In the field of software management, very few books can rival Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams this legendary classic. As a long-standing bestseller, it makes a deep insight that the biggest problem in the process of software development does not lie in technology, but in person; and appeals to managers to give software developers full freedom and trust. Anyone who needs to manage software projects or organizations can benefit a lot from this book.

MySQL: Developer's Library is a real classic masterpiece about MySQL. It introduces the basic knowledge of MySQL as well as MySQL's unique features different from other database systems in all directions. Especially, it focuses on how to efficiently use and administer MySQL database, as well how to write MySQL-based programs in C, Perl (using DBI), and PHP (using PDO).

As a client-side script language supported by all web browsers, JavaScript is the foundation of realizing dynamic, interactive web pages, also the necessary part of Web 2.0 concept, and especially the core of Ajax technology now. In fact, JavaScript has become an essential part of most websites. And good JavaScript scripts can always improve users' Internet surfing experience.

The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist is the winner of Turing Award, father of software engineering and author of The Mythical Man-Month Frederick P. Brooks's another masterpiece - specially designed to reveal the essence of software designing!

The quality of software, not only depends on its architecture and project management, but also is closely related with the code's quality. Bad, untidy code can run normally to some extent, but that will bring potential obstacles to the whole development team, as sure as a gun. As a result, that will greatly increase development time, resources and other costs. This same applies to both agile software development and traditional software development.