Thursday, September 06, 2007

13 Tech books I actually use



This is a very busy work week, and I'm buried in DOM and databases, so here's a tech-heavy list....sorry to all the non-techies out there, but you techies, send me your suggestions!

1) CF-WACK by Ben Forta. Also know as the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, but those in the know just call it the "cee-efff-wack".
2) Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 minutes , by Ben Forta. Ben's the MAN.
3) The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter) by Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag
4) Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger by Dave Taylor Because my MacBookPro rocks. And yes, it does Windows.
5) The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks by Rachel Andrew Rachel's a great author, try anything by her and you will learn a lot.
6) ColdFusion Lists, Arrays, and Structures by Jeff Peters. My copy is falling apart I use it that much.
7) SQL for Smarties by Joe Celko Way better title than "* for dummies".
8) HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS by Rachel Andrew
9) Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual by David Pogue, Adam Goldstein
10) Head First Design Patterns Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra
11) Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
12) DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model by Jeremy Keith
13) Head First Java by Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

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1 comment:

rashbre said...

Yikes, a lot of technical books. Don't you find that you buy a tekky book that weighs about two kilos and then look something up and its always in the Appendix section right near the end?

It always happens to me and its usually in the 'troubleshooting' or 'strange mistakes' area.

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