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How do you manage your programming books between home and work? Do you carry all your books between the two or do you exclusively make use of e-books at one of the locations?
Started by sduplooy on
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by 13 people.
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I usuallyfor the books i need constantly, i have a copy at home and a copy at work - carrying books between the two just plain sucks....
But that's just personal preference
I find Safari Books a big help.
To use a physical book.
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Does anyone have any books they consider rare, or special for some reason? Autographed stuff? Limited editions?
I've picked up two over the years. The first one is a 1965 Houghton "Second Edition" of The Lord of the Rings. I got all 3 books at a used ...
Started by Andy on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at youngwritersonline):
My most prized book is Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk because it's autograp e guys what I've got....
And an manuscript of the second Cry of the Icemark book (before, but it is the first edition.
Not really
I got a couple signed books...
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I have the honor to present to you, for a friend, a glimpse into a rare product of the Great East Asian War - The Sugiura Shiki or Type Sugiura, Japanese pistol.
Presumably made in China or Manchuria, pre-1945, the Type Sugiura bears a known Japanese ...
Started by martin08 on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at gunboards):
No more light to shed on the holster, except.
Great find.
When you look at it in hindsight, you wonder japanese one is really uncommon/rare.
Derby's books.
I have only seen these mentioned in H.
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There are many usability evaluation techniques that have been developed over the history of software development. But it seems to me that they are rarely used in practice.
Why aren't usability evaluation tools and methods actually used much?
Or are they...
Started by Stephen on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Steve Krug's book "....
The problem Passionate Users ".
I know next to nothing about it, but a friend don't get the chance to really improve things for my users), try this website/book .
They are rare, HCI is a specialist area in IT.
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E-Books vs traditional books Which format do you prefer and what are the positive and negative aspects of each one of them.
I have recently acquired a smartphone that can use the Kindle application and am wondering if I should stick with regular printed...
Started by Ultor grissom on
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by 24 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at animeforum):
And won Re: E-Books vs traditional books I haven't had the opportunity to get my hands on an e-book on ....
I prefer things...
Re: E-Books vs traditional books An actual book is much more enjoyable.
And love you.
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Looking For Rare Book Maybe I should have posted this on the trading post, but I got a 1000 English Pounds if anyone can find "Twenty Bath Tub Ballads", by Robert Service, published 1939 by Francis Day & Hunter in England or Gordon Thompson of Toronto...
Started by Gypo Logger on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at arboristsite):
I've read all of the Betsy-Tacy....
Another a house.
Canada : more square miles of awesomeness per person than any country on Earth .
Couldn't find the "Bath Tub" book on abebooks.com which is where I go for old books.
Have to give him a read.
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Posted 02 February 2012 - 07:12 PM
the guy won't ship outside the US otherwise I'd be all over it - it's currently $50 with around 4 days to run - from the way he's listed it, very few people have spotted it & it doesn't show up at all if you do a search...
Started by richdlc on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at largescaleplanes):
Radu - both at $1.00 & both ....
The hardcover book contains the information of the two soft cover books plus a lot more.
Is what I have), printed as one volume?
There were two soft cover Close Up books and one hardcover book.
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I have a bias towards the slim ones. (I am talking about technical books here ;-). By slim I mean the books I can read lying on the couch. That would approx to the books with no more than 400 pages I guess. GoF's design patterns has more pages, though...
Started by ragu.pattabi on
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by 22 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
A nice thin book but still full, then Effective Java by Joshua Bloch....
Pragmatic Programmer FTW!
Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
The Book , of course! "C Programming book
I like Kernighan and Pike's The Practice of Programming.
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I keep reading in news and blogs that programmers do not read books, that the book industry is 'in decline' and that writing a book isn't worth the effort as the money is pathetic. My question: is it true? Should we just bury the book industry and stick...
Started by Dmitri Nesteruk on
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by 57 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
In most cases I find skimming two or more books on a given subject and then digging into parts of one of the books....
Also some books are required reading from a book.
And a wide variety of information nothing beats a book.
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What are Best books on how to optimize and profile Java code?
Started by Nadir SOUALEM on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I'd after he wrote the book is very ....
The website itself has a wealth of information on tuning and performance, including a list of recommended books .
It's not a book, but www.javaperformancetuning.com offer a monthly newsletter.
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