{"id":653,"date":"2011-02-08T08:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T15:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2011-02-08T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T15:53:09","slug":"teriffic-linux-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/teriffic-linux-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Teriffic Linux Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my QA coworkers had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0672328380\/\">The Linux Phrasebook<\/a> sitting on his desk. I noticed it was by Scott Granneman, and immediately thought, &#8220;if it&#8217;s by him, it&#8217;s got to be good.&#8221; As I thumbed through the pages of the book, I was impressed at the practical coverage of command line utilities including yum and rpm, apt and deb, etc. I highly recommend this book. It&#8217;s small so it&#8217;s easy to keep on hand.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone wishing to write applications that take advantage of all that Linux has to offer, I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/tlpi\">The Linux Programming Interface<\/a> (also available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-Handbook\/dp\/1593272200\">Amazon<\/a>), aka TLPI. I used to recommend Stevens&#8217; Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, but now I recommend TLPI because it is more comprehensive and just as readable. It&#8217;s not a small book, so a PDF makes it easier to keep on hand. I purchased my copy through the publisher, <a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/tlpi\">NoStarch<\/a> with the coupon code &#8220;Mamaku&#8221; that gave me 30% off and a free PDF. The order total came to $80.00, including shipping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my QA coworkers had The Linux Phrasebook sitting on his desk. I noticed it was by Scott Granneman, and immediately thought, &#8220;if it&#8217;s by him, it&#8217;s got to be good.&#8221; As I thumbed through the pages of the book, I was impressed at the practical coverage of command line utilities including yum and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/teriffic-linux-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teriffic Linux Books&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-programming","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}