Cookbooks

Programming Cookbooks for Geeks

Looking for the right ingredients to solve a programming problem? Look no further than O'Reilly Cookbooks. Each cookbook contains hundreds of programming recipes presented in a special Problem/Solution/Discussion format, and includes hundreds of scripts, programs, and command sequences you can use to solve specific problems.

Mathematica Cookbook
By Sal Mangano
October 2009 (est.)
$64.99 USD

As the leading software application for symbolic mathematics, Mathematica is standard in many environments that rely on math, such as science, engineering, financial analysis, software development, and many other fields.… Read more.

Regular Expressions Cookbook
By Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan
May 2009
$44.99 USD

This cookbook provides more than 100 recipes to help you crunch data and manipulate text with regular expressions. With recipes for popular programming languages such as C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl,… Read more.

Google SketchUp Cookbook
By Bonnie Roskes
March 2009
$49.99 USD

As the first book for intermediate and advanced users of Google SketchUp, this Cookbook goes beyond the basics to explore the complex features and tools that design professionals use. You'll… Read more.

Java SOA Cookbook
By Eben Hewitt
March 2009
$49.99 USD

This cookbook offers practical solutions and advice to programmers charged with implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) in their organization. Instead of providing another conceptual, high-level view of SOA, this cookbook… Read more.

Active Directory Cookbook , Third Edition
By Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen
December 2008
$59.99 USD

When you need practical hands-on support for Active Directory, the updated edition of this Cookbook provides quick solutions to more than 300 problems you might encounter when deploying, administering, and… Read more.

JRuby Cookbook
By Justin Edelson, Henry Liu
November 2008
$34.99 USD

This Cookbook offers practical solutions for using the JRuby, the Java implementation of the Ruby language. Targeted recipes help you deploy Rails web applications on Java servers, integrate JRuby code… Read more.

Facebook Cookbook
By Jay Goldman
October 2008
$39.99 USD

This Cookbook gives you a unique collection of recipes for building Facebook applications using the new profile design. This easy-to-follow book not only gives you practical ways to design and… Read more.

Web Security Testing Cookbook
By Paco Hope, Ben Walther
October 2008
$39.99 USD

Among the tests you perform on web applications, security testing is perhaps the most important, yet it's often the most neglected. The recipes in the Web Security Testing Cookbook demonstrate… Read more.

ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook , Second Edition
By Bill Hamilton
March 2008
$54.99 USD

The new edition of this Cookbook gives you more than 200 coding solutions and best practices for real problems you're likely to face with this technology using Visual Studio 2008… Read more.

ScreenOS Cookbook
By Stefan Brunner, Vik Davar, David Delcourt, Ken Draper, Joe Kelly, Sunil Wadhwa
February 2008
$54.99 USD

In the only book that completely covers ScreenOS, six key members of Juniper Network's ScreenOS development team help you troubleshoot secure networks using ScreenOS firewall appliances. Over 200 recipes address… Read more.

Apache Cookbook , Second Edition
By Rich Bowen, Ken Coar
December 2007
$34.99 USD

The new edition of the Apache Cookbook offers you updated solutions to the problems you're likely to encounter with Apache. Thoroughly updated for Apache versions 2.0 and 2.2, this book… Read more.

C# 3.0 Cookbook , Third Edition
By Jay Hilyard, Stephen Teilhet
December 2007
$54.99 USD

Completely updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 250 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers… Read more.

Linux Networking Cookbook
By Carla Schroder
November 2007
$44.99 USD

If you want a book that lays out the steps for specific Linux networking tasks, one that clearly explains the commands and configurations, this is the book for you. Linux… Read more.

JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook , Second Edition
By Danny Goodman
August 2007
$44.99 USD

In today's Web 2.0 world, JavaScript and Dynamic HTML are at the center of the hot new approach to designing highly interactive pages on the client side. With this environment… Read more.

bash Cookbook
By Carl Albing, JP Vossen, Cameron Newham
May 2007
$49.99 USD

bash Cookbook teaches shell scripting the way Unix masters practice the craft. It presents a variety of recipes and tricks for all levels of shell programmers so that anyone can… Read more.

