My Books

I’m currently working on an exciting new book project – Multimobile Development: Building Applications for any Smartphone.

Towards the end of the dot-com era, I started writing books for Wrox Press. Prior to .NET going into public beta, Wrox Press gave me the opportunity to write as much content as I possibly could on .NET. These are the books that I managed to write and contribute to in that period…

Beginning E-Commerce: with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS is the book I am most proud of. This sold over 40,000 copies and in March 2000 was the second best selling Computers and Internet book on Amazon US.

Some of the reviews still please me:

It does what it says on the cover. No bluff, no ‘filler’. If you want to learn how to develop VB database components and integrate them with ASP and MTS (the principles are explained clearly, so you’re not stuck with e-commerce components), then this is the one book you’ll need. I have over a dozen Wrox books covering various subjects, and this is the best in both style and content.

Matthew has done a great job in explaining the principles of e-commerce and he really gets you involved in the subjects he talks about. The examples are really clear with plenty of explantion on how they work.

This is a great book. I’ve read other ASP books hoping to get an insight into build e-commerce sites, but have been buried by trivial code and examples. This book has such a practical slant that within a few chapters you are really making progress and can quickly see the framework coming into place. Its full of all the right information you need to REALLY build a site that can work in real life. There’s been a few books, notably Rockford Lhotkas VB6 Objects and Joseph Montz Enterprise Development (both Wrox) that have taken my skills up a number of levels. This book does the same. Blimey its good!

Others:

  • .NET Enterprise Development in VB .NET: From Design to Deployment
  • .NET Enterprise Development in C#: From Design to Deployment (Programmer to Programmer)
  • Beginning VB.NET
  • Beginning Visual C# (Programmer to Programmer)
  • Beginning C# (Programmer to programmer)
  • Beginning Visual Basic 6 Application Development
  • Beginning Visual Basic .NET Databases
  • Professional ASP.Net Web Services
  • Professional ASP.NET Web Services with VB.NET

  • Developing C# Windows Software: A Windows Forms Tutorial (Programmer to Programmer)

    • As well as the above, I also wrote regular (fortnightly) articles for ASP Today and C# Today as well as now defunct UK Internet/computing magazines. (It’s a shame the technical book and magazine industry has had it so hard over the past half-decade.) For a year during this period I was also managing editor of ASP Watch – the Internet.com property which I can find no reference to now!

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