The Developer's Notebook series is for early adopters of leading-edge technologies who want to get up to speed quickly on what they can do now with emerging technologies. If you're a coder down to your core, and just want to get on with the job, then you want a Developer's Notebook. Coffee stains and all, these books are from the minds of developers to yours, barely cleaned up enough for print.

Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook
By Ian Langworth, chromatic
July 2005 
$29.95 USD

Good software testing can increase your productivity, improve your designs, raise your quality, and make you more productive overall. With this series of hands-on labs, you'll learn how Perl's test… Read more.

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JBoss: A Developer's Notebook
By Norman Richards, Sam Griffith
June 2005 
$29.95 USD

JBoss is a fully certified J2EE 1.4 application server that's free, popular, and competitive with proprietary Java application servers in features and quality. JBoss: A Developer's Notebook takes you on… Read more.

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Maven: A Developer's Notebook
By Vincent Massol, Timothy M. O'Brien
June 2005 
$29.95 USD

Maven: A Developer's Notebook is the first book on the subject to hit the market, so you know the information is fresh and timely. If you're a Java programmer, you'll… Read more.

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ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook
By Wei-Meng Lee
June 2005 
$29.95 USD

To bring you up to speed with ASP.NET 2.0, this practical book offers nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one explores a new feature of the language, with emphasis on changes… Read more.

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Visual C# 2005: A Developer's Notebook
By Jesse Liberty
April 2005 
$29.95 USD

Microsoft's C# language has attracted millions to .NET. Now, to make development on this platform quicker and easier, C# 2.0 offers some key changes as part of Visual Studio 2005.… Read more.

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Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook
By Matthew MacDonald
April 2005 
$29.95 USD

To bring you up to speed with Visual Basic 2005, this practical book offers nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one explores a new feature of the language, with emphasis on… Read more.

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Spring: A Developer's Notebook
By Bruce A. Tate, Justin Gehtland
April 2005 
$29.95 USD

This no-nonsense book quickly gets you up to speed on the new Spring open source framework. Favoring examples and practical application over theory, Spring: A Developer's Notebook features 10 code-intensive… Read more.

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QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook
By Chris Adamson
January 2005 
$29.95 USD

Java developers who need to add audio, video, or interactive media creation and playback to their applications find that QuickTime Java is a powerful toolkit, but one that's not easy… Read more.

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SWT: A Developer's Notebook
By Tim Hatton
October 2004 
$29.95 USD

In typical Developer's Notebook style, you'll learn how to take SWT out for a spin, make it work for you,and turn it upside down, all without wasted words or space.… Read more.

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Excel 2003 Programming: A Developer's Notebook
By Jeff Webb
August 2004 
$29.95 USD

Light on theory and long on practical application, this guide takes you directly to Excel 2003's new features using a series of hands-on projects. Learn to work with lists and… Read more.

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Mono: A Developer's Notebook
By Edd Dumbill, Niel M. Bornstein
July 2004 
$24.95 USD

This no-fluff, lab-style guide jumps right into Mono 1.0 as you work through nearly fifty mini-projects that introduce you to the most important and compelling aspects of the 1.0 release.… Read more.

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Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook
By David Flanagan, Brett McLaughlin
June 2004 
$29.95 USD

This no-nonsense, guide by bestselling Java authors Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan jumps right into Tiger. Using the task-oriented format of this new series, you'll get complete practical coverage of… Read more.

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Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook
By James Elliott
May 2004 
$24.95 USD

Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook shows you how to use Hibernate to automate persistence: you write natural Java objects and some simple configuration files, and Hibernate automates all the interaction between… Read more.

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Oracle PL/SQL Programming: A Developer's Workbook
By Steven Feuerstein, Andrew Odewahn
May 2000 
$49.99 USD

A companion to Feuerstein's other bestselling Oracle PL/SQL books, this workbook presents a carefully constructed set of problems and solutions that will test your language skills and help you become… Read more.

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