I am a c# developer which finds himself having to relearn c++. The last time I programmed in c++ was in school and am looking for good books as a refresher. I want something that assumes previous programming exposure and gets straight to the point. Is there a book similar to K&R for c++? I know the language is bloated so a book that cove...
Possible Duplicate: Recommended reading for new team lead As a programming team leader, which books do you recommend? Books about HR, good programming practices etc. I have recently seen PHP Team Development but it is not mind blowing for experienced developers. One of the best I can recommend is Microsoft Manual of Style f...
Hello! I'm looking for a source of information about Microsoft Silverlight to begin practically efficient programming custom functionality applications. I want to pretend just for now that I don't need any ideologically correct refresher (SL tips, top patterns, VS tutorials :) and etc.). Basically, what I want is a reference kind e-book...
This is slightly embarrassing. I'm a professional developer working at one of the big tech companies and I've never used a database. I've got an idea for a website I want to build as a learning experience and possibly as a business, but I don't have the faintest idea what database to use, let alone how to fix/debug the database when I ru...
I'd like to write a little book on personal topics together with two friends of mine, remotely located. Do you know of any FOSS content publishing system like the one from O'Reilly (OPFS)? I saw the one that powers the django book but It seems that the code It's not released yet. I accept any kind of backend technology for this project...
i have question how good is this book? http://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Computer-Science/dp/0201558025/ ? and can anybody advise good books about bit manipulations? for example how good is this book? http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-Henry-S-Warren/dp/0201914654/ ...
I'm after a book to read whilst on holiday. Some criteria: The book has to be relatively short. < 500 pages. I'd prefer a book that changes your thinking, rather than reams of syntax to look at. So the last two years here have been my books: Last year, The Craftsman by Richard Sennet (Changed how I viewed career development, quali...
Hi, I am a student of computer engineering from Vasula University, Somalia. We have a subject called Advanced Computer Networks and the following is the list of recommended books: Text Books: 1. B. A. Forouzan, "TCP/IP Protocol Suite", Tata McGraw Hill edition, Third Edition. 2. N. Olifer, V. Olifer, "Computer Networks: Principles, Te...
i have been reading, using vs too to get familiar with the step followed to write the coding...... i have reached the end, all the code the third party plug-ins, references etc have been made on running the work it gives a lot of errors, some are too hard to debug. can any one please help by giving the complete website this book has t...
A First Course in Database Systems by Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom (Amazon links) Database System Implementation by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer D. Widom Database Systems: The Complete Book by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom As far as I know the second one is the second "part" of the f...
I am looking for a book or a site or something which will hit on the powershell scripting. NOT in command line. I have a couple of scripts I need to write, writing an application is overboard, but the language is confusing. Programming conventions I am used to from php and C# seem to be thrown out the window on some things, like if stat...
Hi, Anyone can suggest good books about Javascript API design good practices? What are the common practices developed by Google, Twitter, Facebook in their APIs. Code organization, request control etc. ...
I'm looking to learn WPF, and I'd like to get a book to help in the process. Most of the popular questions on SO regarding actual books are from 2008, and I wanted to see if recommendations for books had changed at all. WPF Unleashed, which seems to be the most popular recommendation, was published in 2006, which is quite a while ago, w...
I'm a programmer, and have completely forgotten all the advanced engineering Math I studied ~20 years ago at school. I now have an urgent need to learn about Modelling and Simulation. Though the present context is Disease Modelling, I'm not sure if there's such a thing as 'general' modelling and simulation... with concepts / techniques /...
I am looking for a reference for a SQL Server DBA who has to come up to speed on basic Oracle 11 DBA tasks: backup, recovery, user administration, etc. There seems to be some material on the web for the reverse: Oracle -> SQL Server, but the only potentially useful resource I have found in a few searches is yet to be published: http://w...
I have recently been using jQuery and some modules of Yahoo's YUI tools to develop a website and found myself getting more interested in learning how the Javascript code works "behind the scenes". This Javascript book has been recommended to me, however I have heard that it isn't as suitable for beginners in the language - I am a fairly ...
I work at a company where all the TMs and assistant TMs use Excel for number management, we're not able to use anything else because the computers are locked down (for good reason though I'll be asking IT anyway). The company also has a buy-a-book scheme, can anybody recommend a good book for using Excel and Macros in it? ...
I have access to Inside COM (By Dale Rogerson) and Essential COM (By Don Box). Which one should I start with to learn COM? ...
Was wondering if any one could recommend any and all books for learning more about SQL and DB concepts? I found this one while browsing SO, but was wondering if anyone had other or more up to date recommendations? ...
Is there a functional-programming equivalent to the Gang of Four Design Patterns book? That is, is there a book that explains and gives examples of how commonly-needed code structures are implemented functionally? I think seeing that would give me a better idea of how to go about using in practice the functional concepts whose theory I...