October 1998
Intermediate to advanced
374 pages
12h 6m
English
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Other Books and Resources
Books
In reading this book, you’ll find that I frequently refer to other books that explain concepts more completely than I can (at least, not without making this book twice its size). The following is a brief listing of the books that I recommend:
Albitz, Paul and Cricket Liu, DNS and Bind (O’Reilly & Associates, 1997).
Ballew, Scott, Managing IP Networks with Cisco Routers (O’Reilly & Associates, 1997).
Blake, Russ, Optimizing Windows NT (Microsoft Press, out of print).
Brooks, Fredrick P., Jr., The Mythical Man-Month (Addison Wesley, 1995).
Chapman, Brent and Elizabeth Zwicky, Building Internet Firewalls (O’Reilly & Associates, 1995).
Cockcroft, Adrian and Richard Pettit, Sun Performance and Tuning (Prentice Hall, 1998). Everything about tuning Solaris and Sun hardware. The new edition includes Java and web tuning.
Dowd, Kevin, Getting Connected (O’Reilly & Associates, 1996).
Frisch, Æleen, Essential System Administration (O’Reilly & Associates, 1996).
Gancarz, Mike, The Unix Philosophy (Digital Press, 1996). Wonderful explanation of what makes Unix Unix.
Garfinkel, Simson, PGP: Pretty Good Privacy (O’Reilly & Associates, 1995).
Gray, Jim, The Benchmark Handbook for Database and Transaction Processing Systems (Morgan Kauffman Publishers, 1993).
Gundavaram, Shishir, CGI Programming on the World Wide Web (O’Reilly & Associates, 1996).
Gurry, Mark and Peter Corrigan, Oracle Performance Tuning (O’Reilly & Associates, 1996).
Harold, Elliotte Rusty, Java Network Programming ...
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.