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	Bellin, David Information Fountain Inc. CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina      Reader Recommended    Reviewer Selected       Options: All Media TypesJournalsProceedingsDiv BooksWhole BooksOther Date ReviewedTitleAuthorPublisherPublished Date DescendingAscending Date Reviewed     1 - 44 of 44 reviews        Operating systems: a systematic view (6th ed.) Davis W., Rajkumar T.,  Pearson Addison Wesley, 2004.Type: Book As its authors accurately state, “[this] text continues to focus on using, rather than designing.” The text contains five sections and four appendices, covering some 600 pages.... Feb 4 2005      PHP5 and MySQL bible Converse T., Park J., Morgan C.,  Hungry Minds Inc, 2004.Type: Book There are two excellent books on PHP: hypertext preprocessor (PHP) and MySQL that have been previously reviewed in Computing Reviews [1,2]. There has also been a spate of the usual sloppy titles on the subject, including one discussed by... Jan 4 2005      Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: from novice to professional Gilmore W., Gilmore J.,  APress, 2004.Type: Book I don’t know why my suspicions get raised when book covers have phrases such as “books for professionals by professionals.” I guess it’s due to the fact that, most of the time, advertising copy is a poor reflection of... Sep 20 2004     Death march Yourdon E.,  Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003. 304 pp. Type: Book Ed Yourdon is nothing if not a catchy phraseologist. A “death march project” is one whose “schedules, estimations, budgets, and resources are so constrained or skewed that participants can hardly survive, much less... Jul 7 2004     Beyond productivity: information, technology, innovation, and creativity Mitchell W., Inouye A., Blumenthal M.,  National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 268 pp. Type: Book Thanks to the deliberations of a large committee, and the subsequent editorial vetting process, this book offers many benefits, and much information. It is the report of a committee convened by the National Academy of Sciences to address the... May 26 2004     Me++: the cyborg self and the networked city Mitchell W.,  MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 312 pp. Type: Book This book closes a trilogy of ruminations on the social implications of technology by William J. Mitchell, Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, and Dean of Architecture and Planning at MIT. The previous two titles were... Mar 9 2004     A taxonomy of future higher thinking skills Passig D.  Informatics in Education 2(1): 79-92, 2003. Type: Article “Our future society will be different from what we have known in the past fifty years.” This opening statement sets the tone and content for the entire paper. A summary of the views of various futurists is presented, and Bloom’s ... Dec 10 2003     Rethinking the digital divide Payton F.  Communications of the ACM 46(6): 89-91, 2003. Type: Article This three-page article reviews a very small study on the self-reported perspectives of African-American teenagers attending high school and middle school in Raleigh, North Carolina. There were 41 study participants, with a reported average of... Aug 22 2003     Falling through the net: defining the digital divide    In The digital divide. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. Type: Book Chapter The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released this groundbreaking report, “Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide,” in 1999. The report describes surprising disparities in access to both... Jun 3 2003     Our modern times: the new nature of capitalism in the information age Cohen D.,  MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002. 120 pp. Type: Book Written by a noted French economist, this book contains seven chapters which are divided into two sections. “The New Wave” starts with a cultural economic survey, “From Chaplin to Godard,” covered in 14 pages, followed by... May 1 2003     Automatic Model Transformations Using Extended UML Object Diagrams in Modeling Environments Milicev D.  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 28(4): 413-431, 2002. Type: Article There is often an undesirably large gap between academic research and industry practice. This is all too frequently the case in the very areas that should be narrowing the gap; namely, software engineering research areas, including modeling,... Oct 17 2002     Computer forensics: incident response essentials Warren G. I., Heiser J.,  Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 2002. 392 pp. Type: Book This book consists of 326 text pages followed by 54 pages of appendices and two pages of bibliography. Of the thirteen chapters, the first and the last are a very brief pro-forma introduction and conclusion. Chapters 2 through 7 are 176 pages... Apr 22 2002     Developing business systems with CORBA Sadiq W., Cummins F.,  Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 1998.Type: Book Sadiq and Cummins provide a good introduction to distributed object architectures, beginning with an introduction to the basic concepts of object technology (which could easily have been skipped). Chapter 2 considers several distributed object... Feb 1 1999     Developing Windows error messages Ezzell B.,  O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1998.Type: Book Edith Wharton has been quoted as saying that “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” Windows