The Era of the Free Books
You no more have the right to say "I don't know", when asked about some technology. There are plenty of excellent free books to be downloaded in PDF format down there, and I have selected a few of them.
- Programming Ruby
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ - .NET
- Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/staythepath/additionalresources/upgradingvb6/ - Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/whidbey/introto2005/ - .NET Architecture and Design Guides
http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/ArchDes/default.aspx- I particularly recommend this one:
Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnbda/html/distapp.asp
- I particularly recommend this one:
- COM and .NET Interoperability
http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=ComAndDotNetInterop_Book
- Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
- Source Control Management
- Version Control with Subversion
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ - Open Source Development with CVS, 3rd Edition
http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/
- Version Control with Subversion
- Java & J2EE
- The J2EE Architect's Handbook
http://www.theserverside.com/books/DVTPress/J2EEArchitectsHandbook/index.tss - Mastering Enterprise Java Beans Third Edition
http://www.theserverside.com/books/wiley/masteringEJB/index.tss - EJB Design Patterns
http://www.theserverside.com/books/wiley/EJBDesignPatterns/index.tss - Servlets and JavaServer Pages: The J2EE Technology Web Tier
http://www.theserverside.com/books/addisonwesley/ServletsJSP/index.tss - Java Testing and Design
http://www.theserverside.com/books/prenticeHall/JavaTestingAndDesign/index.tss - Jakarta Struts Live
http://www.theserverside.com/books/sourcebeat/JakartaStrutsLive/index.tss
- The J2EE Architect's Handbook
- XML
- Essential XML Quick Reference
http://www.theserverside.net/books/addisonwesley/EssentialXML/index.tss - J2EE and XML Development
http://www.theserverside.com/books/manning/J2EEXML/index.tss
- Essential XML Quick Reference
- IBM Redbooks
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ - O'Reilly Open Books Project
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ - Anarquia
- En torno a la Anarquía, por Hernún
http://www.hernun.com.ar/enta/ieindex.php
- En torno a la Anarquía, por Hernún
And, of course, there's Wikibooks, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page.
Now click & read.