- A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books
- Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition
- Danny Goodman’s AppleScript™ Handbook
- Database Processing
- Web Design on a Shoestring
- Designing with Web Standards
- Learning Java
- DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide
- PDF Hacks
- Programming the Perl DBI
- Translucent Databases
- XQuery
- High Performance MySQL
- Code Complete
Book: PDF Hacks
Author: Sid Steward
I can’t remember the exact reason I bought this book — I think I’d had the thought planted in my head that it should be possible to programmatically create and edit PDF files but every time I tried to do it the file ended up corrupted. I wanted to learn more about the PDF file format. A few years after I bought this book libraries for PDF generation and editing started to become ubiquitous.