If you are looking for a book that describes the process of implementing a Business Intelligence project, authors Larissa Moss and Shaku Atre have done an excellent job. Their book Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications describes a ground plan for BI from a vendor neutral perspective. With the number of BI offerings that are available, each touting their own style, it’s refreshing to finally get an outlook that focuses on managing the project over selling specific features. This book certainly fills that void. [More…]

Originally published in 1995 by authors Eric Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, Design Patterns is probably the most world-changing and important text on Object-Oriented Programming written to date. The book was inspired by the idea of reusable design patterns that originated with Christopher Alexander’s book on architectural design, called A Pattern Language. The Gang-of-Four (GoF) book established a new lexicon for OOP based on their broad and extensive software design experience. [More…]

Learning to program C++ is not what I would call a simple task. Finding books that present the information at your level of comprehension is important. Beginners need a simple step-by-step presentation that an experienced programmer is likely to find boring. The collection of book listed below is oriented towards individuals with some existing experience and programming knowledge. The texts are considered to be among the best available, and will move you through the intermediate stages and into the advanced. [More…]