The Essential List

Whenever I go anywhere I always take a selection of technical books with me - with the number of books being proportional to the time I'll be away from home and the rest of my collection. As Chicago is only a week away I had to make my selection.

The Essential Books

Why these books? Some are reference books - what perl operator do I need?, some are for passing on to the unenlightened - Read Chapter 17 of Peopleware and then we can discuss. Others, like HHGTTG and Latin for all occasions provide inspiration for release names. I'm currently playing with C# using Gtk#, so Mono - A Developers Handbook and The Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide are essential.

P.S. Yes, all are mine except Object-Oriented Design Heuristics and C# in a Nutshell which are my employers.

| 27 Sep 2004 | #