Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

Shelfari: The Site for Books & Readers

sign in| help

advanced search

Search

Books

Tags: o'reilly

Filter with multiple tags

plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
JavaScript
The Good Parts
by Douglas Crockford
Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code.... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
Learning Perl
by Randal Schwartz, Tom Christiansen, Tom Phoenix, Brian D. Foy
"Learning Perl," better known as "the Llama book," starts the programmer on the way to mastery. Written by three prominent members of the Perl community who each have several years of experience teaching Perl around the world, this edition has been updated to account for all the recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.8. Perl is the language for people who want to get work done. It started as a tool for Unix... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
Essential System Administration, Third Edition
by Eleen Frisch, Aeleen Frisch
Essential System Administration ,3rd Edition is the definitive guide for Unix system administration, covering all the fundamental and essential tasks required to run such divergent Unix systems as AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64 and more. Essential System Administration provides a clear, concise, practical guide to the real world issues that anyone responsible for a Unix system faces daily. The new... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
Network Security Hacks: Tips & Tools for Protecting Your Privacy
by Andrew Lockhart
This information-packed book provides over 100 quick, practical, and clever things to do to help make your Linux, UNIX, or Windows networks more secure today. It goes beyond securing TCP/IP-based services by providing intelligent, host-based security techniques. Loaded with concise but powerful examples of applied encryption, intrusion detection, logging, trending, and incident response, Network Security Hacks ... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
Learning the Korn Shell (2nd Edition)
by Bill Rosenblatt
The Korn shell is an interactive command and scripting language for accessing Unix® and other computer systems. As a complete and high-level programming language in itself, it?s been a favorite since it was developed in the mid 1980s by David G. Korn at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Learning the Korn Shell shows you how to use the Korn shell as a user interface and as a programming environment. It is the key to... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
Even Faster Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers
by Steve Souders
Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site's performance. Souders' previous book, the bestselling High... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
High Performance Web Sites
Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
by Steve Souders
Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Page, were able to... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive
by John Graham-Cumming
The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world's largest science museum, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris, ponder a descendant of Newton's apple tree at Trinity College,... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
CSS: Pocket Reference
by Eric A. Meyer
They say that good things come in small packages, and it's certainly true for this edition of CSS Pocket Reference . Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications in CSS 2.1, this indispensable little book covers the most essential information that web designers and developers need to implement CSS effectively across all browsers. Inside, you'll find: A short... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
The Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i/500D Companion
by Ben Long
Through easy-to-follow lessons, this handy book offers a complete class on digital photography, tailored specifically for people who use the Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i/500D. This is not your typical camera guide: rather than just show you what all the buttons do, it teaches you how to use the Digital Rebel's features to make great photographs -- including professional-looking images of people, landscapes, action... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))
by Jay Hilyard, Stephen Teilhet
With "C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition," you'll be able to learn and improve your mastery of both the C# language and the .NET platform. This updated bestseller has been completely revised to account for C# 2.0, the latest version of this popular object-oriented programming language. It also includes more than 100 new code solutions (over 300 overall) to common problems and tasks that you're sure to face as a C#... (more)
Computer Crimes: A Crime-Fighters HandbookDavid Icove
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
Computer Crimes: A Crime-Fighters Handbook
by David Icove
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
Flash CS5: The Missing Manual
by Chris Grover
Unlock the power of Adobe Flash and bring stunning animations to life onscreen. It's easy with Flash CS5: The Missing Manual . You'll start creating animations in the first chapter, and learn to produce effective, well-planned visuals that get your message across. This entertaining edition includes a complete primer on animation, a guided tour of the program's tools, new illustrations, and lots of details on... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
W.Sanders's .C.Cumaranatunge's ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns(ActionScript 3.0 DesignPatterns:ObjectOrientedProgrammingTechniques(AdobeDeveloperLibrary)[Paperback]2007)
by W.Sanders.C.Cumaranatunge
ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques (Adobe Developer Library) <Paperback>William Sanders (Author),Chandima Cumaranatunge (Author)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
Sharepoint User's Guide
by Infusion Development Corp. (Infusion Development Corporation)
There's nothing like teamwork for making progress on a project, but sharing information and building on each other's successes can be challenging when your team is scattered across the miles. Microsoft's SharePoint helps teams and organizations close the distance. With SharePoint, groups construct web sites specifically for collaboration--sites where individuals can capture and share ideas, and work together on... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
MySQL and mSQL
by Randy Jay Yarger
This book teaches you how to use MySQL and mSQL, two popular and robust database products that support key subsets of SQL on both Linux and Unix systems. Unlike commercial databases, mSQL and MySQL are affordable and easy to use. Both are free for nonprofit use and cost a small amount for commercial use. If you know basic C, Java, Perl, or Python, you can quickly write a program to interact with a database.... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
Designing Web Navigation
Optimizing the User Experience
by James Kalbach
Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that good navigation is... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
Learning WML and WMLScript
by Martin Frost
The next generation of mobile communicators is here, and delivering content to them will mean programming in WML (Wireless Markup Language) and WMLScript, the languages of the Wireless Application Environment (WAE). The WAE allows information in almost all applications to be formatted for display on mobile devices, such as cell phones, and enables the user to interact with the information. Why learn yet... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
CJKV Information Processing
by Ken Kunde
CJKV Information Processing is the definitive guide for tackling the difficult issues faced when dealing with complex Asian languages -- Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese -- in the context of computing or Internet services. Of incalculable value for the developer, programmer, user, and researcher, it shows how these complex writing systems have been adapted for computer use and provides time-saving tips... (more)
plan to read
reading now
I’ve read it
favorite
want to own
own it
remove book
Gaming Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools
by Simon Carless
It doesn't take long for an avid--or just wickedly clever--gamer to chaff at the limitations of videogame software or hardware. If you want to go far beyond the obvious--whether you want to modify your console controller to work on other consoles, create your own text adventure, or modify your Game Boy--there's an awful lot of fun you can have for cheap or free, using the creative exploits of the gaming... (more)

1 2 3 | Next »

Displaying 1-20 of 51 books