As a programmer always thirsty to learn new tech, I also love to get a refresher and learn something new in the process. That is why a couple of times a month I go to the local bookstore (Chapters here in Canada) and browse many of the new books in stock. Over the last few years especially, the computer book section has gotten a bit sparse. It makes sense, many ...
PHP 5 in Practice is a PHP recipe book from Elliott White III and Jonathan D. Eisenhamer. Its most recent printing was in 2007 and is part of the "Developer's Library" series from Sams Publishing. At 456 pages in length, this book is a bit shorter than some of the other books I have reviewed over the past several months. I have become a big fan of the Developer's Library ...
Today's book review is on C# 5.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference by Joseph Albahari and Ben Albahari and published by O'Reilly. This book makes up like my 5th or so O'Reilly book and I find the book publisher really publishes smashing hits or hot messes. I never found ones that were in the middle. But not to worry, this book is one of the good guys! At roughly ...
Today I wanted to share with you all another great book that I have in my library. Java The Complete Reference written by Herbert Schildt and published by Oracle Press is a beast of a book and contains just about anything you want to look up about Java. This particular edition came out in June of 2011 and has been updated to include JDK 7. As it stands it is ...
In today's blog post I am going to review two books on Python. I decided to do two because both of these books are essentially reference books from the Developer's Library series by Addison Wesley publishing. The first book I will be reviewing is titled "Python Essential Reference, Fourth Edition" by David M. Beazley. It is a bit of an oldie (2009) but I think is a great reference book ...
We have a lot of newbies on the forum these days. Again and again we are asked "What are some good books for language _______?" We all have our favorites and some books lean towards a certain learning style. So one programmer is going to like a particular book more than another programmer might. But besides that little glitch in perspective, there are some books that are generally accepted as ...
