<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5447">Sorry it took me so long to respond. The last two days have been non-stop. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239"><span>Anyway, t</span>hanks for all the suggestions. I have most of the Perl books already and I usually pick one each night and re-read a section. I always find it nice to reread a section that I understand better or maybe we touched on the topic in one of the perl meetings.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239">As for narrowing my search. I guess I was just looking for new ideas to broaden my search for books besides the ones that Wade and Julian had mentioned in the meetings. I remember Wade telling me about the refactor one a few times since that is a lot of what I am doing these days. Or at least that is what I have fun doing. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239" dir="ltr">I am always open for a new to me Perl book. I have read Code Complete. It was about 15 yrs ago but I did read it. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239" dir="ltr">I think for now i have enough suggestions that I can go through. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239" dir="ltr">Thanks again!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239" dir="ltr">Trac</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454006890808_5239"><br></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 8:03 PM, G. Wade Johnson <gwadej@anomaly.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:32:57 +0000 (UTC)<br clear="none">Trac Taylor via Houston <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:houston@pm.org" href="mailto:houston@pm.org">houston@pm.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Hey everyone<br clear="none">> I getting some funds from work for new books. I know in some of the<br clear="none">> past meetings, we have discussed some books to read. These don't<br clear="none">> have to be Perl books. The books do need to be about programming or<br clear="none">> somewhere along those lines. Wade, I remember you telling me a book<br clear="none">> about refactoring code, which sounded interesting but I dont remember<br clear="none">> the title/author. And Julian talked about the algorithms book 2<br clear="none">> months ago. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">The book on refactoring may have been "Refactoring" as suggested by<br clear="none">Robert. But, I might also have mentioned<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you don't have "Code Complete" by McConnell, any edition is well<br clear="none">worth it.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Honestly, you'd need to narrow down the area of programming you want<br clear="none">books about. I've got a couple hundred in easy reach, ranging from<br clear="none">language-specific to Cryptography, and from beginner to advanced.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">What are you looking for?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">G. Wade<div class="yqt2387716130" id="yqtfd00201"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> ThanksTrac Taylor</div><br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated,<br clear="none">beware: it is probably self-indulgence. -- Donald Norman<br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>