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Electronic data processing documentation

Here are entered works on the content, structure, and form of records or documents which describe the design, development, and operation of electronic data processing undertakings.

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• A Guide to Understanding Design Documentation in Trusted Systems (version 1, 1988), by National Computer Security Center (U.S.) (HTML at fas.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• There is No Software, There are Just Services (Lüneberg: Meson Press, 2015), ed. by Irina Kaldrack and Martina Leeker (PDF with commentary at meson.press)

• Whole Earth Software Catalog for 1986 (1985), ed. by Stewart Brand (page images at wholeearth.info)
• Whole Earth Software Catalog (1984), ed. by Stewart Brand (page images at wholeearth.inco)

• 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)

• Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure (ca. 2016), by Nadia Eghbal (PDF and Epub with commentary at Ford Foundation)

• The CUTGroup: Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech (Chicago: Smart Chicago Collaborative, 2014), by Daniel X. O'Neil (HTML with commentary at cutgroupbook.org)

• The Ware Tetralogy (consisting of Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware; Creative Commons edition, 2010), by Rudy v. B. Rucker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Finding a Balance: Computer Software, Intellectual Property, and the Challenge of Technological Change (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Whole Earth Software Review (full serial archives)
• Maximum PC (partial serial archives)

• Software and Mind: The Mechanistic Myth and its Consequences (Toronto: Andsor books, c2013), by Andrei Sorin (PDF with commentary at softwareandmind.com)

• Don't Just Roll the Dice: A Usefully Short Guide to Software Pricing (second edition, c2012), by Neil Davidson (PDF with commentary at efendibooks.com)
• Don't Just Roll the Dice: A Usefully Short Guide to Software Pricing (c2009), by Neil Davidson (PDF with commentary at red-gate.com)

• Jenkins: The Definitive Guide (Creative Commons edition, c2011), by John Ferguson Smart (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Learning JavaScript Design Patterns (free online version 1.7, c2017), by Addy Osmani (HTML with commentary at addyosmani.com)

• Software Takes Command: Extending the Language of New Media (New York and London: Bloomsbury, c2013), by Lev Manovich (illustrated HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)
• Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by James J. Brown (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• Software and Mind: The Mechanistic Myth and its Consequences (Toronto: Andsor books, c2013), by Andrei Sorin (PDF with commentary at softwareandmind.com)

• .NET Performance Testing and Optimization: The Complete Guide (c2010), by Paul Glavich and Chris Farrell (PDF with commentary at red-gate.com)
• The CUTGroup: Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech (Chicago: Smart Chicago Collaborative, 2014), by Daniel X. O'Neil (HTML with commentary at cutgroupbook.org)

• Intellectual Property Issues in Software (1991), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Perl and LWP (online edition, 2007), by Sean M. Burke (HTML at interglacial.com)
• Software Engineering for Internet Applications (Cambridge. MA: MIT Press, 2006), by Eve Astrid Andersson, Philip Greenspun, and Andrew Grumet (HTML at greenspun.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.