These books are not in any priority order. I highly recommend they be on your bookshelf if you consider yourself a programmer.

Unix Network Programming Vol1 and Vol2
Vol1 “Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI”
Vol2 “Interprocess Communications”

by (THE guru) W. Richard Stevens
Prentice-Hall PTR
ISBN 0-13-490012-X & 0-13-081081-9

These are the definitive texts on programming Unix systems. This author is considered the consummate guru. He has written books at different detail levels (I like that). This set of books (costing $120 and well worth it) present you with the most detail. There is a book which is one level removed which combines these two books into one book (for $60). Everything you want to know (from a programming sense) is in these books.

Linux Unleashed

by Bill Ball, David Pitts, et al.
Sams Publishing
ISBN 0-672-31688-9

Excellent resource which actually helps you to solve problems, configure the subsystems, etc... “Why would you buy a linux book when there is so much info on the web?” because you are not always connected to the web, yet you want to read about Linux.
 

The Perl CD Bookshelf

by (multiple authors 6 books on CD)
O’Reilly
ISBN 1-56592-462-2

The Nutshell paperback is excellent, however they have put all of the major Perl books into an HTML format which is absolutely awesome!!! If they could do this with all books, I believe many trees would be thankful (no I am not a tree hugger). Absolutely a must buy.

LPI Linux Certification In a Nutshell

by Jeffrey Dean
O’Reilly
ISBN 1-56592-748-6

Excellent “fill in the holes” book. Good starter book. Gives you a good idea as to what is on the tests, also what you need in order to run the Linux operating system (regardless the distribution).

ADO Examples and Best Practices

by William R. Vaughn
APress
ISBN 1-893115-16-X

An excellent book explaining optimization of your VB code for ADO. Many excellent well thought out examples and information tidbits which you only run into when coding. I highly recommend this book.

ADO 2.6

by David Sussman
Wrox Press
ISBN 1-861004-63-X

Best written material for ADO programming I have ever seen. Good as a tutorial and reference book. I used it as a reference only but the explanations should be able to be used by any experienced programmer.

SQL Queries for Mere Mortals

by Hernandez Viescas
Addison Wesley
ISBN 0-201-43336-2

Excellent information about forming the SQL statements. I have had a number of very complicated SQL statements to create and this definitely helps.

Visual Basic 5.0 Programmer’s Guide to the Win32 API

(now version 6.0)
by Dan Appleman
Ziff Davis Press
ISBN 1-56276-446-2

Good book for getting your head into making Win32 calls without the help of Visual Basic. There is a whole world out there for Visual Basic programmers when they start getting to use the Windows OS calls directly.  Get this book.

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