I am the technical director at a startup, and I will eventually be tasked with implementing a "real" system architecture when we hire more programmers. Right now our clients are small enough, and it is just me, so documented deployments, source control, unit tests and quality assurance servers are non-existent. Eventually I will need to ...
I can recommend following books: Code Generation in Action by Jack Herrington (lots of Ruby) Generative Programming by Krzysztof Czarnecki and Ulrich W. Eisenecker (many ideas explained) Framing Software Reuse by Paul G. Bassett (old but has nice ideas) Program Generators with XML and Java by J. Craig Cleaveland (heavy on XML front) ...
So Far I know CLR via C# is considered one ...
Since Graduating from a very small school in 2006 with a badly shaped & outdated program (I'm a foreigner & didn't know any better school at the time) I've come to realize that I missed a lot of basic concepts from a mathematical & software perspective that are mostly the foundations of other higher concepts. I.e. I tried to listen/watc...
As it stands now I'm a Java and C# developer, but the more and more I look at Ruby on Rails, the more I really want to learn it. What have you found to be the best route to learn RoR? Would it be easier to develop on Windows, or should I just run a virtual machine with linux? Is there an ide that can match the robustness of Visual Stu...
I grew up on UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2, Second Edition: Interprocess Communications (RIP, Richard Stevens), which was the essential reading for designing a multiprocess program back in the days. Re-reading it, it is rather lacking in more modern multiprocess/multithread topics, such as dbus, etc. Are there any good books which ...
I was asked in my current job to learn Delphi 2006. I received a couple of old books Essential Pascal and Essential Delphi, but I don't think they are of the highest quality (I'm currently reading Essential Pascal and its not good). Since Delphi is an old technology (the latest book on the subject was written in 2006 in Amazon), I was wo...
Ofcourse, there are Google Books, Wikibooks, Project Gutenburg & iBiblio. What other libraries would you recommend on the internet? ...
Anyone came across something like Dive Into Python for Ruby? Something that: Gets the language knowledge across by examples of real code that does something useful not just trivial one-liners Is ment for experienced programmers, not newbies (i.e. does not explain obvious stuff like object-orientation and what is a instance vs. class va...
Post your favorite book about Microsoft SQL Server (single book per comment please) or vote it up if someone has already listed it. Edit: Please include a small review or overview of subject matter and the reason for its applicability. ...
Are there any good books for jQuery out there? The target audience is someone who is just getting started with javascript and related web client concepts, but finds it fairly easy to pick up as they go along. ...
I'm trying to learn some programming designing guidelines on User Experience in both web and desktop applications. I've read some online resources like ux_matters. I'd like to get some books on the subject but I can't find the one that fits me best. Any suggestion is highly appreciated! ...
Looking for some good resources (or tutorials) that will demonstrate the proper techniques on building ASP.NET web sites. ...
I am looking at taking F# for a test drive. What is a really good book to get started for a C# developer? ...
What's a good book for learning OpenGL programming? ...
Hi I'm looking for a good C# programming book that discusses Windows programming - UI, forms, office plugins etc - for developers (lots of Java experience). Thanks for any help! ...
What are the best books (maximum 3) on Microsoft 'Visual Web Developer 2008 (Express)'? ...
I was told that this book is a standard when it comes to enterprise design patterns (sort of like the GoF book). Is there a book that covers exactly what this book does only with .NET? ...
My company's moving to VB.Net in the near future and I need to make the move from "Classic" ASP (i.e. VBScript) I've had a look at www.asp.net but most of the tutorials appear to be in video format which I can't access at the office. And I'm currently looking at http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/quickstart/aspplus/doc/quickstart.aspx Ideall...
I'm pretty fluent in C#, but maybe need to go over to the dark^H^H^H^H other side and code some Java again. I'm ok with the Java language, as well as OO in general. But I want to learn some more about whats special in Java, as well as, if possible, whats different for me as a C# developer. Especially I need to catch up on some GUI stuff....