I'm building a desktop application that runs in a Windows environment using .net technology. It's important that this application run smoothly and consume as little of the user's system resources as possible, since the user is likely to keep it running throughout the work day. I'm looking for good, in-depth resources on how to constru...
I would like to create a few simple programs that don't have the huge .NET framework as a dependency. The obvious choice is C++ under Visual Studio. What's the best book for a programmer that has a reasonable familiarity with the C++ language but is a bit rusty on Win32 arcana? Also, what's the preferred jargon? "Native," "Win32," or "...
Hi, I'm looking for full lists of courses' books titles in every semester in different CS/CEN universities. Does anyone know where I can find that? Thanks. ...
There are many technical books that become thinker and thicker and the pressure from the technical society is more and more to read them and remember many concepts described in them. But it's so hard to do it. I have only a few hour a week to read them and when I reach the middle of the book I forgot most of what I've read at the beginni...
I have a slew of Springer books on specific packages, but my library is lacking a good solid book on R the language. While a language spec book would be great, it would be nice if I could find a book that has a solid founding in the language itself but couched in the examples that typify the day to day work of R users - statistics, visua...
Can anyone help me find a book related to how data transfer works with external peripherals (via USB port, serial port, parallel port, etc). I would be really grateful if its a practically oriented book! ...
I put his name in the title, but his book is Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus. I got the first chapter online, and in his very first code example, he uses void main() and several define macros, and his game loop consists of a long switch statement (not even pseudo use of objects). Can I take this book seriously as a C++ prog...
I'm looking for a good book covering Objective-C 2.0, with some rather specific requirements: It must be available for purchase in ebook form. If it's only available as a paper/ebook combo, that's fine, too - but I want to be able to start reading it immediately after I buy it. Availability on O'Reilly Safari is a big plus, but not req...
Hello, So I have seen topics regarding Java books, and it really looks like "Effective Java" is a very good book regarding Java. Well, unfortunately, I don't have $50 to blow on a new hobby. My question is, can anybody recommend a quality complete online Java book (preferably one available in PDF)? The closest thing I could think to r...
What are some good books on computer networks that cover complicated subjects in simple and understandable manner? Stackoverflow has many "questions on books" but never has anything about computer networks. Most of them are either programming in ____ language or how to do software engineering properly and efficiently I'm creating this ...
What are your niche books... something which would only be read by few good programmers in some specif domain... I am currently reading "Purely Functional DataStructures" and its very good.. ...
hi is there is any book on php site security and on scalability ...
I am working on an application for a bookstore, and I was wondering the best way to retrieve book cover art by ISBN. If any of you people know, I would really appreciate the tip. I'm using http://isbndb.com for all of the rest of the data, but it doesn't include an image location in its XML response. Would Amazon's Advertising API take ...
I hardly find a good resource about the subject. Almost all books and websites I know give a simple introduction about streams in C++ and that's it! Would you recommend a good book or tutorial to learn more about standard streams in C++ ? ...
Back in the glory days of ASP.NET 1.1, I bought "Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components" by Nikhil Kothari and Vandana Datye. I loved this book -- I read it and read it and developed all kinds of cool controls using it. I got my money's worth -- you should see the book, it's totally destroyed. It was probably the ...
I am a .NET developer for a company providing managed services. This means we provide hosting, connectivity, security services, bandwidth and monitoring. As a result, the hardware stuff is not abstracted away from my daily duties. I still have to know what load balancers are, switches, firewalls, etc. I know most - not all - of this. Ev...
Will I learn anything in Metaprogramming Ruby that is not covered in any of: Programming Ruby, The Ruby Cookbook, The Ruby Programming Language or The Ruby Way, all of which have at least a chapter's material covering metaprogramming in Ruby? It also has about a third of the book devoted to Rails, which I'm not particularly interested i...
Which book or books would you recommend for learning the ins and outs of Java 5's Concurrency and most importantly why? What I'm looking for exactly is a book which especially goes through the Java 5's new concurrency mechanisms (i.e. java.util.concurrent package) and could also be used to learn most of what there is to learn about conc...
My team is looking at Windows Workflow for our next project. We'd like to buy a book about it. Which books do you recommend? One book per answer. Link to Amazon (or similar, but at least include the ISBN). Vote up an answer if you liked the book. Comments about why you liked/disliked the book are welcomed. Not Windows Workflow 4. We'r...
If you all could only own or buy one book on parsing what would it be? Specifically for parsing a programming language. ...