Web Programming CD Bookshelf

Six Bestselling Books on CD-ROM

By A publication of O'Reilly Media
April 2003
Pages: 576
ISBN 10: 0-596-00510-5 | ISBN 13: 9780596005108
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We've packed six of our best-selling Web programming guides onto this CD-ROM, giving you 4,668 pages of O'Reilly references and tutorials -- fully searchable and cross-referenced, so you can search either the individual index for each book or the master index for the entire collection. Included are the complete, unabridged versions of these popular titles:


Full Description

We've packed six of our best-selling Web Programming guides onto this CD-ROM, giving you 4,668 pages of O'Reilly references and tutorials -- fully searchable and cross-referenced, so you can search either the individual index for each book or the master index for the entire collection. Included are the complete, unabridged versions of these popular titles:
  • Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 2nd Edition
  • JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
  • Programming PHP
  • Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL
  • PHP Cookbook
  • Webmaster In a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
As a bonus, you also get the new paperback version of Webmaster In a Nutshell, 3rd Edition. This collection of Web programming books is bursting with premium information: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition is considered "the" JavaScript book; nobody can touch the level of detail Danny Goodman explores in Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 2nd Edition; and Programming PHP is by Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP. To boot, you get three other excellent titles. The total list price for this collection if purchased separately is $264.70. Formatted in HTML, The Web Programming CD Bookshelf, version 1.0, can be accessed with any web browser, so you have a complete library of technical books that you can carry with you anywhere you need it. No other resource makes so much valuable information so easy to find and so convenient to use.

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The Web Programming CD Bookshelf, Version 1.0 Review,  June 05 2003
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There are many, many books out there on computers; my local bookstore has racks and racks of books on the subject. But how does one collect a good library of books that will help him out, without breaking the bank. O'Reilly hits the spot with it's CD Bookshelf collection. The series offers readers five to six books on CD and one hardcopy book for much less than the cost of those same books in hardcopy. The newest collection in this series is The Web Programming CD Bookshelf. This collection covers most of what one needs to know to start programming on the web and is complete in coverage of topics, from HTML to PHP, web servers to JavaScript.

The hardcopy book in this collection is Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition (webmaster). Webmaster is a complete reference for being a Webmaster. Each chapter in this book is a deferent area of web technology, ranging from HTML, broken down by tag, to Apache, with details of each of the major modules. I was glad to see this book as the hardcopy book in this collection; it is perfectly laid out for getting at the information you need without having to delve into text descriptions or examples.

I will be reviewing each of the books on CD over the next few weeks, but as a collection I have to say that O'Reilly made good choices. Since they decided to go the PHP route of web programming the three PHP books included will get the reader from novice hello-world, up to a database driven web application. The two Definitive References do live up to their name. The one thing that I thought was missing was Perl; the only perl is discussed in Webmaster in the CGI.pm chapter.

The price of the collection is steep at $129.95, but considering what you are getting I think the price is very reasonable. If you don't already have these books and are looking at getting into web programming as a profession or hobby, this is the one stop collection for you.

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Media reviews "The quality of the whole package is exactly as you'd expect from O'Reilly, successfully achieving the right combination of technical-level programming know-how and design in its titles."
--Davey Winder, PC Plus, March 2004

"Having this material in a CD means utilization of information in many settings; airplanes, hotel rooms, client locations, trade shows, etc. The down side of a CD is that programmers will no longer be able to gesture to overflowing bookcases as an indication of their vast and secret knowledge. The package's integrated search function makes it easy to locate topic-related content within individual or across all included titles....the 'WebProgramming CD Bookshelf' is also a reference tool for experienced programmers. My copy disappeared from my desk during a lunch break and was discovered by following the group 'ooh's' emanating from the engineering lab; you'd think they just discovered fire. In fact, the'Web Programming CD Bookshelf' has been swiped from my desk at least 2.8 times more than the other leading product."
--Judith A Rogow, Canyon News, August 2003
http://www.canyongossip.com/artman/publish/article_615.shtml

"OK, this super bundle should be on every Web programmer's desk. In fact, you can toss out all the dog-eared books and just grab this complete library of top O'Reilly titles on CD-ROM. You won't just be saving space for all the summer romance novels, you'll be giving yourself an advanced library of titles that covers all the bases. The CD Bookshelf will also save you lots of time, since it's completely searchable (4600 pages!)...no need to desperately leaf through a pile of tomes when you can type in what you're looking for, hit a key, and find it!"
--DingBat Magazine, July 2003
http://www.dingbatmag.com/pcbks.htm

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