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Rails for .NET Developers (Facets of Ruby) Best Price: $11.87 I've spent the last 4 years developing web applications in the Microsoft .Net framework. ...	Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $18.00 As a result of superior pedagogy and a language that includes built in features like lists and...	Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $19.88 I was terribly interested in getting my hands on this book since I'm taking a formal course...	ExpressionEngine 2: A Quick-Start Guide Best Price: $11.68 I picked up Ryan's book after reading his free online edition of "Chapter 5: Making the...	Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $24.46 I love it! This is your life and you should start off with Rails 3. The book explain it for...



SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $19.23 I have a vast collection of SQL books. If it was published in the last 10 or so years, I...	Agile in a Flash: Speed-Learning Agile Software Development (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $11.71 When Jeff and Tim first asked my opinion on turning their Agile in a Flash blog posts into...	Pragmatic Guide to Git (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $14.26 This book is great for quickly showing you how to use git. As others have said, it does a good...	Crafting Rails Applications: Expert Practices for Everyday Rails Development (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $18.80 I just finished with Crafting Rails Applications by José Valim. The book claims to...	Programming Cocoa with Ruby: Create Compelling Mac Apps Using RubyCocoa (Facets of Ruby) Best Price: $4.92 This is exactly the kind of thoughtful, useful technical writing I have come to expect from the...



Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails Best Price: $4.99 The book is build out of about 50, thorough researched, real world enterprise recipes. While...	Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $8.96 As a web developer, I was a little worried about picking up a compiled language to add to my...	Beginning Mac Programming: Develop with Objective-C and Cocoa (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $19.95 It's weird: If you have never programmed before, you will probably be in over your head in...	The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $19.90 Reading The Agile Samurai, I felt like I was sitting with the author over a cup of coffee or a...	Test Driven Development for Embedded C (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $19.57 TDD is a modern programming practice C developers need to know. It's a different way to...

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Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone: Creating Compelling Dynamic User Interfaces (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $12.01 Core Animation is a powerful new Apple technology that debuted with Mac OS X Leopard. As it was...	Land the Tech Job You Love (Pragmatic Life) Best Price: $15.13 Andy Lester has written a great book about finding a job you love in any market. He thinks...	CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development Best Price: $19.94 For 15 years, dynamic web content has been written in a single language: JavaScript. Now, for...	Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone: Creating Compelling Dynamic User Int	Stripes: .and Java web development is fun again: .and Java Web Development Is Fu

Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Bookshelf) Best Price: $11.98 I bought this book because I had another Pragmatic Programmer book that I liked and wanted to...	Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion (The Pragmatic Starter Kit Series)(2nd Edition) Best Price: $6.02 I've been using CVS for the past few years and have been mostly happy. However, there have...	Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Edition Best Price: $14.11 I have to respectfully disagree with all the fawning reviews. It's a chatty, drawn out,...	Prototype and script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This! (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $10.25 Reading this little piece of work is a great way to very quickly learn the nuts and bolts of...	The Thoughtworks Anthology: Essays on Software Technology and Innovation (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $164.80 I feel that every techie should take a step back once in a while and reflect on their...

Agile Coaching Best Price: $19.88 Agile coaching is the experience of two agile coaches, Rachel and Liz, shared with the reader in...	Security on Rails (The Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $15.51 Security can be such a nebulous topic, bereft of practical examples of how "bad things...	Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $48.53 I just finished reading Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC by Jonathan McCracken. What a refreshing and...	Agile Web Development with Rails [AGILE WEB DEVELOPMENT W/RA] [Paperback] Best Price: $96.99	by David Chelimsky,by Dave Astels,by Bryan Helmkamp,by Dan North,by Zach Dennis ,by Aslak Hellesoy The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with Rspec, Cucumber, and Friends (The Facets of Ruby Series)(text only)1st (First) edition[Paperback]2010 Best Price: $66.20

Interface Oriented Design: With Patterns (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $14.00 I've been very pleased with Interface Oriented Design by Ken Pugh. Not only does it cover...	Rails for Java Developers Best Price: $7.00 Simply put, I wish that I had been able to read Stu Halloway and Justin Gehtland's Rails For...	Core Data: Apple's API for Persisting Data on Mac OS X Best Price: $14.95 Word of warning: not one of the 5-star reviewers actually worked through examples in this book...	Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools Best Price: $2,999.00 The book "Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools" is an excellent...	Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $19.25 Are you interested in Groovy? You don't have time for reading big books with many...

