Tech Library
March 12th, 2007
For many years, I have carried a number of these books around with me (to this day) for reference. I have read many of these books cover to cover and I would upgrade when a new edition came out for some of the latest greatest technologies. Oreilly books used to be the de facto standard in tech, but in the last couple of years their lead has slipped. This is both because of the lower quality of their books as well as stiffer competition on the market today.
There’s now a site where you can access man Oreilly reference books for free online! Ok, so this isn’t an official site…but at least it will serve as excellent reference until it gets shut down. Now you can review sed & awk on the Kourne shell building a web application on L A M P, all the while using CVS to store your PL/SQL source files.
Update: apparently this site got taken down…oh well, back to using good old paper.