Shane Sherman

I have added a new top level category called Communications & Protocols that has the following child categories:

General Network Programming
HTTP
SOAP
TCP/IP
Wireless/Mobile Programming

I know there are a lot of other Protocols, but I think these are the main ones that probably have the most books written about them. If there are more that you think I should […]

I recently received an e-mail from someone who requested that I add a “Books for Young Programmers” category to ProgrammingBooks.org. I thought it was an awesome idea and created it. I then tried to think of some programming books catered for kids, and I couldn’t think of any. When I first started programming at age […]

The programmingbooks.org launch was a success. Thanks to everyone that participated and used the site! Since Friday afternoon it’s had roughly 50,000 page views. I got some great feedback and I am in the process of using the same engine for other kinds of things.

Even though I’ve been programming Ruby on Rails for over 2 […]

I got a lot of feedback from my previous article, The 5 Books that Every Programmer Should Read. As with all “top x” lists, many people disagreed with me, and had strong opinions about other books I didn’t list. This gave me the idea for:
ProgrammingBooks.org

Features include:

Ability to rank your own top 5 books you think […]