C++ Coding Standards Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu Addison-Wesley, 2005 For many programmers, the term coding standard generates a gut-level response. We all know that someone is going to be pushing the one, true brace style or the proper way to indent code. This subject is probably the best way to generate instantaneous rebellion among… Read More »
CSS Cookbook Christopher Schmitt O’Reilly, 2004 This has become my new favorite book on CSS. For quite some time, the only way to learn to use CSS in website design was search the web for references, keep CSS: The Definitive Guide by your side, and experiment. The problem is that the interactions with the different… Read More »
The Little Schemer Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen The MIT Press, 1996. One of my wife’s friends recommended this book for learning Scheme. He’s a big proponent of Scheme and has even done research into teaching Scheme to kids. He is quite knowledgeable in his field. On the other hand, I have never written… Read More »
Compiler Design in C Allen I. Holub Prentice Hall, 1990 I decided to take a break from the relatively new books I’ve been reviewing and hit a real classic. Over a decade ago, I saw Compiler Design in C when I was interested in little languages. A quick look through the book convinced me that… Read More »
XML Bible Elliotte Rusty Harold IDG Books, 1999 As computer books go, this book is old. However, it does a spectacular job of handling all of the nitty-gritty details of XML. I first stumbled across this book when it was new. The only really definitive information you could find on XML was the W3C recommendation… Read More »
XML in a Nutshell Elliotte Rusty Harold and W. Scott Means O’Reilly, 2001 This is a good overview of XML-based technologies as of 2001. If you are looking for a deep understanding of the uses of XML and related technologies, this is not the right book for you. However, if you are looking for a… Read More »
Programming Pearls, Second Edition Jon Bentley ACM Press, Addison-Wesley, 2000 One of my favorite programming books of all time now has a second edition. I’ve got to say it’s as good as the original. Many years ago, I stumbled across Jon Bentley’s Programming Pearls. It is a great book on programming. It did not focus… Read More »
Peopleware Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister Dorset House Publishing Co., 1987 If you are a manager trying to get better work out of your programming staff, you need to read this book. If you are a project lead trying to be determine how to make your team more effective, you need to read this book.… Read More »
Randomness Deborah J. Bennett Harvard University Press, 1998 This book covers the subjects of randomness, probability, and statistics better than any other book for the layman I’ve ever seen. As a programmer, most of the books I’ve read on these topics are either heavily into the math and theory of the subject or focused on… Read More »
Perl for Web Site Management John Callender O’Reilly, 2002 This book may be one of the best books I’ve ever seen for getting the Perl programming language used in a place where it is sorely needed. Many people developing web-based applications are not programmers. They learned to use some HTML authoring tool and progressed from… Read More »