• Component Object Model (COM)
• Windows and the Win32 API
• Object Oriented Analysis and Design
• Visual Basic
• Database
• Python
• C++
• Delphi
• Java
• HTML

Things as they are

Etc.

Visual Basic [ top ]

• Advanced Visual Basic 6: Power Techniques for Everyday Programs
• Debugging Applications
• Microsoft Visual Basic Design Patterns
• *Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 A rich source of example and techniques.
• *Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 The discussion of finite state machines to coordinate event driven code is very helpful, and worth the price of the book many times over.
• *Real Visual Basic: A Practical Approach to Enterprise Development in the Corporate World A helpful perspective.
  
  
• VB and VBA in a Nutshell: The Languages
• Visual Basic Controls in a Nutshell
• Doing Objects in Microsoft Visual Basic 6
• Visual Basic 6.0 Business Objects
• Visual Basic 6.0 Internet Programming
  
  
• MCSD Training Guide: Visual Basic 6 Exams (Covers Exams 70-175 and 70-176)
• MCSD VB6 Distributed Exam Cram
  

Component Object Model [ top ]

• *Programming Distributed Applications With COM and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 The discussion of interfaces was the key for me finally “getting it.”
  
  
• Dan Appleman's Developing COM/Activex Components With Visual Basic 6
• MTS Programming With Visual Basic 6
• COM IDL and Interface Design
• Essential COM
• Effective COM: 50 Ways to Improve Your COM and MTS-Based Applications
• Beginning ATL 3 COM Programming

Windows and the Win32 API [ top ]

• Inside Windows 2000 Server The detail provided is helpful to sort out what is really going on.
• Win32 Programming
• Developing User Interfaces for Microsoft Windows
• Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic
  
• Dan Appleman's Win32 API Puzzle Book and Tutorial for Visual Basic Programmers
• Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API
• Introduction to MFC Programming with Visual C++
• Programming Windows With MFC
• Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows : The Preeminent Guide to Programming the Windows API

C++ [ top ]

• Thinking in C++ (2e), Vol. 1
• C++: Effective Object-Oriented Software Construction
• *C++ from Scratch : An Object-Oriented Approach (The Jesse Liberty's from Scratch Series)
• C++ Unleashed
• Programming Visual C++
• Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
• More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
• Effective C++ CD: 85 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
• C++ Primer
• Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)
• C++ Standard Library From Scratch (From Scratch)

Delphi [ top ]

• Mastering Delphi 5
• Delphi in a Nutshell
• Delphi 5 Developer's Guide
• Delphi COM Programming

Perl [ top ]

• *Object Oriented Perl The discussion on typeglobs is an example of how masterfully the authors make the arcane clear.
  
• Elements of Programming With Perl This is a refreshingly clear and beautifully presented introduction.
• Programming the Perl DBI

Python [ top ]

• The Quick Python Book
• Learning Python (Help for Programmers)
• Python Programming on Win 32 The approach to Win32 provided by Python is astounding in its simplicity and power. Who would have thought Python could streamline learning MFC programming!
• Python and Tkinter Programming

Java [ top ]

• Core Java 2, Volume 1: Fundamentals
• Core Java 2, Volume 2: Advanced Features
• Just Java 2.0
• Java 2 From Scratch
  

Object Oriented Analysis and Design [ top ]

• Microsoft Visual Basic Design Patterns
• Real-Time UML, Second Edition: Developing Efficient Objects for Embedded Systems
• *Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• *Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• *Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change Automated testing encourages innovation.
• *Object Oriented Perl The discussion on typeglobs is an example of how masterfully the authors make the arcane clear.
• The CRC Card Book
• UML Distilled, Second Edition: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language
• Beginning Object-Oriented Analysis and Design : With C++
• Practical Object-Oriented Development in C++ and Java
  

HTML [ top ]

• Flash Web Design I find the work of Hillman Curtis jaw-dropping amazing. A neat example, a Flash movie narrated by Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, is here.
• Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide

Database [ top ]

• MySQL This is a rich resource on MySQL.
• Programming the Perl DBI
• Professional Visual Basic 6 Databases

Things as they are [ top ]

• Voices of Insight
• Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime A monk gone to the forest or to the root of a tree or to an empty hut, reflects: "This is empty of self or what belongs to a self." This is the liberation of mind through emptiness. (page 8)
• Still Here : Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
• Original Self: Living With Paradox and Authenticity
• *The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Perception like a blow to the chest.
• *Buddhism Plain and Simple
• *Awareness: A De Mello Spirituality Conference in His Own Words A eagle raised with chickens looks longingly at eagles soaring above, needlessly.
• Everyday Zen: Love and Work May the train eventually stop for us all.
  
  
• Tibetan Book of the Dead No escape.
• Afterzen : Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear
  
  
• The Consolations of Philosophy
  
  
• The End of Time I think this book is perhaps the very best place to start if you would like to explore current thinking on the deep implications of quantum mechanics (necessary since Planck's constant is not zero) and relativity (necessary since the speed of light is the same in all inertial frames) for our universe.
• Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in Modern Physics
  
  
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces
• You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
• Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life
• How the World Can Be the Way It Is: An Inquiry for the New Millennium into Science, Philosophy, and Perception
• Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East (1989) (VHS)
• Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East (1989) (DVD)
• Meetings With Remarkable Men (1979)
• Opus

Etc. [ top ]

• The Pilates Body
• From Manchuria to Tibet
• Tibet Handbook With Bhutan, 1999
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
• Blue Ginger : East Meets West Cooking With Ming Tsai
• Musashi
• Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
• Leisure: The Basis of Culture
• Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK]
• Ray Of Light
• And If the Moon Could Talk
• Net Gain : Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities
• Net Worth
• Real World Scanning and Halftones
• Hologram Crackers
• Adobe Dog House

fatbrain.com management recommendations

fatbrain.com leisure recommendations

[ Updated Sunday, June 4, 2000 4:24 PM ]
Problems, comments and suggestions to support@dandill.com