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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.
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<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= <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-MonthA while ago, Essays on Software Engineering'''I started entering all my book info into this wiki. 20th Anniversary Edition with four new chapters Frederick P. BrooksHowever, Jr Addison Wesley 1995 ISBN 0-201-83595-9 A classic on project managementI later discovered LibraryThing. You have to read this bookLibraryThing. More than 20 years after it was first writtencom is cool site that lets you quickly enter all your books, it still provides valuable insights about how to make projects happen on time and creates a [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=freephile graphical bookshelf]. on budgetPretty neat. [[File:Bookshelf.png|thumb|Some of my books]]
== 2024 Update ==I found a [[Wikidata]] related project called '''Dynamic HTML - The Definitive Reference[https://inventaire.io/welcome Inventaire]''' Second Edition Danny Goodman O'Reilly & Associateswhich does sorta the same thing as LibraryThing, Incbut in the [[fediverse]] with [[open data]]. 2002 ISBN 0-596-00316-1 A comprehensive resource The Inventaire project uses [[MediaWiki]] software for HTML, CSS, DOM and JavaScripttheir knowledgebase at https://wiki.inventaire.io/wiki/Main_Page <ref>https://github. Improvement on the first edition, a mustcom/inventaire/inventaire-have reference source as well as a good book to learn from. At 1400 pagesmediawiki</ref>, and you will not be reading this one cover to covercan import your LibraryThing data into Inventaire <ref>https://wiki.inventaire. io/wiki/How_to_add_a_book_to_my_inventory</ref>
'''Applying UML and Patterns'''== Online Books == 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# [http://diveintohtml5.info/index.html Dive Into HTML 5] by Mark Pilgrim
'''High Performance MySQL'''[[Category:Help]] Optimization, Backups, Replication and Load Balancing[[Category:Library]] 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[[Category:Admin templates]]