Customer Review: This book is perfect for anyone who needs to write application software for GNU/Linux. It describes all those miscellaneous features for programming that are above the kernel but below the level of integrated development environments. It describes makefiles, gcc, debugging, object file analysis,... more info
Customer Review: I've been a typical Win32 programmers living in a world of Microsoft development tools and APIs. Having had tried Linux development (as a hobby) numerous times in the past I always got stopped by the lack of quality books similar in quality to what Microsoft Press was pumping out for Windows... more info
Customer Review: Bob Smith et al., Linux Appliance Design: A Hands-On Guide to Building Linux Appliances (No Starch, 2007) Linux Appliance Design is not, for the most part, a bad little book, but it is structurally unsound in one major way. I realize this is a quirk of mine more than anything, and most people... more info
Customer Review: This is a grab-bag of pretty weak essays about software development.
A small set of mostly irrelevant technologies is focused on. XUL is a good cross platform technology, but the author's own fledgling effort, trixul, has too little substance and too much focus. Too much time is... more info
