Spreading the Knowledge of Technology Innovators

Beautiful Testing
By Tim Riley, Adam Goucher
October 2009 
$49.99 USD

Successful software depends as much on scrupulous testing as it does on solid architecture or elegant code. Beautiful Testing offers 23 essays from 27 leading testers and developers that illustrate… Read more.

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Apprenticeship Patterns
By Dave Hoover, Adewale Oshineye
Foreword by Howard G. (Ward) Cunningham
October 2009 
$29.99 USD

Are you doing all you can to further your career as a software developer? With today's rapidly changing and ever-expanding technologies, being successful requires more than technical expertise. To grow… Read more.

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Agile Coaching
By Rachel Davies, Liz Sedley
August 2009 
$34.95 USD

Discover how to coach your team to become more Agile. Agile Coaching de-mystifies agile practices--it's a practical guide to creating strong agile teams. Packed with useful tips from practicing agile… Read more.

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97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know
Edited by Barbee Davis
August 2009 
$29.99 USD

If the projects you manage don't go as smoothly as you'd like, 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know offers knowledge that's priceless, gained through years of trial and error.… Read more.

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Manage Your Project Portfolio
By Johanna Rothman
August 2009 
$32.95 USD

Too many projects? Want to organize them and evaluate them without getting buried under a mountain of statistics? This book will help you collect all your work, decide which projects… Read more.

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Head First PMP , Second Edition
By Jennifer Greene, Andrew Stellman
July 2009 
$69.99 USD

Learn the latest principles and certification objectives in The PMBOK Guide, Fourth Edition, in a unique and inspiring way with Head First PMP. The second edition of this book helps… Read more.

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Head First Data Analysis
By Michael Milton
July 2009 
$49.99 USD

How can you learn to manage and analyze all kinds of data? Turn to Head First Data Analysis, where you'll learn how to collect and organize your data, sort the… Read more.

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Beautiful Data
By Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher
July 2009 
$44.99 USD

With this insightful book, you'll learn from the best data practitioners in the field just how wide-ranging -- and beautiful -- working with data can be. Join 39 contributors as… Read more.

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The New Community Rules
By Tamar Weinberg
July 2009 
$24.99 USD

The social web provides businesses with a largely untapped marketing channel for products and services -- the trick is knowing how to take advantage of it. With this book, you'll… Read more.

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Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
By Bryan O'Sullivan
June 2009 
$39.99 USD

This instructive book takes you step by step through ways to track, merge, and manage both open source and commercial software projects with Mercurial, using Windows, Mac OS X, Linux,… Read more.

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Complete Web Monitoring
By Alistair Croll, Sean Power
June 2009 
$49.99 USD

Complete Web Monitoring demonstrates how to measure every aspect of your web presence -- including analytics, backend performance, usability, communities, customer feedback, and competitive analysis -- whether you're running an… Read more.

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Land the Tech Job You Love
By Andy Lester
June 2009 
$23.95 USD

You've got the technical chops -- the skills to get a great job doing what you love. Now it's time to get down to the business of planning your job… Read more.

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The Passionate Programmer
By Chad Fowler
May 2009 
$23.95 USD

This book is about creating a remarkable career in software development. In most cases, remarkable careers don't come by chance. They require thought, intention, action, and a willingness to change… Read more.

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Growing Software
By Louis Testa
March 2009 
$39.95 USD

Growing Software offers critical advice for managing software development teams and the software that they're creating. The book deals with almost everything that a typical manager encounters-from personnel decisions and… Read more.

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Beautiful Architecture
By Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios
January 2009 
$44.99 USD

What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture answers this question through a collection of intriguing essays from more than a dozen of today's… Read more.

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The Principles of Successful Freelancing
By Miles Burke
December 2008 
$34.95 USD

An inspirational and instructional guide to setting up business as a freelancer. Readers will gain the confidence, and the knowledge, that they will need to succeed. Read more.

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SharePoint for Project Management
By Dux Raymond Sy
October 2008 
$44.99 USD

Microsoft SharePoint is perfect for project management, but most companies don't understand it's power. This hands-on book demonstrates how SharePoint can help you organize and manage complex projects -- a… Read more.

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Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide
By Amy Shuen
April 2008 
$24.99 USD

Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? This concise guide explains what's different about Web 2.0 and how those differences can improve the bottom line. Whether you're… Read more.

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Making Things Happen
By Scott Berkun
March 2008 
$39.99 USD

In the updated edition of this critically acclaimed and bestselling book, Microsoft insider Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing… Read more.

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The Principles of Project Management
By Meri Williams
March 2008 
$39.95 USD

A full color guide for anyone who finds themselves responsible for executing projects and needs some guidance on how to get the job done! Read more.

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Head First Software Development
By Dan Pilone, Russell Miles
December 2007 
$49.99 USD

Even the best developers have seen well-intentioned software projects fail -- often because the customer kept changing requirements, and end users didn't know how to use the software you developed.… Read more.

