A Programmer's Bookshelf

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Posted by Hemos on Monday December 12, 2005 @02:00AM from the good-question dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With christmas just round the corner I have been looking for gifts for my geek friends. But what book? I recently found a simple page with one person's bookshelf and explain what's good and what's not. What do you think? Whats on a programmer's bookshelf? (or what should be and is not!)"

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And just as importantly... by tcopeland · 2005-12-12 02:04 · Score: 4, Funny

...do you group your books by color or by topic? Especially the O'Reilly books... does the Sendmail one go in your "mail server" books? Does the pink Python book go next to the pink CVS book or next to the red and white Ruby book? Decisions decisions!

Nice to see that he's got his Knuths... although, if he's like me, they get opened about twice a year.

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1. Re:And just as importantly... by Eivind+Eklund · 2005-12-12 02:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  That often? Mine get opened every 3 years or so, when I make another attempt at reading them...
  Eivind (Eek).
  
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2. Re:And just as importantly... by tcopeland · 2005-12-12 02:36 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  The first 30-40 pages of mine are fairly wrinkled... the last 500 pages are as fresh and as clean as the day they were purchases. Ah well.
  
  Now here's a fine tome. I hear the author is a really cool guy, too.
  
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3. Re:And just as importantly... by TheRaven64 · 2005-12-12 10:28 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I hear that in the newer editions pages 100-500 are blank.
  
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Missing: by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-12 02:10 · Score: 2, Funny

A stash of porn magazines.
Obviously missing is... by Advocadus+Diaboli · 2005-12-12 02:13 · Score: 3, Funny

... a book like "how do I protect my website from being slashdotted" :-)
Re:Bookshelf? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-12 02:26 · Score: 1, Funny

Personally I need woman
Re:Nothing by indifferent+children · 2005-12-12 02:35 · Score: 5, Funny

Actually, I do have an O'Reilly CSS book in my drawer, but I never use it (because I cannot search it).
You do know that books had Indices before databases, right?

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What programmers really need. by balls199 · 2005-12-12 03:02 · Score: 2, Funny

History of My Life (Volumes I & II)
U.S.S.
Body Language Secrets: A Guide During Courtship & Dating
The System: How to Get Laid Today!

Everything else can be looked up on the internet.
Re:Bookshelf? by bhsurfer · 2005-12-12 03:10 · Score: 4, Funny

Probably the kind that are all stuck together...

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Re:PARENT NOT OFFTOPIC! by aurelian · 2005-12-12 04:02 · Score: 2, Funny

One of the BEST gifts I ever recieved was from a neighbors wife.
Had to read that one twice - missed the 'from' first time.
Re:PARENT NOT OFFTOPIC! by ojustgiveitup · 2005-12-12 05:45 · Score: 2, Funny

Just make sure not to put the Marx next to the Rand, they might rip each other to shreds.
Sadly... by sbszine · 2005-12-12 11:41 · Score: 2, Funny

"...do you group your books by color or by topic? Especially the O'Reilly books... does the Sendmail one go in your "mail server" books? Does the pink Python book go next to the pink CVS book or next to the red and white Ruby book? Decisions decisions!" As a truly tragic geek, I order mine (using spine colour) by the electromagnetic spectrum. So Programming PHP (green) goes before Programming Perl (blue), etc.

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