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CJKV Information Processing - Ken Lunde
The definitive text on handling Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese information on computer systems. Lunde covers everything from the writing systems, through to character sets, encodings, typography, input methods, web sites and much more. A huge book, but a must for anyone involved with this kind of information processing. It's not a bad read and also acts as a great reference.
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction - Steve McConnell
Every programmer should own this book, no matter what language they use. It's a book for programmers of every level and language. I can't recommend it enough. Just buy it if you don't have it already.
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Design Patterns - Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
An excellent book on Design Patterns. The subtitle, "Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" says it all. Even for non-OO programmers, this book is a worthwhile buy as it is an excellent source of inspiration.
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Inside XML - Steven Holzner
This book is an excellent XML reference which covers a huge amount of ground. It covers both the Microsoft and Non-Microsoft approaches to XML with many easy to read examples and practical applications. This is definitely a book to get if you want to learn all about XML.
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Mastering Regular Expressions - Jeffrey E.F. Friedl
This is probably the first and last book you will need on using and then mastering regular expressions. Once you've read the first couple of chapters of this book, you will wonder how you managed to last so long without them (assuming you've never used them before). It is extremely well written and illustrated for the task in hand and is a must for anyone interested this powerful text manipulation tool.
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PHP Developer's Cookbook - Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski
A really great book covering many aspects of the PHP language with some excellent recipes. My only complaint is that some example outputs would be useful at times, but in all, it's still a worth-while buy for anybody using PHP or wanting to start PHP programming in anger.
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Programming Pearls, Second Edition (ACM Press) - John Bentley
A fantastic book of great programming 'pearls'. Every programmer should have and read this book. It's got some great pearls of wisdom which stay with the reader for years to come. This 2nd Edition has some updates to take into account that 128K of RAM is no longer a decent amount of memory, but even the original is a worthwhile read.
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Programming Web Services with XML-RPC - Simon St Laurent, Ed Dumbill, Joe Johnston, John Posner
When you consider how simple XML-RPC is to implement, you wouldn't have thought that there was a whole book's worth of content which could have been written about it. With this book, the authors have provided a straightforward introduction to XML-RPC, then shown various implementations in different languages to give the reader more grounding. You don't really need a book for XML-RPC, but this one is definitely worth it if you really want to get one.
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Rapid Development - Steve McConnell
An excellent book on various rapid development strategies. This should be on the shelf of anyone managing software projects or involved in software development.
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The Art of Computer Programming Vol 1-3: Boxed Set: the Classic Work - Donald Knuth
One of those sets of books which every programmer should own. Not something you read in one go, but definitely handly to delve into once in a while.
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XML: A Primer - Simon St. Laurent
There aren't that many good XML books around, but this one isn't all bad, even if it's a little out of date. If you're looking for a book to get you started with XML, this is worth checking out, although you'll find yourself re-reading pieces quite a bit and there's lots of typos.
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