Readers Preference Reviews

Beginning OpenOffice 3 walks the reader through using the most common features of OpenOffice, arguably one of the most powerful and complete office suite available.  And best of all, it is free!  Many companies and individuals are discovering it for the first time as they deal with the need to exchange files with others who are using the newest version of Microsoft Office.

This field guide both excels in many ways and is pretty typical in others.  The bird photographs are excellent and the book well organized.  For each bird the author includes average length, weight, and wingspan as well as various notes on habitat, habits and other help for identifying the bird.  Of course there is an extensive index as well as introductory information for each section to help in classifying.  

Rabies Mom is the sad and true story of a neglectful mother and legal system that not only fails to protect our children but often encourages poor parentling.  After losing his child to rabies, author Pat Carroll looked for answers.  He knew there was a problem when his ex-wife had not disclosed to the doctor that their child had been bitten by a bat although he had specifically asked if their daughter had been bitten by any animals.  This lack of information resulted in treatment being given too late to help.  

I reviewed the prior version of this text and rated it as highly recommended and this updated third version continues with the same quality content and highly usable writing style.  Starting with minimal assumptions about the readers's knowledge, the book walks them carefully through the details of both PHP and MySQL from installation (Windows and Linux) to doing the most common tasks.  Included among the new content is coverage of PHP6.