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Comprehensive coverage of Ruby 1.8 and 1.9

"The New Most Important Ruby Book"
Peter Cooper,
rubyinside.com

Completely updated for Ajax and Web 2.0

"A must-have reference"
Brendan Eich,
creator of JavaScript

Jude

Jude is my Java documentation browser. It combines Sun's definitive javadocs with the easy-to-use format of Java in a Nutshell, and tops it off with easy keyboard-based navigation and full-text searching.

Jude is available for free evaluation.

See the user's guide for more info

Java in a Nutshell

The 5th edition is now out, with complete coverage of Java 5.0!

It includes a fast-paced tutorial on the language, and a compact quick-reference for the core Java API.

Java Examples in a Nutshell

The 3rd edition, updated for Java 1.4

This edition has all-new coverage of the NIO and JavaSound APIs, completely rewritten Servlets and XML chapters, and coverage of new Java 1.4 features (assertions, logging, preferences, SSL, etc.) added througout. A great book for those who like to learn by example. 193 working examples: 21,900 lines of carefully commented code to learn from.

Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook

Amazon incorrectly credits me as the main author on this book. I'm actually the second author: really more of a consultant. This is a good book about all the language changes in the latest version of Java.

Effective Java

I didn't write this excellent book, but I wish I had.

Author Josh Bloch is probably best known for the collections classes in the java.util package. His experience and wisdom are apparent in this book. I learned from it and recommend it highly.

September 22, 2006

Rhino cover in Weird Al Music Video

Musician Weird Al Yankovic has released a music video for his song "White and Nerdy". The cover of my JavaScript book appears in it. (I can't tell if its the fifth edition, though.)

You can find the video at the musician's MySpace site, and also by searching YouTube.

The JavaScript reference is 1 minute 14 seconds into the video.

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