Don't doubt what can be done, learned in short 10 minutes. Actually, Sams Teach Yourself's In 10 Minutes series of books had proved this point. In 10 minutes, we can master a lot of practical technologies.

Regular Expression (RegEx for short) can be regarded as an immensely powerful weapon on computing. In almost all programming languages and OS, we can use it to carry out various of complex text processing work. Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes is a preferred introduction book to regular expressions for beginners, which is close to the actual demands, suitable for developers working on all kinds of programming languages and platforms.

Eloquent JavaScript is a free book written by Marijn Haverbeke (a world-class programmer who has accumulated rich experience in web development and is especially influential in the field of JavaScript), which has always been strongly recommended by the father of JavaScript and many JavaScript experts. This Second Edition expanded a lot of new content based on its first Edition (the chapters also increased to 22 from 12).

First of all, Martin Fowler's Refactoring is a super classic masterpiece in the field of software engineering, known as "Software Engineering Bibles" together with Erich Gamma's Design Patterns. They are must-read books for any programmers.

Performance is the key to success of any websites. And as a matter of fact, the time a web browser loading a web page takes up about 80% of the total time consumed when a visitor is accessing this page. Thus, especially for the current rich media websites or web apps, speed is extremely important. In Even Faster Web Sites, you will learn how to save the valuable website loading time, so as to make your site respond to user's requests more quickly.