Top picks from my bookshelf
No Responses May 20th, 2008 | Ekerete.
While trying to streamline my growing book collection, I thought to do a post on the books that have been most useful. So here goes:
- The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez
Useful both as a reference book and a source of advice from the trenches. Covers Rails 2. Smashing. - The ZEN of CSS Design by Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag
The definitive CSS showcase. - Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action by Dave Crane, Bear Bibeault, Tom Locke
Work with Prototype and Scriptaculous? You need this. - jQuery in Action by Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz
As above but for the jQuery javascript library. - DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith
Absolutely recommended as an intro to working with the Document Object Model. - Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm
Lots of useful CSS tips and tricks. - Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith
Very friendly in-depth intro to ajax. Useful even if you use a framework. - RESTful Web Services by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby
The title says it all. Web Services the modern way. - Rails Cookbook by Rob Orsini
If you need to choose just one Rails recipe book, choose this. - Don’t Make Me Think! by Steve Krug
Engrossing usability and user interface design book. Read it from cover to cover in a day. - PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice by Matt Zandstra
All you need to get started with Object Oriented Programming with PHP 5. - Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Davidson, Justin Gehtland, Andreas Schwarz
The “official” rails book. Has everything you need to get started with Rails. - Rules of Management by Richard Templar
Lots of useful advice for managing resources. - Php|architect’s Guide to Programming with Zend Framework by Cal Evans
Currently the only Zend Framework book on sale and it’s really good. - No Nonsense XML Web Development With PHP by Thomas Myer
Very good. Walks through an article management project while introducing different aspects of XML with PHP.
