Trigger happy
- 25th August 2006 | permanent link
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Yeah well, not quite. Let me elaborate. If you've been following my "Currently Reading" section, you might have noticed that I like to read books involving web and programming in general. Most of the books I've bought turned out to be very good, and I tend to write short and concise reviews for them (well not all of them, so don't snap any quick judgements about the books I didn't write reviews). But something always bugs me when I'm just about to place an order. Will this book be what I expect it to be? Will I be using the book on a daily or at least a semi-daily basis, or will they just pile up in a corner collecting dust. If so, am I not better of just borrowing it from the library? Well to be honest, our libraries aren't all that fond of the books I like, so again I find myself thinking about clicking that Place your order
button.
And that is why I turn to you, my trusted readers (yes, the both of you). Here is a list of books I'm considering buying soon, well as soon as I feel comfortable enought that the books will give me what I need (wich usualy is just a couple of days, nice enough from the folks at amazon to keep all of those books tucked away in my shopping cart for me to spend more money).
- Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl
Just released and the author has extended the book by some 200 pages. Even touches PHP, Ruby and MySQL uses of regex.
- Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide by Dave Thomas
I've been adminiring Ruby from afar, but I guess it's time to get into it. Rails keeps getting more and more good reviews and I just want to get in on the action :)
- Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen
We'll I guess this is the only no-brainer and I hope it's as good as advertised.
All of the books a fairly new and all of them have great reviews on Amazon, but I would still like to hear from you, so if you happen to have any insight on any of the books listed above, please do not hesitate to comment.
Obviously, Jakob Nielsen is very well known in the web development community. Though I havent always agreed with what he has to say, this book was a GREAT read. It was very informative for specific sectors - as well as broad generalizations. His tone is a little brash for me at times, but it was a great read nonetheless and I recommend it.
And, like you, I think my Amazon wishlist grows with each day. I am actually addicted to buying books there. hehe.
Yeah the mentioned books are already on their way. Like I said, it takes a day or so for me to click that button :)
And yeah, I'm addicted too :) You would think they'd give me a book for free for being such a swell sport :)
Now, only problem is, I usually see the 'buy this book with THIS book and save 35%' and I end up buying 2 books anyway. ha.
Oh well, they are great resources!