Professional Linux Programming

by Richard Stones, Neil Matthew, Brad Clements, et al.

Book Overview

Linux is a free, UNIX-like operating system created by Linus Torvald in 1991 that is developed by a loosely knit team of programmers working from all over the world. It works from on almost every kind... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861003013
• ISBN13: 9781861003010
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 1184 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 7.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good reference

I bought the Beginners Guide to Linux Programming and I really liked that book. This book is a very good follow-up, but it doesn't give the reader more programming tips.It covers many topics which makes this book a great reference for anyone who deals with Linux and even other flavors of Unix on a day to day basic. Buy this book if you are looking for a reference book on developing software on Linux that covers advanced topics.

Good reference for a wide range of Open Source technologies

This book is a follow-up to Beginning Linux Programming, but with a wider range of authors. The book is a series of chapters on various tools and applications, all of them Open Source, based mainly round things that application developers might use, though there is a single chapter on device drivers.Most topics only get a single chapter, so there isn't as much depth as you would find in a dedicated book on each topic, but there is a very wide range of material all covered in enough depth to get the more experienced programmer started with a new topic. There are one or two weaker areas, but overall a good choice of material succinctly presented for the more experienced application developer. I've given it 5 stars as it was exactly what I was looking for - a single reference to help me create a Linux-based web database application, your mileage may vary. I recommend you at least consider it.

Excellent book for developing real-world linux solutions

This book is the sequel to the excellent' Beginning Linux Programming'. It isn't a book for kernel hackers, and it doesn't pretend to be. (There is a book being written by kernel developers called' Professional Linux Kernel Programming' - make sure that you order the correct one!). Instead, this heavyweight book is a very useful guide for those wishing to develop real world applications. It covers the tools used for developing serious web applications, such as the databases MySQL and PostgreSQL, and the excellent PHP language. When it comes to desktop and client server you are spoilt for choice - just about everything is covered. It is especially nice to see Python content - one of the areas missing from their first book as Python is very easy to learn and both powerful and flexible. If anything else was covered I'm not sure how the publishers would bind it! The level of detail is such that the reader will be able to achieve useful results based on the book alone, and any further detail is usually available as part of the documentation supplied when installing the software tools. Single subject books often just duplicate this, and quickly become dated. Where there are references to other books, it is nice to see that it is not just Wrox books which are recommended. The book is written in a style which is both readable and serves as a useful reference work, spending more time next to my computer than it does collecting dust on a shelf. I'd have no hesitation recommending this book to anyone wishing to develop Linux solutions for today and for the future - throw away those VB books now!

Nice followup

This book is a solid followup to their first edition. What I like about it is its breadth. It covers several topics (CVS, PHP, XML, CORBA, MySQL/Postgresql ) that would often have a whole book devoted to them. This book targets the developer who just needs a concise primer on the given topics, and doesn't have the time to read 1000 pages of fluff on every topic in the book.I only gave it four stars, because I felt that "Beginning Linux Programming" was more essential than this book. However, this is a very strong book and some of the topics here are not covered elsewhere ( for example, ORBit ). And there's certainly no other book that covers *all* the topics this book covers.Get this, but get "Beginning Linux Programming" first.

Excellent follow-up

I have found this book to be the excellent follow-up to the Beginning Linux Programming title, with just a few remarks. I don't like the title, more than "Professional" is it much more a second part of the first book, even if it discusses advanced topics. It's just one book, so the view of different topics isn't very thorough sometimes, it's just the introduction. But the book is still great for this purpose, I liked it very much. I don't have any access to my Linux box for a few months, so I wasn't able to check the validity of source code provided.