Ask HN: What books have taught you practical things?
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The most useful books I've read for my development and startup project has been as follows;
Getting Real - Its free so no excuse not to download it http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
Start Small Stay Small by Rob Walling - http://www.startupbook.net/
The Rails 3 Way by Obie Fernandez - This has been huge benefit to understanding rails more than any other online tutorial or documentation - http://www.informit.com/store/rails-3-way-9780321601667
Rails Up and Running - it's only for Rails version 2 but this was for me the most effective book for learning rails. They should really reissue the book for version 3. I bought it 4 months before rails 3 was released but I still refer back to it for some stuff. It doesn't make a lot of sense now but since I was just starting Rails had some exposure to 2 and 3 it was very helpful - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596522018.do
Getting Real - Its free so no excuse not to download it http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
Start Small Stay Small by Rob Walling - http://www.startupbook.net/
The Rails 3 Way by Obie Fernandez - This has been huge benefit to understanding rails more than any other online tutorial or documentation - http://www.informit.com/store/rails-3-way-9780321601667
Rails Up and Running - it's only for Rails version 2 but this was for me the most effective book for learning rails. They should really reissue the book for version 3. I bought it 4 months before rails 3 was released but I still refer back to it for some stuff. It doesn't make a lot of sense now but since I was just starting Rails had some exposure to 2 and 3 it was very helpful - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596522018.do
[http://www.amazon.com/The-Mecca-Factor-Imperatives-Successfu...], it really shifted my thinking.
very practical
very practical
The ggplot2 (viz for R) book has been great: http://www.amazon.com/ggplot2-Elegant-Graphics-Data-Analysis/dp/0387981403
Ruby Best Practices also gave me some ideas on better use of blocks to do data processing from files: http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/gregory/022-rbp-now-open.html