Software Development Listmania

Java

• Core Java Volume I Fundamentals, 8th Edition
• Core Java Volume II Advanced Features, 8th Edition
• Java Language Specification, 3rd Edition
• Effective Java, 2nd Edition (No comments simply the best!)
• Java Puzzlers Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases (what? you think you know Java!)

Server side

• Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, 5th Edition
• Pro EJB 3 Java Persistence API
• Spring in Action
• Hibernate in Action

Web front end

• Struts 2 in Action
• Google Web Toolkit In Action
• Gwt in Practice
• Don’t make me think, A common sense approach to web usability

Database

• PostgreSQL, 2nd Edition
• EnterpriseDB, The Definitive Reference
• Beginning Database Design

Desktop – User Interface

• About Face 3
• The Human Interface
• Java Swing, 2nd Edition
• Filthy Rich Clients (excellent book for Java Swing…)
• SWT and JFace in Action
• JavaFX in Action (waiting for it…)

Eclipse

• Eclipse in Action
• Eclipse Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins

Algorithms

• Bundle of Algorithms in Java, 3rd Edition
• Introduction to Algorithms

Design Patterns

• Design Patterns in Java
• Head First Design Patterns
• Antipatterns (knowing how NOT to do things is easier for most developers!)

Tools

• Java Power Tools (very helpful)

Perl

• Learning Perl, 5th Edition
• Wicked Cool Perl Scripts

Python

• Python in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
• The Definitive Guide to Django (currently reading…)
• Practical Django Projects (currently reading…)

Haskell

• Programming in Haskell (good introduction… “Haskell is for lunatics”. Phantom type is my favorite :)

Other

• Programming Language Pragmatics (somehow theoritical, but in a good way)
• The Definitive ANTLR Reference
• The ThoughtWorks Anthology (TODO: read…)