What are the best books available from O'Reilly Media?

I recently received corporate sponsorship from O'Reilly Media for a professional group I started and they will be sending us free books from time to time. They asked me to provide them with a list of books which we'd like to receive copies of and there are a ton to choose from!

What are the best books you have read/seen from their vast library? The group is a mix of Linux/Windows/Network/Security admins, so a variety is more than fine!

Thanks in advance.

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arwes

Time Management for System Administrators

Time Management for System Administrators - O'Reilly Media

Best one I can think of at the moment.

SrSysAdmin

arwes wrote: »

Time Management for System Administrators

Time Management for System Administrators - O'Reilly Media

Best one I can think of at the moment.

I just finished this book and concur that it was an excellent read. Even though I've already finished it I definitely plan to put it on my list for everybody else's benefit.

Thanks for the input!

kriscamaro68

SrSysAdmin wrote: »

I recently received corporate sponsorship from O'Reilly Media for a professional group I started and they will be sending us free books from time to time. They asked me to provide them with a list of books which we'd like to receive copies of and there are a ton to choose from!

What are the best books you have read/seen from their vast library? The group is a mix of Linux/Windows/Network/Security admins, so a variety is more than fine!

Thanks in advance.

Their library.

I have just about every security book that they publish and they are all good. So I would get any of those.

chrisone

Maybe this very same post you created should have been sent to all your peers and find out what they might like. Unless you want to send us some books, then i would give you a big list hahahaha

SrSysAdmin

chrisone wrote: »

Maybe this very same post you created should have been sent to all your peers and find out what they might like. Unless you want to send us some books, then i would give you a big list hahahaha

I have...but the responses are very slowly trickling in!

chrisone

can i have some books? lol

all of the above
http://oreilly.com/pub/topic/cisco

then these security books.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802158/
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523022/
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527488/
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271435/
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009632/
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527631/
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596559052/
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006693/
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271053/

SrSysAdmin

chrisone wrote: »

can i have some books? lol

Sure! But the Baltimore/DC area might be a bit of a drive just for free books

Thanks for the recommendations, I especially like some of these security books.

Slowhand

The two O'Reilly books I've found to be the most useful are Network Warrior and DNS and BIND.

In my experience, O'Reilly books tend to be good resources for open-source products and networking technologies, but not quite so much for Microsoft platforms and a few select Cisco topics. (Meaning, you can get better books from MS Press or from Cisco, themselves, on those topics.)

tiersten

I've got a lot of their UNIX and networking books and they're all generally very good. I'd say get the DNS and BIND book and the regular expression book(s)

I assume its just O'Reilly books off that list? As Code Complete is an excellent book if you do any kind of software development. The only issue is that its a Microsoft Press book so probably not good for your offer.

SrSysAdmin

tiersten wrote: »

I've got a lot of their UNIX and networking books and they're all generally very good. I'd say get the DNS and BIND book and the regular expression book(s)

I assume its just O'Reilly books off that list? As Code Complete is an excellent book if you do any kind of software development. The only issue is that its a Microsoft Press book so probably not good for your offer.

They didn't explicitly state one way or the other so I'm not sure. They just said to give them as complete a list as we like and they'll do their best to help us out.

I've always enjoyed their books, but apparently they're a good company in general as well.

RobertKaucher

I have read:
Network Warrior, Second Edition - O'Reilly Media
Learning Perl, Fifth Edition - O'Reilly Media
Programming Perl, Third Edition - O'Reilly Media
Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition - O'Reilly Media
MCSE Core Required Exams in a Nutshell, Third Edition - O'Reilly Media

I am reading (different chapters at different times):
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals - O'Reilly Media
SQL and Relational Theory - O'Reilly Media
Windows PowerShell Cookbook, Second Edition - O'Reilly Media
Windows PowerShell? 2.0 Best Practices - O'Reilly Media
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals - O'Reilly Media

On my list to read:
Designing Interfaces, Second Edition - O'Reilly Media
Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Querying - O'Reilly Media
Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Programming - O'Reilly Media

JDMurray

Sending you books? Don't you get a premium subscription to O'Reilly's Safari Books Online too? You can look through the books online--read them cover-to-cover if you like--before you buy the hardcopy.

SrSysAdmin

JDMurray wrote: »

Sending you books? Don't you get a premium subscription to O'Reilly's Safari Books Online too? You can look through the books online--read them cover-to-cover if you like--before you buy the hardcopy.

They said we'd get a combination of hardcopies and eBooks...perhaps I misread though, but I was pretty sure.