On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:57 AM, John Redford <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > Sadly, I cannot recommend a good book on JavaScript, which is a shame > because JavaScript is one of the best-designed languages ever. Perl is > actually a pretty good background to learn JavaScript, because it has a > number of similar features (regexps, closures, dynamic typing) and also has > a object oriented programming style that is built on minimal language > support. https://developer.mozilla.org/En/JavaScript -- This is as good as > it gets.
"Javascript, The Good Parts" is commonly recommended. > Also, I cannot recommend any book on SQL. I do recommend learning how to > use BerkeleyDB's various features, which essentially is the > assembler/forth/C to the Perl/ML/Java of SQL. The more you know about what > SQL has to be doing internally, the more you'll be able to use it properly. > But I've never found it explained well in writing. I've found Thomas Kyte to be good, if Oracle specific. For instance "Effective Oracle by Design" was good. I feel that it helped me a lot with understanding other databases as well. But you have to wade through a lot of Oracle-specific details to gain that perspective. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
