old-books

When to Throw Out Old Programming Books?

In asking this question, I actually did first review this post from some months ago. But I want to take my question one step further and ask when should old programming books be thrown out? Specifically, our office has several copies of books that were written specifically to older versions of languages such as PHP4, ActionScript 1 etc. ...

Code Complete: Is the first edition obsolete?

Is it about timeless programming principles or has the second edition made it obsolete? ...

Source code from Professional NT Services by Kevin Miller?

Hi folks, I've just bought a copy of a fairly old book (Professional NT Services by Kevin Miller, published by Wrox Press in 1998) and it says the source code for the examples in the book can be downloaded from wrox.com. Unfortunately, wrox.com denies all knowledge of this book's existence. Does anyone have a copy of the source code fro...

Why are they called the "gang of four"?

The writers of the Dragon book are called gof. Why is that? Are they some kind of clique that always hangs out together? ...