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D.3. Advanced Books, Programming Books

By a happy coincidence, this book is published by O'Reilly Media, the industry's leading

source of technical books for Mac users, programmers, and system administrators. If this

book has whetted your appetite for more advanced topics, these current and upcoming

books on Unix, programming Mac OS X, and administering large networks could come

in handy.

D.3.1. Mac Essentials

• AppleScript: The Missing Manual by Adam Goldstein. This book is a patient,

witty guide to the basics of scripting your Mac with AppleScript. Step-by-step

examples include batch-renaming files in the Finder, altering and applying text

styles in TextEdit, tweaking QuickTime movie files, and much more.

• AppleScript: The Definitive Guide by Matt Neuburg. Once you've got the basics

down, this book takes you deeper into AppleScript, teaching you the finer details

of the language from the ground up.

• Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide by Chuck Toporek. Need a handy guide to Mac

OS X Leopard that you can carry around in your laptop bag? This small book fits

in your pocket just as easily as it does your computer bag, and includes hundreds

of tips for using and configuring Mac OS X 10.5.

D.3.2. Unix Essentials

• Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger by Dave Taylor. A tour of the Mac's Unix

base, for the uninitiated. Includes descriptions of the hundreds of Unix programs

that come with the Mac. (Plenty of this material is relevant, although the book has

not been updated for Leopard.)

• Learning the bash Shell, 3rd Edition, by Cameron Newham. If you plan on using

the Terminal application to do Unixy stuff on your Mac, this book shows you your

way around Leopard's default shell, bash.

• Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition, by Debra Cameron, James Elliott, Marc Loy,

Eric S. Raymond, and Bill Rosenblatt. A guide to the GNU emacs editor, one of

the most widely used and powerful Unix text editors.

• Learning the vi and vim Editors, 7th Edition, by Linda Lamb, Elbert Hannah, and

Arnold Robbins. A complete guide to editing with vi and vim, the text editors

available on nearly every Unix system.

• Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition, by Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, and

Mike Loukides. Practical advice about most every aspect of advanced Unix:

POSIX utilities, GNU versions, detailed bash, tcsh, and ksh shell coverage, and a

strong emphasis on Perl.