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Technical Books

These are various books I've bought over the years that I no longer need. Most are in very good / excellent condition, having sat on bookshelves for a long time and only been used as occasional reference or only read a small number of times.

I'm looking to get rid of all of these.

If you're based in the UK I'll happily post these to you (except maybe for the fatter books where I might ask for postage). I'm happy to ship to anywhere else in the world if you'll pay for shipping.

Title Author ISBN Publish year Condition
Advanced UNIX Programming (2nd edition) Marc J. Rochkind 9780131411548 2004 Very good; slight discolouration on spine
Agile Web Development with Rails Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Handsson 9780976694007 2005 Good; cover and spine have discolouration
Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF Jacek Artymiak 9788391665114 2003 Like new
Catalyst: Accelerating Perl Web Application Development Jonathan Rockway 9781847190956 2007 Like new
Cisco Cookbook Kevin Dooley, Ian J. Brown 9780596003678 2003 Like new
Cisco IOS in a Nutshell A Desktop Quick Reference for IOS on IP Networks James Boney 9781565929425 2002 Like new
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (2nd edition) Aaron Hillegass 9780321213143 2004 Like new; minor discolouration on spine
Eric Meyer on CSS Mastering the Language of Web Design Eric A. Meyer 9780735712454 2003 Like new
DNS and BIND Paul Abitz, Cricket Liu 9780596001582 2001 Like new
DNS & BIND Cookbook Cricket Liu 9780596004101 2002 Good; minor indentations on cover
Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference (2nd edition) Danny Goodman 9780596003166 2002 Like new
Exim: The Mail Transfer Agent Philip Hazel 9780596000981 2001 Very good; spine is faded
The Exim SMTP Mail Server Official Guide for Release 4 Philip Hazel 9780954452902 2003 Like new
JavaScript The Definitive Guide (4th edition) David Flanagan 9780596000486 2002 Very good
JavaScript Pocket Reference David Flanagan 9780596004118 2002 Very good
LDAP System Administration Gerald Carter 9781565924918 2003 Like new
Learning Perl (3rd edition) Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix 9780596001322 2007 Well-read; cover is a bit worn/scuffed
Perl Cookbook (2nd edition) Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington 9780596003135 2003 OK; cover has yellowed
Perl Hacks chromatic, Damian Conway, Curtis “Ovid” Poe 9780596526740 2006 OK; cover has yellowed
PostgreSQL The Comprehensive Guide to Building, Programming, and Administering PostgresSQL Databases (2nd edition) Korry Douglas, Susan Douglas 9780672327568 2006 Very good
The Book of Postfix State-of-the-art Message Transport Ralf Hildebrand, Patrick Koetter 9781593270018 2005 Good; spine is discoloured
Practical C Programming Steve Oualline 9781565923065 1997 Like new
Practical UNIX and Internet Security (3rd edition) Simon Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz 9780596003234 2003 Well-read but otherwise good; spine discoloured
Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion (2nd edition) Mike Mason 9780977616657 2006 Very good
Programming in Objective-C Stephen G. Kochan 9780672325861 2004 Like new
Programming Perl (3rd edition) Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant 9780596000271 2000 Good
Python Cookbook (2nd edition) Alex Martelli, Anna Martelli Ravenscroft, David Ascher 9780596007973 2005 Very good; slight discolouration
Python Essential Reference (4th edition) David M. Beazley 9780672329784 2009 Like new
SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman 9780596000110 2001 Like new
Test-Driven Development By Example Kent Beck 9780321146533 2003 Like new
Unix Power Tools (3rd edition) Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O’Reilly, Mike Loukides 9780596003302 2003 Good; slight scuffs on cover
vi and vim Editors Pocket Reference (2nd edition) Arnold Robbins 9781449392178 2011 Like new
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