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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

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.