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Until now it has been extremely difficult for anyone without knowledge of the Irish language (Gaelic) to sing the songs of that tradition. A must for anyone who has always longed to sing the old songs of Ireland, this book and CD decodes the Irish language for those who aspire to sing these songs without them having to undertake an Irish language course. The fourteen songs are presented in an accessible fashion. On the CD, the author speaks each phrase slowly, leaving a pause for the student to imitate the pronunciation. The author then sings each song in a simple, plain style, conducive to learning. The book has the sheet music, guitar chords, phonetics, Irish lyrics, and a translation and background to each song. There is an introduction which gives information on traditional singing in Irish as well as a guide to the phonetic system used. The songs are graded linguistically and musically so that the student can build up skills as she or he progresses through the book.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful.......2007-06-13
I really love this book. I used it recently to teach part of a grad level lesson on world music and I have also used it in elementary school classroom. Really a unique opportunity to learn songs in Irish and sing them in simple easy to follow steps and the songs are terrific too -- no "Danny Boy" here. Highly recommended.
Definately a good beginner's book!!!.......2007-05-27
Because of my Irish Heritage, I bought this book in hopes that it will help me understand the Gaelic language a little better and also I wanted to learn to sing songs the Irish way! This book is better than I thought it would be! It starts off with something easy and then it progresses further until it gets even harder. Before the author sings each song on the CD, she pronounces each Irish word clearly without singing it and then proceeds to sing it. I can actually sing Irish better than I can speak it! But all in good time . . . :) I wish it was a thicker book with more songs. Irish songs in the Gaelic language are hard to come by. I hope some day that there will be more Irish songs available. :):)
Go raibh maith agat........2006-01-15
Very good little irish ditties.
Go raibh maith agat.
Glad we can still experience the native tongue.
Very good way to learn some traditional Irish songs!.......2005-04-01
I have been struggling through an Irish class here in Munich. I am really enjoying the language, but it is HARD! I am fluent in Russian and German and over the years have studied and done well in Latin, Polish, French, and Spanish. Languages usually come easily to me but Irish is another story; it is MUCH harder than any language I've ever encountered.
This book has been a real help to me. I find that learning songs helps me with pronunciation and grammar - and it's always nice to learn about culture and tradition while studying a language! I didn't really like the way the author used "phonetic" spelling; for me, this was just confusing. (I actually find that transliterating the words into Russian letters is far more helpful!) Other than this minor quibble, though, this book and CD were worth every cent - I highly recommend this product!!
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Who's Bringing Them Up? Television and Child Development: How to Break the T.V. Habit (Lifeways)
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Writing Music for Television and Radio Commercials provides a comprehensive overview of the process of composing and arranging commercials for these two different media. The book addresses the tools of composition and arranging and sets forth a method for approaching each creative and business situation. Application of the material in the book is intended to help the novice composer achieve his or her goals. This book is a necessary tool for the music student interested in composing, arranging, and producing commercials, and will also be useful for composers studying film scoring, as well as advertising writers, art directors, and music producers. Includes an audio CD of jingles to illustrate examples in the book.
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Offering accumulated observations of interviews with hundreds of job candidates, these books provide useful insights into which characteristics make a good IT professional. These handy guides each have a complete set of job interview questions and provide a practical method for accurately assessing the technical abilities of job candidates. The personality characteristics of successful IT professionals are listed and tips for identifying candidates with the right demeanor are included. Methods for evaluating academic and work histories are described as well.
Customer Reviews:
Well written for interviewees.......2006-05-05
I was happy to have this book to serve as a guide during my interview process for a Java apps programmer position. It was well written with an insightful assortment of interview questions - both technical and non-technical. The questions on Java are relevant to all releases of Java 2, but would like to see an update that includes new features found in release 5.0. Other than that, a well written guide.
Very nice Q/A section.......2006-04-06
I am a manager (and still developing, however as little as possible) for a group of developers working with Oracle Apps 11i and a custom integrated web application for our sales and manufacturing department. I own both the Java and the J2EE version of this book and will be cross posting my comments to both of them. The comments below are both mine and senior members of my staff that have gone through both books.
