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This book profoundly changed how I look at computers (and other things). http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/ Petzold's style is narrative, but make no mistake: every sentence is carefully chosen. I recommend resisting the urge to skim, lest you have to backtrack later...
Scott Chacon used to have a peepcode ebook on Git Internals. That was pretty awesome. Not sure if there is a legal way to get that anymore after peepcode got acquired :(
Scott Chacon used to have a peepcode ebook on Git Internals. That was pretty awesome. Not sure if there is a legal way to get that anymore after peepcode got acquired :(
http://www.electrictactics.com/book/sanedb.html
The book is really accessible and helpful. SaneDB helped me survive a development project when I was new to many things and beat some sense into me about what databases (and DBAs) are for that still comes in handy every week.
I'm not sure if it counts as a book, but the Django docs are amazing. I learned a lot about web-dev by printing out the docs (500pp at the time) and reading them cover to cover.
General topic: « The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master »
Java and more: « Effective Java » 2nd edition
About unit testing with Java tools: « Practical Unit Testing with Mockito and JUnit »