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Chapters 1 and 2 discusses the necessity of web services, differences between authentication and authorization, XML security standards, implementation of WS-Security in applications, need for centralizing WS-Security operations and the benefits out of it. The author provides a short overview to oracle web services manager at the end of chapter 2. Chapter 3 completely provides a detailed coverage of the manager tool with the help of numerous screenshots.

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Drupal 6 is a powerful Content Management System (CMS) widely used by many webmasters. However, I have personally observed that it is somewhat difficult to master the backend of the script. Drupal is not simple like WordPress but I recently received a copy of David Mercer book for review from Packt Publishing. Even though I don’t have any plan to incorporate Drupal into any of my websites I found that David has done a terrific job by examining all the features in a comprehensive manner. The book contains 10 chapters and an Appendix.

Chapter 1 provides a basic overview of Drupal including the various resources available to gain more knowledge about Drupal. Chapter 2 analyzes the installation procedure in detail. The author also provides solution to some of the common problems which occur during installation stage. The chapter ends with the steps required to create a basic page using Drupal. Chapters 3 and 4 provides a detailed overview of the configuration of Modules, Blocks, Menus, Links and Site related functionalities such as Search Engine Friendly URLs, Logging, Reporting, Uploads and much more.

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I currently maintain several websites but I never learned SEO. I did not find any need to completely learn the concepts as I mastered some of the techniques through experience. But recently I found that page rank of some of my websites has been dropped. I then made some attempts to master SEO with the help of online articles. To my surprise Andrew King, the author of website optimization from O’Reilly contacted me with a request to review his book, which I gladly accepted.

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Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook, Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson; Sams

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Sams Publishing has done it again. Over the last one year they have released many cookbooks on .NET programming languages. Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Cookbook is one of the latest releases of Sams and without any doubt I can say that it is an exhaustive resource for programmers. The book contains around 330 recipes with detailed explanations to each one of them. Each recipe begins with a traditional “You Want” sentence which will describe the purpose of the discussed recipe.

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ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook, Steven A. Smith; Sams

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Sams Publishing had brought out a series of programming books under the banner of Teach Yourself in 21 Days, KickStart and Unleashed for all major languages. Over the last two years, Sams had released an unlimited number of books in the area of .NET particularly C# and ASP.NET. Their recent book titled “ASP.NET Developer’s CookBook” is one of the most interesting titles in the field of server side programming using .NET Framework. This book has been written by Steven A. Smith (founder of ASPAlliance.com), Rob Howard (ASP.NET Program Manager at Microsoft) and over a dozen ASPAlliance columnists in a so called ‘recipe’ style. In order to read and understand the recipes contained in this book, you should require a working knowledge of ASP.NET. A good understanding of Visual Basic .NET with .NET Framework 1.0 will be a definite plus. It is better to have a basic idea of ASP 3.0 but I feel that most of the ASP.NET developer’s will have a good knowledge of its previous predecessor.

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