Although the market for eBooks and material for portable reading devices has significantly increased, I’m still a fan of having hard copies of technical books.
It’s much easier to refer back to material rather than trying to navigate code and technical pages on, say, a Kindle.
As such, I thought it might be cool to see what books everyone has sitting on their desks right now. Here’s mine:
List yours out in the comments and, if possible, upload a screen shot and link us up!
David Alan Hjelle says
I’ve got Flanagan’s JavaScript, the Definitive Guide, Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8, Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things, and Raskin’s The Humane Interface. Plus some internal docs.
Just started The Humane Interface, and it really looks excellent so far.
Tom says
Don Norman’s book is solid – I read it a couple of years ago and ended up pouring through it in a single sitting.
You’ll dig it.
David Alan Hjelle says
Yes, I agree. I got it from a previous job a while back, and really found it excellent. I’ll try remember to post back if Raskin’s book is equally good after I get through it: the topic is largely the same.
Jared Folkins says
http://phparch.com/books/phparchitects-guide-to-web-scraping-with-php/
Go web scraping!
Tom says
@elazar ftw!
Jimmy King says
I just got this in the mail today!
iPhone Application Development for iOS 4: Visual QuickStart Guide
Sidenote: I saw a friend of mine today, and the “pick axe book” is exactly what’s on his desk right now!
Tom says
Sick! We’re looking at some mobile projects for the coming year and I’ve actually been looking into some Android and iPhone/iPad-related material. We’ll see :).
And yeah, this is the third edition of the Pickaxe book – love it.
Don says
Projects notebook (a moleskine), and three unopened ones of the same variety (small cardboard).
Star Wars Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Alien Anthology (for the RCR edition of the SWRGP)
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising
Star Wars: The Last Command
Ripon College Viewbook thing
Another Notebook of indeterminate use
This Month’s Wired
Tom says
Based on the collection of Star Wars material that you have, I’d say we’d get along pretty well.
David Tate says
The Productive Programmer
Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise
Radical
Crazy Love
Sex God
Domain Driven Design
Beautiful Code
Er, I’ve probably read 10% of that group…..
Tom says
Domain-Driven Design is great, albeit it thick. I attended Eric Evan’s immersion course in New York earlier this year.
Was definitely worth it.