Revision as of 19:49, 2 May 2009

The following are books of possible interest for DWers on O'Reilly Safari, which is a subscription to online technical reference books. There is a basic subscription level that gives you access to 5 books at one time for $10 a month, minimum of one month check out, that would probably be more than sufficient for most people.

Dreamwidth Programming

Perl

Learning Perl

• Learning Perl, 5th Edition (2008)
• Intermediate Perl (2006)
• Mastering Perl (2007)
• Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd Edition (2005)

Expanding Perl

• Mastering Algorithms with Perl (1999)
• Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules (2003)
• Perl Cookbook (2003)
• Perl Hacks (2006)
• Computer Science & Perl Programming: Best of The Perl Journal (2002)
• Perl Best Practices (2005)
• Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook (2005)
• Perl Debugged (2001)
• Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code (2004)

Specific Perl Topics

• Practical mod_perl (2003)
• mod_perl Developer's Cookbook (2002)
• Perl Template Toolkit (2003) -- We want to move away from BML at some point; xb95 has mentioned this as a candidate.
• Programming the Perl DBI (2000)
• Perl and XML (2002)
• Programming Web Services with XML-RPC (2001) -- has a section on Perl

Regexes

• Regular Expression Pocket Reference (2003)
• Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition (2006)

Web Design

CSS

• CSS Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition (2007)]
• CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition (2006)
• CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition (2006)
• Core CSS: Cascading Style Sheets, 2nd Edition (2003)

Expanding CSS

• Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS (2008)
• Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns (2007)
• The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (2005)
• Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design

Programming to interact with Dreamwidth

• Programming Web Services with XML-RPC (2001) -- DW and LJ have XML-RPC interfaces

Data

• Programming Collective Intelligence, 1st Edition (2007)
• Visualizing Data, 1st Edition (2007)