The Minimum You Need To Know Series by Roland Hughes

Service Oriented Architecture is all the rage these days. Dozens, if not hundreds of books are published on it, and more seem to show up every day.  This book isn't awash with buzzwords and jargon.  In truth, this book will probably be shunned by the SOA elite.

Rather than focus on the front end, this book focuses on the back end.  That Heritage data silo/application where all of the other books just draw a box with “connect somehow” written on it.  Most of them try to sell some expensive middleware along the way.

Management can and should read the first 5 chapters in this book.  These chapters aren't technical and may very well open their eyes.  The remaining chapters are for those programmers given the “connect somehow” task.  While OpenVMS is the Heritage platform of choice in this book and Ubuntu is used for the front end development, developers from other platforms should get a lot of ideas by reading this book.

Source code is provided on the CD.

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There are two main intents of this book.  The first intent is to allow developers who know at least one of the covered languages on another platform to quickly come up to speed on the OpenVMS platform.  The second is to assist current OpenVMS developers finding themselves having to work with a different language their current language become productive.
A single application is developed over and over again in each of the languages.  Both RMS Indexed file development and relational development are covered in the book.  When working with MySQL only the C language is covered.  The accompanying CD-ROM contains the source code developed in the book.  By being able to compare the source code  for the same application in different languages the reader can quickly get a feeling for the design trade offs and benefits of each language covered.
The screen handler covered is FMS.  While this may be one of the oldest if not the oldest screen handling/forms development packages on OpenVMS it also has a very large base in production systems.  If you are new to the OpenVMS environment you will encounter it.  Once you know this forms management system you should be able to quickly pick up the other products on this platform.

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This book shows the nitty-gritty of developing with Qt using PostgreSQL, Firebird, and SQLite databases. It also shows the developer how to create BOTH console and GUI Qt applications. Readers are shown how to do development with Qt Designer, Qt Creator, Qdevelop, Monkey Studio, and Eclipse under KUbuntu. Like most of the titles in this series this book attempts to teach by repeatedly developing the same applications so even seasoned developers can learn from the differences each tool presents.






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This book is part of "The Minimum You Need to Know" family of books by Logikal Solutions. As the family expands they will cover an increasing variety of topics. This book is designed to be used as a test book for classes in logic from high school to college level. It should be one of the first books you read when starting in IT.
Not only does this book cover flow charting and pseudocode, it teaches the reader to think before they start mapping out the logic to solve a problem. The author of this book is an industry veteran with roughly 30 years in the field. It has been his experience that recent graduates, from any country, are nearly useless at problem solving. If they cannot point, click, and drag, they cannot solve the problem. This book is an attempt to teach them how to solve the problem.


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Most books on Java drop you immediately into developing Web applets and HTML pages. This book doesn't bother covering what is done in thousands of other books on the market. Here we focus on using JNI to access RMS (Records Management System) indexed files and FMS (Forms Management System.) You will learn how to use Java with MMS (Module Management System) and CMS (Code Management System.) Finally, the same application found in The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer is redeveloped using Java with FMS and RDB (Releational DataBase.)
In short, this isn't just another “oatmeal for the masses” Java book. It is for professionals on the OpenVMS platform who find they must now work with Java.
All source code can be found at the Web site for the series: http://theminimumyouneedtoknow.com/

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This book covers using C#/Mono with the Qt framework in great detail.  It will be of great use to C++ Qt users as well since Chapter 3 is currently the most complete set of instructions for creating and printing reports in TXT, HTML, and ODF with Qt4.  Faithful readers of this series will also be pleased to learn this book continues the tradition of including a Ruminations chapter at the end.




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This book is meant to provide a much needed tutorial for the OpenSource xBaseJ library.  If you have some fundamental Java skills this book can have you developing your own xBaseJ applications in a matter of hours.  The xBaseJ library was used by the author to create the FuelSurcharge project on SourceForge.






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Information and Purchase: http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com/