Google Earth for dummies / by David A. Crowder, Wiley, 2007
It used to be that a GIS package cost thousands, and you had to attend university to learn how to use it. Now there is Google Earth and related sites that are free unless you want a pro version. Here is the user manual!
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Google.pedia : the ultimate Google resource / Michael Miller, Que Pub., c2008
Here is a user manual for Google, and it’s a thick one! You might think you could learn everything just by browsing Google, but I learned several things from this book.
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Planet Google : one company’s audacious plan to organize everything we know / Randall Stross, Free Press, 2008
This very readable book charts the history and prospects for the Google company. It is not technical, but it will interest anyone planning a profitable business.
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Java : the complete reference / Herbert Schildt. McGraw-Hill, 2007.
1024 pages, Updated and expanded for Java SE 6. I wish I had time to read this.
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Google advertising tools / Harold Davis, O’Reilly, 2006
Here is a fascinating book on how to make advertising money from your web site. Some programming knowledge is required to make use of this book.
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Professional IIS 7 and ASP.NET integrated programming / Shahram Khosravi, Wiley 2008
If you are using a Microsoft server ..
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Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# and VB / Imar Spaanjaars, Wiley, 2008
If you are using a Microsoft server ..
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Linux system programming / Robert Love, O’Reilly, c2007
If you are writing the next universal db converter or such in C on Linux, this book is for you. Linux has many improvements over Unix, and this book is an easily read manual for them. It covers IO, process and memory management, signals, and time. No networking or pthreads.
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Advanced programming in the Unix environment / W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago, Addison-Wesley, 2005
If you are doing systems programming in C on Unix, this book is indispensable. It is slightly dated, and does not cover the latest improvements in Linux.
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Holub on patterns : learning design patterns by looking at code / Allen Holub. Apress, 2004
An opinionated look at design patterns. If you are using a language not known for rapid development then you want to choose the right patterns in advance so you won’t be refactoring too much. This book discusses which patterns are most useful, with examples in Java. Not recently written, but worth reading.
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