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Depicting the key creative issues of Internet design, this book highlights the best designed sites and explains why and how they work. ... Read more

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Mosaic for Windows is an informative book on how to use the most popular Internet navigation tool ever developed. By focussing on the PC Windows version of Mosaic (NCSA, AIR Mosaic, and Spyglass), including Web browsers like NetScape, WinWeb and WebSurfer, this book will provide an easy-to-follow guide to using a PC and Mosaic to browse, collect, and discover information and resources across the entire electronic world. ... Read more

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An anthology of short pieces of poetry and prose ontrees, from ancient times to the present.It is suitable for thebedside, the coffee table, or wherever one may pick it up and open itat any point.The object is no more and no less than diversion andpleasure.Effectively placed, the reproductions of engravings,woodcuts, drawings, paintings, photographs provide a visual feast inblack and white.The colorful jacket illustration is reproduced fromthe painting Willows and Sumac by Wilfred Gelber.The selectionsrange widely across times and cultures.The bible is represented, asis Homer. You will find Yeats and Shakespeare, Pope, Defoe, KingCharles (How he Hid in an Oak), Pepys, Robert Burns, Wordsworth, Keatsand Shelley, Hawthorne, Lewis Carroll (the Cheshire Cat), GerardManley Hopkins, Jane Austen, Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Francis Parkman,Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Robert Lowell, and many others, bothwell known and not so well known."Anonymous" is not overlooked Thisbook would be ideal as a gift. ... Read more

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Sampling Browsers Book of Texas History is like driving the roads of Texas and finding an unfamiliar historical marker, with one difference: Instead of what happened at that place, you can read about what happened on that date. The book is a day by day chronicle of Texas history. Even a dedicated historian is likely to find something surprising, amusing, sobering, thought-provoking, or just plain odd. Triumphs, tragedies, and absurdities; calamities and miracles; natural and man-made disasters; and Texas's notorious weather are all part of the pageant of a state that just seems naturally to breed colorful people and bigger-than-life events. ... Read more

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History Can Be Fun!
What fun it is to check each morning to see what happened that day in history!Well researched and well written, it's fun for Texans of all ages!

Texas frontier history at its very best!
Steven Jent's A Browser's Book Of Texas History is a compilation of more than 500 incidents Texas history arranged in a day-by-day format. Some of these doings are famous, others obscure, but all have combined to makeTexas the most remarkable state in the American Union. A Browser's Book OfTexas History can be read from cover to cover in an afternoon, or one dayat a time browsing as we are introduced to larger-than-life events and thecolorful personalities responsible for them. A Browser's Book Of TexasHistory is a "must" for all students of the American frontier ingeneral and Texas history in particular. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Browser," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Browser in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Browser when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Browser, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Provides the best reference for quickly learning the ins and outs of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0. Explains all the built-in multimedia features of MSIE, including ActiveX and CoolTalk. Tells AOL and CompuServe subscribers all they need to know to explore and exploit the Internet. Shows you how MSIE is even better than Netscape Navigator. Provides the earliest information about using MSIE, so you can be among the first to take advantage of its powerful new features. Demonstrates how to create your own home page using MSIE's special HTML extensions.Amazon.com Review
Penned by three self-professed ex-Netscape junkies, this book uses a cheeky tone to bring you up to speed with Microsoft'sshowpiece browser. You'll have to wade through a certain amount of Webcheerleading, but you'll learn the basics of setup and surfing, aswell as some useful tricks, such as how to use Microsoft Internetmail while interacting with America Online (AOL) and CompuServe. Othertopics covered include how to customize Microsoft Network (MSN), howto get the most from newsgroups, how to do cross-postings, and howto set up timesaving mail groups. The guide does discuss heaviertopics too, such as ActiveX and how much of your hard drive to usefor cached files. It's a colorful book that's got some attitude andlots of great tips. ... Read more

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6 years olds, but core principles still apply
The ASP.Net platform that is mentioned in this article may be dated, but the general principles of XML/XSLT and CSS still apply.The author describes how to create menus in a very straight-forward and timeless way.In fact, many of the CMS (Content Management System) products available today, handle their menus in a similar (or identical) way. ... Read more

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Netscape has captured the lion's share of the Web browser market. Its advanced features make it the premier Internet navigation tool you can use. The Macintosh is ideally suited to take advantage of the features of Web browser like Netscape since most Macs are already set up to run the basic capabilities that you will need including graphics and sound. This book will show you how to set up and configure Netscape, as well as a variety of other Web Browsers for the Macintosh, including NCSA MacMosaic, PLUSMosaic, MacWeb, and NetShark. As well as providing an up-to-date snapshot of some of the best web sites around, the author also includes an introduction to Netscape 2.0 for the Macintosh and illustrates some of its powerful new features. ... Read more

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Of the around 40 million used cars sold in the US per year, about one-third are researched online, but less than four percent of total classifieds dollars were spent online in 2002. Key QuestionsWhat role does the Internet play in the used-car-buying process? How large will the online automotive classifieds market be in 2008? What can automotive classifieds Web sites do to stimulate growth of the market and increase their own share of it? Lead Analyst: Belis AksoyContributing Analysts: Julie Ask, Zori Bayriamova, Michael Gartenberg, Corina Matiesanu, Andrew Peach ... Read more

