Recommended Reading
One of my bookshelves in 2006, before I packed
many of these away and moved to the US
I've frequently been asked for textbook recommendations, especially as a technical trainer, which I've been sharing on this page. I'll keep this up to date as I finish reading more books that I'd recommend.
Unix Performance
Database Performance
Unix Internals
- Solaris Internals 2nd Ed. - Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro (Prentice Hall, 2006)
- Solaris Internals 1st Ed. - Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro (Prentice Hall, 2000)
- Mac OS X Internals - Amit Singh (Addison-Wesley, 2006)
- Unix Internals - Uresh Vahalia (Prentice Hall, 1995)
- The Magic Garden Explained - Berny Goodheart, James Cox (Prentice Hall, 1995)
- The Design of the Unix Operating System - Maurice J. Bach (Prentice Hall, 1986)
- Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition - John Lions (Annabooks, 1977)
Unix Administration
Computer Security
- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson (Fiction, Avon, 2002)
- The Cuckoo's Egg - Cliff Stoll (Gallery, 2005)
- Secrets and Lies - Bruce Schneier (Wiley, 2004)
- The Art of Deception - Kevin Mitnick (Wiley, 2003)
- Hacking Exposed - McClure, Scambray, Kurtz (McGraw-Hill Osborne, 2009)
- Tangled Web - Richard Power (Que, 2000)
- Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schneier (Wiley, 1996)
- The Tao of Network Security Monitoring - Richard Bejtlich (Addison-Wesley, 2004)
Programming
C
Perl
Shell
IT History
Misc Favourites
Management
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