What are some 'must have' (and 'must read' ;) ) O'Reilly books for programmers and entrepreneurs?
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#12Any comments on the iOS 5 Cookbook or Chas Emerick's Clojure book? On Chas's book, specifically I thought chapter 1 was pretty technical with very short snippets of code. Do later chapters have more code?
Chas's "Clojure Programming" book is great, and there is code throughout the book.
The book is divided into several parts: Part III "Tools, Platforms, and Projects" and part IV "Practicums" give you an overview on project patterns and structure, and this alone was worth it for me.
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#13I'm having problems with the checkout. Is it working for you?
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#14I love o'reilly publications, but I remain a fan of printed books. Specifically in technical texts, I like being able to scan and leaf through physical pages. If they had a special on printed books today, I would buy a couple; alas, with this special, my wallet remains closed.
I've bought an onyx m92 ( http://www.onyx-boox.com/onyx-boox-m92 ) which has got me fairly close to this capability for reading PDFs (it's an ipad-sized device). It comes with a stylus which allows you to tap a specific point in the progress bar to change pages. Much easier than scanning back and forth using a kindle.
It's still not quite up to the standard of flipping back and forth in a book, but it's tolerable. I've also changed my reading flow to make a lot more bookmarks of interesting parts of the book, and use search more. Given the other advantages (portability, price of books) it's a solution that's working out really well for me, and allows me to read a lot more technical books than I would if I had to lug them about in print form.
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#15I love o'reilly publications, but I remain a fan of printed books. Specifically in technical texts, I like being able to scan and leaf through physical pages. If they had a special on printed books today, I would buy a couple; alas, with this special, my wallet remains closed.
As much as I agree with you, I find that the ability to run a grep (or the more commont Ctrl+F) to quickly look for what I'm looking for of very high value. I usually enjoy reading the book from front to cover, but as soon as I want to consult it again for reference, I am happy to have the computer do the search work for me. Other than that, I often read on the (crowded) subway ride to work. Carrying a 600 page book…
Manning Publications offers free ebooks when you buy physical copies.
(http://manning.com/)
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#16What are some 'must have' (and 'must read' ;) ) O'Reilly books for programmers and entrepreneurs?
Depends on what you're into, but from the database angle:
Learning SQL is a really excellent intro, and probably covers the majority of what your average developer is going to ever need to know about SQL ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596520847.do )
SQL and Relational Theory gives you more background on relational theory - basically gives a more academic background for existing practitioners of SQL. Date is pretty dry author with a few hangups, but it's largely good solid stuff ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022879.do )
Oracle Essentials is a good solid introduction to Oracle, and gives a useful bit of background on how database management systems work ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596514549.do )
For other subjects:
Code Complete needs little introduction ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780735619678.do )
I've only just started reading Version Control with Git, but it seems pretty good so far, and is well-reviewed ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596520137.do )
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#17What are some 'must have' (and 'must read' ;) ) O'Reilly books for programmers and entrepreneurs?
You might like to read my book, The Geek Atlas, which contains many places related to the history of computing.
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#18What are some 'must have' (and 'must read' ;) ) O'Reilly books for programmers and entrepreneurs?
I don’t know about must-read ones, but here are a few No Starch and O’Reilly titles that stand out from a quick look at my library:
No Starch, Eloquent JavaScript. A Modern Introduction to Programming: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593272821.do
No Starch, The Book of CSS3: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593272869.do
O’Reilly, bash Cookbook: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596526788.do
O’Reilly, CSS: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596802455.do
O’Reilly, JavaScript: The Good Parts: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do
O’Reilly, Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596528126.do
O’Reilly, The Art of SEO, 2nd Edition: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920019091.do
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#19I think this will interest some HN readers: Zachary Kessin's Building Web Applications with Erlang[1] is available as an early-release ebook. As an early release, the ebook price is already cheap, but combined with the 50% discount, today it's $6.49. Definitely seems worth a look.
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#20What are some 'must have' (and 'must read' ;) ) O'Reilly books for programmers and entrepreneurs?
You might like to read my book, The Geek Atlas, which contains many places related to the history of computing. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596523213.do
Already have it and already visited the place in Ireland and many of the places in England based on it :-) Visiting Bletchley Park was a true formative experience for me and Alexander Fleming's lab also really hit a chord with me, recalling me reading and learning about him in my childhood. Thank you for a great book and guide (and the science explanations inside are very nice as well) :-)
In my last trip to Germany I truly enjoyed Konrad Zuse Museum[1] in Hünfeld. Many descriptions are in German, but I can truly recommend it, especially if you're with a German speaker (but even without, there are models and artifacts). Not many people (me included) know about the dawn of computer science behind Britain and the US, so it was very interesting and refreshing.
[1] http://www.zuse-museum-huenfeld.de/
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