Dmitri's Bookshelf: Computer Books Wishlist

General

• PC Toys: 14 Cool Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment
• Dr. Ecco's Cyberpuzzles
• Linux Toys: 13 Cool Projects for Home, Office and Entertainment
• Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do (have)
• Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide by Jessica Mulligan
• The Practice of System and Network Administration by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christine Hogan - $20 used
• Managing Knowledge: A Practical Web-Based Approach by Wayne Applehans
• Mastering Regular Expressions
• Code Generation in Action
• Spidering hacks - book on internet research and data retrieval. (Slashdot review)

Professional

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
• Master Software Development booklist

Complexity

• Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy (Slashdot review)
• Content Syndication With RSS (Slashdot Discussion)
• Open System Standardization: A Business Approach
• Personal and Professional Knowledge Management (booklist)
• Envisioning Information
• Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
• Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory

Databases

• Translucent Databases by Peter Wayner

XML

• Professional XML Schemas by Jon Duckett - $35
• XML and SQL: Developing Web Applications by Daniel Appelquist - $10 used

Web Development

• The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby
• Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces by Carolyn Snyder
• JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook
• HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS
• Extreme Programming for Web Projects
• PHP Web Development Solutions
• Core PHP Programming (2nd Ed)
• Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security, and Usability by Elfriede Dustin - $7
• Google Hacks
• Web Development Essentials: Build Anything and Everything Booklist
• Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security, and Usability
• Web Redesign : Workflow That Works by Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler.
• Web Redesign - Workflow that Works
• Architecting Web Services by William L. Oellermann Jr.
• HTTP Developer's Handbook

Ecommerce

• The Complete E-Commerce Book:Design, Build & Maintain a Successful Web-based Business by Janice Reynolds, Roya Mofazali

Security

• Web Security, Privacy and Commerce book review on Slashdot.
• Web Hacking: Attacks and defense book review on Slashdot.
• Internet Site Security book review on Slashdot.
• Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World by Bruce Schneier
• Planning for Survivable Networks (Slashdot review)
• Firewalls and Internet Security, 2nd Ed
• Hacker's Challenge 2: Test Your Network Security & Forensics Skills
• Mission-Critical Security Planner
• Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way by John Viega, Gary McGraw - $25 used
• Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense by Stuart McClure - $35
• Web Security, Privacy and Commerce by Simson Garfinkel - $32

Programming - General

• Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions
• Writing Effective Use Cases (The Agile Series for Software Developers) by Alistair Cockburn.
• Extreme Programming in Practice by James W. Newkirk, Robert C. Martin. $30. Wait for used. Book on java servlet/session/login security project. Looks useful.
• Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community by Richard P. Gabriel. Treatise on nature of software/industry. Not just Patterns.
• Experience Design by Nathan Shedroff. (More about design than software, but still)
• How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing by James A. Whittaker - $30
• Software Requirements: Styles and Techniques by Soren Lauesen - $25 used
• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve C McConnell
• Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency by Jakob Nielsen
• Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process by Scott W. Ambler, Ron Jeffries

Programming - Java

• Java DB Best Practices
• Developing Applications with Java and UML by Paul R. Reed Jr. - $31 used
• Design Patterns Java Workbook by Steven John Metsker - $36 used
• Java Cookbook by Ian F. Darwin

Programming - Smalltalk

• Smalltalk, Objects, and Design by Chamond Liu. (Start with this).
• Smalltalk With Style by Suzanne Skublics, et al.
• Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck

Linux

• Linux Unwired: A Complete Guide to Wireless Configuration
• Managing Linux Systems with Webmin
• Linux Administration Handbook
• Multitool Linux
• Enterprise Linux at Work: How to Build 10 Distributed Applications for Your Organization by Stephen Asbury
• Linux Programming by Example

Genetic Programming

• Genetic Programming (Complex Adaptive Systems) by John R. Koza. Tome I.
• Genetic Programming : An Introduction : On the Automatic Evolution of Computer Programs and Its Applications by Wolfgang Banzhaf, Peter Nordin, Robert E. Keller, Frank D. Francone. GP Textbook.

AI and Game Programming

• The Video Game Theory Reader
• AI Game Programming Wisdom (with CD-ROM) by Steve Rabin
• ANSI Common LISP by Paul Graham (unsure - available online)
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp by Peter Norvig
• Financial Modeling - 2nd Edition by Simon Benninga, Benjamin Czaczkes
• Jess book review. Jess is a Java rule-based framework.