Books To Read
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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.
Where to buy books[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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
