March 6, 2006
Mike Hillyer is a member of the MySQL AB documentation team. He just posted a short review on my MySQL Crash Course , stating that it is "an excellent book for the beginning users just getting started with MySQL and perhaps SQL in general." Thanks, Mike!
March 1, 2006
TechBookReport has posted a review of my MySQL Crash Course , and concluded that "If you want to learn SQL and aim to implement your database using MySQL then this is definitely the book to use".
January 29, 2006
Amazon.com has been paying for Google AdWords for my name for quite some time now. And now they are also paying for the AdWords "MySQL Crash Course" (and linking to that search term which find my new MySQL book ). Cool!
January 23, 2006
Ray Camden has posted comments on my newly released MSQL Crash Course . Thanks, Ray.
January 23, 2006
The ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit has won Best Book in the 2005 MX Developer’s Journal / ColdFusion Developer’s Journal Readers Choice Awards , with Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development winning 2nd runner-up. And in addition, my Tip-of-the-Day (which has...
January 15, 2006
Pete Freitag has posted comments on my newly released MSQL Crash Course . Thanks, Pete.
December 19, 2005
Here are some questions that I received about my new MySQL Crash Course . I am posting the answers here in case anyone else has the same questions: Does the book cover MySQL 5? The book was written for MySQL 4.x and MySQL 5, and most of the content applies to both. However, there are chapters that...
December 18, 2005
My newest book, MySQL Crash Course , is now shipping. This book is based on my bestselling Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes , and builds on top of the lessons and structure of that book. By focusing on just MySQL, this book goes into far more detail than the SQL book, and even includes...
October 26, 2005
This one forwarded to me by coauthor, Ray Camden . Devil7 is a UK blogger, who is (in his own words) "sick of using ASP and too thick to go Dot Net… hence the ColdFusion stint". He's been blogging his progress working through our ColdFusion MX7 Web Application Construction Kit .
October 18, 2005
I recently received this message from Andrew Tomlinson, a Senior Lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Gloucestershire (a ColdFusion powered site) in the U.K., and am sharing it with Andrew's permission. Thanks! :-) Just a short email to let you know that we have adopted Sams...