Which technical book is your next? | The Coffeehouse

odujosh
Need Microsoft SUX now!

I want to get into using the Enterprise Liabary so I am picking up
http://apress.com/book/view/1590596552

With VS2008 I am sure there will be wave of new books. What has caught your eye?

Rant: LINQ IN Action by Manning is a rehash of demos during Beta times. Not a recommended book unless your a beginner.

Massif
aim stupidly high, expect to fail often.

Expert F#, should I ever get around to purchasing it.

BruceMorgan

Lots of new shiny things to look at, but I don't have much time for that sort of distraction.

Amazon delivered Advanced Debugging a couple of weeks ago, but I've only had time to flip through it so far. Looks good, and it's getting a ton of praise.

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

Professional Team Foundation Server has been sitting on my desk at home since November, but I just got around to starting to reading it.

I've got a Virtual Server and I'm not afraid to use it (and then restore the image when I do it all wrong).

Herbie

thumbtacks2

This one.

esoteric
λ

Expert F#, finished. F# for Scientists, next up.

Some interesting chapters.

Data structures
Numerical analysis
Threading
Visualization
Optimization
Advanced topics

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Massif wrote:
Expert F#, should I ever get around to purchasing it.

The author is a nice dude.

irascian
Irascible Ian

I found the Enterprise Library book somewhat disappointing given how late it was (publication date kept slipping).

On the other hand I thought "LINQ in Action" was the best LINQ book out of a bad group of them that I bought so I guess your mileage may vary.

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

BruceMorgan wrote:
Lots of new shiny things to look at, but I don't have much time for that sort of distraction.

Exactly.

I received a gift certificate to borders for baby-jesus-day, and for about a week, I was thinking about picking up another coding book, but I'm already behind on last years tech Smiley

Sadly, though, I suspect that one of the big reasons that magpie developers come into being is that hiring managers seem to expect that ever developer knows everything about all technologies.

webmonkey
How am i supposed to code with theeeeeese ?

Nothing for a while, I still have the MCPD boxset & another MS Press c# book waiting for me to open them.

Not to mention the Java book I bought 3 years ago which I still haven't read.

Detroit Muscle
Wii!

I've begun a research assignment on automated surgery, so the next book on my list is:

esoteric
λ

A lot of new forms of the same old stuff appears. But how much genuinely new stuff really appears? There's a lot of variation, but also a lot of reuse, if not in libraries, then in languages... So no, you can reuse your knowledge, you don't need to throw out what you've learned, but you also don't need to throw yourself over every new language, except if you think it provides some compelling value.

phreaks

The Physics of Traffic: Empirical Freeway Pattern Features, Engineering Applications, and Theory (Understanding Complex Systems)

Jaz
From the depths of Wales I come

irascian
Irascible Ian

Can't believe Knuth's books are still around. That stuff was "de rigeur" reading when I was at Uni - more than 30 years ago.

They didn't have a nice slipcase in my day though.