I haven't finished it yet, but Linux Networking Internals was really amazing. It is a bit low-level, but even though I never really wanted to code low-level Linux, it taught me a lot about Linux's ways to handle incoming data and forward data, etc.
Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?
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#72Developing Trust: Online Security for Developers - Written by Matt Curtin
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Implementing SSL/TLS Using Cryptography and PKI - Written by Joshua Davies
Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?
#73The Architecture of Open Source Applications series is a great read. It is mostly written by project creators and contributers and freely available on-line: http://aosabook.org/
The Early Preview of '500 Lines or Less' by AOSA: https://github.com/aosabook/500lines
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#74Best "learn a language" book I've read was the first edition of Joe Armstrong's Programming Erlang book.
For a Software Engineering book, it's hard to beat The Pragmatic Programmer.
A good working-with-other-people book is Extreme Programming Explained 2nd ed.
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#75"Object-Oriented Software Construction" by Bertrand Meyer.
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#76Dependency Injection in .NET by Mark Seemann: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935182501
Thank you for suggesting this. An excellent book it seems.
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#77Am I the only one who's curious why the poster specified an "eBook" instead of just "book"?
Technical content tends to be more picky about layout etc than prose, which can be an issue for e-readers. Also some technical books suffer from the lack of ability to quickly browse and jump from one page to another.
Very good point about jumping around in technical books. I rarely read any tech books for this reason. eBooks are better suited for casual reading which is done front to back. Tech/reference books suffer on eReaders due to poor navigation and insufficient linking.
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#78Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. Hands down the most eye opening technical book I've read is SICP. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ http://sicpebook.wordpress.com/ebook/
Also, you can go through the UC Berkeley SICP course for free: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/fa13/ I'm going through it now, on my own, and it's an awesome course.
Also, this: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/su14/
...It started in late June and the Final is in August.
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#79Code Complete 2nd edition Super hands-on book. Since reading it, I'm writing better programs faster.
This book when combined with "The Clean Coder", and "Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code" completely changed how I thought about programming. It "levelled me up" so to speak. Even though I'm as far from being good as it gets, I still know I improved significantly from reading these three books.
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#80Javascript Allongé by Reg Braithwaite was an incredible book, not just for changing how I viewed Javascript, but it also taught me a lot about programming as a whole. It taught me a lot of lessons in factoring functions into orthogonal concerns that have been highly influential on my coding style in all languages ever since. Available free in HTML form: https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge/read
Seconded! I thought I knew a lot about JavaScript but this book explains some fundamental things about how JavaScript works that I'd never seen before, not including all the combinator goodness.