If one wanted to build a web site around books, would it be better to use Amazon's web services API or the Google book API? All aspects of the question are welcome discussion fodder: technical ease, quality of metadata, API capabilities, language support, and so on. ...
I've seen these books mentioned elsewhere on SO, but no detailed discussion. To better position my question... I own and frequently return to Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, now in it's second edition. It's a huge book, and for the material it covers, I've found it to be just great. I like the discussion of cross-platform ...
My spouse is looking for good book on WebSphere. Preferebly from starter to advanced. She is an experienced developer. Can anybody reccommend a title? Thanks in advance. ...
I have to choose one of the following books, and I didn't find many reviews besides the comments on the Amazon pages (which are mostly positive): Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 --- by Dino Esposito (Microsoft Press) Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB --- by Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, Devin Rader (Wrox) Programming ASP.NET 3.5 ...
I was wondering if there are any books you would recommend for learning J2EE. I have done a lot of OO programming in the past (mainly java, C# and C++), but I'm now entering the world of J2EE with my job:: "struts 2, hibernate, spring, etc.." so many different libraries, plugins and ways to configure eclipse or netbeans... I feel a bit o...
Please recommend some good resources(especially must have books) about spring framework? ...
There are a few books about specific ORM products such as Hibernate or Linq to SQL, but I would be quite interested in any material on the more general principles, history etc of ORM. Do you know of any books, white papers, well researched blog posts etc on this topic? Thanks /Erik ...
I am starting a new job in a few weeks and am going to have to transition from C# to VB. I know that the differences are largely syntactic, but I would love to have a good reference book to help me figure out what those syntactic differences are when I run across them. I've looked on Amazon, of course, but would like to hear if anyone ...
I am looking for books that present interesting software system at the source code level. One such book which I loved is Building Problem Solvers. It presents a series of truth-maintenance systems written in Common Lisp. The book reads like an insightful and well-presented commentary of the code. Can you recommend any other books in this...
I would like to know some really good tutorials, references or books about getting the basic foundations in JavaScript programming, and then learning really deep, but good foundation and language understanding is pretty basic I think. BUT please bear in mind that I am an experienced programmer with C++ and C# etc. so I wouldn't like the...
What's your favorite project-based book or website? I really like The Elements of Computing Systems. This book will show you how to build a computing system from the ground up. In the process, you learn about combinatorial & sequential logic, ALU & memory chips, CPU & von Neumann architecture, machine & assembly language, assemblers, vi...
I am looking for a good textbook on Parallel Computing. Does anyone know any good textbooks on this subject. I would, also, prefer if this textbook covered parallel numeric techniques when solving partial differential equations. ...
I'm a handheld programmer (pocket pc mostly) I've been coding in C++ for 10 years. I'd like to build a PPC OS for the OLPC's XO, and I would like know where to get started. Does anyone have a good book I could use? ...
प्रोग्रामिंग शिकण्यासाठी चांगले मराठी पुस्तक आहे का? असल्यास कोणचे? प्रोग्रामिंग शिकण्यासाठी चांगले मराठी पुस्तक आहे का? असल्यास कोणचे? धन्यवाद. Translation Can anyone recommend any good Marathi language books on general programming? ...
Which books would you suggest for someone who wants to learn SQL on Oracle? Assume he has no idea about SQL and doesn't want to buy two separate books - one for SQL and other for Oracle.Also what are some cool websites for learning SQL on Oracle? ...
Are there any good books out there on the topic of using Amazon Web Services with good content related to running windows web applications and SQL Server on Amazon's cloud platform? I am most interested in books that go into some detail about configuration and best practices regarding running SQL Server, IIS, and AD on EC2. ...
My company has a library for programming books, to encourage learning new skills. I also see all the marketing by Fog Creek that shows their working library. Based on different SO user experiences, curious about insight into the following: Is a Programming Library really useful? Does it only work well with small companies? If your co...
I would like to learn Scala. In the past, I have used Java and F# extensively. Would you recommend the book Programming in Scala for someone like me? I really liked the book Expert F#, and I was hoping that Programming in Scala would be in a similar vein, but the few chapters that are online are rather disappointing. Are there good res...
Can anyone recommend a good Scrum book in German? We are organizing some Scrum training but I would also like to get the team to read something as a primer. We have the classic "Agile Software Development with Scrum" book (Schwaber/Beedle) in English but it doesn't seem to be available in German. Can any German speakers recommend someth...
Hi, I've just started using Django, and have never programmed in Python before. I really feel the need for a Django / Python reference guide, either online or in book form. Anyone know of a good one? I'm really looking for a reference guide, rather than a "how-to" guide, as the latter seem to be easy enough to find. Thanks, Ben ...