Open Source Books
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WordPress 3 Site Blueprints
Published 10 years ago
by Heather R. Wallace, Packt Publishing
Follow along as you work to build a variety of sites-all using WordPress. While this book isn't designed for beginners, those with even an intermediate knowledge of WordPress will be able to get these sites up and running in no time. Also, since each chapter is devoted to the design of a different site, there's no need to read the book in any particular order. Instead, you can pick and choose the blueprints that are of the most interest to you and dive right in.
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
Published 10 years ago
by Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press
For more than a decade, Steve McConnell, one of the premier authors and voices in the software community, has helped change the way developers write code - and produce better software. Now his classic book, CODE COMPLETE, has been fully updated and revised with best practices in the art and science of constructing software.
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Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database Programming 9i, 10g, and 11g Techniques and Solutions, Second Editi
Published 10 years ago
by Thomas Kyte, Apress
Now in its second edition, this best-selling book by Tom Kyte of Ask Tom fame continues to bring you some of the best thinking on how to apply Oracle Database to produce scalable applications that perform well and deliver correct results. Tom has a simple philosophy: you can treat Oracle as a black box and just stick data into it or you can understand how it works and exploit it as a powerful computing environment.
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UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (4th Edition
Published 10 years ago
by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley, Prentice Hall
“As an author, editor, and publisher, I never paid much attention to the competition–except in a few cases. This is one of those cases. The UNIX System Administration Handbook is one of the few books we ever measured ourselves against.”–From the Foreword by Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media“This book is fun and functional as a desktop reference. If you use UNIX and Linux systems, you need this book in your short-reach library.
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Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform (Pragmatic Programmers
Published 10 years ago
by Ed Burnette, Pragmatic Bookshelf
Android is a software toolkit for mobile phones, created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. It's inside millions of cell phones and other mobile devices, making Android a major platform for application developers. That could be your own program running on all those devices.Within minutes, Hello, Android will get you started creating your first working application: Android's version of "Hello, World." From there, you'll build up a more substantial example: an Android Sudoku game.
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Dreamweaver CS5: The Missing Manual
Published 10 years ago
by David Sawyer McFarland, O'Reilly Media
Web designers, web producers, and webmasters rely on one program above all others to design, build, and manage professional websites: Adobe Dreamweaver. It provides the tools you need to create everything from simple HTML pages to database-driven PHP pages. But what makes Dreamweaver so versatile is also what makes it difficult to learn.
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LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell
Published 10 years ago
by Adam Haeder, Stephen Addison Schneiter, Bruno Gomes Pessanha, James Stanger, O'Reilly Media
You may not have heard of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) or its professional certifications, but they're becoming an important part of proving professional competence in the Linux operating system. That aside, LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell is a fantastic introductory Linux book, well suited to introducing a curious newcomer to the environment and bringing an intermediate user up to expert status.
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Building a Web Site For Dummies
Published 10 years ago
by David A. Crowder, For Dummies
If you're just getting your feet wet in Web site construction, the first big hurdle is figuring out where to start. Building a Web Site for Dummies lightens things up with humor and makes the challenge of building a site far less daunting.This book doesn't zoom you right into coding HTML, although it covers the markup language quite well.
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Eclipse Rich Client Platform (2nd Edition
Published 10 years ago
by Jeff McAffer, JeanMichel Lemieux, Chris Aniszczyk, Addison-Wesley Professional
In Eclipse Rich Client Platform, Second Edition, three Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) project leaders show how to use Eclipse 3.5 (“Galileo”) to rapidly deliver cross-platform applications with rich, native-feel GUIs.The authors fully reveal the power of Eclipse as a desktop application development platform; introduce important new improvements in Eclipse 3.
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Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science 2nd Edition
Published 10 years ago
by John Zelle, Franklin, Beedle & Associates Inc.
This is the second edition of John Zelle's Python Programming, updated for Python 3. This book is designed to be used as the primary textbook in a college-level first course in computing. It takes a fairly traditional approach, emphasizing problem solving, design, and programming as the core skills of computer science. However, these ideas are illustrated using a non-traditional language, namely Python. Although Python is used as the language, teaching Python is not the main point of this book.