Negative Space: programming books
- AppleScript: The Definitive Guide
- AppleScript is an extremely useful tool for automating the repetitive things you do in Mac OS X applications, as well as for tying a long workflow together into a double-clickable icon. This Definitive Guide is a great reference for the AppleScript scripting language.
- HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide
- I’ve never found an HTML book that I’ve considered great. This one is probably the best. It covers just about everything in HTML, as well as a little bit of Cascading Style Sheets.
- Javascript: The Definitive Guide
- Javascript gets a bad rap on the web, mostly because of advertisers who abuse its ability to open windows, which is too bad, because Javascript can do some really nice things for web surfers.
- Learning Python
- If you’ve been looking to learn Python, or need a new language with clearly defined scope and easy objects, this is an extremely useful book.
- Perl Cookbook
- This is probably the most useful Perl book I own. Whenever I need a solution quickly--which is often here at the University--I am very likely to find my start in the Perl Cookbook.
- Webmaster in a Nutshell
- Without doubt the best reference work for webmasters that you’ll find. It contains the “reference” part of most of O’Reilly’s web-relevant nutshell books. You can find references for HTML 3.2, the CGI standard, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets, PHP, the HTTP 1.1 protocol, and configuration statements and server-side includes for the Apache/NCSA webservers.
