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Greg's Books
Mastering Regular Expressions
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
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 Second Edition 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
An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and the Unified Process, Second Edition
Craig Larman
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