books by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

books by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Deke McClelland

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

In depth step by step that is easy enough for a beginner.
This book with it's DVD let me accomplish thing I would have had to pay other thousands to do for me. Deke has a is very entertaining style. I can not recomend this book highly enough!

Learning Python, 3rd Edition

Mark Lutz

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

Great book!
This book is great! Good writing, good exercises. Good for people who have some experience in programming. If you have never had any contact to other languages or logic, consider studying some introdutory topics before reading this book.

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Douglas Crockford

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

half best-practices tutorial, half advice collection
I bought this book expecting a textbook manual on how to use some JavaScript features. I ended up having an easy to read compilation of thoughts about the whole language, from an experienced Yahoo! member. But the best book feature was the way the author managed to ...

Head First Design Patterns (Head First)

Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, ...

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004

Accessible and immediately useful
[Reviewed by XPSD member Ryan Shiffer] My previous experience in studying design patterns has been met with failure. I have tried getting through the Gang of Four book on design patterns, but reading it for me was about the same as reading the dictionary. Reading ...

Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-On-One

Deke McClelland

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

CS3 one-on-one, A-one!!!
I have bought about ten CS3 help books, most are good, this is the best. I don't think Deke has missed anything, and I use this as a handy reference. I don't think you will be disappointed here.

Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML

Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

Head First HTML
I bought this book as a crutch to build my wifes business Cloud Nine Accessories and Gifts a web page that features handbags. This book assisted me through every phase of the development. I had a little bit of programming background and got the programming end done ...

Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics

Jennifer Niederst Robbins

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Robust start to (X)HTML/CSS
I rate this book with 5 stars for being a solid introduction to (X)HTML and CSS and for being clear, easy to follow, and colourful. I disagree with the previous reviewer BB, who said the book was not for beginners and rated it with one star. He mentions Jennifer N. ...

Head First Java, 2nd Edition

Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

Best Java book on the Market....
This book is the most user friendly book to teach Java. This is how I got started, and am now a full-on software developer for a fortune-500 company making a good living. I recommend this and other books in the HF series to anyone wanting to learn programming on ...

slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

Nancy Duarte

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

All there is to know for those who have already mastered PPT technical skills
Nancy Duarte is managing Duarte Design, a company that has created some high-profile presentations (Al Gore is one of the clients). They (her husband is the company's CFO) started out in the 80s when the Apple Macintosh brought desk top publishing and graphics design ...

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

David Flanagan

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

The Best JavaScript Book
This book not only assists first-time JavaScript programmers, but is an excellent reference for the more experienced developers. The examples are first-rate, and the reference sections are more comprehensive than any I've seen for this language. A MUST if you are a ...

Head First PMP: A Brain-Friendly Guide to Passing the Project Management Professional Exam (Head First)

Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

You could pass with just this book and stay awake doing it
I pretty much passed the test by just working through the 600 pages of this book. It uses pictures, quizzes, crosswords and games to help you get the basic concepts and necessary formulas down. You'll go comatose if you try to tread the PMBOK itself and go blind ...

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

A lifesaver
As project manager, I was in a bind when our contract information architect failed to understand the complexities of our matrixed business model and client base. Rosenfeld's book helped me design a IA for our 700 page HTML site that has since been described as simple, ...

High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More

Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, ...

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

Excellent book for advanced users
The title of this book is very appropriate. Great coverage on performance, reliability, backup & recovery. Definitely not an introductory book. There were a couple of places where the writing was hard to follow, but I'm sure that'll be fixed in the next printing.

CSS: The Definitive Guide

Eric Meyer

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

Very authoritative and complete
Before purchasing this book, I had purchased about a half dozen books on css, one from the same author. I was really surprised to find new ways to use css that I hadn't learned in the other books. Each topic is discussed completely and in detail. For a reference on ...