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[4 Oct 2009 | One Comment | 49 views]
Book Review Good To Great Companies – Chapter 3 Summary

In chapter three, Collins would begin by saying when it comes to producing good to great companies it was the matter of putting the right people on the “bus” and getting the wrong people off the “bus”. However, had talk briefly about that in chapter one, chapter three would seem to get to the important aspect of defining the right people and wrong people. Collins talks about three truths when it comes to using the right people and the wrong people, the first one he talks about who can easily …

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[4 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 57 views]
Book Review Good To Great Companies – Chapter 2 Summary

I find chapter two to be of interest for those in the management area, the reason I say that because it would seem that Jim Collins is saying this is what you shouldn’t do when you are at a high level position. He talks about how some of the good-to-great leaders were humble and thought of the company and not themselves. Jim Collins talks about Level 5 Management, in short is a position that blends both personal humility with strong an professional will. Or another way to put it, those …

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[4 Oct 2009 | 2 Comments | 46 views]
Book Review Good To Great Companies – Chapter 1 Summary

For one of my projects in a management course, I had to pick out a book and read and then provide an overall summary to at the end of the course and so I thought I would share with every my thoughts about this book. It is called Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t. Now each summary are based on notes I have taken in a essay like writing format to make the transition for the final paper a lot easier and so here …

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[18 Apr 2009 | One Comment | 56 views]
SitePoint – HTML Utopia Designing Without Tables Using CSS 2nd Ed. – Review

In the late 1990’s and early years of 2000, web designers begin to realize that tables needed to go and that there were not too many options to make that even possible.  I believe the use of Div’s did not come into play until well after CSS1 was accepted by the designers and software and CSS2 specs were in their beta stages. Either way, once web designers realize Div’s and CSS were the new way of life for a web designer, the hate for tables grew even more as people …

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[1 Mar 2009 | No Comment | 71 views]
HTML: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pages with HTML, CSS, and XHTML

In my latest book review, I am going to cover is titled “HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pages”.  In this eye pleasing set up with the use of blue and well detailed information this 370 page, 19 chapter book is geared towards those with a intermediate to strong background in (X)HTML and CSS.  Although a beginner might find this as a useful reference guide as well because of the detail information about all the syntax a design might use.  Therefore, I give a brief …

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[20 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 26 views]
Book Review: PHP Programming for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (3rd Edition)

Well I thought I give another book review as this is my forth book in the visual QuickStart Guide Series that I have.  If you have read my other reviews on this series you have a good idea what this book is about and this it is all about and that in this book you will be learning basics of PHP programming.  I would have to say this is a great book for beginners especially if you want to learn the basics pretty dark quickly without needing to vist a …

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[3 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 174 views]
Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong- Book Review

That can’t be true, everything I know about CSS is wrong? Lies! Sitepoint.com it is all lies! Well maybe not all lies but I guess you would have to read the book to find out and thus I will give a review about what this book is about and see if the title of this book is correct or not.

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[23 Jan 2009 | No Comment | 61 views]
A+ Guide to Software: Managing, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting, Fourth Edition Review

A person wanting to learn or study for the A+ exams on how to maintain, troubleshoot or manage various operating systems, then this is the book for you.  This book will be covering all the major windows operating systems from Windows 95 to Windows XP and they also will talk about Mac operating system as well as Linux.

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[23 Jan 2009 | No Comment | 170 views]
A+ Guide to Hardware: Managing, Maintaining and Troubleshooting, Fourth Edition Review

If you‘re starting out in the hardware side of computers and you want to be able to get an A+ certificate in hardware then this book is for you.  This book covers every piece of hardware that is used to build and run a computer and in very great detail for each piece as well.  Also if your studying for the A+ exams then this book is definitely for you as this book will explain in detail what part of the exam each chapter and …

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[11 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 5 views]
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual Review

Although I am not much of a wikipedia editor or writer I do visit that website quite often to gain knowledge or find out about a person place or thing out of curiosity and what not. As for the book itself it pretty much a how-to book on the inner workings of the wikipedia website. which includes editing, designing, citing sources and more, but also this book can be used by those who have a wiki software installed on their website and want to provide information such as software updates, …