Book Reviews

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Arduino Cookbook 2nd Edition by Michael Margolis, review by Tony Cappellini — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Mar 18, 2012 07:00 PM — 0 comment(s)

At 700 pages, the Arduino Cookbook 2nd Edition is just slightly thicker than the first edition. The recipes, recipe count, layout, format are very similar.

The Python Standard Library by Example, written by Doug Hellman, Review by Tony Cappellini — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Sep 24, 2011 06:20 PM — 0 comment(s)

This review was done on the printed version of the book. Another review of this publication was done using the ebook version and can be found elsewhere on this site. Doug Hellman is probably best known for the Python Module Of The Week website (PyMOTW). This site has been de-mystifying Python modules for many users. The Python Standard Library by Example takes that idea to the next level.

Scaling CouchDB by Bradley Holt, review by Luke Gotszling — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Sep 18, 2011 12:53 PM — 0 comment(s)

CouchDB, while tolerant of failure during writes and supporting replication, suffers a bit in that it's not designed from start for more sophisticated clustering (including failover and sharding).

The Python Standard Library by Example, written by Doug Hellman, Review by Ryan Balfanz — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Aug 04, 2011 11:25 PM — 0 comment(s)

If you have ever worked with Python, you have probably come across Python Module of the Week (PyMOTW) or virtualenvwrapper. Both are the work of Doug Hellmann.

Algorithms, 4th edition by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne review by Raj Jammalamadaka — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Apr 27, 2011 12:50 AM — 0 comment(s)

This is an excellent book for learning the most important algorithms and data structures in computer science.

Arduino Cookbook by Michael Margolis, review by Tony Cappellini — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Apr 24, 2011 01:55 AM — 0 comment(s) —

• oreilly

The Arduino Cookbook is a hefty tome, weighing in at 631 pages with minimal space covering introductory material. Page xvi refers to “What was left Out” which has references for programming, electronics and hardware. I’m glad to see this material isn’t duplicated in this book.

Beginning Arduino by Michael McRoberts review by Tony Cappellini — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Apr 15, 2011 01:15 AM — 0 comment(s)

Beginning Arduino is a great book to get started learning how to program embedded microcontrollers. The books contains a fun collection 50 experiments starting from the most basic to more advanced projects.

Django Javascript Integration: AJAX and JQuery by Jonathan Hayward, review by Sukanta Ganguly — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Apr 03, 2011 11:31 AM — 0 comment(s) —

• packtpub

The author has done a fine job of presenting a practical discussion of how to use a popular Python framework, namely Django and using another popular Javascript library, namely JQuery to develop a nice application through the chapters presented in the book.

Linux Kernel Development 3rd Edition by Robert Love, Review by Raj Jammalamadaka — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Mar 16, 2011 11:15 PM — 0 comment(s)

This is one of the better books for an introduction to Linux Kernel Development.

MySQL For Python by By Albert Lukaszewski review by Mark Jaffe — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Feb 22, 2011 02:20 PM — 1 comment(s)

This is a comprehensive tutorial on using the mysql module for Python and for using MySQL in general. Although the author's native language may not be English, I found the oddly-phrased text to be quite understandable and easy to follow. I have been a MySQL user for a number of years now, and would have welcomed this book to my bookshelf several years ago when I was trying to solve some of the problems laid out in detail in this book.

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