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Tell people what books you are reading, or have enjoyed as well as those you might not have enjoyed so thoroughly.

When listing a book, if you use the ISBN number, the wiki will create an automatic link to several bookstores. Note that [http://www.bookpool.com Bookpool.com] is an excellent choice for technical books. They have consistently proven to offer good service, the lowest prices, and an excellent website over the past several years.

When listing a book, if you use the ISBN number, the wiki will create an automatic link to several bookstores.

==Where to buy books==

<strike>[http://www.bookpool.com Bookpool.com] is an excellent choice for technical books. They have consistently proven to offer good service, the lowest prices, and an excellent website over the past several years.</strike> Bookpool.com is defunct [[User:Freephile|greg.rundlett]] ([[User talk:Freephile|talk]]) 02:37, 28 May 2014 (UTC) Odd to see how I was on the web before Amazon.com, and how "mainstay" features of the technical community like bookpool.com have come and gone. Today it says the site is "relaunching soon".

=Greg's Books=

== Greg's Books ==

~~<b>Mastering Regular Expressions</b>~~

~~Jeffrey E.F. Friedl~~

~~Nutshell Handbook Series~~

~~O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1997~~

~~ISBN 1-56592-257-3~~

~~The bible on regex. What is a regex, and why do I care? Well, read the book.~~

~~'''The Mythical Man-Month~~, ~~Essays on Software Engineering'''~~

A while ago, I started entering all my book info into this wiki. However, I later discovered LibraryThing. LibraryThing.com is cool site that lets you quickly enter all your books, and creates a [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=freephile graphical bookshelf]. Pretty neat. [[File:Bookshelf.png|thumb|Some of my books]]

~~20th Anniversary Edition with four new chapters~~

~~Frederick P. Brooks~~, Jr

~~Addison Wesley 1995~~

~~ISBN 0-201-83595-9~~

~~A classic on project management~~. ~~You have to read this book~~. ~~More than 20 years after it was~~

~~first written~~, ~~it still provides valuable insights about how to make projects happen on time~~ and

~~on budget~~.

'''~~Dynamic HTML - The Definitive Reference~~'''

== 2024 Update ==

~~Second Edition~~

I found a [[Wikidata]] related project called '''[https://inventaire.io/welcome Inventaire]''' which does sorta the same thing as LibraryThing, but in the [[fediverse]] with [[open data]]. The Inventaire project uses [[MediaWiki]] software for their knowledgebase at https://wiki.inventaire.io/wiki/Main_Page <ref>https://github.com/inventaire/inventaire-mediawiki</ref>, and you can import your LibraryThing data into Inventaire <ref>https://wiki.inventaire.io/wiki/How_to_add_a_book_to_my_inventory</ref>

~~Danny Goodman~~

~~O'Reilly & Associates~~, ~~Inc~~. ~~2002~~

~~ISBN 0-596-00316-1~~

~~A comprehensive resource~~ for ~~HTML, CSS, DOM and JavaScript~~. ~~Improvement on the first edition, a~~

~~must~~-~~have reference source as well as a good book to learn from. At 1400 pages~~, you ~~will not be~~

~~reading this one cover to cover~~.

~~'''Applying UML and Patterns'''~~

== Online Books ==

~~An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and the Unified Process, Second Edition~~

# [http://diveintohtml5.info/index.html Dive Into HTML 5] by Mark Pilgrim

~~Craig Larman~~

# [https://archive.org/details/commonsense50pain Common Sense] - by Thomas Paine - a 47-page pamphlet written in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.

~~Prentice Hall 2002~~

~~ISBN 0~~-13-~~092569~~-1

~~So far, many interesting points though somewhat pedantic~~.

~~'''High Performance MySQL'''~~

~~Optimization, Backups, Replication and Load Balancing~~

~~Jeremy D. Zawodny & Derek Balling~~

~~O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 2004~~

~~ISBN 0-596-00306-4~~

~~Just purchased, haven't read, but looking forward to hearing what Jeremy has to say about what he has done to really make the MySQL database a part of Yahoo~~

~~'''Advanced PHP Programming'''~~

[[Category:Help]]

~~A practical guide to developing large-scale Web sites and applications with PHP 5~~

[[Category:Library]]

~~George Schlossnagle~~

[[Category:Admin templates]]

~~Sams Publishing 2004~~

~~ISBN 0-672-32561-6~~

Also just purchased. George is a contributor to PHP, PEAR and PECL, and so is obviously an expert on this domain. The reviews that I've seen confirm that this book is an excellent one for the advanced PHP programmer.

