Aug 08 2005
Mega Shopping Spree…
Since I’ve chosen a practical, if complex fyp involving areas such as Unix/Linux, Multicasting, Security, Cyptography, Unicode, IPv6 and cross compatability, I knew I was going to need a couple of books to rely upon.
So, in order to build a list of recommended books, I went through John’s book list from the original Oi. I then cross referenced it against security books listed in Jerry’s books, added a few recommended Multicast books recommended by Colin (who knows what he’s talking about when it comes to Multicasting) and added, of course, a few O’Reilly published books to help me along, including my own copy of Dave’s book on all things IPv6 (which I should probably try to get autographed by the authors 
, I ended up placing a mammoth Amazon order this weekend, consisting of:
- Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
- Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
- Developing IP Multicast Networks: The Definitive Guide to Designing and Deploying CISCO IP Multicast Networks (aka the Multicast Bible)
- Interdomain Multicast Routing: Practical Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems Solutions
- IPv6 Network Administration
- Managing Projects with GNU Make
- Mastering Algorithms with C
- POSIX.4 Programmers Guide
- Practical C Programming
- Secure Coding: Principles and Practices
- Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++
And since I was paying for the shipping, I threw in
out of interest/usefulness for work as well…
So, a lot of reading for Final Year.
Oh well, I knew I only get marks for the documentation for my fyp, so at least I’ll have a large no of resources to assist my documentation section. 
Soo, looks like you’re going to have a big thick bibliography in the write-up. If that’s only the start of it.
I kinda always suspected I would.
At least I have a plan, and an idea which does interest me from a few perspectives (IPv6, Cryptogrphy, Unicode, BSD(s), etc…) Multicast is a new interest, but not too great a leap from IPv6 (considering the multicasting features of IPv6 to avoid broadcasts)