I divide my world to Within-Arms-Reach and Everything-Else, and different sets of books make it into those two worlds. The close world is stuff I need to look up, so there aren't many Perl books there. The far world is the stuff I should already know.
Within-Arms-Reach
- Mastering Perl/Tk (it's a Stonehenge textbook and I'm reworking the class)
- Perl Template Toolkit (often used because I'm a Template dabbler)
- Version Control with Subversion
- Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules (three copies: it's a Stonehenge textbook and I'm heading up the rewrite)
- Cascading Style Sheets (there's funny story there, and the same story from another perspective).
- CSS Cookbook
- Programming Python
- Programming Ruby
- PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook
- Open Source Development with CVS
- PDF Hacks
- Managing Projects with make
- HTTP: The Definitive Guide (although I mostly just reference the RFC)
Everything Else
Nearby are several piles of books that only seem to be getting taller. The technical ones include:
- Pro Perl, the latest from Apress
- XML Hacks
- The Art of Assembly Language
- Beginning Perl (reviewed in TPR 1.2)
- CSS Cookbook (huh, second copy)
- Amazon Hacks
- Google Hacks
- High Performance mysql (although I've been using postgresql mostly)
Much farther away is almost every Perl book ever written, and only almost because I managed to sell a couple of the ancient ones on Amazon. I mostly keep those around so I can answer questions a Perl newbie might ask about page X in Foo.
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brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>
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