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The Art of Agile Development
By James Shore, Shane Warden
October 2007 
$39.99 USD

Plenty of books describe what agile development is or why it helps software projects succeed, but very few combine information for developers, managers, testers, and customers into a single package… Read more.

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SOA in Practice
By Nicolai Josuttis
August 2007 
$39.99 USD

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is finally becoming a concrete discipline rather than a hopeful collection of cloud charts. This book demonstrates how SOA can simplify the creation of large-scale applications, whether… Read more.

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Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual
By Bonnie Biafore
August 2007 
$39.99 USD

Microsoft Project 2007 helps users control the variables on any project, big or small -- such as schedules, budgets, communications, and changes -- rather than be controlled by them. Written… Read more.

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Beautiful Code
By Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
Edited by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
June 2007 
$44.99 USD

How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual, carefully designed… Read more.

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The Myths of Innovation
By Scott Berkun
May 2007 
$24.99 USD

In The Myths of Innovation, bestselling author Scott Berkun takes a careful look at innovation history, including the software and Internet Age, to reveal how ideas truly become successful innovations-truths… Read more.

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Managing the Test People
By Judy McKay
April 2007 
$39.95 USD

Managing the Test People was written for managers, leads, and people who may soon find themselves in a technical leadership position. It provides practical advice for the novice and affirmation… Read more.

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MCSA on Windows Server 2003 Core Exams in a Nutshell
By William Stanek, Pawan K. Bhardwaj
November 2006 
$29.99 USD

For Windows administrators preparing for Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) core exams 70-270, 70-290, and 70-291, this document not only provides the resources you need to succeed on the exams,… Read more.

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Process Improvement Essentials
By James R. Persse, PhD
September 2006 
$44.99 USD

Process Improvement Essentials combines the foundation needed to understand process improvement theory with the best practices to help individuals implement process improvement initiatives in their organization. The three leading programs:… Read more.

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How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project
By Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
June 2006 
$7.99 USD

Like it or not, your project needs management. Yet few good software projects can survive bad management. If you're a programmer on a high-visibility project, this PDF offers five principle… Read more.

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Pragmatic Version Control , Second Edition
By Mike Mason
May 2006 
$34.95 USD

This book covers the theory behind version control and how it can help developers become more efficient, work better as a team, and keep on top of software complexity. Version… Read more.

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Time Management for System Administrators
By Thomas A. Limoncelli
November 2005 
$24.95 USD

This collection of time management tools addresses the very specific needs of embattled system administrators everywhere. Bestselling author Thomas Limoncelli shows you how to manage interruptions, eliminate timewasters, prioritize based… Read more.

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Practical Perforce
By Laura Wingerd
November 2005 
$39.95 USD

Authored by Perforce's own VP of product technology, Practical Perforce is the ideal complement to the existing product manual, focusing less on the 'how" and more on the "why" and… Read more.

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Applied Software Project Management
By Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
November 2005 
$39.95 USD

What makes software projects succeed? It takes more than a good idea and a team of talented programmers. Applied Software Project Management provides you with tools, techniques, and practices that… Read more.

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Behind Closed Doors
By Johanna Rothman, Esther Derby
September 2005 
$24.95 USD

You may never have seen great management. Or, more likely, you've seen pieces of great management, but you may not know how to pull it all together. If you're… Read more.

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Prefactoring
By Ken Pugh
September 2005 
$29.95 USD

Prefactoring approaches software development of new systems using lessons learned from many developers over the years. It is a compendium of ideas gained from retrospectives on what went right and… Read more.

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RT Essentials
By Dave Rolsky, Darren Chamberlain, Richard Foley, Jesse Vincent, Robert Spier
August 2005 
$34.95 USD

This comprehensive guide shows you how to customize RT--the widely used request ticketing system--to better fit your organization's business needs. After introducing you to what ticketing systems are, the book… Read more.

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Essential Business Process Modeling
By Michael Havey
August 2005 
$44.95 USD

Monitoring workflow today can involve orchestrating massive systems. Business Process Management (BPM) helps developers design, code, run, administer, and monitor enterprise business processes. This guide explains BPM concepts, architecture and… Read more.

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Ship it!
By Jared Richardson, William A. Gwaltney
June 2005 
$29.95 USD

Ship It! helps teams get software out the door. Here you'll find a wealth of solid, practical advice in an easy, approachable format. You can fix many of the common… Read more.

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Managing Projects with GNU Make , Third Edition
By Robert Mecklenburg
November 2004 
$29.95 USD

Managing Projects with GNU make, 3rd Edition provides guidelines on meeting the needs of large, modern projects. This edition focuses on the GNU version of make, which has deservedly become… Read more.

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Pragmatic Project Automation
By Mike Clark
July 2004 
$29.95 USD

Forget wizards, you need a slave--someone to do your repetitive, tedious and boring tasks, without complaint and without pay, so you'll have more time to design and write exciting code.… Read more.

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