Books by Roland Hughes



Upcoming:


The Minimum You Need to Know
About Qt and Databases
ISBN-13 978-0-9823580-5-4

One of the biggest needs in the Qt world is some decent documentation on how to use Qt with databases.  There are "some" SQL classes now bundled with Qt, but at best you will find a chapter in any book on Qt about how to use them.  This is a real PITA for anyone looking to do database development.  

This book will use the XPNSQT OpenSource project and and multiple database engines.  As with other books in the series, the application will be developed over and over again using different tool sets.  We will start off using the PostgreSQL database under KUbuntu and follow it up with firebird classic, mysql embedded, and possibly Xbase (formerly XDB).

The Minimum You Need to Know book series


John Smith
Last Know Survivor of the Microsoft Wars
ISBN-13  978-0-9823580-6-1

In many ways this book is the sequel to Infinite Exposure.  While it will not pick up where Infinite Exposure left off, it will take place in a post 2012 world and be in the form of  a newspaper reporter interviewing the last known survivor only to find out what they thought they knew they really didn't know.



Twenty of Two
The Infamous They

ISBN-13  978-0-9823580-1-6

This book is currently being written, but won't appear until the entire trilogy is complete.  Actual title has not been settled on.  This book will be part of an interlocking trilogy.  In case you don't know what an interlocking trilogy is, each successive book is a wrapper around the story told in the prior book(s).  A traditional trilogy moves forward in a linear time line while an interlocking trilogy is like going from the narrowest zoom view in a Mapquest map to a much farther out view so you can see everything surrounding what you were originally interested in.

The book is basically a modern day tale about how a corporation of assassins is run.  Don't look for a lot of things blowing up and non-stop sex as seen in the movies.  That simply isn't the focus here.  

If you think more along the lines of "corporate decisions", then you will be thinking in terms of this book.

If you are worldly enough to realize that 95% of all major crime is corporate, even counting the crimes of today's street gangs, then you probably already understand a lot about this book.


Twenty of Two
A Water Dancer's Tale

ISBN-13  978-0-9823580-2-3

Second of the interlocking trilogy.  Entire trilogy will be released as a set when complete.

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Zinc It! 1.5  UIW_TABLE Exposed

ISBN: 0-934272-41-7

Format: Paperback, 128pp
Pub. Date: August 1996
Publisher: John Gordon Burke Pub., Inc.

This book is out of print.  It was written to help developers use the newly introduced UIW_TABLE object.  Documentation and example programs provided by the vendor caused massive confusion.  This book built upon the first book as far as tools used.

Available in PDF format from the Google book site.  There are no printed copies left to my knowledge.  My last printed copy went to Google so they could scan it to PDF.  At some point they will finish scanning it.


Zinc It! Interfacing Third Party Libraries with Cross Platform GUI'S



Zinc It!  Interfacing Third Party Libraries with Cross Platform GUI'S

ISBN 0-934272-39-5
Format: Paperback
Publisher: John Gordon Burke Pub., Inc.

Written by Roland Hughes and originally put out by John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc. in 1995.  A limited number of copies have been retrieved from storage and will be available through a page at the Island Computer Web site in the future.  A CD-ROM is included with this book. 

This book covered using the Watcom C/C++ compiler, the Zinc Application Framework, X-32VM with FlashGraphics, CodeBase, Greenleaf Database, Btrv++, ODBC, POET and Greenleaf CommLib.  Various programs were written under DOS, 32-bit DOS, Windows 3.x and OS/2 Warp showing how to interface the products.

Much of the code is once again relevant given the emergence of OpenWatcom, the return to the marketplace of Greenleaf Software, and new owners for the Zinc Application Framework.  The C++ cross platform GUI market has gotten renewed interest.  Once these copies are gone no more will be available.  This is a very limited number of books pulled from a storage unit. 

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