Both books contain very similar information with regards to the interview process - proper dress code when showing up for an interview, assessing job skills, the values of certification and formal education requirements.
The heart of both the Java and J2EE books, however, is the Q/A section. Both are filled with well written and insightful questions that could be used for many J2EE or Java candidate positions.
With regards to the Java book, I feel that there was fantastic coverage on key features of the language (threads, security, and collections) including basic object oriented design. I did find a few errors, some of which looked like typographical errors, but was able to located the errata on the publisher's site.
Generally speaking, both books are well worth the $$$ and I was very impressed by the quality (and quantity) of the Q/A section. I do see this book as an extremely helpful resource to any candidate preparing for an interview. Hopefully a newer version of this book will address some of the new features found in J2SE 1.4 and 1.5.
Another great book from Rampant.......2005-02-10
This is my second book from Rampant (Oracle Utilities being the first). Extremely well written with in-depth coverage of the language. I am a web developer moving from Perl to Java and glad to have so many questions and answers in my hands. Nice job!
Very successful Java interview book.......2005-02-05
I used this book to prepare for an interview. Although I consider myself a fairly decent Java developer, I was amazed at some of the topics I had to further research. I felt that this book gave me what I needed to know and expect during an interview.
Worst book I have ever seen.......2005-01-27
Either the author has no knowledge of java or has paid very little attention to quality on this book. Most of the questions are flawed. Looks like someone did a web search and compiled some questions together in this book.
Q46 says:
Will the following code snippet compile? Why or why not?
class A {
static void foo(int x){}
}
class B {
void foo(int x){}
}
The author claims that this code will not compile. Try it out it compiles fine. It is obvious that the author wanted to say "class B extends A" when he wrote this question, in which case, the answer makes sense.
This is just a small example of a series of flaws that book comes with. People who claim this book to be good are surely java-ignorant folks.
Each question is followed by a big empty lined writing space. The author/publisher's idea is to raise the book volume without providing enough material. The 289 page could fit in 50 pages on a regular print.
The book is not just misleading but also unfair to the smart candidate who gives the right answer, but is assumed to be incorrect by the recruiters who use this book.
Book Description
Offering accumulated observations of interviews with hundreds of job candidates, these books provide useful insights into which characteristics make a good IT professional. These handy guides each have a complete set of job interview questions and provide a practical method for accurately assessing the technical abilities of job candidates. The personality characteristics of successful IT professionals are listed and tips for identifying candidates with the right demeanor are included. Methods for evaluating academic and work histories are described as well.
Customer Reviews:
Very nice Q/A section .......2006-04-05
I am a manager (and still developing, however as little as possible) for a group of developers working with Oracle Apps 11i and a custom integrated web application for our sales and manufacturing department. I own both the Java and the J2EE version of this book and will be cross posting my comments to both of them. The comments below are both mine and senior members of my staff that have gone through both books.
Both books contain very similar information with regards to the interview process - proper dress code when showing up for an interview, assessing job skills, the values of certification and formal education requirements.
The heart of both the Java and J2EE books, however, is the Q/A section. Both are filled with well written and insightful questions that could be used for many J2EE or Java candidate positions.
With regards to the J2EE book, I feel that there was good coverage on Servlets, JSP, JDBC and JMS, however, I would have liked to seen more (actually any) questions on Struts, DBO and Web Services.
Generally speaking, both books are well worth the $$$ and I was very impressed by the quality of the Q/A section. Hopefully a newer version of this book will address Struts and Web Services.
A really bad book ..........2006-03-12
The author appears to have no serious managerial experience: he seems to be a self-employed DBA. And it shows. Bigtime.
The model candidate, according to the author, would appear to be a conformist left-brained banking clerk. I have worked with and hired developers with a varied range of dress habits, personal manners, backgrounds and education. Good developers come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors. The best programmer I ever worked with never had a high-school education. Following this book's guidelines for assessing candidates' personal qualities would have excluded 2/3 of the best developers I know.
