 | The Practice of System and Network Administration by Thomas A. Limoncelli
Buy new: £21.49 / Used from: £28.19 A unique book - this will teach you practical knowledge that you otherwise only obtain by much hard experience. If I could give a new administrator one piece of advice, it would be: read this book.
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 | Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £4.00 I recommend this for anyone that is responsible for systems that hold data: it teaches you how to think about security, so that you won't get lost in the hype and hackery of the IT security world.
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 | Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity by David Allen
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £6.50 A productivity book popular with developers because the ideas are simple, practical, and quickly make your life and projects run more smoothly.
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 | Beginning Ubuntu LTS Server Administration : From Novice to Professional, 2nd Edition (Expert's Voice in Linux) by Sander van Vugt
Buy new: £17.05 / Used from: £5.15 Linux is now both "network duct tape", and one of the main application server platforms. If you don't already know how to manage Linux systems, this is probably the best book to help you begin.
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 | Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Buy new: £15.48 / Used from: £12.00 If you need to learn OS X from nothing, just buy this. It goes gently from basic consumer tasks up to networking and the UNIX shell.
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 | The Linux Cookbook 2nd Edition: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use by Michael Stutz
Buy new: £24.21 / Used from: £13.00 A great introduction to the wealth of command-line tools lurking in every Linux, Mac, and UNIX system.
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 | Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, 2nd Edition (Expert's Voice in Open Source) by Peter Cooper
Buy new: £17.86 / Used from: £19.31 Whatever the platform, every productive admin and developer writes scripts, and Ruby is one of the best languages around.
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 | Practical Ruby for System Administration (Expert's Voice in Open Source) by A Hamou
Buy new: £33.72 / Used from: £1.50 Your second book on Ruby, and one that you'll keep coming back to. When you need to develop a solution to an annoying problem, start by checking this book.
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 | Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy by James Turnbull
Buy new: £12.65 / Used from: £14.50 Network-wide management for Linux, UNIX, and OS X systems. If that's your job, then Puppet may be your saviour.
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 | The Debian System: Concepts and Techniques by Martin Krafft
Buy new: £36.02 / Used from: £19.99 This will take you from user to expert (or even contributer). Highly recommended if you rely on Debian, or Debian-based systems (like Ubuntu).
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 | Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) by Michael Nygard
Buy new: £16.04 / Used from: £14.25 Distilled real-world experience about deploying, scaling and maintaining large Web applications. This book ought to be recognised as a classic.
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