[ajug-members] Best Technical Books?

[J. Talafous]

Brought me into the world of Java:

Java Examples in a Nutshell by David Flanagan

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565923713/



On 7/24/08, Gunnar Hillert <gunnar at hillert.com> wrote:
> Hi Les,
>
> Although it has been mentioned in one of the other posts today...I just
> finished reading 'Effective Java Second Edition' by Joshua Bloch. The
> content is great, it is really well written and the structure is good,
> too (For the most part I was able to read a chapter per ride on Marta
> :-) A must-read in my opinion.
>
> Oh, before I forget - Congratulations for getting accepted!!!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gunnar
>
> 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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