This time it is a JavaScript book, and it's designed to be a reference book more than a learning book, but that's why I chose it, cause I will probably get more out of it that way.
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It might be healthy to avoid PHP books as they're all terrible. Literally all of them. Especially the ones concerning newer versions of PHP.
ReplyDeleteI found "JavaScript Patterns", "JavaScript: The Good Parts" and "High Performance JavaScript" handy books. Especially the patterns one, since it's such a different language than many others. Finally John Resig is working on a book-in-progress that is a pretty neat read called "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja"
For generalized books the "Beautiful _____" series is quite cool: Beautiful Code, Beautiful Security, and Beautiful Architecture are the ones I have at the moment.
I also have a few books related to data warehousing, relational theory, sql type stuff.
Haven't played a whole lot with rails/ruby since its not too friendly with windows (same with python for serving web content it seems) but if I have time I plan on checking out node.js which sounds amazing.
Otherwise no idea. There hasn't been many languages that have snapped my attention besides wanting to move away from PHP for major stuff. I'd love to convert my project at work to something fancy but it's at like 70k lines of code now :(
Yay!! Lend it to me when you're done! :) I wanna learn JavaScript!
ReplyDeleteum...yeah. I'm useless there, sorry haha. But I applaud your dedication to what you do!
ReplyDeletedid you read the first one already?!
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