I have written book reviews for the ACCU, IEE/IET, BCS and others since about 1990 I have lost the first 40 but the remaining ones are given here.
These reviews were written for magazines which means that on the whole they have to be around 500 words. Whilst they go back some ten years many of the books are still available and valid today. So when reading them take note of the date of publication or the date of the review.
I have only had two reviews challenged (both by the authors) and have re-assessed the reviews but if you want to make any comments please contact us.
Title
(click on title to see review) |
Author |
Date |
The Cuckoo's Egg |
Cliff Stoll
|
Pocket Books
1990
|
Spacecraft Systems Engineering
3rd Ed |
Peter Fortescue,
John Stark,
Graham Swinerd |
Wiley
2003 |
Arm System Developers Guide Designing and Optimizing System Software
|
Andrew Sloss, Dominic Symes,
Chris Wright |
Elsevier
2004 |
A handbook of Software and Systems Engineering:
Empirical Observations, Laws and Theories |
Albert Endress
Dieter Rombach |
Addison Wesley
2004 |
Linux for Embedded and Real Time Applications |
Doug Abott
|
Newnes
2004 |
Real Time Systems Design and Analysis |
Philipn A. Laplante |
Wiley/IEEE 2004 |
Inside Internet Security: What Hackers Don’t Want You To Know |
Jeff Crume |
Addison Wesley 2000 |
| In Search of Stupidity |
Merrill R Chapman |
Apress 2004 |
The E-Myth Revisited (WhyMost Small Businesses Don’tWork And What To Do About It) |
Michael E. Gerber |
Harper Business 2004 |
| Software Testing Fundamentals |
Marnie L Hutcheson |
Wiley 2004 |
| Professional Software Development |
Steve McConnell |
Addison wesley 2004 |
8051 Microcontroller. An Applications Based
Introduction |
Calcut, Cowen & Parchizdeh |
Newnes 2004
|
8051 Microcontroller. An Applications Based Introduction |
Calcut, Cowen & Parchizdeh |
Newnes 2004
|
AVR An Introductory Course |
John Morton |
Newnes 2004 |
| AVR An Introductory Course |
John Morton |
Newnes 2004 |
Smart Card Handbook 3Rd English Edition |
Rankle & Effing |
Wiley 2004 |
| Smart Card Handbook 3Rd English Edition |
Rankle & Effing |
Wiley 2004 |
| Designing Embedded communications Software |
T Sridhar |
CMP Books 2004 |
| Specifying Software A hands on approach |
R. D. Tennent |
Cambridge University Press 2004 |
| Software Requirements |
Karl E. Wiegers |
Microsoft 2004 |
Configuration Management Principals and
Practice |
Anne Mette Jonassen Hass |
Addison Wesley 2003 |
Embedded System Design on a shoestring:
Achieving High performance with a limited budget |
Lewin A. R. W. Edwards |
Newnes 2003 |
:Project Management: A systems approach to
Planning, scheduling and controlling. 7th Edition |
Harold Kerzner |
Willey 2003 |
| Managing the Testing Process |
Rex Black |
Wiley 2003 |
| Software Engineering for Real-time Systems |
Jim Cooling |
Addison Wesley 2003 |
| Tools for Success, a Managers Guide |
Suzanne Turner |
McGraw Hill 2003 |
| Lessons Learned In Software Testing |
Kaner, Bach, Pettichord |
Wiley 2002 |
| MicrtoC/OS II |
Jean Labrosse |
CMP Books 2002 |
Practical Statecharts in C/C++: Quantum
Programming for Embedded Systems |
Miro Samek |
CMP Books 2002 |
Embedded Systems Design: A Unified
Hardware/Software Introduction |
Frank Vahid/Tony Givargis |
Wiley 2002 |
Embedded Systems Design: An Introduction
to Process, Tools and Techniques |
Arnold S Berger |
CMP Books 2002 |
Embedded Systems & Computer
Architecture |
Graham Wilson |
Newnes 2002 |
| Embedded Systems Firmware Demystified |
Ed Sutter |
CMP Books 2002 |
| Embedded C |
Michael Pont |
Addison Wesley 2002 |
| Smart Card Manufacturing: A Practical Guide |
Haghiri & Tarantino |
