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MySQL: Building User Interfaces
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Author: Matthew Stucky
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 073571049X
Publisher: SAMS (11 July, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 385,183
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Poor guide to database UI design
I'm not sure where all of these 5 and 4 stars are coming from. This book is absolutely horrible at addressing UI design. Half of the book is C code for GTK applications that could have been made available on a companion disk or on the website. And most of Stucky's explanation of things comes in the form of very brief comments embedded within the code. Lots of typos. Lots of butchered examples. No general GUI concepts covered. No coverage of multithreading issues. You're basically getting three non-real-world examples' code bound in a book and hardly any coverage of general user interface design concepts and ideologies. The title should have been "Beginner's Guide to Using GTK with MySQL and Glade".
Rating: 4 out of 5
a book that delivers
I've been working through this book for quite some time, and now that I've extracted all i can I have to declare myself delighted with it. The examples are good, deep enough to convey the lessons but shallow enough that not too much is irrelevant. I now have, as the author promised, several applications that will compile easily under both linux and win32. If i can fault the book at all , my only reservation is that is would have been nice to see all the necessary software included on the cd. Downloading all of the required applications and libraries (particularly for windows) led to a treasure hunt accross the web. That aside I would recommend this book to anyone who is not new to programming and databases, a little prior knowledge will be required as this is definately not a complete beginners book.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Good book; Lousy database
This book will guide you very well through learning the wrong database.Yes, I've read the book (long ago). It helped me to learn MySQL. It even made me an advocate of MySQL. But I didn't know the first thing about what makes a database work. I was following the masses of new web developers, ignorantly flocking to MySQL. If you need fantastic speed, rock-solid reliability and -- more importantly -- a true understanding of how real RDBMS systems work, learn and use PostreSQL. It runs circles around MySQL! (We use it to support web services in 20 countries). PostgreSQL will look far better on your resume than will MySQL. When I see PostgreSQL listed on a candidate's resume, I know (if the candidate is truly postgres-savvy) s/he can be counted on to work with virtually any database we support.
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