[ajug-members] Best Technical Books?

[Ben Hall]

I'm a big fan of Groovy In Action.  It is the best techie book I've 
read/used in a long time.

Les Hazlewood wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As a founder of the JSecurity project (http://www.jsecurity.org), and 
> now that we've been accepted into the Apache Incubator, I'm getting to 
> a point where I'm thinking about writing a book on it, maybe a 
> "JSecurity in Action" title, or something similar for O'Reilly.
>
> Before I even think about going through this process, I was hoping I 
> could get your opinions on great technical books.  What (maybe 
> Java-oriented) techie books have you read and thought that they were 
> genuinely well-put together and in general just a good read? 
>
> There are a few stand-outs I have in my head where I think "Man, that 
> is such a great tech book - it was easy to read and understand, even 
> entertaining at times, and I find myself constantly re-visiting it for 
> material", but I'd like to get your opinions without biasing you with 
> mine.  I'd like to take the best of breed of these and use them as 
> models for how I would go about writing my own book.
>
> They don't have to be Java-oriented titles, but since I've read many 
> of the Java books out there, they might be easy for me to mentally 
> associate with what you find desirable.  Actually any book feedback 
> will do!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Les
>
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