Why I love O’Reilly Books
Posted in books on September 14th, 2009 by Quilib – 1 CommentI can recall the first time I became interested in Computers, it was the the time Windows 3.1 was around and there was big talk about Windows 95 hitting the market and all the present and soon to be Guru’s were on the alert for it’s release. Windows 95 accompanied with DOS 6.2 which many old users found useful back then but serve little use with much more powerful programs like Windows Shell which can wipe the floor with Dos and great books like the Productive Programmer written by Neil Ford naturally Published by O’Reilly show just how effective it can be.
Why I love O’Reilly Books is they are Gurus and they publish the books which people do not not know exist or do loads of searching on the internet to try and find them but never have any luck and in all honesty if you want to know things like how to covert you old VHS tapes in DVD then become obsessive about buying the capture card which will allow the video to come onto your hard drive without dropping frames fabulous Books like Big Book of Windows Hacks written by Preston Gralla show you do so without spending any additional money.
Before Intel started making the CPU for APPLE MAC making OSX work on a PC which was Intel based was possible but it never worked well, numerous modifications were needed to make it stable now that INTEL are making APPLE MAC’s CPU’s the integration of windows and Apple Mac’s operating system is much more stable and can work extremely effective on a PC, If you would like such information projected to you in a nice intuitive step by step formula then look no further than Big Book of Apple Hacks.
You may find yourself a job such as network administrator for a office some place like London UK or any other place in the world and there happens to be around 200 people working there and more often than not the need to do lots of work which needs to be replicated ie copying some text from one place to another meaning an office worker could spend the whole day doing just that in fact there could be thousands of pages to do and if the 200 strong staff stayed dedicated to doing this task alone for one month it still would not be finished, big question is how could you simplify that also automate it so one computer could do it in seconds? Fortunately Books like Windows Powershell Cookbook written by Lee Holmes and the PRODUCTIVE PROGRAMMER show you just how to do that.