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Painless Project Management with FogBugz, Second Edition
$34.99
Not much to say here. If you manage your development projects (or any kind of projects) using FogBugz, do yourself a favor and buy this book. Everything is explained here and you'll save tons of time, especially if you're just getting started. Keep in mind that you may want to wait until the book is revised to reflect the new 7.0 release.

By the way, if you are NOT managing your software development projects using FogBugz...you really should look into it.

J2EE-Entwicklung mit Open-Source-Tools: Coding - Automatisierung - Projektverwaltung - Testen (Sav Informatik) (German Edition)
$79.95
J2EE-Entwicklung ist die zentrale Technologie f���r die serverseitige Anwendungsentwicklung. Open Source- und frei verf���gbare Tools spielen bei der Entwicklung von konkreten Systemen eine m���chtige Rolle, die durch eine gro���e und aktive Community getragen wird. Das Buch bringt diese beiden Felder zusammen und zeigt auf, wie frei verf���gbare Tools f���r eigene J2EE-basierte Projekte systematisch angewendet werden k���nnen. Angefangen von der IDE ���ber Methodiken wie Refactoring, automatisierte Builds, Code-Generatoren, aspektorientierte Programmierung sowie besonders Projektverwaltung und Testing, schl���gt das Buch einen Bogen hin zu konkreten Tipps und Patterns, sowie zum Umgang mit J2EE-Servern, Frameworks und Objektpersistenz. Dabei wird der Leser mit Fallstudien, zahlreichen Beispielen und Illustrationen praxisbezogen in die Tools und Methodiken eingef���hrt. Die Autoren bringen mehrj���hrige Praxis- und Lehrerfahrung aus EJB- und Web-Projekten ein. Dabei setzen sie auf evaluierte Werkzeuge, die sich in der Projektpraxis bew���hrt haben. Arbeitsmaterialien und Quelltexte zu diesem Buch finden sie auf der Webseite http://www.martin-backschat.de/toolsbuch/.

Essential Open Source Toolset
$65.00
I used this book twice as a text for a summer class reading class for students in an executive MS program at UT Austin. There were 9 students the first summer, 7 the second summer.

I really liked the concept of the book, and the set of topics is very good - the only topic I didn't like was the material on slicing & the only topics I felt were missing were shell scripts and logging.

This the the first edition of the book, and some of the shortcomings I'm pointing out below stem from the fact that it's a first edition, hopefully the authors will have a second edition that takes care of these issues.

1.) Some of the chapters could do with more written and programming problems.

2.) Source the assignments is not available online (and the versions I got from the authors was buggy, e.g., for testing the primes program).

3.) The emphasis on C should be reduced, maybe even removed completely. All the C oriented tools - lex, yacc, doxygen, etc., have counterparts in Java now. I would also remove tcl, replace it with a more mainstream scripting language (i.e., Perl).

4.) The material on code tuning and IDEs could also be more detailed.

Windows Developer Power Tools: Turbocharge Windows Development with More Than 140 Free and Open Source Tools
$59.99
DISCLAIMER: I personally know both authors.

The book presents an exensive list of tools available to the .NET programmer. I agree with one of the reviewer that indicates that as soon as the book is published it is out of date; hence, some of the tools may be significantly changed or replaced by better tools. However, this problem is not unique to this book but applies to any book, particularly in technology. In spite of this obsolescence, the book provides a summary for what each tool can do and provides a starting point to do research on a tool that will help the reader perform their job more eficiently.
I highly recommend this book because it is very comprehensive. In addition it has a number of Windows tools that are also very helpful in tasks that every developer has to do but are not related to writing code.