October 7, 2007

One more free Ruby on Rails book

This book looks like one of the best Ruby on Rails book I've seen so far. It's probably more an introductionary one, but seems pretty solid. Hey Amazon marks it as [ILLUSTRATED] book :) Anyway if Sitepoint lets you download it for free, why not. And if you prefer dead-tree copy, get ...

February 22, 2007

65 free online math books

Here is a list of 65 Math books available online for free, compiled by George Cain of Georgia Institute of Technology. Including really interesting ones such as: Algorithms and Complexity by Professor Wilf A = B, by Marko Petkovsek, Herbert Wilf, and Doron Zeilberger A Course In Algebraic Number Theory by Professor Ash ...

November 23, 2006

The Old New Thing Book

From TSS.Net I found out that Raymond Chen, the man who can make Win32 programming exciting, published a book "The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows". "The Old New Thing" is of course the name of his blog, described as "not actually a .NET blog ...

January 29, 2006

"Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005" book

This is a book called "Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005" by Marc Young, Brian Johnson and Craig Skibo, which is an update of their "Inside Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003" book. Really great book explaining Visual Studio 2005 internals and ways to extend it. But you can't buy it ...

August 22, 2005

New new dragon book

Great news for compiler geeks - new edition of the famous dragon book is to be published November 15. Updated and revised version, now it's called "21st Century Compilers". So far there were "old dragon book" (aka green dragon book, "Principles of Compiler Design", 1977) and "new dragon book" (red ...

March 14, 2005

"XML Hacks" book review

"XML Hacks" by Michael Fitzgerald is not a newly published book (July 2004), it just sometimes happens when your reading queue is implemented as a priority queue and you read not what you'd like to but what you have to. My overall final rating is . That's the first book ...

November 25, 2004

Head First books

Hey, that's cool stuff - check it out. Apparently, O'Reilly have found new way to sell more books. It's a sort of modern version of the "X for complete idiots" series - actually they call it "Head First". The main idea as far as I understand is to set out ...

September 19, 2004

Zoological Mythology and Cryptozoology

Just found - a collection of public domain ebooks on Zoological Mythology and Cryptozoology - http://www.herper.com/ebooks/titles.html. Free download, lots of old lithographs. Amonst: "Curious Creatures in Zoology", NY 1890; "Mythical Monsters", London, 1886; "Natural History Legend and Lore", London, 1895; "Un-Natural History, or Myths of Ancient Science", Edinburgh, 1886. Just ...

August 30, 2004

Yasser Shohoud's "Real World XML Web Services" book online

Yasser Shohoud's great "Real World XML Web Services" book is available online at http://www.learnxmlws.com/book. [Via Yasser himself.] ...

August 26, 2004

"XSLT 2.0" and "XPath 2.0" books by Michael Kay are in print

In the related news: next generation of legendary books by Michael Kay are in print already and waiting for you in your favorite books shop. Here is related discussion in xsl-list. ...

April 27, 2004

XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 books by Michael Kay!

Hey, just look at that: Michael Kay, author of the famous "XSLT : Programmer's Reference" book, developer of Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor and Editor of XSLT 2.0 spec, has announced his next generation books. He has splitted XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0, which sounds quite reasonable considering huge growth ...

February 18, 2004

New XQuery book

Michael Brundage's excellent XQuery reference book is finally available. [Via Michael Rys] Dr. Rys is talking about just published (February 2004) "XQuery : The XML Query Language" book. Michael Brundage is Technical Lead for XQuery processing at Microsoft and the recommendations are so weighty... I feel I want this book ...

January 20, 2004

Another reason to visit amazon

Mike Gunderloy: Coder to Developer - One of the books that is almost done, though you'll have to wait a few months to get a copy. Amazon: Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software by Mike Gunderloy, Sybex (Publisher) Book Description Are you ready to take the ...