error messages often seem to put out the light rather than spread it. Ezzell’s new... Jun 1 1998     The data model resource book Silverston L., Inmon W., Graziano K.,  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1997.Type: Book The information in this book will appeal to a specific, albeit narrow, audience: designers of large relational databases and data warehouses. These are some of the ground troops in the software engineering battles. Any organization that uses... Feb 1 1998     The object database handbook Barry D. (ed),  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1996.Type: Book It is sometimes hard to judge which part of the object-oriented (OO) software world is changing and developing the fastest, but OO databases would be among the top five on most lists. Clearly, there is a market for a work that could help... Mar 1 1997     Bullet proof documentation Cady D.,  McGraw-Hill, Inc., Hightstown, NJ, 1996.Type: Book The jacket says, “If you’re interested in a career that’s bursting with potential, you’ll find an enlightening discussion of the role of document testers in today’s and tomorrow’s business world.” This is ... Dec 1 1996     Virus detection and elimination Skardhamar R.,  Academic Press Prof., Inc., San Diego, CA, 1995.Type: Book It would be wonderful to find a good book that not only showed the innards of a working virus checker, but helped the reader to mutate it to inoculate against new strains. That is the cover promise of this new book.... Aug 1 1996     Designing and writing online documentation (2nd ed.) Horton W.,  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1994.Type: Book As the title suggests, this book is a practical guide to online documentation. The introductory chapter does well in identifying several different types of online documentation systems, such as help facilities, computer-based training modules,... Apr 1 1996     Anti-virus tools and techniques for computer systems Polk W., Lawrence E. I., Wack J., Carnahan L.,  Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, NJ, 1995.Type: Book Part 1, 39 pages of this 88-page hardcover, seems to closely follow publication 800-5 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), “Guide to Selection of Anti-virus Tools and Techniques.” Part 2, the next 40 pages, is ... Mar 1 1996     Seamless object-oriented software architecture Waldén K., Nerson J. (ed),  Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1995.Type: Book I first started programming in the 1960s. Now in the 1990s, it still seems as though management just does not know what to do next. Systems seem to cost too much to develop, are always late, and rarely work the way they should. Such concerns gave ... Oct 1 1995     Developing and localizing international software Madell T., Parsons C., Abegg J.,  Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1994.Type: Book Developed from a manual for users of HP 9000 computers, this slim book begins with an approach to the general development of internationalized software. Much of the discussion centers on UNIX- and C-based software systems. Cross-language... Jun 1 1995     Designing, writing and producing computer documentation Denton L. (ed), Kelly J.,  McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1993.Type: Book Ten chapters, plus two appendices (the second taken from an IBM manual) make up this book on documentation. Chapters include “Analyzing Your Audience and Purpose,” “Getting Organized,” and “Dividing the Information... Oct 1 1994     Data analysis, data modeling, and classification Modell M.,  McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1992.Type: Book All the data-directed activities for the analysis and design of new computers systems are covered. The book begins by defining data analysis and fitting it in to the software development life cycle. The close relationship between data analysis... Jun 1 1993     Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications Paepcke A.  Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications, Phoenix, AZ, Oct 6-11, 1991, 1991. Type: Whole Proceedings Proceedings are never like being there, especially in rapidly changing areas such as object technology. For example, these OOPSLA proceedings do not contain the text of the well-received keynote speech by John Tibbetts of Kinexis, “Object... Oct 1 1992     Illustrating computer documentation Horton W.,  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1991.Type: Book In my review of Horton’s earlier book [1], I commented upon the author’s emphasis on design effort, and said such a viewpoint was justified for much the same reasons that I have emphasized design in my writing on software development. ... Jun 1 1992     Designing and writing online documentation: help files to hypertext Horton W.,  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1990.Type: Book Documentation is hard. This truism is accepted by several groups, including those who make a living documenting products created by others, those who must attempt to document their own creations, and the masses who seek to use the documentation... Feb 1 1992     Writing better computer user documentation: from paper to hypertext (version 2.0) Brockmann R.,  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1990.Type: Book End user documentation seems to be one of the most difficult forms of product support to do well. Even experienced technical writers have an easier time working up documents directed at engineers or maintenance technicians than trying to write... Oct 1 1991     Computer systems conversion   McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1990.Type: Book The conversion of large software systems to new hardware or software bases is a difficult task. While conversions are sometimes driven by technology advances, they are often demanded during times of organizational turbulence, such as during... Dec 1 1990     Security (special section) Wayne J. (ed)  BYTE 14(6): 254-291, 1989. Type: Article The special “In Depth” feature on security in the June 1989 issue of Byte magazine consists of four articles and a resource listing.... Aug 1 1990     Know thy viral enemy Greenberg R.  