It's riddled with prejudice: "the female job applicant with three children less than five years of age may not be appropriate for an IT position that requires long hours on evenings or weekends." But it would be OK for a man with three such children to neglect them? And what does it say about a company and management which cannot organize projects without expecting excessive overtime?
The author appears to have no idea of the existence of employment legislation, anti-discrimination law, management techniques or how to motivate people. One has the impression that the recommendations would be more appropriate for a correctional facility or a kindergarten school than a twenty-first century development shop.
The technical questions reveal immaturity and inexperience. Design abilities are far more important to the fate of a project than technical minutiae. Yet no questions are included that would enable a manager to distinguish someone who really understands good principles of object oriented design. Just asking questions about patterns that a trained parrot could answer is hopelessly inadequate.
The technical questions are about half the book. But they are repetitious, the 'answers' are often too specific - one 'right' answer when several alternatives are equally appropriate. Some are obscure and totally academic: 'What is the Java Remote Method Protocol(JRMP)?'. Who cares? JRMP goes on completely under the covers and a developer has no need to know even of its existence. Some questions are plain wrong: 'What are the two transport protocols used by J2EE web-based client applications?'. 'HTTP and HTTPS transport protocols' comes the answer. First, HTTP is not a transport protocol but an application level protocol. Second, there is no HTTPS protocol: HTTPS is a URI scheme which is used to indicate that HTTP will be tunneled through secure sockets.
By the time the candidate has been asked Non-Technical Questions 8 ('If you were a vegetable, which vegetable would you be?') and 9 ('Describe the month of June'), any sensible candidate will already be asking themselves Non-Technical Question 10: 'Why do you want to work here?'
Useless advice.......2005-12-03
Sometimes I wonder if the author's advice is very biased towards their own knowledge of the technology and qualifications. I mean, come on, proper dress code???, education in the ivy league schools???
1. Dress code is the responsibility of each employer, some larger corporations might adhere to a stricter dress code, some smaller ones (especially technology companies) could care less if you wear jeans to work, as long as you are knowledgeable and productive.
2. College degree. I disagree with the statement that "You **must** possess a certification and/or degree. You truly can't make such hard qualifying statements, since most IT jobs in the industry require degree or equivalent experience. I mean, come on, I know plenty of great developers who didn't finish college, but have many years of Enterprise Application Development under their belt. What if you are an industry acknowledged expert, book author, and have many years of experience, do you disqualify that candidate if they don't have a formal degree?
Basically I almost felt like the author is a psychology expert (which half of this book is dedicated to), vs. sticking strictly to technical questions and qualifications. Does the author also have a **degree** if psychology? Otherwise based in his statements, he's definitely not qualified to make such recommendations.
its a book for time pass.......2005-10-18
50% of book is with general topics, other than J2EE
do you want to hire the best?.......2005-09-23
Amusingly, Hunter states how certain questions should not be asked of job candidates in the US, due to non-discrimination laws. But he then immediately proceeds to broadly hint (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) how the interviewer should indirectly ferret out such data, if you deem it germane.
He then goes on to suggest that interviewees should adopt the dress of the executive and banking industries. Wretched idea. A spineless conformism. Do you want to have the chance to hire the best people or not? His advice can cause you to lose some creative and brilliant programmers who care little about a dress code or those employers who set store by it.
Sure, some top notch people will readily conform. But others won't. And the truly talented do not have to work for you. You are competing for them, more than the reverse. For a purely, self interested viewpoint, you should not impose a dress code. Maximises your chances of getting the best.
Book Description
Offering accumulated observations of interviews with hundreds of job candidates, these books provide useful insights into which characteristics make a good IT professional. These handy guides each have a complete set of job interview questions and provide a practical method for accurately assessing the technical abilities of job candidates. The personality characteristics of successful IT professionals are listed and tips for identifying candidates with the right demeanor are included. Methods for evaluating academic and work histories are described as well.
Customer Reviews:
Horrible.......2007-08-07
This narrow minded, interrogation oriented guide is simply horrible. The only person to recommend this to is the job seeker -- to prepare you for the more mean spirited interviews. My advice would be to walk away, but if you really want the job, then awareness of this sort of interview practice might help you get hired.
