mike hoover

Kyle D. Dent: Postfix : The Definitive Guide
Perfect, but could use some more info on courier IMAPD. (*****)

Cricket Liu: DNS & BIND Cookbook
Perfect DNS companion. All the stuff you need to do, but always forget how to do (cuz once you setup named, you usually don't have to touch it for months at a time) (*****)

Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence
Great stuff on A.I. (****)

Mark Pilgrim: Dive Into Python
Perfect Python book for beginning and intermediate hackage. (*****)

John Goerzen: Foundations of Python Network Programming (Foundations)
Another juicy Python book with all the junk you need to know for web apps. (*****)

Jeremy D. Zawodny: High Performance MySQL
Exactly what you need to know about the subject. Linux hacks has some good mysql hackalapooza too. (*****)

George Schlossnagle: Advanced PHP Programming
Hard to find PHP books that give you some new insight. This is one of them. (*****)

Guy Kawasaki: The Art Of The Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything
Great book...just the kind of stuff I read to get the start-up juices flowing. Like entrepreneur work-out tapes for lame-o's like me. (****)

Stanislaw Lem: Solaris
This is the best Lem book I have read so far; however, His Master's Voice is pretty close. Incredibly written with outstanding concepts. Intelligent, with the added bonus of not having stupid-ass aliens speaking english. I love this stuff. (*****)

Stanislaw Lem: His Master's Voice
Quite simply some of the best science fiction I have ever read. When Arthur C. Clarke said,"If Lem originally published in english instead of polish, we (Clarke, Asimov, etc) would all be in trouble." He was not kidding. Lem is incredible. (*****)

Melanie Mitchell: An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (Complex Adaptive Systems)
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Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science
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Donna Tartt: Secret History
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Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene
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Mark Buchanan: Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks
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Howard Rheingold: Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
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Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon
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Steven Strogatz: Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
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Scott McCloud: Understanding Comics
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Howard K. Bloom: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
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