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  Advanced Perl programming
Rothwell W., Apress, New York, NY, 2020. 308 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484258-62-0), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Advanced Perl programming is the third book in a three-book set by William “Bo” Rothwell [1,2]. The three books are titled (and subtitled) in a manner suggesting a pedagogy in Perl that takes readers from a n...

Jun 4 2021
  Advanced Perl programming
Rothwell W., Apress, New York, NY, 2020. 308 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484258-62-0), Reviews: (1 of 2)

I am not an everyday Perl programmer; that said, since learning it in the mid-90s from an excellent book by Randal L. Schwartz [1], I am always on the lookout to expand my knowledge of the language to see what else I need to acquire to...

May 31 2021
   Unix: the textbook (3rd ed.)
Sarwar S., Koretsky R., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2017. 1380 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-482233-58-2)

This 1380-page, five-pound behemoth of a “textbook” is unlikely to burden the backpacks of operating system (OS) students, but it certainly provides a definitive academic and professional reference for one of the mo...

Aug 29 2017
   The official Ubuntu book (9th ed.)
Helmke M., Joseph E., Rey J., Prentice Hall Press, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2016. 368 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-134513-42-3)

This book has been revised and updated to cover Ubuntu 16.04, and comes with an installation DVD for the 64-bit (AMD64) desktop version thereof. The back cover promises that readers will “learn how to reliably install, custom...

Nov 16 2016
  Ubuntu unleashed 2016 edition: covering 15.10 and 16.04
Helmke M., Sams publishing, Indianapolis, IN, 2015. 816 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-134268-11-8)

Ubuntu is close to becoming, if not already, the most popular Linux operating system, used by millions of ordinary and power users on a daily basis. The Ubuntu unleashed 2016 book by Matthew Helmke aims to provide in-depth knowl...

Oct 13 2016
  The accidental SysAdmin handbook: a primer for early level IT professionals
Kralicek E., Apress, New York, NY, 2016. 261 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484218-16-7)

Although data processing is peculiar to each field of business, in every case it must rest on a technical infrastructure that is common to most business environments. This book explains how to design, build, and manage precisely that i...

Oct 5 2016
  Docker containers (includes content update program): build and deploy with Kubernetes, Flannel, Cockpit, and Atomic
Negus C., Prentice Hall Press, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2015. 320 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-134136-56-1)

When Computing Reviews invited me to review this book, I thought it would be a good way for me to understand what exactly docker containers are. After reading and rereading the first few chapters, I was still as ignorant as in t...

Aug 24 2016
  Linux phrasebook
Granneman S., Addison-Wesley Professional, Indianapolis, IN, 2015. 512 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-321833-88-4)

This small book is pleasant to handle and browse. It is part of a collection of similar books generally dealing with programming languages (JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Python). But in the case of Linux, this reduces what can be explained t...

May 19 2016
  Shell scripting recipes: a problem-solution approach (2nd ed.)
Varma J., Johnson C., Apress, New York, NY, 2015. 380 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484202-21-0)

Having no introduction or preface, this book does not make a good first impression. The publisher’s book webpage [1] says that the book is “for anyone who has the basic knowledge of what shell scripting is and wants...

Mar 31 2016
  Windows Registry troubleshooting
Halsey M., Bettany A., Apress, New York, NY, 2015. 136 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484209-93-6)

Microsoft, starting with Windows NT, created a repository for system and application settings called the Registry, a database that replaced text files stored in many locations used by system programs and individual applications. Introd...

Dec 21 2015
 
 
 
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