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by msluyter 3624 days ago
1. Godel, Escher, Bach -- Because it sparked my interest and got me started down the path.

2. The Pragmatic Programmer -- a classic. Reminds me that I need to re-read it.

3. Effective Oracle by Design, by Tom Kyte -- Not that I use Oracle any more, thankfully, but really provided a lot of insight about how databases function and how it pays to deeply understand their internals when writing webapps.

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+1 on the Pragmatic Programmer.

For anyone that is ready to stop consuming themselves with all things esoteric and start writing generally good code by default.

If more devs followed the relatively simple patterns and practices in this book the phrase "legacy code" might not be a curse-word.