was developed for the ODTUG 2001 Conference. The author was working for Oracle Corporation at the time. This paper describes how the Oracle Repository (later reduped to Oracle SCM […]
Publications written in 2000
Name Interior Designer 6i date Fri, 28 Apr 2000 This paper was written for the ODTUG 2000 Conference. The author was still working for Oracle Corporation at that time. The Oracle Repository infrastructure that comes with Designer 6i allows for comprehensive Software Configuration Management (SCM). Effective and successful use of […]