Reviews


What is this section for ?

Well, reviews! We get sent books, we buy books, we go to films; we exist in the world. Here are a few reviews of things we have experienced. Please note that these reviews are the personal feelings of the author and therefore no reflection on the opinions of the collective London.pm (collective London.pm, that's quite a worrying thought, almost borg-esque).

If you've got a review you want to see here, first post it to the list- (Start the subject with REVIEW:) so people can discuss it- and also mention it to Dave, so he can add it to the site.

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Perl

Catalyst - Reviewed by Dave Cross - Feb 2008

Perl Hacks - Reviewed by Dave Cross - Nov 2006

Higher Order Perl - Reviewed by Robin Barker - Apr 2006

Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd ed - Reviewed by Mark Fowler - Jul 2005

Perl Medic - Reviewed by Dave Cross - Apr 2004

Practical mod_perl - Reviewed by Dave Cross - Mar 2004

Perl 6 Essentials - Reviewed by Nicholas Clark - Aug 2003

Graphics Programming with Perl - Reviewed by Ben Evans - May 2003

XML and Perl - Reviewed by Dave Cross - January 2003

Extending and Embedding Perl - Reviewed by Nicholas Clark - November 2002

Perl for C Programmers - Reviewed by Nicholas Clark - November 2002

mod_perl Developer's Cookbook - Reviewed by Dave Cross - September 2002

Web Development with Apache and Perl - Reviewed by Dave Cross - August 2002

Perl For Web Site Management - Reviewed by Dave Cross - July 2002

Writing CGI Applications With Perl - Reviewed by Dave Cross - June 2002

Running Weblogs with Slash - Reviewed by Dave Cross - June 2002

The Perl Black Book, 2nd Edition - Reviewed by Mark Fowler - March 2002

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics - Reviewed by Chris Devers - Dec 2001

Elements Of Programming with Perl - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - Nov 2001

Network Programming with Perl - Reviewed by Simon Wistow - October 2001

Perl CD Bookshelf 2 - Reviewed by Mark Fowler - Sept 2001

Programming the Perl DBI - Reviewed by Mark Fowler - July 2001

Java

Ground Up Java - Reviewed by Ben Evans - Jan 2004

World Wide Web

Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics Reviewed by Dave Cross - May 2008

High Performance Web Sites - Reviewed by Peter Corlett - December 2007

Google Analytics - Reviewed by Dave Cross - September 2006

XForms Essentials - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - June 2004

Web Caching - Reviewed by Andy Williams - November 2002

Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd ed - Reviewed by Earle Martin - August 2002

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web - Reviewed by Simon Wistow - August 2002

Don't make me think - Reviewed by Simon Wistow - August 2002

Javascript Application Cookbook - Reviewed by Simon Wistow - March 2002

Programming Web Services with XML-RPC - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - Aug 2001

Linux

Redhat Linux Firewalls - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - October 2003

Linux Server Hacks - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - July 2003

Building Secure Servers with Linux - Reviewed by Roger Burton West - January 2003

Red Hat Linux 8 Bible - Reviewed by Dave Cross - December 2002

Linux Device Drivers 2nd edition - Reviewed by Nicholas Clark - November 2002

Linux Companion for System Administrators - Reviewed by Roger Burton West - March 2002

Linux DNS Server Administration - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - Feburary 2002

Building Linux Clusters - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - Nov 2001

Networks

Cisco Routers for the Desperate - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - December 2006

Essential SNMP, Second Edition - Reviewed by Alistair McGlinchy - February 2006

802.11 Security - Reviewed by Leo Lapworth - July 2005

Using SANs and NAS - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - March 2005

Cisco Networking Simplified - Reviewed by Ben Evans - November 2003

Server Load Balancing - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - September 2003

Network Intrusion Detection - Reviewed by Neil Fryer - February 2003

Network Troubleshooting Tools - Reviewed by Roger Burton West - December 2001

Windows

Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet. - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - December 2001

Misc

The Four Just Men - Reviewed by David Cantrell - May 2008

Programming Collective Intelligence - Reviewed by Simon Wistow - December 2007

Backup and Recovery - Reviewed by Dave Cantrell - April 2007

Forensic Discovery - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - November 2006

Time Management for Sysadmins - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - September 2006

Astronomy Hacks - Reviewed by Candace Partridge - Jun 2006

XML Hacks - Reviewed by Dave Cross - Dec 2005

Database in Depth - Reviewed by Dave Cross - Dec 2005

On the edge: the spectacular rise and fall of Commodore - Reviewed by John Costello - Nov 2005

AI for Games Developers - Reviewed by Simon Wistow - July 2005

Essential System Administration Pocket Reference - Reviewed by Bob Walker - June 2005

Painless Project Management with FogBugz - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - March 2005

Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - February 2005

Developer to Designer - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - February 2005

RADIUS - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - November 2004

Pragmatic Program Automation - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - September 2004

Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - July 2004

Coder to Developer - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - June 2004

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. - Reviewed by Simon Wistow - January 2004

The Bug. - Reviewed by Simon Wistow - January 2004

Test Driven Development by Example - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - January 2003

Domain names: a practical guide - Reviewed by Roger Burton-West - December 2002

Creation - life and how to make it - Reviewed by Simon Wistow - May 2002

After the Gold Rush - Reviewed by Dean Wilson - March 2002

Hardware reviews

Palm m500 - Reviewed by David Cantrell - Aug 2001

Software reviews

Mulberry - Reviewed by David Cantrell - Apr 2003