Book Reviews
CompSoc are officially sponsored by O'Reilly, a large book publisher. A large part of their market is academic, including many books related to computing.
As part of the sponsorhip, O'Reilly provide some books free of charge to CompSoc members (contact the librarian for more information), if these members will review the books for them. Some of these reviews are collected here.
Agile Web Development with Rails (First Edition), Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson
Ajax Hacks, Bruce W. Perry
Don't Get Burned on eBay, Shauna Wright
Head Rush Ajax, Brett McLaughlin
Intermediate Perl, Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy & Tom Phoenix
MySQL Stored Procedure Programming, Steven Feuerstein and Guy Harrison
XAML In a Nutshell, Lori A. MacVitte
DNS and Bind, 5th Edition, Cricket Liu and Paul Albitz
Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd ed.), Dave Thomas and David Heinemeir Hansson
CISCO IOS Cookbook, 2nd edition, Kevin Dooley and Ian J. Brown
Netiquette: Internet Etiquette in the Age of the Blog, Matthew Strawbridge
Learning Ruby, Michael Fitzgerald
Learning Web Design (3rd edition), Jennifer Niederst Robbins
Sharepoint for Project Management, Dux Raymond Sy
iPhone UK: The Missing Manual, David Pogue
MySQL In a Nutshell, Russell Dyer
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 3rd Edition, Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell (1st ed.), Greg Kroah-Hartman
Beautiful Code, Andy Oram and Greg Wilson
Painting the Web, Shelley Powers
Java Power Tools, John Ferguson Smart
The Ruby Programming Language, David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto
Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World, Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba
Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, Johanna Rothman
Photoshop CS3 RAW, Mikkel Aaland
Using Drupal - Choosing and Configuring Modules to Build Dynamic Websites, Jeff Robbins, Angela Byron, Addison Berry, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, and James Walker
Your Brain: The Missing Manual, Matthew MacDonald
Real World Haskell, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen and Don Stewart
Apache 2 Pocket Reference, Andrew Ford
Pragmatic Version Control Using Git, Travis Swicegood
bash Cookbook , Carl Albing, JP Vossen, Cameron Newham
Learning the vi and Vim Editors, Seventh Edition, Arnold Robbins, Linda Lamb, Elbert Hannah
iPhone Open Application Development, Second Edition, Jonathan Zdziarski
Erlang Programming - A Concurrent Approach to Software Development, Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson
Beautiful Security, Andy Oram, John Viega
Designing Interfaces (Second Edition), Jenifer Tidwell
Metaprogramming Ruby, Paolo Perrotta
HTML5 and CSS3, Brian Hogan
Programming Python, Fourth Edition, Mark Lutz
The Book of CSS3, Peter Gasston
Learning Python, Fourth Edition, Mark Lutz
The Art of Assembly Language (Second Edition), Randall Hyde
Think Stats, Allen B. Downey
Gamification by Design, Gabe Zichermann & Christopher Cunningham
Arduino Cookbook, Michael Margolis
SQL and Relational Theory, 2nd Edition, C.J. Date
The Book of Ruby, Huw Collingbourne
Designing Mobile Interfaces, Steven Hoober, Eric Berkman
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, Clay A. Johnson
Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban, Henrik Kniberg
Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers, 2nd Edition, Michael Schrenk
A Bug Hunter’s Diary, Tobias Klein
How Linux Works - What Every Superuser Should Know, Brian Ward
