Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

“Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site”

This book introduces you to both PHP and mySQL and how to use them together to create dynamically generated web pages using relatively modern methods.
“Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site”

Monday, March 15th, 2010

“Fancy Form Design”

Getting forms in your web page to look the way you want has always been one of the most difficult parts of setting up the appearance of your web page. Not any more as this book shows you exactly how to get web browsers to apply the appearance you want to the form fields. Where [...]

Monday, January 11th, 2010

“Google Advertising Tools”

The second edition of this book is bigger than the first and contains lots more useful info about how to make money from advertising. That the section on the Google API has been dropped means that even more space has been dedicated to providing useful info for the general reader.
“Google Advertising Tools”

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Kaspersky Security Suite

Security always needs to be compromised with usability since not turning the computer on and not connecting it to anything is the way to keep it most secure while any security you do have installed is going to make the computer less user friendly. It all comes down to finding the right compromise.
Kaspersky have been [...]

Monday, November 9th, 2009

“Hacking the Next Generation”

Those with an interest in cracking have had a whole load of new options added to what they can do in the last couple of years due to the explosion in social networking. This book provides those security experts whose job it is to defend systems against such attacks with loads of info on some [...]

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Google Tools

Sometimes with reviews of online products it becomes necessary to update a review because the product has changed significantly. Thios is very much the case with Google Analytics which used to rely on Flash for all the displays and therefore provided no information whatsoever to the 25%+ of people without Flash installed.
Google Tools

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Learning PHP, MySQL,& JavaScript

Here is a book that covers PHP, mySQL, and JavaScript. There are beginner and advanced chapters on each of the languages along with some chapters on using them together. Trying to cover so much in one book of course means that the information is somewhat abbreviated throughout.
Learning PHP, MySQL,& JavaScript

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site

When writing books for beginners it can become difficult to work out the right compromise between introducing simple but inappropriate ways of doing things and more complicated correct ways of doing things. This becomes even more difficult if you are trying to introduce beginners to two subjects at the same time as this book does.
Build [...]

Monday, July 20th, 2009

WD Anywhere Backup

For a backup program that you need to buy this program certainly has very little going for it. Fortunately the program has a 31 day free trial period allowing you to see for yourself how it works before you buy it.
Read my review of WD Anywhere Backup.

Monday, July 13th, 2009

NitroPDF version 6

The new version of NitroPDF is out and is a vast improvement over the previous version.
Here’s what I think about the new NitroPDF version 6

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

ZoneAlarm

ZoneAlarm like many security providers produce a full security suite asn well as various “lesser” versions which do not contain all the components you need for complete security. As with many of the other security providers some parts of their suite are better than others. In the case of ZoneAlarm the started out with a [...]

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

AceBackup

I thought if I was going to review one backup program that I might as review more so I did a search on Google to see what other free backup programs are around that I hadn’t reviewed yet. This one came close to the top of the list – why I don’t know as it [...]