<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453824828231_7920" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453824828231_7928">The best Perl book I ever read -- and one of the best general programming technique books -- was Higher Order Perl. It's available as a free ebook now, but still in print if you want a hard copy.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453824828231_7920" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453824828231_7920" dir="ltr"><a href="http://hop.perl.plover.com/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453824828231_7921">Higher-Order Perl</a></div><div style="width:450px; font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';margin-top:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; background-color: #ffffff;" contenteditable="false" id="enhancrCard_0" class="link-enhancr-attachment link-enhancr-element richcompose-card"><table class="link-enhancr-element" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:450px; height:170px; position: relative; display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453824828231_7946"><tbody id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453824828231_7945"><tr class="link-enhancr-element"><td class="link-enhancr-element" colspan="8" style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 1px; 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Estrade via Houston <houston@pm.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv0052809267"><div><div dir="ltr">My top recommendations, other than bdf's Mastering Perl (exceptional):<div><ol><li>Effective Perl Programming (Schwartz, bdf)<br clear="none"></li><li>Object Oriented Perl (Conway) - really a fundamental read</li><li>Perl Best Practices (Conway)</li></ol><div>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.</div></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>In the same vein, the Perl Advent Calendar series on the web is also really good to read.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>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. ;)</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>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.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Other books I can recommend without hesitation:</div><div><ul><li>Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (Gray)<br clear="none"></li><li>An Introduction to Database Systems (Date)<br clear="none"></li><li>A Quarter Century of UNIX (Salus)<br clear="none"></li><li>FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials, FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS (both by Lucas)</li><li>High Performance MySQL (Brian Schwartz, et. al)<br clear="none"></li><li>Unix Power Tools, Third Edition (Powers, et. al)<br clear="none"></li></ul><div>I have more, but this rounds out the list of must haves for me.</div></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Brett</div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv0052809267gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv0052809267gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Robert Stone via Houston <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:houston@pm.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:houston@pm.org">houston@pm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv0052809267gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv0052809267yqt5206722508" id="yiv0052809267yqt34748"><div dir="ltr">Greetings,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>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.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Code/dp/0201485672">http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Code/dp/0201485672</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>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.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Though quite pricey, at our Tips and Tricks meeting Julian mentioned the four book series "The Art of Computer Programming" by Knuth.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Programming-Volumes-1-4A-Boxed/dp/0321751043">http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Programming-Volumes-1-4A-Boxed/dp/0321751043</a><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>This is an epic series, very math heavy and very deep and I've been really digging it.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>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!"</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Learning Perl - <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449303587">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449303587</a></div><div>Intermediate Perl - <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Intermediate-Perl-Randal-L-Schwartz/dp/1449393098">http://www.amazon.com/Intermediate-Perl-Randal-L-Schwartz/dp/1449393098</a></div><div>Mastering Perl - <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Perl-brian-d-foy/dp/144939311X">http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Perl-brian-d-foy/dp/144939311X</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>Robert Stone</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0052809267gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv0052809267gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Trac Taylor via Houston <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:houston@pm.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:houston@pm.org">houston@pm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv0052809267gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>Hey everyone</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">I getting some funds from work for new books. 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