A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL
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 5.0
On Apr 13, 2012 Thomas Maher wrote: Book Review: Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers, 2nd Ed
It is also clear that the author has used robots to make online purchases. One wonders whose credit card was on the hook for code quality. It is funny to think of UPS showing up with, oops, 1000 packages one Tuesday morning. The author’s real-world web crawling experience adds something hard to describe, something good. Full Review >
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What To Do When Queries Don't Work
Thomas's rating:
5.0
On Apr 4, 2012 Thomas Maher wrote: Book Review: MySQL Troubleshooting
Having read more than half of Oreilly's MySQL books, I can say that the bar for quality is very high in this genre. The MySQL reference manual is indispensible, but to really learn MySQL, you need to read the Oreillys. These classics in particular, are handy to read: Full Review >
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Building Simple Devices to Collect Data About the World Around Us
Thomas's rating:
5.0
On Feb 7, 2012 Thomas Maher wrote: Book Review: Environmental Monitoring with Arduino Building Simple Devices to Collect Data About the World Around Us
One problem with this book is that you need certain hardware that you don’t have right now to complete the project. A great strength of the book is that each section lists the parts you need. For example, Chapter 3 requires a thing called a “4Char display”. The “Parts” section lists a part number: “SparkFun sku COM-09765A”. This is great help. It would have been better if there was a list at the beginning of the book with all the parts needed to do all of the projects in the book, some advice on what they will cost and where to get them. The book does suggest these four providers of Arduino hardware Full Review >
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A Learner's Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone and iPad
Thomas's rating:
5.0
On Jan 31, 2012 Thomas Maher wrote: Head First iphone and ipad Development 2nd edition
Dan and Tracey Pilone have delivered a
masterpiece of efficient learning. This book will be
useful to anyone involved at any level of iPhone/iPad
development. Even managers! Full Review >
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Thomas's rating:
 2.0
On Jul 5, 2011 Thomas Maher wrote: Book Review: Virtualization: A Manager’s Guide
Dan Kusnetzky’s new book “Virtualization: A Manager’s Guide” is subtitled “Big picture of the who, what, and where of virtualization”. The book’s ISBN is 9781449306458. Its website is at http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449306458/ I have read the book. Full Review >
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From installation to relevance tuning
Thomas's rating:
5.0
On May 17, 2011 Thomas Maher wrote: Book Review: Introduction to Search with Sphinx, by Andrew Aksyonoff
Chapter 1 "The World of Text Search" is awesome fun. Who knew that
Sphinx (and Google) searches use AND by default but that Lucene uses
OR by default. Chapter 1 is mostly a refreshing breeze, but we do
get precision about the meaning of many terms including document,
index, match, result set. Full Review >
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