~~'''The Official Samba 3 HOWTO and Reference Guide'''~~

~~John H. Terpstra and Jelmer R. Vernooij, Editors~~

~~Prentice Hall (Bruce Perens' Open Source Series) 2004~~

~~ISBN 0-13-145355-6~~

~~I picked up this book at the Desktop Linux Consortium innaugural conference, where I not only got to meet/hear Bruce Perens and John Terpstra, they also signed my book! Woohoo!~~

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-=Add a Page=
+==Contribute a Review==
 Tell people what books you are reading, or have enjoyed as well as those you might not have enjoyed so thoroughly.
-When listing a book, if you use the ISBN number, the wiki will create an automatic link to several bookstores.  Note that [http://www.bookpool.com Bookpool.com] is an excellent choice for technical books.  They have consistently proven to offer good service, the lowest prices, and an excellent website over the past several years.
+When listing a book, if you use the ISBN number, the wiki will create an automatic link to several bookstores.
+==Where to buy books==
+<strike>[http://www.bookpool.com Bookpool.com] is an excellent choice for technical books.  They have consistently proven to offer good service, the lowest prices, and an excellent website over the past several years.</strike> Bookpool.com is defunct  [[User:Freephile|greg.rundlett]] ([[User talk:Freephile|talk]]) 02:37, 28 May 2014 (UTC) Odd to see how I was on the web before Amazon.com, and how "mainstay" features of the technical community like bookpool.com have come and gone.  Today it says the site is "relaunching soon".
-=Greg's Books=
+== Greg's Books ==
- <b>Mastering Regular Expressions</b>
- Jeffrey E.F. Friedl
- Nutshell Handbook Series
- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1997
- ISBN 1-56592-257-3
- The bible on regex.  What is a regex, and why do I care?  Well, read the book.
- '''The Mythical Man-Month, Essays on Software Engineering'''
+A while ago, I started entering all my book info into this wiki.  However, I later discovered LibraryThing.  LibraryThing.com is cool site that lets you quickly enter all your books, and creates a [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=freephile graphical bookshelf].  Pretty neat. [[File:Bookshelf.png|thumb|Some of my books]]
-th Anniversary Edition with four new chapters
- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr
- Addison Wesley 1995
- ISBN 0-201-83595-9
- A classic on project management.  You have to read this book.  More than 20 years after it was
- first written, it still provides valuable insights about how to make projects happen on time and
-  on budget.
- '''Dynamic HTML - The Definitive Reference'''
+== 2024 Update ==
- Second Edition
+I found a [[Wikidata]] related project called '''[https://inventaire.io/welcome Inventaire]''' which does sorta the same thing as LibraryThing, but in the [[fediverse]] with [[open data]]. The Inventaire project uses [[MediaWiki]] software for their knowledgebase at https://wiki.inventaire.io/wiki/Main_Page <ref>https://github.com/inventaire/inventaire-mediawiki</ref>, and you can import your LibraryThing data into Inventaire <ref>https://wiki.inventaire.io/wiki/How_to_add_a_book_to_my_inventory</ref>
- Danny Goodman
- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 2002
- ISBN 0-596-00316-1
- A comprehensive resource for HTML, CSS, DOM and JavaScript.  Improvement on the first edition, a
- must-have reference source as well as a good book to learn from.  At 1400 pages, you will not be
- reading this one cover to cover.
- '''Applying UML and Patterns'''
+== Online Books ==
- An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and the Unified Process, Second Edition
+# [http://diveintohtml5.info/index.html Dive Into HTML 5] by Mark Pilgrim
- Craig Larman
+# [https://archive.org/details/commonsense50pain Common Sense] - by Thomas Paine -  a 47-page pamphlet written in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
- Prentice Hall 2002
- ISBN 0-13-092569-1
- So far, many interesting points though somewhat pedantic.
- '''High Performance MySQL'''
+{{References}}
- Optimization, Backups, Replication and Load Balancing
- Jeremy D. Zawodny & Derek Balling
- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 2004
- ISBN 0-596-00306-4
- Just purchased, haven't read, but looking forward to hearing what Jeremy has to say about what he has done to really make the MySQL database a part of Yahoo
- '''Advanced PHP Programming'''
+[[Category:Help]]
- A practical guide to developing large-scale Web sites and applications with PHP 5
+[[Category:Library]]
- George Schlossnagle
+[[Category:Admin templates]]
- Sams Publishing 2004
- ISBN 0-672-32561-6
- Also just purchased.  George is a contributor to PHP, PEAR and PECL, and so is obviously an expert on this domain.  The reviews that I've seen confirm that this book is an excellent one for the advanced PHP programmer.
- '''The Official Samba 3 HOWTO and Reference Guide'''
- John H. Terpstra and Jelmer R. Vernooij, Editors
- Prentice Hall (Bruce Perens' Open Source Series) 2004
- ISBN 0-13-145355-6
- I picked up this book at the Desktop Linux Consortium innaugural conference, where I not only got to meet/hear Bruce Perens and John Terpstra, they also signed my book!  Woohoo!