Read any good books lately?
Topic: Read any good books lately?
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Post #1
Innovating@Sun Microsystems wroteon July 29, 2009 at 2:58pm
There's a wealth of technical knowledge out there in the world, and if anyone has an intelligent grasp on it, it's all of you in the Innovating@Sun community. What industry-related books have you read that you would recommend to others? A book on Java programming? Something on the benefits of open source? Perhaps a novel that illustrates a day in the life of a developer.....
Share your faves here and we'll give them a shout-out with links to buy the book on Amazon on the Innovating@Sun Facebook page, Twitter handle, and blog: http://blogs.sun.com/innov
This is your opportunity to share with others your sophisticated taste in technology literature and spread the word about your favorite published work. So go ahead, tell us what you think we should read today.
Share your faves here and we'll give them a shout-out with links to buy the book on Amazon on the Innovating@Sun Facebook page, Twitter handle, and blog: http://blogs.sun.com/innov
This is your opportunity to share with others your sophisticated taste in technology literature and spread the word about your favorite published work. So go ahead, tell us what you think we should read today.
Post #2
Andy wroteon July 29, 2009 at 3:27pm
Easy Oracle Jumpstart (Oracle Database Management Concepts and Administration) - A very easy read and had a feeling I would be needing it!
Post #3
Wayne wroteon July 29, 2009 at 7:12pm
Here's a few of my favourites off the top of my head...
1) The Mythical Man Month (2nd edition has the essay "no silver bullet") - Fred Brooks
2) Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment - W. Richard Stevens
3) Computer Architecture (A Quantitative Approach) - John Hennessy and David Patterson
4) Building Scalable Web Sites - Cal Henderson
5) Object Thinking - David West
1) The Mythical Man Month (2nd edition has the essay "no silver bullet") - Fred Brooks
2) Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment - W. Richard Stevens
3) Computer Architecture (A Quantitative Approach) - John Hennessy and David Patterson
4) Building Scalable Web Sites - Cal Henderson
5) Object Thinking - David West
Post #4
Wayne wroteon July 29, 2009 at 7:21pm
I quite like the 'pull out' section in Donald E. Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming Volume 3: Sorting and Searching" comparing search and sort algorithm efficiency too. And I think anyone familiar with Knuth's work would agree that it would be excellent to see him get to the fabled seventh volume in the next few years (only three volumes to go).
Post #5
John wroteon August 11, 2009 at 7:54am
"The Art of Systems Architecting" (3rd Edition)
Post #6
Innovating@Sun Microsystems wroteon August 19, 2009 at 1:34pm
Thanks to everyone for your fantastic contributions! You can check out the blog posting here:
http://blogs.sun.com/innov
And FYI, after only 1 week, your recommendations have generated a total of 572 clicks to the Amazon.com purchase pages for the books. Your good taste in literature is spreading! Why not send the url above to friends so they can get a glimpse of how tech-savvy you really are? ;)
http://blogs.sun.com/innov
And FYI, after only 1 week, your recommendations have generated a total of 572 clicks to the Amazon.com purchase pages for the books. Your good taste in literature is spreading! Why not send the url above to friends so they can get a glimpse of how tech-savvy you really are? ;)