[pm-h] Looking for suggestions on new books

[B. Estrade]

My top recommendations, other than bdf's Mastering Perl (exceptional):

   1. Effective Perl Programming (Schwartz, bdf)
   2. Object Oriented Perl (Conway) - really a fundamental read
   3. Perl Best Practices (Conway)

The above books have in common that they don't read like books, but rather
you may pick and choose as your need/mood suites you.

In the same vein, the Perl Advent Calendar series on the web is also really
good to read.

Knuth's volume of books give you massive nerd cred, and in fact I own the
set. One day I will go through it all. One day. ;)

My #1 recommendation for a mind blowing, non-Perl book is Wolfram's A New
Kind of Science.  I read it cover to cover when it came out in the early
2000s. I never bought into the Wolfram-hate on such places as /., and I
recommend you do not either if you choose it as a read.  Taken for what it
is, it has the potential to change your perspective on computing on its
heads.

Other books I can recommend without hesitation:

   - Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (Gray)
   - An Introduction to Database Systems (Date)
   - A Quarter Century of UNIX (Salus)
   - FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials, FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS (both by
   Lucas)
   - High Performance MySQL (Brian Schwartz, et. al)
   - Unix Power Tools, Third Edition (Powers, et. al)

I have more, but this rounds out the list of must haves for me.

Brett


On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Robert Stone via Houston <houston at pm.org>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm almost certain the book about refactoring code you are referring to is
> "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" by Fowler, Beck and
> the rest of the brain trust.
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Code/dp/0201485672
>
> Great book, highly recommended.  I read about the first half of it chapter
> by chapter and the rest of it is more reference for types of refactoring
> that you dive into when you need them ( Move Method, Replace Conditional
> with Polymorphism, etc).  I recommend the actual book rather than the
> kindle/ebook as the code sample are formatted rather poorly in the digital
> version.
>
> Though quite pricey, at our Tips and Tricks meeting Julian mentioned the
> four book series "The Art of Computer Programming" by Knuth.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Programming-Volumes-1-4A-Boxed/dp/0321751043
>
> This is an epic series, very math heavy and very deep and I've been really
> digging it.
>
> In addition to these, I've been re-reading the perl classics and it's
> amazing how each time I do so I understand more and more and find myself
> saying "I didn't know you could do that!"
>
> Learning Perl - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449303587
> Intermediate Perl -
> http://www.amazon.com/Intermediate-Perl-Randal-L-Schwartz/dp/1449393098
> Mastering Perl -
> http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Perl-brian-d-foy/dp/144939311X
>
> Best Regards,
> Robert Stone
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Trac Taylor via Houston <houston at pm.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone
>>
>> I getting some funds from work for new books.  I know in some of the past
>> meetings, we have discussed some books to read.  These don't have to be
>> Perl books.  The books do need to be about programming or somewhere along
>> those lines.
>>
>> Wade, I remember you telling me a book about refactoring code, which
>> sounded interesting but I dont remember the title/author.  And Julian
>> talked about the algorithms book 2 months ago.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Trac Taylor
>>
>>
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