As another reviewer observed, if companies really do follow this sort of advice, then they deserve the people they hire. Now, some companies may want a team of willing white shirts with heads full of programming language details. If you're one of those, buy the book. However, note that ascertaining real competence, creativity and aptitude take a back seat here; it's form over substance.
When I think about the very best "techies" I've hired and worked with over the past 30 years, many would not successfully pass an interview process modelled after the advice in this book. Unbelievable. The credentials for the author to write this book, as far as I can tell, are these: IT executive and horse trainer. I rest my case.
abysmal.......2007-01-14
I often interview programmer candidates, so I bought this book to calibrate my interviewing style and skills. I am appalled at the advice in the book -- I guess I should hope other firms do interview this way, so they'll gather the programmers I definitely don't want and leave the good ones for me.
Besides the defects other reviews have already mentioned (in this day and age, if you only hire candidates who show up in suit&tie as this book recommends, you'll end up missing many of the best techies!), some parts are positively creepy -- e.g., under "Gleaning Demographics" it claims that, while some questions are illegal, you should still slily ask questions to hiddenly gather that kind of information, since aspects such as whether the candidate has small kids (illegal to ask about that) should "factor strongly into a hiring decisions" -- so, ask what the candidate does to relax, that will dupe them into revealing whether they have a family.
Disgusting, really, and I find myself hoping somebody ends up in lots of trouble for practicing such weaselly duplicity -- meanwhile, all I can recommend to anybody but outright weasels is to carefully avoid this horrible book.
Nice to have book - If you need quick questions on C++ and Oracle.......2006-11-08
This book certainly helps managers interviewing programmers who claim expertise with many languages. If you own a J2EE shop and looking for Oracle and C++ expertise and need tough questions to ask....the questions prescribed in this book is good. Also note, this book does'nt help you as a reference for any other practical use of those languages.
Another Good Interview Guide.......2006-09-01
This is another good book in the Job Interview series from Rampant. As with the other books, this book gives both the employer and the candidate guidance in areas such as work experience, personal appearance and education.
The questions that are provided in the book give a good base for the employer to ask the candidate. Of course, each company will need to modify or use only the questions that they will need.
I would recommended this book to any employer or candidate seeking a programming job in one of the languages covered.
too general to be useful.......2006-02-16
The advice on interviewing is very general and can be found to the same detail with google. The advice is all useful, but it's not worth the price and the style is a little goofy for what I expected to be a more professional book.
The technical interview questions are atrocious. As others have commented, the "easy" questions are useful (e.g. how do you indicate comments?) and some of the solutions to the "hard" questions are incorrect (e.g. they try to illustrate a common C pointer bug in correctly written code).
The book just lacks content.
Average customer rating:
- Don't buy this book
- Great way to know what employers are seeking
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Conducting the Webmaster Job Interview: IT Manager Guide with Javascript, Java Applets, Front Page, Flash, Perl, PHP+, and DreamWeaver Interview Questions (IT Job Interview series)
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Book Description
Offering accumulated observations of interviews with hundreds of job candidates, these books provide useful insights into which characteristics make a good IT professional. These handy guides each have a complete set of job interview questions and provide a practical method for accurately assessing the technical abilities of job candidates. The personality characteristics of successful IT professionals are listed and tips for identifying candidates with the right demeanor are included. Methods for evaluating academic and work histories are described as well.
Customer Reviews:
Don't buy this book.......2007-03-02
This book is riddled with typographical, grammatical, and factual errors. It also manages to contradict itself in several places.
Don't buy this book.
Great way to know what employers are seeking.......2005-05-15
First off, let me state that I'm sleeping with the author. We have been married for many years, and I feel obligated to toss-in my opinion of her book! (guys, you know where I'm coming from).
I don't much at-all about specific programmer languages like Flash and Perl, but I was able to ask the sample questions to job candidates, and they worked very well.
Janet put a great-deal of effort into gathering salient job questions for this book, and I think that she has done an excellent job in condensing the main qualifications that employer's desire in a successful programmer.
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