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Illustrating and explaining over 50 of the world's most innovatively designed websites, this book focuses on the debate that is currently raging over usability and considers the implications for the web designer. The sites are organized into sections that reflect users' motivations for visiting them. Each site is accompanied by a short review, and quotations from web designers around the world run throughout the book, providing an additional commentary on the sites and explaining why they are significant. There are also essays by Jakob Nielsen, Richard Buchanan and Geert Lovink. The book is accompanied by its own website, which extends the content and debate initiated in the book and provides a forum for discussion and innovation for the web design community. ... Read more

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This work examines and visualizes the workings of the Internet by deconstructing the elements that make up 60 of the best online environments. Abstract concepts, such as the workings of a search engine, are bought to life by the book's graphic design and layout. ... Read more

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Usage of PHP--cross-platform, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language--is rising by 100,000 domains per month. First PHP reference on market, and it contains more code examples with more comments than any other UNIX book. Provides UNIX programmers with all the necessary tools to build dynamic Web applications and databases from open-source software. CD-ROM includes Red Hat Linux 6.0 operating system, award-winning MySQL database engine, code listings, sample applications, software documentation, and much more.Amazon.com Review
David Medinets's principal task in PHP3: Programming Browser-Based Applications is to find common ground for a discussion of PHP3, the database-interfacing module for the Apache Web server. Unfortunately, his task is subverted by PHP3's complexity.

In principle, PHP3's Perl-like script slides into HTML. When accessed by a browser, the code is interpreted by the Apache server, building a Web page out of data pulled from an SQL database through Apache's PHP3 module. The centrality of PHP3 in linking the user to the database is clear, but the stability of a uniform PHP3 implementation in an intrinsically heterogeneous Linux/Unix environment is so problematic as to be prohibitive.

To be fair, Medinets's PHP3: Programming Browser-Based Applications is a thoughtfully constructed book, but it sends mixed signals about whether it will enter the fray of PHP3 module support. Medinets's 20-page line-by-line description of building PHP3 begins with guidelines on how to make a new gcc compiler. Safe to ignore? Maybe not, because his Apache server-build instructions should be followed verbatim. A clean build and test on a generic Linux distribution is a multi-day effort because essential environment variables aren't documented--neither by Medinets nor by the PHP3 development team. Dynamical loading of the PHP3 module (the modern standard for module handling) is itself a subject of strongly worded statements in the newsgroups. Medinets has no comment on this show-stopping issue.

The book consists of didactic chapters on data manipulation, regular expressions, basic object-orientation, the CGI interface, and XML, all of which get interspersed with task-oriented interludes on connecting to databases, maintaining lists, creating HTML modules, and managing concurrent access. Over 100 pages of appendices provide SQL and PHP function references and Internet resources.

But the PHP3 development team must stabilize its interfaces before any single-source tract will suffice. Until then, readers must make personal commitments to read all available documentation. For the fearless few who venture into the PHP3 backcountry, Medinets offers an errata page at www.mtolive.com/phpbook to help with orientation. Active PHP3 mailing lists (www.php3.org) contain questions and answers, which are disparaging and hyperbolic but occasionally helpful.

The PHP3 developers have an outpost with a stable platform, and Medinets is safe at the outpost, but his smoke signals are too far away and the winds too variable for him to be of much help to us yet. --Peter Leopold ... Read more

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bad as hell
hi!

this book is the worst one i ever worked with. the author uses advanced implementations in the first few examples, without explaination; some statements are just simply wrong (type error?) and the peak are wrong working examples. e.g. page 84/85 a flag variable is used to track a break in a loop; but the flag is defined after the break - it never gets executed and in the end the script does the whole opposite!

rating this book 4 or 5 stars means didn't read it!

cheers,
Dirk

Irrelevant
This is a PHP3 book and the current version is PHP4 -- so it behooves you to look for a good PHP4 book.I threw my copy away.

not as bad as other reviewers make it sound
This was the first book I bought on php. Medinets explains things verywell, and it's clear he knows a lot of tricks for installing and makingthings work. The advantage of this book is its simplicity and attention todetail. Most of the steps worked in the installation, and he explains whyhe does things the way he does.The stuff on XML and SQL is prettycursory, but it's enough to make you aware of how it works and how phpcould help with that kind of data.

He is clearly geared toward writing atutorial and not a reference book. At one point, we're supposed to beestablishing a mysql connection and after going through the steps, he says,"well, this doesn't work because..." (and then he explains whatwas missing). I appreciate this sort of method, but it might be confusingfor some readers.

This book is to be a quick breezy read and intendedfor people who want to get their feet wet before getting seriously into thesubject. I would mention that Professional PhP is an excellent book, muchmore comprehensive than this one and just as readable. Readers mightseriously consider bypassing this book and reading the Wrox ProfessionalPHp book. The Wrox book has excellent examples and gives switches and api'swhen trying to connect to other databases beside mysql.

In summary: anexcellent straightforward introduction, but many readers might prefer toread a more comprehensive book like Professional PHP (by Wrox)

Good all-around book
I bought this book because I had never used Php or MySQL and wanted tolearn them both.I wanted one book not two.I also wanted a goodintroduction as far as getting started with Php.This book served me well. It contains a brief explanation and easy-to-follow examples to a varietyof topics.I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn the basics ofwhat Php can do.I would recommend more advanced readers to get a morespecific book (i.e., Php or MySQL) based on the specific needs.

Good book, but ...
Very appropriate for who is already a good programmer, but lacksinformations about the very basics of PHP. Excellent when describesobjects, but not so good when speaks about data bases and typicalapplications. Anyway, I have spent well my money. ... Read more