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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 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.

Greg's Books

A while ago, I started entering all my book info into this wiki. However, I later discovered this cool site that lets you quickly enter all your books, and creates a graphical bookshelf. Pretty neat.

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, 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
A practical guide to developing large-scale Web sites and applications with PHP 5
George Schlossnagle
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!

Linux Server Hacks
100 Industrail-Strength Tips and Tools
Rob Flickenger
O'Reilly 2003
ISBN 0-596-00461-3
A short book, chock full of some of the essentials of System Administration.  I highly recommend this book.
It offers the short answer to getting things done in every topic from Revision Control to Backups; 
Networking to Monitoring, SSH, Scripting, and  DNS