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What books are in your desk libraries?

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  • I have too many books; mostly due to my pac-rat tendencies. ;-) Here are my Computer Books:

    Addison-Wesley
    XML Topic Maps
    Cascading Style Sheets Designing for the Web
    Design Patterns
    Course Technology (ITP)
    New Perspectives on Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 for Windows
    Laybird Books Loughborough:
    Simple Electronics
    Microsoft Press
    Learn Java Now
    New Riders
    Eric Meyer on CSS
    McGraw-Hill
    Windows Web Scripting Developer's Guide
    C++ Program Design
    C# Developer's Headstart
    O'Reilly
    Learning XML
    XSLT
    XSLT Cookbook
    • I'm in Iraq right now (u.s. army) so i can't remember all of them, but I've got about 20 computer books, most notably:
      Orielly's Running Linux
      Sam's Teach yourself Visual Basic in 21 Days
      A QUE book on HTML,
      some publisher's Black Book of Visual Basic
      4 or 5 A+ Cert books and the big tome Repairing and Upgrading PC's (like 12th edition)
      several other Visual Basic books
      I only really use the Running Linux (heavily tabbed) and a Using Office 2000 book on a regular basis (weekly i would guess). I run a d
      • 4 or 5 A+ Cert books

        I'm an engineering major, but I've still been thinking about getting certified in something IT related. Are those A+ Certifications worth it? What about the A+ books themselves?

        I only really use the Running Linux (heavily tabbed) and a Using Office 2000 book on a regular basis

        I always used the (imho, excellent) help functions in Office. Running Linux is a pretty decent book, even though it seems a little dated and the authors seem a little arrogant.

        P.S. Do soldiers get tir

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke

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