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Book Reviews
I have written 145 published reviews of books. They include 56 reviews that I ghostwrote for a New York Times best-selling author and a major publishing firm (now owned by Amazon.com).
My other reviews, listed below, were for 89 technical books, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, American Media, Apress, A Book Apart, friends of ED, Manning Publications, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, No Starch Press, O'Reilly Media, Packt Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Prentice Hall, Sams Publishing, SitePoint, Smashing Media, and Wrox, as well as a review of the Safari Books Online library. These reviews have been published by Slashdot, Financial Sense, Master New Media, and SDOUG.
- Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development (Sams Publishing)
- Head First HTML5 Programming (O'Reilly Media)
- Responsive Web Design (A Book Apart)
- Drupal 7 Themes (Packt Publishing)
- Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 (Apress)
- CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
- Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices (SitePoint)
- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition (O'Reilly Media)
- Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal (Wrox)
- Drupal Web Services (Packt Publishing)
- Pro Drupal 7 Development, 3rd Edition (Apress)
- Foundation Drupal 7 (Apress)
- Drupal 7 Module Development (Packt Publishing)
- Drupal 7 (Packt Publishing)
- MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development (Packt Publishing)
- Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x (Packt Publishing)
- jQuery Cookbook (O'Reilly Media)
- The Smashing Book (Smashing Media GmbH)
- Learning jQuery 1.3 (Packt Publishing)
- Website Owner's Manual (Manning Publications)
- Magento: Beginner's Guide (Packt Publishing)
- Drupal Multimedia (Packt Publishing)
- Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide, 2nd Edition (Prentice Hall)
- Even Faster Web Sites (O'Reilly Media)
- Unlocking Android (Manning Publications)
- Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide (Holistic Vibes Sarl)
- Front End Drupal (Prentice Hall)
- Universal Design for Web Applications (O'Reilly Media)
- Securing PHP Web Applications (Addison-Wesley Professional)
- Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development, 2nd Edition (Packt Publishing)
- Using Drupal (O'Reilly Media)
- jQuery in Action (Manning Publications)
- Website Optimization (O'Reilly Media)
- PHP 5 CMS Framework Development (Packt Publishing)
- Learning Drupal 6 Module Development (Packt Publishing)
- Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce (Packt Publishing)
- Head First C# (O'Reilly Media)
- Joomla! A User's Guide (Prentice Hall)
- Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5, 2nd Edition (Packt Publishing)
- Building Powerful and Robust Websites With Drupal 6 (Packt Publishing)
- Wicked Cool PHP (No Starch Press)
- Regular Expression Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly Media)
- Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP (Apress)
- Drupal 5 Themes (Packt Publishing)
- PHP in Action (Manning Publications)
- CSS Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition (O'Reilly Media)
- The PHP Anthology, 2nd Edition (SitePoint)
- Professional Plone Development (Packt Publishing)
- High Performance Web Sites (O'Reilly Media)
- The Creature from Jekyll Island, 4th Edition (American Media)
- GWT in Action (Manning Publications)
- Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development (Packt Publishing)
- Devices of the Soul (O'Reilly Media)
- Pro Drupal Development (Apress)
- MySQL Cards and Charts (VisiBone)
- MySQL Stored Procedure Programming (O'Reilly Media)
- MySQL Pocket Reference (O'Reilly Media)
- The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition (No Starch Press)
- MySQL Cookbook, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly Media)
- PHP 5 in Practice (Sams Publishing)
- CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition (O'Reilly Media)
- CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly Media)
- Deliver First Class Web Sites (SitePoint)
- CSS: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly Media)
- Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax (Apress)
- The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, 3rd Edition (Apress)
- Pro PHP Security (Apress)
- PHP Hacks (O'Reilly Media)
- Wicked Cool Perl Scripts (No Starch Press)
- The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick (Apress)
- Essential PHP Security (O'Reilly Media)
- Pro Perl Debugging (Apress)
- Spring Into PHP 5 (Addison-Wesley Professional)
- How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL (McGraw-Hill Osborne Media)
- Test Driving Linux (O'Reilly Media)
- Technology Paradise Lost (Manning Publications)
- Regular Expression Pocket Reference (O'Reilly Media)
- Oracle Database 10g New Features (McGraw-Hill Osborne Media)
- Oracle PL/SQL Built-ins Pocket Reference (O'Reilly Media)
- Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly Media)
- Safari Tech Books Online (O'Reilly Media)
- The Oracle PL/SQL CD Bookshelf (O'Reilly Media)
- Oracle8i Advanced PL/SQL Programming (McGraw-Hill Osborne Media)
- Oracle9i PL/SQL Programming, 2nd Edition (McGraw-Hill Osborne Media)
- Oracle PL/SQL 101 (McGraw-Hill Osborne Media)
- Mastering Oracle SQL (O'Reilly Media)
- Learning Oracle PL/SQL (O'Reilly Media)
- Java Programming with Oracle JDBC (O'Reilly Media)
- Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Workbook (O'Reilly Media)
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