Wiley 2002 |
| Arm Architecture Reference Manual 2nd Ed |
Joeseph Lemieux |
CMP Books 2002 |
| Arm Architecture Reference Manual 2nd Ed |
David Seal |
Addison Wesley 2002 |
| Arm System on a chip Architecture 2nd Ed |
Steve Furber |
Addison Wesley 2002 |
| Smart Card Handbook 2nd ed |
Rankel & Effing |
Wiley 2000 |
| Leading A Software Development Team |
Richard Whitehead |
Addison Wesley 2001 |
Patterns for Time Triggered Embedded Systems |
Michael J Pont |
Addison Wesley 2001 |
| MicroC/OS-II The Real-Time Kernel |
Jean J Labrosse |
R&D Books 2000 |
| Flow Design for Embedded Systems |
Barry Kauler |
R&D Books 2000 |
Front Panel: Designing SW For Embedded
User Interface |
Naill D Murphy |
R&D Books 2000 |
Detecting the World Capturing Physical
Measurements with C++ |
David McCombs |
R&D Books 2000 |
| An Embedded Software Primer |
David E Simon |
Addison Wesleyl 2000 |
C and the 8051, Building Efficient
Applications (vol II) |
T W Schultz |
Prentice Hall 2000 |
| Embedded Systems Building Blocks |
J. J Labrosse |
R&D 2000 |
| Software Design for Real-time systems |
J E Cooling |
ITC 1999 |
| Software Design for Real-time systems |
J E Cooling |
ITC 1999 |
The Goal/Question/Metric Method A Practical Guide for Quality Improvement of Software Development |
Rini Van Solingen & Egon Berghout |
McGraw Hill 1999 |
Linux in a Nutshell, A desktop quick reference |
Ellen Siever |
O’Reilly 1999 |
| Programming Embedded Systems in C andC++ |
Michael Barr |
O’Reilly 1999 |
| The art of Programming Embedded Systems. |
Jack G. Ganssle |
Academic Press 1992 |
| :CAN System Engineering: From theory to practice. |
Wolfhard Lawrenz |
Springer-Verlag 1997 |
| Open Sources |
Chris Di Bona, Sam Ockman and Mark Stone |
O’Reilly, Jan 1999 |
| Internet Cryptography |
Richard E. Smith |
Addison Wesley 1997 |
Smartcards (A guide to building and
managing smart card applications) |
Henry Dreifus & J Thomas Monk |
Wiley 1998 |
| Web Programming Unleashed |
Bob Breedlove et al |
|
| Web Development with Microsoft Resources |
James Townsend et al |
|
Kick Ass Java Programming (Advanced
everything- with an attitude!) |
Tonny Espeset |
|
| Java Programming For Dummies (2nd ed) |
Donald & David Koosis |
|
| Java Programmers Reference |
Herbert Schildt & Joe O’Neil |
|
| The way of Java |
Gary Entminger |
|
| Mastering Java |
Various |
|
| Java Script |
Laura Lemy & Micheal Moncur |
|
| Real Time Software Systems |
J E Cooling |
|
| Smart Card Handbook |
W. Rankl & W Effing |
|
| The Year 2000 SW Crisis |
W Ulrich & I Hayes |
|
DOS and Windows Protected mode (DOS
extenders in C) |
Al Williams |
|
| Safety-Critical Computer Systems |
Neil Story |
|
| Graphics and Web Page Design |
Laura Lemay, J M Duff & J L Mohler |
|
| Zen and the art of Code Optimisation |
Micheal Abrash |
Coriolis Group Books |
| Creating Commercial Web Pages |
Laura Lemay & Brian K. Murphy |
|
| Security In Computing |
Charles P Pfleeger |
|
| OSF DCE Application Development Reference |
OSF |
Prentice Hall |
| C for Engineers 2nd ed. |
Bramer & Bramer |
Arnold |
Software Engineering with C++ and CASE
tools |
Michael Pont |
Addison Wesley |
| Understanding OSI |
John Larmouth |
International Thompson Computer Press |
| Analog and Digital Filter Design Using C |
Les Thede |
Prentice Hall |
| LabVIEW Graphical Programming |
Gary W Johnson |
McGrawHill |
Programming language choice: Practice and experience |
Mark Woodman |
International Thompson Computer Press 1996 |
| Master C++ |
Rex Woolard |
Waite Group Press 1996 |
| C/C++ Software Quality Tools |
Mark L Murphy |
Prentice Hall 1996 |
| C++ for Engineers |
Bramer & Bramer |
Arnold 1996 |
