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The Cluetrain Manifesto:The End of Business as Usual

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Mastering Regular Expressions

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This is not just another book about regular expressions. Although you can use it as a guide to how to use regular expressions, the really amazing thing is how the author manages to clearly explain (using the automobile engine as an analogy) the underlying mechanics of the various regular expression engines. With this deeper insight, you will be able to take advantage of the specific performance aspects of both the languages and the regular expression engines that they use. Almost like making you a better driver. Most of the documentation on regular expressions is quite shallow, and doesn't even begin to hint at their power. This book first makes you wonder, and then takes you on a journey of discovery. With Jeffrey as your irrepressibly curious and mischevious guide, you will emerge from this book with a true understanding of the puzzlingly terse strings that are regular expressions, and how to wield them to your advantage in your favorite language. The main language used is Perl, but the book covers Python, Sun Java, Microsoft .NET and Visual Basic syntax in sufficient detail to actually be almost entertaining, not to mention useful.

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 This is not just another book about regular expressions. Although you can use it as a guide to how to use regular expressions, the really amazing thing is how the author manages to clearly explain (using the automobile engine as an analogy) the underlying mechanics of the various regular expression engines. With this deeper insight, you will be able to take advantage of the specific performance aspects of both the languages and the regular expression engines that they use. Almost like making you a better driver. Most of the documentation on regular expressions is quite shallow, and doesn't even begin to hint at their power. This book first makes you wonder, and then takes you on a journey of discovery. With Jeffrey as your irrepressibly curious and mischevious guide, you will emerge from this book with a true understanding of the puzzlingly terse strings that are regular expressions, and how to wield them to your advantage in your favorite language. The main language used is Perl, but the book covers Python, Sun Java, Microsoft .NET and Visual Basic syntax in sufficient detail to actually be almost entertaining, not to mention useful.

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This is not just another book about regular expressions. Although you can use it as a guide to how to use regular expressions, the really amazing thing is how the author manages to clearly explain (using the automobile engine as an analogy) the underlying mechanics of the various regular expression engines. With this deeper insight, you will be able to take advantage of the specific performance aspects of both the languages and the regular expression engines that they use. Almost like making you a better driver. Most of the documentation on regular expressions is quite shallow, and doesn't even begin to hint at their power. This book first makes you wonder, and then takes you on a journey of discovery. With Jeffrey as your irrepressibly curious and mischevious guide, you will emerge from this book with a true understanding of the puzzlingly terse strings that are regular expressions, and how to wield them to your advantage in your favorite language. The main language used is Perl, but the book covers Python, Sun Java, Microsoft .NET and Visual Basic syntax in sufficient detail to actually be almost entertaining, not to mention useful.

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Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager

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Ever wanted to be a book reviewer? Now's your chance at fame and glory. Or perhaps just that happy feeling of recommending your favorite guides to the open-source revolution. Remember how you found out about that cool idea or tool, and now you can't live without it? Ever been puzzled about how something worked, and you found a book that explained it? Or how about those books that describe the philosophy of open-source, without actually getting into deep technical stuff at all? Well, add all those treasures to this page, and share the enlightenment with your very own book review.

Extra motivation for book reviewing

Why would I do that? WIIFM ("What's in it for me?"), you ask? How about a shiny new, and best of all free book?
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Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager

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META TOPICPARENT LinuxHints

GNU/Linux Book Reviews

Ever wanted to be a book reviewer? Now's your chance at fame and glory. Or perhaps just that happy feeling of recommending your favorite guides to the open-source revolution. Remember how you found out about that cool idea or tool, and now you can't live without it? Ever been puzzled about how something worked, and you found a book that explained it? Or how about those books that describe the philosophy of open-source, without actually getting into deep technical stuff at all? Well, add all those treasures to this page, and share the enlightenment with your very own book review.

Extra motivation for book reviewing

Why would I do that? WIIFM ("What's in it for me?"), you ask? How about a shiny new, and best of all free book?

Some book reviews to get you started

Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager

Author: Mel Gorman

Until now, there was only one way to understand the linux VM: study the poorly-documented source code one line at a time. Now there's an easier, faster alternative. This book describes the linux VM in unprecedented detail, presenting both the theoretical foundations and a line-by-line source code commentary. It systematically covers everything from physical memory description to out-of-memory management. Also includes all code commentary in HTML, PDF, and plain text formats. Online book in PDF

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Author: Eric S. Raymond

If you're ever feeling overwhelmed with nonsensical marketing messages from software companies, this book is a breath of fresh air. It's one of those books you can pick up and re-read a chapter, and you find your confidence in the open-source process is back up to full-power again. You've probably been using open-source, and wondering "how did they ever get all this to work?". Written from his background as a cultural anthropologist, Eric's book reveals the deeper structures that allow free software to thrive where commercial software (which he refers to as the "Cathedral") cannot.

Mastering Regular Expressions

Author: Jeffrey E. F. Friedl

This is not just another book about regular expressions. Although you can use it as a guide to how to use regular expressions, the really amazing thing is how the author manages to clearly explain (using the automobile engine as an analogy) the underlying mechanics of the various regular expression engines. With this deeper insight, you will be able to take advantage of the specific performance aspects of both the languages and the regular expression engines that they use. Almost like making you a better driver. Most of the documentation on regular expressions is quite shallow, and doesn't even begin to hint at their power. This book first makes you wonder, and then takes you on a journey of discovery. With Jeffrey as your irrepressibly curious and mischevious guide, you will emerge from this book with a true understanding of the puzzlingly terse strings that are regular expressions, and how to wield them to your advantage in your favorite language. The main language used is Perl, but the book covers Python, Sun Java, Microsoft .NET and Visual Basic syntax in sufficient detail to actually be almost entertaining, not to mention useful.

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