Graphic Java 2, Volume 2, Swing (3rd Edition) (Sun Microsystems Press Java Series) (2 Book Set)49 reviews David Geary Prentice Hall PTR, 1999 A standard to which more technical books should measured + One and Only + Still good + A very comprehensive book             Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking967 reviews Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books, 2007 blink...and then it's gone There's not much substance to this book. Rather than being a resource of information, it is merely a book of examples. There is no broad takeaway you can gather from it after reading except to say perhaps that many of our decisions are based on split-second thoughts. But did you really need to read ...             XML in a Nutshell, Third Edition15 reviews Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 By far, the best book available on XML + The XML reference + Best XML reference I ever saw This book is by far the best book I've read on XML. Typical of O'Reilly "In a Nutshell" books, the converage of XML is fast paced and complete. Your money will be well spent on this book. I even think most beginners will do well with this one!             Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard5 reviews Richard Gillam Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002 Want to understand the Unicode standard? Start here! + Good book for Unicode and international scripts + Perfect Companion Volume to the Standard Itself. + A great book if you want to understand Unicode + A great manual for the practical use of Unicode             Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction100 reviews Steve McConnell Microsoft Press, 2004 Invaluable, Well Presented Information + Code Complete Review + good book + Best of the Best + An Important Read             Groovy Programming: An Introduction for Java Developers3 reviews Kenneth Barclay, John Savage Morgan Kaufmann, 2006 Groovy Programming + Read this book before Groovy In Action + K&R of Groovy Some of the material is a little dated but overall this is an excellent primer on Groovy.             Java 2D Graphics11 reviews Jonathan Knudsen O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1999 Great book on the foundations of Java 2D + Excellent starter for using java 2D graphics + An excellent choice In computing, Java 2D is an API for drawing two-dimensional graphics using the Java programming language. Every Java 2D drawing operation can ultimately be treated as filling a shape using a paint and compositing the result onto the screen. This book, although seven years old, is the best in ...             Graphic Java 1.2, Volume 1: AWT, Third Edition18 reviews David M. Geary Prentice Hall PTR, 1998 33 missing pages! + sloppy editing? + Excellent + Draggable saints - it's come to this !             Computer Science & Perl Programming: Best of TPJ5 reviews Jon Orwant O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2002 Great collection + Good but not great + Good, but over my head + Absolutely lovable and entirely unique + Computer Science and Perl Programming             Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook (Java 5,Version 1.5)29 reviews David Flanagan, Brett McLaughlin O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 This is the best way to progress from Java 4 to Java 5 that I know of + Good Intro to the latest features of Java 1.5 Tiger. + Error-Prone, yet valuable notebook + Quick intro to Tiger features             Java I/O28 reviews Elliotte Harold O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 Great reference for your file input/output logic... + Java I/O + HAVE A CUP OF JAVA I/O!! + Pretty good coverage of NIO and practical crypto             Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)25 reviews Meilir Page-Jones Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999 Most readable book on the subject + Great intro into OOP + UML as a useful accessory to OO design + Love Page-Jones books and .... hate OOP             Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition124 reviews Jeffrey Friedl O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2002 Great book, but little Ruby + Best material I have seen on regular expressions + Very in-depth This book is great if you want to learn about what you can do with regex, how they work, how you can improve them (efficiency & accuracy) and what kind of pitfalls there are. My only gripe is about the Ruby reference on the cover. In the top right corner it says: "For Perl, PHP, Java, .NET, Ruby ...             Hacker's Delight14 reviews Henry S. Warren Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002 Absolute essential + Bit-banger's delight. More fun than a barrel of monkeys. + This is a fantastic book! + Fun, interesting and useful + A rich resource for low-level arithmetic tricks             Java(TM) Virtual Machine Specification, The (2nd Edition) (Java Series)7 reviews Tim Lindholm, Frank Yellin Prentice Hall PTR, 1999 Excellent reference for the JVM + Know Thy JVM If you're writing a Java compiler or Java Virtual Machine, this book is a must-have. It's also great for the serious Java programmer who is interested in the "guts" of how Java works. But if you want a tutorial on the JVM, you'll be better served by another book. Before you buy this book, you ...             Java Network Programming, Third Edition35 reviews Elliotte Rusty Harold O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 Comprehensive reference (3rd Edition) + An excellent and thorough treatment of networking in Java + good reference + Excellent Book             Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition9 reviews David Flanagan O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 Great bang for your buck with useful, very well explained examples. + Summary of Java + Very good book of examples of specific Java concepts + Real working Code examples             Graphic Java 2, Volume 2, Swing (3rd Edition) (Sun Microsystems Press Java Series) (2 Book Set)49 reviews David Geary Prentice Hall PTR, 1999 A standard to which more technical books should measured + One and Only + Still good + A very comprehensive book             XML in a Nutshell, Third Edition15 reviews Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 By far, the best book available on XML + The XML reference + Best XML reference I ever saw This book is by far the best book I've read on XML. Typical of O'Reilly "In a Nutshell" books, the converage of XML is fast paced and complete. Your money will be well spent on this book. I even think most beginners will do well with this one!             Graphic Java 1.2, Volume 1: AWT, Third Edition18 reviews David M. Geary Prentice Hall PTR, 1998 33 missing pages! + sloppy editing? + Excellent + Draggable saints - it's come to this !