Additional Books by Roland Hughes
You can always find the latest information about this book series by visiting http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com. Information regarding upcoming and outofprint books may be found by visiting http://www.logikalsolutions.com and clicking the “upcoming and out of print books” link. At the time of this writing, Logikal Solutions and Roland Hughes offer the following books either in print or as eBooks.
The Minimum You Need to Know About Logic to Work in IT
ISBN13 9780977086627
Pages: 154
Covers logic, flowcharting, and pseudocode. If you only learned OOP, you really need to read this book first.
The Minimum You Need to Know To Be an OpenVMS Application Developer
ISBN13 9780977086603
Pages: 795
Includes CDROM
Covers DCL, logicals, symbols, command procedures, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, C/C++, Mysql, RDB, MMS, FMS, RMS indexed files, CMS, VMSPhone, VMSMAIL, LSE, TPU, EDT, SORT, and many other topics. This book was handed out by HP at a technical boot camp because the OpenVMS engineering team thought so highly of it.
The Minimum You Need to Know About Java on OpenVMS, Volume 1
ISBN13 9780977086610
Pages: 352
Includes CDROM
Covers using Java with FMS and RMS indexed files. There is a lot of JNI coding. We also cover calling OpenVMS library routines, building with MMS and storing source in CMS.
The Minimum You Need to Know About Service Oriented Architecture
ISBN13 9780977086665
Pages: 370
The National Best Books 2008 Award Winner – Business: Technology/Computer
Covers accessing your MySQL, RDB, and RMS indexed file data silos via Java and port services from a Linux or other PC front end. Also covers design and development of ACMS back end systems for guaranteed execution applications.
The Minimum You Need to Know About Java and xBaseJ
ISBN13 9780982358030
Pages: 186
This book is available only as a free PDF. It's source files are available on SourceForge and on the book's Web page. This book is meant to provide a much needed tutorial for the Open Source xBaseJ library. If you have some fundamental Java skills this book can have you developing your own xBaseJ applications in a matter of hours. The xBaseJ library was used by the author to create the FuelSurcharge project on SourceForge.
The Minimum You Need to Know About Qt and Databases
ISBN13 9780982358054
Pages: 474
This book is meant to provide a much needed tutorial on using Qt with various IDEs and database tools. Most of the books on the market do a great job showing you most of the GUI features of Qt, but are sadly lacking when it comes to explaining how to use Qt with databases. It is not unco