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best book to learn asp.net

So far in my 2 yr career as a programmer I've been purely a java guy. Be it groovy or struts...i've played around with them. I want to give .net a try and see how it is. Can the community recommend some good books for starting out with .net. Chapter on AJAX will be preferable. Thanks! ...

What resource would you recommend to learn about programming a PCI bus?

I have to start delving in the details of a PCI bus device driver. What resource (book, website, etc...) would you recommend someone look at to learn more about the PCI bus and how to program it? EDIT: The platform would be both x86 and PowerPC ...

which book to follow to improve skills on algorithm analysis?

which book to follow to improve skills on algorithm analysis? ...

What are some problems old C++ textbooks may have?

I've been trying to pick up C++ and I have an old textbook a professor gave me awhile ago. The book was published in 1998 and I've been reading through it. The first area that I ran into problems was in the graphic section. The textbook says to use the following library. #include <graphics.h> This didn't work with the system I'm on s...

Best book to learn the Processing programming language?

I am a programmer interested in learning Processing (the programming language). The main Processing site is obviously the primary resource. Indeed they have much great information. They even include a list of fairly expensive books: ... and others Let's assume that in addition to online resources, I want to get a book to study ...

Favorite agile related books?

From implementing Scrum in an organization to Test Driven Development, what books would you recommend for beginners, advanced and trainers in Agile development methodologies? ...

flex tutorials or books

Hi Can anyone recommend any good sites or good books for learning flex? Thanks Damien ...

Recommendations on learning PL/SQL?

I have worked with SQL on Oracle 9, and a bit on SQL Server 2000 for about a year. I need to get a jumpstart on working with PL/SQL in Oracle 9i. I work with a handful of ASP.NET 2.0 sites and some VB.NET (VS2005) apps in terms of code experience. What books or websites would you recommend to help me bridge the gap? ...

Book and tutorial recommedations for Django 1.0

Please share your book or tutorial recommendations for the latest release (1.0) of Django. ...

Recommended Books for Software Engineering

What would be a recommended book for Software Engineering? The book should be covering the various stages involved in software development process, covering topics such as: requirement gathering use cases domain model functional specifications architecture design testing deployment It should be a book that would help someone to und...

Sybase Developer Needs To Learn Oracle

I am pretty much a Sybase expert, an experienced developer, and very comfortable learning new stuff. I need to write a bunch of SQL to run against an Oracle database. Can someone recommend a book, training course or other resource to give me what I need to know in the shortest possible time? I don't need Oracle for Dummies, but someth...

Best programming novel to take on holiday

I am about enjoy a two week break in Spain where I expect to have lots of time for relaxing and reading. I normally read a lot of non-fiction so I'm looking for novel suggestions. If there is another Cryptonomicon out there I'd love to hear about it! UPDATE: In the end I took four books including Quicksilver. Quicksilver was fanta...

Single best programming asp-classic book?

Does anyone have a good classicasp book they can reccommend, including best practices, good design. I am stuck in Classicasp land and I want to make sure I do it right. Please up vote the best one. ...

Lost Classics: Out of Print Books?

On Lisp is well regarded as an advanced Lisp book. The author put it into the public domain, and it is now available from an on-deman printer (Lulu.com). What other classic books are we missing out on because they're out of print, and which ones are available on-line or on-demand? ...

What is the single best book on Automated Testing of Websites

I am looking for the one good book to read for Automated Testing in general of a website. ...

Best Python book for a lifelong PHP developer?

I've been coding in PHP for almost ten years, but I've lately become interested in Python. What Python book would you recommend? ...

Data Modeling Book Recommendations...

I'm looking for book recommendations on data modeling for both OLTP and OLAP type databases. So both the application database and the data warehouse. I've been working with relational databases for a while now and I think I have the basic relational theory down, but I'm looking for more practical guides that can relate to the theory. ...

Which book would you recommend for a Linux Sysadmin?

Linux Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder and Trent R. Hein is the defacto for sysadmins.Any other favorites besides this one. ...

Books/web sites recommendation for learning Python

This is in continuance to the http://stackoverflow.com/questions/139017/learning-a-programming-language-at-an-elderly-age">previous question which I asked yesterday. I received an overwhelming response where community members encouraged me to have a go at a programming language. There were recommendations for learning languages such as P...

Best book for Programming VMWare ESX + VDI

Hi, I've been asked to research creating a solution around VMWare ESX and VDI. This will require extensive use of the APIs for managing the solution. It will also look to leverage the VDM client. Can anyone recommend a good book which will get me started on this topic. Thanks. ...