Books on Software platforms and technology evolution

Here are numerous books on Software platforms and technology that I've read -- or at least skimmed through -- that other readers on the site have also had the opportunity to vote on.

Books on .NET

Book imageC# with the .NET 3.5 platform[ Vote Up]
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Book imageWorkflows for .NET apps[ Vote Up]
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Book imageTransactSQL (T-SQL) for SQL Server Admin's and Dev's[ Vote Up]
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Book imageIdentity management for .NET apps[ Vote Up]
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Book image.NET framework for Linux [ Vote Up]
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Book imageAll the power of a query language - a la'SQL - for C# and .NET[ Vote Up]
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Book imageWCF - Beyond COM/DCOM, .NET Remoting and ASP.NET Web Services.[ Vote Up]
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Book image.NET presentation technology: XAML and Co.[ Vote Up]
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Books on Hard Knocks - High Tech

Book image'THE' book on technology adoption life-cycles, why some succeed and other's fail. [ Vote Up]
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Book imageIn's and out's on running a small software company[ Vote Up]
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Book imageA companion to crossing the chasm, on hyper-growth markets[ Vote Up]
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Book imageStories of Startups Early Days, inspiration for the yet undecided[ Vote Up]
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Book imageGood read for marketers, managers and writers on making ideas memorable[ Vote Up]
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Book imageThe title should be self-explanatory for any organization[ Vote Up]
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Book imageBecause not everything is fun and coding[ Vote Up]
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Book imageInnovation stems from chaos and plain hard work, dont let history books fool you[ Vote Up]
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Books on Java

Book imageJava Guru ? This book will prove you otherwise[ Vote Up]
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Book imageLightweight Java: POJO's with Spring, Hibernate, and Tapestry[ Vote Up]
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Book imageOn bringing together EJB 3.0, JSF,AJAX with Seam, a la JBoss[ Vote Up]
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Book imageStill using Hashtables, Vectors and Enumera- tions ? This book is for you[ Vote Up]
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Book imageIn's and out's on Java5 (Annota- tions, generics, boxing..)[ Vote Up]
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Book imageFor Java devs, looking for a taste of Ruby/Rails using Java's Groovy[ Vote Up]
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Book imageFor Java dev's who want to use a scripting language's syntactic sugar and structures, without loosing Java's roots[ Vote Up]
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Book imagePython written for Java, while staying inside the confines of the Java Virtual Machine.[ Vote Up]
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Books on Python / Ruby

Book imagePython web framework, made from the ground up[ Vote Up]
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Book imageShortcuts to many typical dev tasks, for Pythonistas.[ Vote Up]
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Book imageShortcuts to many typical dev tasks, for Rubyists[ Vote Up]
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Book imagePython web framework, made up from various Python modules[ Vote Up]
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Book image'THE' book on the Rails web framework for Ruby dev's[ Vote Up]
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Books on SOA

Book imageOn what's becoming the bread and butter of the service's world[ Vote Up]
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Book imageMaking sense of SOA with web services tossed into the mix.[ Vote Up]
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Book imageSOA for those who just think in Java[ Vote Up]
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Book imageGrasping the enterprise service's building blocks: SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI[ Vote Up]
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Book imageSOA for those who just think in C#[ Vote Up]
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Books on Standards

Book imageWhen GIF and JPG images just don't cut it anymore[ Vote Up]
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Book imageA series of best practices for designing with web standards[ Vote Up]
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Book imageWhat's that tag again? A light HTML / XHTML reference for your desk[ Vote Up]
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Book imageStill don't get RSS / Atom data feeds ? This book is for you[ Vote Up]
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Book imageJavaScript w/AJAX for the platform agnostic[ Vote Up]
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Books on The Other Mainstream

Book imageLanguage focused on concurrent programs[ Vote Up]
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Book imageA practical read for anyone exploring Lisp outside academia[ Vote Up]
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Book imageHands-on RFID projects[ Vote Up]
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Book imageFor the Mac OS X crowd[ Vote Up]
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Book imageEmbedded systems, C is not that forgotten after all [ Vote Up]
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Book image'THE' book on Perl 6 and its newest features[ Vote Up]
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Book imageMissing that Unix / Linux shell scripting power on a Windows box ? This book is for you[ Vote Up]
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Book imageData mining, algorithms, statistics and artifical intelligence, applied to web data and web apps[ Vote Up]
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