Tal Cohen sent in a 3 part review: The Tao of Programming, The Zen of Programming, and Computer Parables: Enlightenment in the Information Age. All of these were written by Geoffrey James, and while the first book Tao is one that has been around, the other two are interesting reading as well. Click below to find out more.

The approach of the Millenium presents society with a chance to consider the issues, technological and otherwise, that affect the planet as we enter the next century, from the grinding poverty that engulfs billions of people to growing toxic waste problems to decaying nuclear weaponry and the spewing CO2 exacerbating global warning. Instead, thanks to dumb reporting about chaos, bunkers and food shortages, the country is coming to associate the year 2000 only with computer software problems. These are very real but manageable. A technology scholar explains why this is ironic and sad, and a new Y2K book from O'Reilly and Associates offers some of the clearest and most useful info yet on what this Millenial bug might really do.

A name that all the book reviewers know SEGV has sent in a review of Scott Meyers' CD work Effective C++ CD. This is a stray from our normal book reviews, but figured people would appreciate seeing Scott Meyers' newest effort.

Doc Technical, one of our highly trained book reviewers, has submitted for us Marjorie Flack, Kurt Wiese's book The Story about Ping. A rare technical manual, this is one of the few computer books in the field in which the illustrator is as important as the author. To truly understand the glories of Ping, click below to read more. Yes, we know it's on Amazon. They stole it from us. Or Doc provided it to them.

The critical companion to the Camel/Llama books, the Ram book, published by O'Reilly, Perl Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Perl Programmers has been reviewed by Reviewed by: Eugene Sotirescu. This piece of art has been written by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington-and if you want the scoop on the book, click below.

SEGV, the old faithful of reviews, has sent in one of his latest reviews, this one of Edward Yourdon's latest book Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer. For those of you who remember, several years ago, Yourdon wrote a book about how the American programmer/developer was doomed. Recent years have changed his opinion, and in this book he talks about the change that he says across the landscape. Fascinating idea-click below for the review.

Remember Hal in Stanley Kubrick's "2001"? He was a wuss compared to the deep thinking digital machines Ray Kurzweil suggests are heading our way over the next century. Forget the debate over human versus artificial intelligence. "The Age of Spiritual Machines" suggests that we and our computers are about to become one, evolving together in a whole new bio-digital species. By 2020, computers will be as smart as we are. By 2099, there will no longer be any clear distinction between humans and computers. Is this techno-hype or prescient futurism?

LizardKing has sent us a review of John Perry's Advanced C Programming by Example. Covering topics such as pointer trickery, string manipulation and dynamic data structures, this book is designed for those of you who are looking to fine-tune your C skills. Click below for more information.

I've put the proverbial pen to paper and taken a look at Alan Schwartz and Simson Garfinkel's book Stopping Spam, the (of course) pig book from our friends at O'Rielly. Short, and to the point, this is a good book for those who want to stop some of that spam that seems to flow through. At least I don't get anything from Bull's Eye anymore. (grin)

CowboyNeal has, after a long and careful review, sent us a review of Peter van der Linden's Just Java and Beyond. This is a great book for people learning Java-so click below if you are just learning, or are curious.

A.M. Kuchling has sent a review of Jeffrey D. Ullman's book Elements of ML Programming. The book is fairly technical in nature, so if you are interested in learning more-well, you know the drill.

My own literary-review Santa Claus A.M. Kuchling has sent in a review of Sean McGarth's book XML by Example. A book designed not for technical specifications, but for covering the issues arising in XML-like it's applicability in e-commerce, for example. For more information, and if you want to learn more, click below.

Yes, it's a milestone many of you thought would never happen: a Slashdot book review on ActiveX. Jon Veal wrote this review up and sent it our way. For those of you who haven't seen this little treasure, think the words "comic novella". Click below for more.

andrew cooke sent us one of our rare fiction reviews. This book, The Aardvark is Ready for War (No, I don't think it's a Cerebus reference) was the work of James W. Blinn, with Michael Pietsch as Editor. An interesting alternative to history, with the slant of technology. Click below to read more.

Andrew G. Feinberg sent in a review of Richard Petersen's endeavor Linux Programmer's Reference. The book itself is a guide to scripting and other mini-languages, so if brushing up on that looms in your future, click below to read more about it.

Arjen Laarhoven has taken some time to send in a review of W. Richard Stevens' book Unix Network Programming, Vol. 1. Obviously the first in a series, this is an updated version of the original, introduced in 1990. This book covers new concepts from the original, from multi-threading to IPv6, in addition to the rest of knowledge this tome contains. Click below to read more.

Veteran reviewer SEGV has sent in his latest literary exploit, a review of Doug Lea's book Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns. Not exactly a book for the beginning, this is design for those of you who know their way around Java, and are looking to firm up your theory base. Given the recent lawsuit end, it appears that a lot more attention is being focused on Java again. Let's trya nd get some real programming done for it.

Well, Jon Katz has sent in his first book review, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, written by Paul Hoffman. This is literary tribute to the life and work of Paul Erdos, the eminent mathematician that died last year. Click below to read more about a true geek.

Dan Zahn(Stumpy) has sent a review of Mark G. Sobell's A Practical Guide to Linux. This is not a book for the power-users amongst us, but is perfect for introducing people to Linux, or taking your casual relationship with Linux to the next level. So, if you want to advance, or you want to get someone on the bus, click below to read more.

Ranjit Mathew has sent a review of the second edition of The Essential Client/Server Survial Guide. This book, written by Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey and Jeri Edwards, has a pretty obvious point to it: trying to make sense of this gradiose world of "client/server programming". It's apparent that this is where much of programming work is heading, so click below, and read more.