I'm working on it. Technical Tomes Programming books, reference works and so on. If you do anything vaguely clever with Unix, you'll come across perl. It's the glue that holds most of the web together, and is capable of some extremely funky stuff. And if you want to do anything vaguely clever with perl, the Camel Book is the essential work to have beside your keyboard.
Information is transmitted from page to brain clearly and with an easy style and humour.
This is how books on programming ought to be written. In other words, I like this book. Five swirls - If you write perl, you should already have this. Linden This is a great book for getting you up to speed on what's new in Java 2 - it's also very useful for teaching you the Java language, but some programming experience is assumed. Very easy to read, and the little asides at the end of each chapter help to wind you down after the previous information feast.