BYTE 14(6): 275-280, 1989. Type: Article The special “In Depth” feature on security in the June 1989 issue of Byte magazine consists of four articles and a resource listing.... Aug 1 1990     How safe is it? Kochanski M.  BYTE 14(6): 257-264, 1989. Type: Article The special “In Depth” feature on security in the June 1989 issue of Byte magazine consists of four articles and a resource listing.... Aug 1 1990     Secret codes Dror A.  BYTE 14(6): 267-270, 1989. Type: Article The special “In Depth” feature on security in the June 1989 issue of Byte magazine consists of four articles and a resource listing.... Aug 1 1990     The safety zone    BYTE 14(6): 290-291, 1989. Type: Article The special “In Depth” feature on security in the June 1989 issue of Byte magazine consists of four articles and a resource listing.... Aug 1 1990     Mastering documentation with document masters for systems development, control and delivery Bell P., Evans C.,  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1989.Type: Book After a brief introduction, Bell and Evans’s Mastering documentation is divided into five parts. “Getting Started,” the first part, provides the exposition of the authors’ viewpoints and strategies for documenting... Nov 1 1989     Security in computing Pfleeger C.,  Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1989.Type: Book Pfleeger’s book is packaged as a university text. It opens with three excellent chapters that cover the basic mathematics of encryption, decryption, and associated practices. A brief introduction to computer security, and a decent summary... Aug 1 1989     WordPerfect 4.2 Macros Mosich D.,  TAB Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1988.Type: Book WordPerfect 4.2 macros, by Donna Mosich, is aimed at experienced users rather than novices. It does not provide any background on the basic functions of the package. Rather, it focuses on taking experienced users of the basic functions to... Oct 1 1988     WordPerfect quick reference handbook Cuneo K., Bond G., Moller J.,  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1988.Type: Book The WordPerfect Quick Reference Handbook consists of four major parts. The first part contains a simple listing of all commands, ordered both by function key assignment and alphabetically. All the entries in the first section contain... Sep 1 1988     Computer security: a comprehensive controls checklist Wood C., Banks W., Guarro S., Garcia A., Hampel V., Sartorio H.,  Wiley-Interscience, New York, NY, 1987.Type: Book Computer security is a checklist that originated in a project for the United States Air Force Logistics Command. Its stated purpose is to be of value to “users who need to acquire familiarity with, and then keep abreast of, the... Feb 1 1988     Risk management--a key to security in the electronic funds transfer system Richards R., Yestingsmeier J.  Computers and Security 5(2): 135-140, 1986. Type: Article This is a short summary which mentions once almost every topic related to EFTS security management. Since so many topics are mentioned in so few pages (including insurance, consumer protection, auditing, etc.), none can be covered in any... Jan 1 1987     The analysis, design, and implementation of information systems (3rd ed.) Henry C. J.,  McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1985.Type: Book The third edition of Henry Lucas’ undergraduate textbook attempts to cover a lot of ground. [For reviews of the first two editions, see <CR> 18, 1 (Jan. 1977), Rev. 30,782; and <CR> 22, 12 (Dec. 1981), Rev.... Jul 1 1986     Maintenance programming: improved productivity through motivation Couger J., Colter M.,  Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1985.Type: Book This is a slim volume containing the detailed results of the authors’ research into managerial approaches for motivating maintenance personnel. A survey was answered by 500 employees at different firms, and was followed up by 104... Feb 1 1986     Creating computer software user guides: from manuals to menus Houghton-Alico D.,  McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1985.Type: Book After briefly introducing the basic concepts underlying software documentation and discussing the “macrodesign” of documentation, the bulk of this book discusses what the author labels the “microframe.” This includes... Oct 1 1985     A handbook of software development and operating procedures for microcomputers Holliday P.,  Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 1985.Type: Book This small (181-page) book attempts to cover a great deal of subject matter. The Introduction and General Procedures (Chapters 1 and 2) define terms such as operating systems, media, and backups. Chapter 3 contains some useful suggestions on file ... Jul 1 1985         Display 510152550100 per column
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