I review IT books, software, gadgets!
Back in ancient times, one of the most popular MS-DOS utilities I wrote was the Fast File Finder. It wasn’t particularly fast, of course. But it did the job of finding a file anywhere on the PC’s hard drive when …
Some time ago, I have received the book of Stephen Wolfram – Adventures of Computational Explorer for a review. Stephen is the guy behind WolframAlpha – https://www.wolframalpha.com/, a PhD in physics before his 21. birthday, considered a prodigy by some …
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Adam Freeman has written the 7th edition of the Pro ASP.NET Core MVC 2 book. And there should really be a reason to issue the book so many times! The book itself gives my favourite way of presenting software – …
Russ Ferguson and Keith Cirkel have managed to write an interesting book about JavaScript with some interesting knowledge. As I have read plenty of JS books and I have almost never worked professionally with JS, I am always eager to …
Before learning how to program, one should learn how not to program – this is the idea of the book Bad Programming Practices 101, which was kindly provided to me for a review by Apress.com The book shows some bad …
I have missed the probably* easiest way to become rich in the last 1000 years – BitCoin. At the beginning I was thinking it is too small to care about and then I thought it is too expensive to buy. …
Time has passed since my last review in VitoshAcademy and thus I have requested a new great book from Apress.com for a review. Although I am not a C++ developer (and I have never been paid to develop on anything …
About a month ago I have received the Business Intelligence Tools for Small Companies book, upon a request from my site to Apress.com. Now, the book is read and I am writing the review. In general, the book starts with …
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Business Intelligence is really a thing in the small companies – usually they do not want to invest a lot into software and consultancy, thus a regular controller or a developer can become the company’s champion easily. 🙂 As far …
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As a blogger I review software and IT books quite a lot. Thus, I have decided to switch a bit to something else. E.g. – reviewing gadgets and anything interesting. 🙂 Thus, the first item I managed to obtain for …
In VitoshAcademy I try to be on the edge of VBA technologies. Unfortunately, this is not that difficult, as far as VBA is really like the hated child of Microsoft – it works quite a lot and it does a pretty …
My friends from Apress.com have provided me again with a great book upon my request! Thus, it is time for the review. In general, I was awaiting 190 page book with Visual Studio shortcuts and quick tricks. Even, I was …
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As a VBA Developer, I am always interested in the latest technologies in the VBA world. This is not that difficult, as far as there is not plenty of new stuff there, thus whenever I see something interesting, I try …
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The reason why I have decided to go a bit deeper into Delphi, is because I will go to a Delphi coding camp in about 1 month in Frankfurt. Thus, I have to be a bit more prepared for the …
My first impression from seeing the C# 6.0 book delivered at home was like – lol, someone has written 1600+ pages on C# – interesting what is inside? After opening the book, I have noticed two things – this is …
In August 2016 I have decided to review a few SQL books – thus, Apress.com has provided me with 5 high quality books, upon my request. Now, about 5 months later I am writing the review of the last one, …
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After October 2016 I have become a MCP in SQL Server (exam 70-461). In order to obtain the certification, I have decided to start reading mainly SQL Server books. Thus, I have kindly requested some from Apress.Com for a review and they …
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Let’s state it straight every VBA developer is happy, when he can protect his own code. The VBE password is not secure protection, everyone with a few free hours and a good internet access can go around it. Thus, I was …
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After some months, the time for the book review of “Pro SQL Server Administration” has come. I have always wanted to have a good, big Bible-like book for SQL Server (it’s a weird dream), and finally I have obtained one …
Some days ago, I was informed by Mrs. Poleg, that she has had published a new book concerning VBA and Excel. As far as VBA is the tool, that gives me bread and butter on the table, I was willing to …
Today I have finished the reading of Relational Database Programming, brought to me kindly by Apress.com Thus the review is now here: The author is a SQL developer. He was “laughed” for being a not a “real developer” from some developers, …
Lately I have decided to put some more attention into SQL Server. Thus, I have kindly asked Apress.Com to provide me with some SQL books for review. The first one I have just finished reading was the book Beginning SQL …
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Everyone using google chrome browser probably uses some extensions as well. I personally use mail checker, Hola and ad-blocker. To be honest, I have never been never thinking how these extensions were made, until I have noticed the book “Creating …
So, its time to review the “Databases for Small Business” – a book from Anna Manning, nicely provided to me by Apress.com for a review. Well, after reading it, I may say one thing – it is an interesting book, …
Some time ago I had to open a VBA file saved as *.xlsb. The password protection for this was a little more difficult than the one for *.xlsm, thus after some research I have found a tool called VbaDiff, which claimed …
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The last few weeks I was busy, enjoying the nice landscapes of Bavaria and reading Learn PHP 7. The first one was more interesting than the second one definitely, but still reading the book was nice in its own way. …
Some time has passed after I have received the JavaScript Object Programming for a review from Apress.com. Actually, much more than expected, considering the size of the book of only 95 pages (w/o appendices). Let’s write something about the book …
Some time ago I have reviewed the first edition of Excel VBA for non programmers. Thus, I was really flattered when the author has asked me to review the second edition as well. 🙂 The strong sites from the first …
Some months ago I have asked Apress.Com to get the book Full Stack JavaScript for a review. Finally, I have finished it, thus the review can begin 🙂 The book is divided into 8 chapters, introducing different technologies as Backbone.js, …
A little less than two months ago I was kindly provided with the second edition of the book Pro PHP and jQuery for a review. I have about 2 years experience with both technologies, although I am making a living mainly …