Access Data Analysis Cookbook
By Ken Bluttman, Wayne S. Freeze
May 2007
$49.99 USD

This book offers practical recipes to solve a variety of common problems that users have with extracting Access data and performing calculations on it. Whether you use Access 2007 or… Read more.

Rails Cookbook
By Rob Orsini
January 2007
$39.99 USD

This book is packed with the solutions you need to be a proficient developer with Rails, the leading framework for building the new generation of Web 2.0 applications. Recipes range… Read more.

CSS Cookbook , Second Edition
By Christopher Schmitt
October 2006
$44.99 USD

For those all-too-common dilemmas that crop up with each project, CSS Cookbook provides hundreds of practical examples with CSS code recipes that you can use immediately to format your web… Read more.

Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook
By Tim Patrick, John Clark Craig
September 2006
$49.99 USD

This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and not-so-common tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face every day. If you're a seasoned .NET… Read more.

PHP Cookbook , Second Edition
By Adam Trachtenberg, David Sklar
August 2006
$44.99 USD

When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP language is red-hot property: used on more than 20 million web sites today, PHP is now more popular… Read more.

Ruby Cookbook
By Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson
July 2006
$49.99 USD

From data structures and algorithms, to integration with cutting-edge technologies, the Ruby Cookbook has something for every programmer. When you need to solve a problem, don't reinvent the wheel: look… Read more.

JUNOS Cookbook
By Aviva Garrett
April 2006
$54.99 USD

JUNOS Cookbook is the first comprehensive book about JUNOS software and it provides over 200 time-saving step-by-step techniques including discussions about the processes and alternative ways to perform the same… Read more.

Flash 8 Cookbook
By Joey Lott
April 2006
$44.99 USD

This practical, nuts-and-bolts toolkit puts theory into practice with ready-made answers to common Flash development questions. It's the perfect resource for Flash developers, as well as designers who are ready… Read more.

Web Site Cookbook
By Doug Addison
February 2006
$39.99 USD

This handy guide provides a wide range of solutions to real-life problems that come up regularly when creating and growing a website. With recipes that teach both routine and advanced… Read more.

Excel Scientific and Engineering Cookbook
By David M. Bourg
January 2006
$44.99 USD

This quick, look-up reference is perfect for anyone in the science and engineering community who wants to improve upon their Excel skills. You'll learn how to leverage Excel to perform… Read more.

ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook , Second Edition
By Michael A. Kittel, Geoffrey T. LeBlond
December 2005
$54.95 USD

Completely revised for ASP.NET 2.0, this new edition of the best-selling ASP.NET Cookbook has everything you need to go from beginning to advanced Windows-based web site development using Microsoft's popular… Read more.

SQL Cookbook
By Anthony Molinaro
December 2005
$39.95 USD

This convenient guide is for anyone who wants to take his or her SQL skills to the next level. Packed with over 200 recipes, the SQL Cookbook helps you conquer… Read more.

Windows Server 2003 Security Cookbook
By Mike Danseglio, Robbie Allen
December 2005
$49.95 USD

This handy problem-solver teaches you how to perform important security tasks in the Windows Server 2003 OS using very specific recipes. Each recipe features a brief description of the problem,… Read more.

XSLT Cookbook , Second Edition
By Sal Mangano
December 2005
$49.95 USD

A collection of detailed code recipes that breaks down everyday XSLT problems into manageable chunks. Learn how to transform XML documents into PDF files, SVG files, HTML documents, etc. Other… Read more.

C++ Cookbook
By Ryan Stephens, Christopher Diggins, Jonathan Turkanis, Jeff Cogswell
November 2005
$44.95 USD

Less a tutorial than a problem-solver, this practical guide shows you how to solve many of the real-world problems that C++ developers encounter, including how to parse a date and… Read more.

Windows XP Cookbook
By Robbie Allen, Preston Gralla
August 2005
$44.95 USD

Designed for all levels of IT professionals and power users, this handy reference guide provides practical solutions for the most common Windows XP tasks. These step-by-step recipes allow you to… Read more.

Exchange Server Cookbook
By Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin Ganger
June 2005
$44.95 USD

If you run a network powered by Windows, Microsoft Exchange occupies much of your time. Our new Cookbook offers you a comprehensive how-to guide to the most common tasks for… Read more.