Learn to Program, Second Edition (The Facets of Ruby Series) Best Price: $14.38 I bought this book to help me learn Ruby as part of a project for a CS course at college. I...	Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $19.48 Background: I stumbled across the author's blog post announcing his intention to write the...	Pragmatic Starter Kit #3: Pragmatic Project Automation: How To Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Applications	The Definitive ANTLR Reference: Building Domain-Specific Languages (Pragmatic Pr	S.Cawood's.M.Fiala'sAugmented Reality(Augmented Reality: A Practical Guide)[Paperback]2008) Best Price: $32.55 Augmented Reality: A Practical Guide [Paperback]Stephen Cawood (Author) Mark Fiala (Author)

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Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion Best Price: $4.98 Here's a straightforward book with two audiences. First, if you've never actually used...	Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $0.01 I have been wanting to do a project on an official MVC architecture for some time now. In my...	Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the Java Virtual Machine (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $17.88 Courtesy of Pawel Stawicki from Szczecin Java User Group: "Courtesy of The Pragmatic...	Rails Recipes: Rails 3 Edition Best Price: $20.63 Written for novice to intermediate Rails developers, Rails Recipes: Rails 3 Edition is packed...	Beginning Mac Programming: Develop with (text only) by T.Isted Best Price: $33.14 Beginning Mac Programming: Develop with Objective-C and Cocoa (Pragmatic Programmers)...

GIS for Web Developers: Adding 'Where' to Your Web Applications Best Price: $74.32 We have a hard time as software engineers mastering our own concepts. Once we are asked to work...	No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology: The 2006 Edition (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $0.03 This book is every bit its title: Concise, targeted chapters getting right to the gist of a...	Textmate: Power Editing for the Mac (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $8.95 About six months ago I switched to using TextMate, a text editor with a clean and well designed...	Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $14.85 Overview This is another Pragmatic Programmers book. As such, it is short (162 pages), and...	Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $54.99 (Disclaimer: I know Scott Davis, but don't hold that against him) Groovy Recipes does what...

FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $13.00 GUI programming tends to get ignored when people talk about Ruby. That's a shame, because...	Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $17.53 Rothman's latest effort is all about how to create and use a project portfolio effectively....	Arduino: A Quick Start Guide (Quick-Start Guides) Best Price: $20.70 Maik Schmidt has produced an outstanding and engaging tutorial on the use of the popular...	ExpressionEngine 2: A Quick-Start Guide (text only) by R.Irelan Best Price: $19.95 ExpressionEngine 2: A Quick-Start Guide [Paperback]Ryan Irelan (Author)	j.Cohen's .B. Eng'sRails for .NET Developers (Facets of Ruby) [Paperback]2008) Best Price: $19.76

J.Rothman's Manage It! Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern(Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management [Paperback])(2007) Best Price: $22.15	Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition Best Price: $8.97 If you're comfortable with a programming language like Java or C++, then Programming Ruby:...	Learn to Program (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $30.00 Learn to Program by Chris Pine is a concise introduction to the world of Learn to Program...	The Thoughtworks Anthology: Essays on Software Technology and Innovation (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $164.80 I feel that every techie should take a step back once in a while and reflect on their...	Agile Coaching Best Price: $19.88 Agile coaching is the experience of two agile coaches, Rachel and Liz, shared with the reader in...

Security on Rails (The Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $15.51 Security can be such a nebulous topic, bereft of practical examples of how "bad things...	Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $48.53 I just finished reading Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC by Jonathan McCracken. What a refreshing and...	Agile Web Development with Rails [AGILE WEB DEVELOPMENT W/RA] [Paperback] Best Price: $96.99	by David Chelimsky,by Dave Astels,by Bryan Helmkamp,by Dan North,by Zach Dennis ,by Aslak Hellesoy The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with Rspec, Cucumber, and Friends (The Facets of Ruby Series)(text only)1st (First) edition[Paperback]2010 Best Price: $66.20	Interface Oriented Design: With Patterns (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $14.00 I've been very pleased with Interface Oriented Design by Ken Pugh. Not only does it cover...

Rails for Java Developers Best Price: $7.00 Simply put, I wish that I had been able to read Stu Halloway and Justin Gehtland's Rails For...	Core Data: Apple's API for Persisting Data on Mac OS X Best Price: $14.95 Word of warning: not one of the 5-star reviewers actually worked through examples in this book...	Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs (text only) by P. Butcher Best Price: $38.28 Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) [Paperback]Paul...	Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and more. Best Price: $16.76 Data Crunching by Greg Wilson. The book opens with a statement of purpose: transmuting data...	Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform Best Price: $50.87 Update: Changed my rating from 3 to 2 stars. I was going through the location chapter and...

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Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $16.79 Ian Dees is wise enough to realize that automation is not the Ultimate Solution to Everything,...	Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $21.17 Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to do a technical review of Paul Butcher's new book...	Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $8.00 I have virtually no programming experience. Other than a solid beginner's understanding of...	Designed for Use: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web Best Price: $26.75 In this book for designers, developers, and product managers, expert developer and user...	Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone (text only) by B.Dudney Best Price: $27.87 Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone: Creating Compelling Dynamic User Interfaces...

Enterprise Integration with Ruby Best Price: $3.70 I think this is a great book for someone who already knows a little bit about Ruby to learn how...	Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers) Best Price: $4.00 Visuals: Nothing terribly exciting visually. Use a "web / recipe card" looking tab...

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