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