This last Christmas, Packt and Manning both held huge sales on technical eBooks (Packt was running at $5.00 a book) and I dove in and bought enough reading material to keep me rolling for some time.

Since then I’ve wrapped up the C#/Windows based project I was lead for at work and am moving on to a Java/Spring/Windows based project. This has sent me back for a bit more as sales or discounts have come my way.

The list below is what I’ve bought so far this year. It will be some time before I have read through them all (and some I may never finish as there is quite a bit of overlap). I’ll update here as I dig on through.

I expect these to drive some of my sandbox programming over the coming year and I’ll be writing about that up here as well.

Packt

Mastering Microservices with Java 9 2nd Edition I’m back working in Java again and microservices are most definitely of interest. Java 9 brings new capabilities to the language and is worth coming up to speed on.

Spring in Action 4th Edition Spring matters

Spring Boot 2.0 Cookbook

WiX 3.6: A Developer’sGuide to Windows Installer XML

Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

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  Building RESTful Web Services with Spring 5, 2nd Edition

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• ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5

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  Spring 5.0 By Example
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  NHibernate 4.x Cookbook, 2nd Edition
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  Java Hibernate Cookbook
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  Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular
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Manning

Print

• C# in Depth, 3rd Edition
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• Functional Programming in Java
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• Metaprogramming in .NET
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• Node.js in Practice
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  Rx.NET in Action

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• RxJS in Action
• The Art of Unit Testing, 2nd Edition
• Unity in Action
• Angular 2 Development with TypeScript
• Functional Programming in C#
• Functional Programming in JavaScript
• C++ Concurrency in Action
• Unity in Action, 2nd Edition

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• Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation
• .NET Core in Action v9 MEAP
• Angular Development with Typescript 2nd Edition v6 MEAP
• C++ Concurrency in Action, 2nd Edition v6 MEAP
• Concurrency in .NET v9 MEAP
• Functional Programming in C++ v11 MEAP
• ASP.NET Core in Action v11 MEAP
• Natural Language Processing in Action v5 MEAP
• Spring in Action Fifth Edition v4 MEAP
• Modern Java in Action v6 MEAP

• Dependency Injection in .NET
• Machine Learning with TensorFlow
• Microservices in .NET Core
• The Well-Grounded Java Developer
• Java 8 in Action

Packt

• Amazon Web Services Bootcamp
• ASP.NET Core and Angular 2
• ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook
• ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook, 2nd Edition
• Bootstrap 4 Cookbook
• Bootstrap 4 – Responsive Web Design
• Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC, 2nd Edition
• Complete Bootstrap: Responsive Web Development with Bootstrap 4
• C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development, 3rd Edition
• Deep Learning with TensorFlow, 2nd Edition
• Dependency Injection in .NET Core 2.0
• Distributed Computing in Java 9
• Expert AWS Development
• Effective Robotics Programming with ROS, 3rd Edition
• Implementing Azure Solutions
• Java EE 8 Application Development
• Java EE 8 and Angular
• Java EE 8 Cookbook
• Java EE 8 High Performance
• Architecting Modern Java EE Applications
• Kubernetes for Serverless Applications
• Kubernetes for Developers
• DevOps with Kubernetes
• Mastering Kubernetes
• Learning Angular for .NET Developers
• Learning Angular, 2nd Edition
• Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming
• Machine Learning for Developers
• Mastering Android Development with Kotlin
• Mastering Android Studio 3
• Mastering ASP.NET Core 2.0
• Mastering ASP.NET Web API 
• Mastering Hibernate
• Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming
• Mastering MongoDB 3.x
• Mastering Node.js, 2nd Edition
• Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, 2nd Edition
• Mastering the C++17 STL
• Mastering TypeScript
• Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C#, 2nd Edition
• MEAN Cookbook
• MongoDB Administrator’s Guide
• Node Cookbook, 3rd Edition
• Practical Test-Driven Development using C# 7
• Python GUI Programming Cookbook, 2nd Edition
• ROS Robotics By Example, 2nd Edition
• Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing
• The Agile Developer’s Handbook
• The Node Craftsman Book
• TypeScript 2.x for Angular Developers
• TypeScript High Performance
• UX Design for Mobile
• UX for the Web
• Web Development with MongoDB and Node, 3rd Edition
• Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook