The Pattern Almanac 200013 reviews Linda Rising Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 2000 great collection to have on the shelf + Excellent as a reference pointer + Hypertext Wanted! Patterns. The current vocabulary of the high end designers and software architects. There are very few universities offering the M.S. courses on this subject; the future language of the software industry. Eric Gamma et al. started this revolution in 1995. It seems that there is no end to it. The ...             Programming Perl (3rd Edition)109 reviews Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, ... O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2000 It is difficult to study perl using only this book. + Perfect! + Good Primer for Perl + The Definitive Guide for PERL!!! + Excellent Perl Reference             Extreme Programming Installed (XP Series)31 reviews Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, ... Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000 If you read only one book on XP, this should be it. + XP installed is both interesting and thought provoking + Good solid content, but not the best book to start with + One book, many authors + Accurate, Practical             Cryptography Decrypted35 reviews H. X. Mel, Doris M. Baker Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000 One Great Book + Best explanation of public key algorithm + quick reference on PKI + Wonderful book explaining all the secret s of secure communication + Simply THE BEST!!!             BEEP: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly Networking)3 reviews Marshall T. Rose O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2002 a great resource for savvy Internet application builders + No Way + An excellent BEEP resource Marshall Rose's latest book is a boon for two very different audiences: first and foremost, it is a guide to assembling Internet-aware applications based on his newest protocol called BEEP. Why bother with BEEP? Because it makes writing intelligent applications that function across the Internet ...             Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change126 reviews Kent Beck Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999 Become a Better Programmer + A must read for any developer + Extreme Programming: The evolutionary approach! + Nice intro to XP             Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 1: A System of Patterns16 reviews Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, ... Wiley, 1996 The second best pattern book + Amazing book + #2 best book about patterns ? yes. + Clear and wide-ranging             Perl Cookbook108 reviews Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington O'Reilly, 1998 Evergreen classic + Should be your second PERL book after "Learning PERL" + Best...Perl book.... ever + yum yum + Non Fiction             Expert One on One Oracle77 reviews Thomas Kyte Peer Information Inc., 2001 Best $12 I ever spent!!! + Fantasic + Detailed and well explained + Good stuff for all + The gold standard for Oracle DBAs and developers             Code (Dv- Undefined)60 reviews Charles Petzold Microsoft Press, 2000 Finally a Book About Engineering Not Written for Engineers + 5 stars are not enough + Best book I've read all year + C'est Magnifique! + A labour of love             Pattern Hatching: Design Patterns Applied (Software Patterns Series)25 reviews John M. Vlissides Addison-Wesley Professional, 1998 Blown away. + good while it lasts + A great follow-up to the GoF patterns book + Great insights + My coments on the book             Planning Extreme Programming (XP Series)26 reviews Kent Beck, Martin Fowler Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000 Excellent book + Objective overview of XP planning + Begin Your XP Journey Here + crackles with ideas and fleshes out more of XP + How exactly to plan XP?             Large-Scale C++ Software Design (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)31 reviews John Lakos Addison-Wesley Professional, 1996 The Best Computer Science Book I've Ever Read - Period + Large-Scale C++ Software Design. Mind the C++ ! + The one and only book covering physical design + wonderful book + Excellent book on the physical architecture of C++ applications             Oracle8i Java Component Programming With EJB, CORBA AND JSP10 reviews Nirva Morisseau-Leroy, Martin K. Solomon, ... McGraw-Hill Companies, 2000 Highly Professional Book + Outstanding Book + A truly outstanding book. + An excellent book             Oracle Design: The Definitive Guide (Nutshell Handbooks)7 reviews Dave Ensor, Ian Stevenson O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1997 For Designers, techies and smart users + Unique book on Design + Straight Advice from Serious Designers "Oracle Design" covers the classic steps to accomplish a complete and comprehensive relational database design. This is a book for designers that DBAs should also read. The authors' strengths are that they know what they are discussing and capture it as recommendations and ideas that can be proven ...             C++ Programming with CORBA(r)7 reviews Andreas Vogel, Bhaskar Vasudevan, ... John Wiley & Sons, 1999 good book book is easy to read and excellent information             Programming With GNU Software9 reviews Andy Oram, Mike Loukides O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1996 one of my better buys + Excellent intro + Good overall view + Good Introduction to GNU Software + Sums it all up!             Beginning Linux Programming (Beginning)75 reviews Richard Stones, Neil Matthew Wrox Press, 1996 Great book + Excellent coverage of all bases + Really a good book for begginner I bought this book 1996 when I was in high school. It was challenging, and now when I returned to it in 2006, I realize how much I skipped on my 96' reading. The great thing with this book (at least the 96 edition) is that is has such a nice flow. You will learn the concepts of Unix programming, ...             Object-Oriented Software Construction (Book/CD-ROM) (2nd Edition) (Prentice-Hall International Series in ...43 reviews Bertrand Meyer Prentice Hall PTR, 2000 highly recommended as a first introduction to OOP + The better book you can get about OO + very good, but not the holy grail of software engineering + A must have book for professionals in OO + How can you say enough to reward excellence?             Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 2: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects22 reviews Douglas Schmidt, Michael Stal, ... Wiley, 2000 Simply the best + Essential reading for programmers in its domain + Good Patterns Hidden in Excessive Verbiage If you really want to understand concurrent networked systems, this is the book. It codifies things that have only been known as "black magic" in the past. I have used these concepts in code that I have written, and the results are amazing. It is quite focused on ACE, so you will get the most ...