I regularly review books for some of the organisations which I’m a member of. I’m also happy to review books for other publications free of charge, on the proviso that I get to keep the book afterwards. Please feel free to contact me if you’d like me to review a particular text.
FLOSS UK Newsletter
Published quarterly and sent out to nearly 400 members, the FLOSS UK newsletter (previously UKUUG newsletter) is one of the publications which I regularly contribute to.
- Agile Web Development with Rails (4th Ed.) (reviewed September 2011)
- Apache Cookbook (reviewed March 2008)
- Automating System Administration with Perl (reviewed September 2009)
- Beautiful Architecture (reviewed September 2009)
- Beautiful Code (reviewed December 2007)
- Building Web Reputation Systems (reviewed June 2010)
- CakePHP Application Development (reviewed September 2008)
- Developing Large Scale Web Applications (reviewed June 2010)
- DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide (reviewed September 2010)
- Essential PHP Security (reviewed June 2006)
- Java Pocket Guide (reviewed September 2008)
- Learning Android (reviewed September 2011)
- Learning Perl, 6th Ed. (reviewed December 2011)
- Linux Networking Cookbook (reviewed March 2008)
- Masterminds of Programming (reviewed June 2009)
- Mining the Social Web (reviewed June 2011)
- PHP and Smarty on Large-Scale Web Development (reviewed December 2007)
- Programming Embedded Systems (reviewed March 2007)
- Rails for PHP Developers: Refining Web Applications (reviewed June 2008)
- REST In Practice (reviewed June 2011)
- Ruby on Rails: Up and Running (reviewed December 2006)
- Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air (reviewed December 2008)
- The ThoughtWorks Anthology: Essays on Software Technology and Innovation (reviewed June 2008)
- Using Drupal (reviewed June 2009)
- Version Control with Subversion (reviewed December 2008)