First, if you haven’t visited Bookpool - you should! They have some awesome prices on techie books. Second, now is the best time to visit because open source books from OSCON are on sale.

While the title of Dana Blankenhorn’s post is misleading (The fastest way to learn open source) it’s still a handy post. Dana makes you think that you’re going to learn about open source, when in reality you’re going to learn open source programming.

O’Reilly’s Head First series, and it makes the Dummies series read like they were written for Einstein.

Tim O’Reilly has taken everything he and his company have learned training people in programming for two decades and condensed it into the format of this series. Even I can learn with it.

I love the O’Reilly books, but I don’t have any of the Head First books - maybe I should pick a few up to learn Perl … since Koha is in Perl and I’m a PHP girl.