programming

Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide - Dave Thomas - 2000.

Ruby is a genuine object-oriented language. Everything you manipulate is an object, and the results of those manipulations are themselves objects.

In Ruby, you can access all the underlying operating system features. You can do the same stuff in Ruby that you can in Perl or Python, and you can do it more cleanly. But Ruby is fundamentally different. It is a true programming language, too, with strong theoretical roots and an elegant, lightweight syntax. You could hack together a mess of "scripts" with Ruby, but you probably won't. Instead, you'll be more inclined to engineer a solution, to produce a program that is easy to understand, simple to maintain, and a piece of cake to extend and reuse in the future.

MySQL Bible - Steve Suehring - 2002.

   The book is divided into five parts: Getting Starated with MySQL and Relational Databases; Understanding SQL Through MySQL; MySQL Administration; MySQL Developer Guide; and Advanced and Specialized MySQL Topics.
   This Bible covers both beginning-level and advanced topics. Topics covered include: introduction to relational database management; installing and configuring MySQL on the Linux, Windows 2000, and Mac OS X operating systems; MySQL security; debugging and repairing MySQL databases and servers; MySQL performance tuning; and developing MySQL applications with Perl and PHP.
   Due to the growing popularity of the NuSphere MySQL package, this book covers its enhancements and how to install and develop with NuSphere MySQL.

MySQL and JSP Web Applications - Data-Driven Programming Using Tomcat and MySQL - James Turner - 2002.

   JSP developers encounter unique problems when building web applications that require intense database connectivity. MySQL and JSP Web Applications addresses the challenges of building data-driven applications based on the JavaServer Pages development model. MySQL and JSP Web Applications begins with an overview of the core technologies required for JSP database development--JavaServer Pages, JDBC, and the database schema. The book then outlines and presents an Internet commerce application that demonstrates concepts such as receiving and processing user input, designing and implementing business rules, and balancing the user load on the server. Through the JDBC (Java DataBase Connector), the developer can communicate with most commercial databases, such as Oracle. The solutions presented in MySQL and JSP Web Applications center on the open source tools MySQL and Tomcat, allowing the reader an affordable way to test applications and experiment with the book's examples.

MySQL Tutorial - Luke Welling, Laura Thomson - 2003.

   The MySQL Tutorial consists of a series of short, very concise chapters, each on a tightly targeted topic, with a task-oriented focus. Each chapter is written so it can be read in a single sitting and be easily digested. The main focus is on five key areas: installation and configuration, using MySQL, administering MySQL, optimizing MySQL, and MySQL's associated APIs. With 4 million installations and 27,000 downloads per day, MySQL continues to grow as one of the most widely used databases in the world. Now an enterprise-level database, MySQL features full support for transactions, integrating improvements that enhance MySQL's architectural foundation for building heavy-load commercial applications.

MySQL and Java Developer’s Guide - Mark Matthews, Jim Cole, Joseph D. Gradecki - 2003.

   This book is written for Java developers who need to interface their code to a back-end database. The book’s specifics deal with MySQL and Connector/J, but this doesn’t limit the information because JDBC is designed to be portable against many databases. If you aren’t using MySQL, you still find valuable information.

Beginning MySQL - Robert Sheldon, Geoff Moes - 2005.

   Welcome to Beginning MySQL, the definitive resource for anyone new to the MySQL database management system. As the most popular open source database system in the world, MySQL has gained not only recognition among its peers but a place of prominence in the worldwide technical industry, ensuring an ever-growing need for information and training on how to implement a MySQL database and access and manage data in that database.

Beginning PHP4.

2000.

   This book is a complete tutorial in PHP's language features and functionality,beginning with the basics and building up to the design and construction of complex data-driven websites. Fully working examples in the book include a directory-style web search engine, a mailing list management, a web based file editor.
  Anybody who knows HTML can use this book, if you've done any programming, that will be useful, but it's not a requirement.
Authors: Wankyu Choi, Allan Kent, Chris Lea, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman

The Definitive Guide to MySQL - Second Edition - Michael Kofler - 2004.

   The Definitive Guide to MySQL, Second Edition, is the perfect all-in-one guide to MySQL. Whether you’re new to Web application development or you’re already an experienced database analyst, this book describes all of the facets of MySQL configuration, administration, and database application development. Greatly expanded from its widely-praised first edition, this updated revision provides additional information about MySQL tools such as MySQL Control Center and phpMyAdmin, database APIs from several popular programming languages available with Linux and Windows and the latest features found in MySQL 4.1.