Snort Cookbook
By Angela D. Orebaugh, Simon Biles, Jacob Babbin
March 2005
$39.95 USD

Snort, the defacto standard of intrusion detection tools, can save countless headaches; the new Snort Cookbook will save countless hours of trial and error. Each "recipe" offers a clear description… Read more.

Python Cookbook , Second Edition
By Alex Martelli, Anna Martelli Ravenscroft, David Ascher
March 2005
$49.95 USD

Like its predecessor, the new edition offers a collection of solutions to problems that Python programmers face everyday. Updated for Python 2.4, it now includes over 200 recipes that range… Read more.

AspectJ Cookbook
By Russell Miles
December 2004
$44.95 USD

This hands-on book shows readers why and how common Java development problems can be solved by using new Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) techniques. With a wide variety of code recipes for… Read more.

Linux Cookbook
By Carla Schroder
November 2004
$44.95 USD

Linux information can be found scattered in man pages, texinfo files, and source code comments, but the best source is the experts who have built up a working knowledge of… Read more.

Jakarta Commons Cookbook
By Timothy M. O'Brien
November 2004
$44.95 USD

This collection provides expert tips for using the utilities of the Java-based Jakarta Commons open source project. You don't have to be an expert, the book's solution-based format contains code… Read more.

Eclipse Cookbook
By Steve Holzner
June 2004
$44.95 USD

Eclipse is a powerful open source platform that gives Java developers a new way to approach development projects. In the Eclipse Cookbook, Java expert Steve Holzner demystifies Eclipse with practical… Read more.

Java Cookbook , Second Edition
By Ian F. Darwin
June 2004
$49.95 USD

Java Cookbook, 2nd Edition gets you to the heart of what you need to know when you need to know it. The completely revised and updated recipes in Java Cookbook,… Read more.

Access Cookbook , Second Edition
By Ken Getz, Paul Litwin, Andy Baron
March 2004
$49.95 USD

Access power users and programmers at all levels will rely on the Access Cookbook, Second Edition for quick solutions to gnarly problems. Fully updated for Access 2003, it's also one… Read more.

Java Servlet & JSP Cookbook
By Bruce W. Perry
January 2004
$44.95 USD

With literally hundreds of examples and thousands of lines of code, the Java Servlet and JSP Cookbook yields tips and techniques that any Java web developer who uses JavaServer Pages… Read more.

Apache Cookbook
By Ken Coar, Rich Bowen
November 2003
$29.95 USD

The Apache Cookbook is a collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for webmasters, web administrators, programmers, and everyone else who works with Apache. Instead of poking around mailing lists,… Read more.

Perl Cookbook , Second Edition
By Tom Christiansen, Nat Torkington
August 2003
$49.95 USD

Find a Perl programmer, and you'll find a copy of Perl Cookbook nearby. Perl Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl.… Read more.

Linux Security Cookbook
By Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, Robert G. Byrnes
June 2003
$39.95 USD

The Linux Security Cookbook includes real solutions to a wide range of targeted problems, such as sending encrypted email within Emacs, restricting access to network services at particular times of… Read more.

Java Extreme Programming Cookbook
By Eric M. Burke, Brian M. Coyner
March 2003
$34.95 USD

Brimming with over 100 "recipes" for getting down to business and actually doing XP, the Java Extreme Programming Cookbook doesn't try to "sell" you on XP; it succinctly documents the… Read more.

DNS & Bind Cookbook
By Cricket Liu
October 2002
$34.95 USD

The DNS & BIND Cookbook presents solutions to the many problems faced by network administrators responsible for a name server. This title is an indispensable companion to DNS & BIND,… Read more.

Transact-SQL Cookbook
By Ales Spetic, Jonathan Gennick
March 2002
$39.99 USD

This cookbook contains a wealth of solutions to problems that SQL programmers face all the time. Recipes inside range from how to perform simple tasks, like importing external data, to… Read more.

JavaScript Application Cookbook
By Jerry Bradenbaugh
October 1999
$54.99 USD

JavaScript Application Cookbook literally hands the Webmaster a set of ready-to-go, client-side JavaScript applications with thorough documentation to help them understand and extend the applications. By providing such a set… Read more.