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• Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project (second edition, 2017), by Karl Fogel (multiple formats with commentary at producingoss.com)
• Writers' Workshops and the Work of Making Things (Boston et al.: Addison-Wesley, c2002), by Richard P. Gabriel
  • PDF at dreamsongs.com
  • prepublication version: PDF at dreamsongs.com
• Patterns of Software: Tales From the Software Community (New York and Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1996), by Richard P. Gabriel, contrib. by Christopher Alexander (PDF at dreamsongs.com)
• R Packages (second edition, ca. 2023), by Hadley Wickham and Jennifer Bryan (illustrated HTML with commentary at r-pkgs.org)
• The Performance of Open Source Applications: Speed, Precision, and a Bit of Serendipity (2013), ed. by Tavish Armstrong
  • HTML with commentary at aosabook.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Version Control by Example (c2011), by Eric Sink (multiple formats with commentary at ericsink.com)
• .NET Performance Testing and Optimization: The Complete Guide (c2010), by Paul Glavich and Chris Farrell (PDF with commentary at red-gate.com)
• After the Software Wars (2009), by Keith Curtis (page images at Google)
• Mercurial: The Definitive Guide (c2009), by Bryan O'Sullivan (HTML with commentary at red-bean.com)
• Managing Projects with GNU Make (third edition, 2004), by Robert William Mecklenburg (PDF files at oreilly.com)
• Modeling Reactive Systems with Statecharts: The STATEMATE Approach (New York et al.: McGraw Hill, c1998), by David Harel and Michal Politi (PDF files with commentary in Israel)
• Scaling Up: A Research Agenda for Software Engineering (1989), by National Research Council Computer Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction (revised electronic edition, 2016), by Max Hailperin (multiple formats with commentary at gustavus.edu)
• Pro Git (second editions, 2014), by Scott Chacon (HTML with commentary at git-scm.com)
• Open Advice: FOSS, What We Wish We Had Known When We Started (c2012), ed. by Lydia Pintscher (multiple formats with commentary at open-advice.org)
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (wiki version, ca. 2010), ed. by Kevlin Henney (HTML at oreilly.com)
• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-Based Software Architectures (dissertation that introduced the REST architecture; 2000), by Roy T. Fielding (HTML and PDF at UC Irvine)
• Jenkins: The Definitive Guide (Creative Commons edition, c2011), by John Ferguson Smart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Open Source Development With CVS (electronic editions), by Karl Fogel and Moshe Bar (multiple formats with commentary at red-bean.com)
• The Boost C++ Libraries (current electronic edition), by Boris Schäling (illustrated HTML at theboostcppplibraries.com)
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar (prepublication version, with commentary), by Eric S. Raymond (multiple formats at catb.org)
• Compiler Design: Theory, Tools, and Examples (C++ and Java editions; updated from 1994 original), by Seth Bergmann (PDF and source code files at rowan.edu)
• GNU Make: A Program for Directing Recompilation, by Richard Stallman, Roland McGrath, and Paul D. Smith (multiple formats at gnu.org)
• Larch: Languages and Tools for Formal Specification, ed. by John V. Guttag and James J. Horning (Postscript at MIT)
• Object-Oriented System Development (electronic edition), by Dennis De Champeaux, Douglas Lea, and Penelope Faure (HTML at Oswego)
• Rapid Application Development with Mozilla, by Nigel McFarlane (zipped PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• The Little Book on CoffeeScript (prepublication version), by Alex MacCaw, contrib. by David Griffiths, Satoshi Murakami, and Jeremy Ashkenas (HTML at gihub.io)
• Subversion Version Control: Using the Subversion Version Control System in Development Projects, by William A. Nagel (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• Version Control With Subversion (electronic editions), by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, and C. Michael Pilato (HTML and PDF with commentary at red-bean.com)

• Scaling a Software Business: The Digitalization Journey (Cham: Springer Open, c2017), by Brian Fitzgerald, Klaas-Jan Stol, Sten Minör, and Henrik Cosmo (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Game Developer (digital magazine content and code archive, 1994-2013) (full serial archives)

• Peer Participation and Software: What Mozilla Has to Teach Government (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by David Booth (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Essential Skills for Agile Development (2004), by Ka Iok Kent Tong (PDF with commentary at elliottback.com)
• Live Coding: A User's Manual (Cambrige, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Alan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, and Thor Magnusson (multiple formats with commentary at toplap.org)

• Kubernetes Patterns: Reusable Elements for Designing Cloud-Native Applications (Sebastopol, CA et al.: O'Reilly Media, 2019), by Bilgin Ibryam and Roland Huss (PDF at redhat.com)
• Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide (Creative Commons edition; c2015), by Clinton Gormley and Zachary Tong (HTML with commentary at elastic.co)
• Android 4 App Development Essentials (c2014), by Neil Smyth (illustrated HTML with commentary at techotopia.com)
• Java Platform, Enterprise Edition: The Java EE Tutorial, Release 7 (c2014), by Eric Jendrock, Ricardo Cervera-Navarro, Ian Evans, Kim Haase, and William Markito (HTML at PDF at Oracle)
• Speaking JavaScript: An In-Depth Guide for Programmers (originally published 2014), by Axel Rauschmayer (HTML with commentary at speakingjs.com)
• Developing Backbone.js Applications (originally published 2013), by Addy Osmani (HTML with commentary at addyosmani.com)
• Apache Jakarta Commons: Reusable Java Components (c2005), by Will Iverson (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• Embedded Software Development With eCos (2003), by Anthony J. Massa (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• High Performance Browser Networking (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, c2013), by Ilya Grigorik (illustrated HTML with commentary at hpbn.co)
• The Java EE 6 Tutorial (c2013), by Eric Jendrock, Ricardo Cervera-Navarro, Ian Evans, Devika Gollapudi, Kim Haase, William Markito, and Chinmayee Srivathsa (HTML at PDF at Oracle)
• Exploring Lift (c2012), by Derek Chen-Becker, Marius Danciu, and Tyler Weir (PDF and HTML with commentary at liftweb.net)
• Simply Lift (c2011), by David Pollak (HTML at liftweb.net)
• Mobile Design and Development (electronic edition, originally published 2009), by Brian Fling (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application (2006), by 37signals (Firm) (HTML with commentary at 37signals.com)
• GTK+ / Gnome Application Development, by Havoc Pennington (HTML at linuxtopia.org)
• Java Application Development on Linux, by Carl Albing and Michael Schwarz (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• The Java Web Services Tutorial, by Eric Armstrong, Stephanie Bodoff, Debbie Carson, Maydene Fisher, Scott Fordin, Dale Green, Kim Haase, and Eric Jendrock (HTML at sun.com)
• Microservices Best Practices for Java, by Michael Hofmann, Erin Schnabel, and Katherine Stanley (multiple formats at IBM)
• Test-Driven Development With Python, by Harry Percival (illustrated HTML with commentary at obeythetestinggoat.com)
• Gamification at Work: Designing Engaging Business Software, by Janaki Kumar and Mario Herger (HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)

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