From the Back Cover
MySQL: Designing User Interfaces starts by introducing the functionality of GTK+ and how to migrate from Microsoft's Visual Basic. It then introduces MySQL as a simple, fast, reliable database for corporate applications.
The book then flows into the how-to of combining GTK+ and MySQL through the coverage of the C API for MySQL because it is the "backend" to a GTK+ application. It then expands its coverage and teaches about heterogeneous network and deployment issues, as well as migration from existing systems to MySQL.
About the Author
Matthew Stucky was born and raised in Colorado. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1990 and served four years in the U.S. Navy as an officer. Soon after release from active duty, he enrolled at the University of West Florida to obtain a master's degree in software engineering, graduating in the summer of 1998. By that time he had worked as a Novell LAN administrator and an Access, VB, and SQL Server developer. Since then he has worked for Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) as a consultant, utilizing a wide variety of tools, including all manner of databases, operating systems, and software. He still maintains that the best thing about UWF was the football team¿go War Snails!
