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Intranet Journal Books

Intranet presents this listing of books we've seen that add value in the following categories:

ASP, Dynamic HTML & XML
Database integration
Open Source
Extranets
Other Web Technologies

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ASP, Dynamic HTML, Scripting & XML

Applied XML: A Toolkit for Programmers (John Wiley & Sons, July 1999) by Alex Ceponkus and Faraz Hoodbhoy. Paper, 512 pages.
Building XML Applications (Computing McGraw-Hill, June 1999) by Simon St. Laurent, Ethan Cerami.
Designing Xml Internet Applications (Prentice Hall, May 1998) by Michael Leventhal, et al. Paper, 582 pages.
Xml: Extensible Markup Language (IDG Books, September 1998) by Elliotte Rusty Harold. Paper, 426 pages.
Just Xml (Prentice Hall Computer Books, September 1998) by John E. Simpson. Paper, 375 pages. A well reviewed intro to XML "by way of common sense and the Web."
Xml : A Primer (IDG Books, January 1998) by Simon St. Laurent. Paper, 352 pages.
Developing ASP Components (O'Reilly & Associates, April 1999) by Shelley Powers. Paper, 510 pages.
ASP in a Nutshell (O'Reilly & Associates, February 1999) by A. Keyton Weissinger. Paper, 410 pages. How do they decide what animal to put on the cover?
Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0 (Wrox Press, September 1998) by multiple authors. Paper, 600 pages. The best introduction to ASP.
Professional ASP Techniques for Webmasters (Wrox Press, September 1998) by Alex Homer. Wrox's sequel to the next text.
Professional Active Server Pages 2.0 (Wrox Press, March 1998), 1000 pgs., multiple authors. The ASP tome.
Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference (O'Reilly & Associates, July 1998) by Danny Goodman. Covers all of the HTML tags, CSS style attributes, browser document objects, and JavaScript objects supported by 4.x browsers.
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Javascript : The Definitive Guide, 3rd ed. (O'Reilly & Associates, June 1998) by David Flanagan. Praised by both Netscape and Microsoft!
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HTML: The Definitive Guide 3rd ed. (O'Reilly & Associates, Aug 1998) by Chuck Musciano & Bill Kennedy
Professional IE4 Programming (Wrox Press, Aug 1997) by Barta, Bonnell, Enfield, et al.
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Instant Netscape Dynamic HTML (NC4 Edition) (Wrox Press, Aug 1997) by Alex Homer & Chris Ullman
Web Authoring Desk Reference (Hayden Books, Sept 1997) by Aaron Weiss (Editor) et al. Hardcover, 883 pages.

Database integration

ADO 2.0 (Wrox Press, August 1998) by David Sussman and Alex Homer. Programmer's guide to Microsoft's latest data connectivity technology.
The Cold Fusion Web Application Construction Kit (Que, Feb 1998) by Ben Forta, David E. Crawford, Nate Weiss. 2nd ed. Top rated by IDM readers!
Web Databases with Cold Fusion 3 (Computing McGraw-Hill, Dec 1997) by John Burke
Forms : Dynamic Visual Web Applications (Hayden Books, Jan 1998) by Malcolm Guthrie.

Open Source

Linux Web Server Toolkit (IDG Books Worldwide, March 1998) by Nicholas D. Wells. Paper, 500 pages.
The Complete FreeBSD (Walnut Creek, May 1998) by Greg Lehey. Book + 4 CD set. May be hard to get.
Apache Server for Dummies (IDG Books Worldwide, Feb 1998) by Ken A. L. Coar. Paper, 384 pages.
Interactive Web Applications With Tcl/Tk (Ap Professional, April 1998) by Hattie Schroeder and Mike Doyle. A primer on Perl's sibling scripting language.
Effective Perl Programming (Addison-Wesley, 1998) by Joseph N. Hall with Randal Schwartz. "Ought to be in the stack underneath every serious Perl programmer's coffee mug" - Dr. Dobb's Journal.
Programming Perl (Nutshell Handbook) (O'Reilly & Associates, Oct 1996) by Larry Wall (editor), Randal Schwartz, Tom Christiansen, Stephen Potter. 2nd ed. A must-have reference and delightful read for intermediate to advanced Perlers.
Learning Perl (Nutshell Handbook) (O'Reilly & Associates, July 1997) by Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen. 2nd ed. Easier for beginners to follow than Wall's esoteric reference.
Cgi Programming in C & Perl (Addison-Wesley, May 1996) by Thomas Boutell.

Extranets

Implementing Extranets: The Internet As a Virtual Private Network (Digital Press, July 1998) by Randall J. Covill.
Extranets: Building the Business-to-Business Web (Prentice Hall, Dec 1997) by Deborah Bayles.
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Building an Extranet: Connect Your Intranet With Vendors and Customers (John Wiley & Sons, June 1997) by Julie Bort, Bradley Felix.

Web Technologies - General

Great Web Architecture (IDG Books Worldwide, August 1999) by Clay Andres. More about Web site design (a lá Siegel) than information architecture (a lá Rosenfeld), this book uses the time-honored tradition of dissecting great sites to illustrate important design concepts and navigational techniques.
Programming Internet Email (O'Reilly, August 1999) by David Wood. Paper, 540 pages. An essential guide and reference book for programmers building applications on top of email capabilities, and power users trying to get under the hood of their own email systems.
Webmaster in a Nutshell (O'Reilly, June 1999) by Stephen Spainhour & Robert Eckstein. Paper, 540 pages.
Designing & Implementing Computer Workgroups (Prentice-Hall, April 1999) by Robert W. Lucke. Paper, 420 pages.
Internet Messaging: From the Desktop to the Enterprise (Prentice-Hall, July 1998) by David Strom and Marshall T. Rose. Paper, 400 pages.
The Complete Guide to Novell Directory Services (Sybex, March 1998) by David Kearns, Brian Iverson. Hardcover, 752 pages + CD.
Corba on the Web (Computing McGraw-Hill, Feb 1998) by Ron Ben-Natan.
The Official Microsoft HTML Help Authoring Kit: Understanding, Creating, and Migrating to Microsoft HTML Help (Microsoft Press, Feb 1998) by Steve Wexler and Brett Foster.
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (OReilly & Associates, Feb 1998) by Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville

David Linthicum's Guide to Client/Server and Intranet Development (John Wiley & Sons, May 1997) by David S. Linthicum.
Intranet Document Management: A Guide for Webmasters and Content Providers (Addison-Wesley, April 1997) by Joan Bannan.
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Intranet as Groupware (John Wiley & Sons, Nov 1996) by Mellanie Hills.
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Introducing Intranets: A Decisionmaker's Guide (Que, June 1996) by Gordon Benett. Available in Portugese, Chinese, English, French, Italian and Spanish editions.