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Book Information REVIEW: Java 2 Micro Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Programming Handheld and Embedded Devices. By Eric Giguhre. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000. 295 pages. $49.99 USA, $77.50 Canada, softcover. Writing a technical book on an emerging technology is one of the most challenging tasks any technical writer can face. Think back to […]

Book Information REVIEW: The Relationship-Based Enterprise: Powering Business Success Through Customer Relationship Management By Ray McKenzie Published 2001, McGraw-Hill Ryerson 368 pages, hardbound, $27.95 USA/$36.99 Canada How do you define the value of your enterprise? In market capitalization? Quality of products and services? Customer retention? In his new book, Ray McKenzie teaches managers to value […]

Book Information The Books (in Road Map Order) Object Technology: A Manager’s Guide, Second Edition, by David A. Taylor, Ph.D. Addison-Wesley Longman. 1998. 205 pages. $29.95 (Amazon price). The Object-Oriented Thought Process, by Matt Weisfeld, SAMs Publishing. April 2000. 226 pages. $29.99 US, $44.95 CAN, #21.99 Net UK. Surviving Object-Oriented Projects: A Manager’s Guide, by […]

How do you define the value of your enterprise? In market capitalization? Quality of products and services? Customer retention? In his new book, Ray McKenzie teaches managers to value the corporation through the conversations engendered by its various relationships. Based in Seattle, Washington, McKenzie is the Director of Management Consulting at DMR Consulting. Building on […]

How do you define the value of your enterprise? In market capitalization? Quality of products and services? Customer retention? In his new book, Ray McKenzie teaches managers to value the corporation through the conversations engendered by its various relationships. Based in Seattle, Washington, McKenzie is the Director of Management Consulting at DMR Consulting. Building on […]

Book Information Enterprise Linux at Work: How to Build 10 Distributed Applications for Your Organization By Stephen Asbury Published March 2000, by Wiley Computer Publishing/John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; ISBN 0471363499 448 pages, softbound; $49.99 USA/$77.50 Canada To buy this book, click here. Too many books try to teach application building in a sterile, academic […]

Book Information Peter Norton’s Complete Guide to Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional By Peter Norton, John Mueller, and Richard Mansfield Published Feb. 2000 by SAMs Publishing, a division of Macmillan USA; ISBN 0672317788 960 pages, softbound, sale price $31.59 USA / $59.99 Canada / #28.99 U.K. To buy this book, click here. Peter Norton’s Complete Guide […]

Book Information The Wireless Application Protocol: A Wiley Tech Brief By Steve Mann and Scott Sbihli Published September 2000, Wiley Computer Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; ISBN 0471399922 224 pages, softbound, $23.69 USA/$46.50 Canada To buy this book, click here. The wireless application protocol (WAP) allows mobile users to access a variety of Internet […]

XSLT Programmer’s Reference By Michael Kay Published April 2000, Wrox Press Inc. 777 pages, $34.99 U.S., $52.95 Canada XSLT Version 1.0 is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation, and at the time of this writing, XSLT Programmer’s Reference, by Michael Kay, is the only known book dedicated exclusively to XSL Transformations (XSLT). The XSLT […]

Building Internet Firewalls, Second Edition By Elizabeth D. Zwicky, Simon Cooper, & D. Brent Chapman June 2000, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. 894 pages, $44.95 In the second edition of Building Internet Firewalls, Elizabeth D. Zwicky, Simon Cooper, and D. Brent Chapman again join forces to create a resource providing the theoretical underpinnings of Internet firewalls. […]