AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript + CSS + DOM + XMLHttpRequest

Bulletproof Ajax, by Jeremy Keith, New Riders, Feb 2007. This guide reveals best practices for enhancing Web sites with Ajax.

C#

C# 3.0 Cookbook, by Stephen Teilhet and Jay Hilyard, O’Reilly and Associates, Dec 2007. This offers 250+ code recipes for problems that C# programmers face every day. Updated for C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5.

Learning C# 2008, 3^rdEd, by Jesse Liberty and Brian MacDonald, O’Reilly and Associates, Nov 2008. An entry-level guide to C#, updated to C# 2008.

CSS + HTML + xHTML

Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional, by Simon Collison, APress, Aug 2006. CSS for beginners.

CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions, by Andy Budd and Laura Thomson, Friends of ED, Feb 2006. Teaches advanced CSS techniques, covering all techniques needed to master CSS and craft modern, standards-compliant web pages.

CSS : The Missing Manual, 2^ndEd, by David Sawyer McFarland, O’Reilly and Associates, Sep 2009. Learn how to use CSS to create highly functional, professional looking, cross browser compatible sites: with clear explanations, real examples, and dozens of tutorials.

CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions, by Andy Budd, Friends of ED, Feb 2006. Learn the advanced CSS techniques you need to master CSS and to craft modern, standards compliant web pages.

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, by Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte, O’Reilly and Associates, Aug 2009. A guide to using innovative and effective CSS techniques that make design easier while improving the end user’s experience.

Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns, by Michael Bowers, APress, Apr 2007. A reference and cookbook on how to style web pages using CSS and XHTML, with 350 ready-to-use CSS and XHTML code snippets you can copy and paste into your code.

Pro CSS Techniques, by Jeff Croft, Ian Lloyd, and Dan Rubin, APress, Nov 2006. A book for experienced designers, with a set of proven CSS techniques, presented in an informative tutorial style, with each point backed up by several real-world examples and case studies.

Design

Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning, by Dan Brown, New Riders, Sep 2006. Shows how to make website documentation: usability reports, project plans, content maps, flow charts, wireframes, site maps, etc.

Content Strategy for the Web, by Kristina Halvorson, New Riders, Aug 2009. This explains how to create and deliver useful, usable online content; this also shares best practices so you can get your next redesign right, on time, on budget.

Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design, by Jenifer Tidwell, O’Reilly and Associates, Nov 2005. This presents the best practices of user interface design as design patterns, each pattern presented with practical advice, examples, recommendations, design alternatives, and caveats.

Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions, by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, O’Reilly and Associates, Jul 2009. This offers 75+ design patterns for building interfaces that provide rich interaction, organized according to six key principles which help you use current interactive web technologies.

Designing With Web Standards, 3^rdEd, by Jeffrey Zeldman and Ethan Marcotte, New Riders Publishing, Oct 2009. This explains how designers can best use standards — primarily XHTML and CSS, plus ECMAScript and the DOM — to increase their productivity and maximize site availability.

Developing With Web Standards, by John Allsopp, New Riders Publishing, Nov 2009. This teaches current best practices in standards-based development, with a focus on emerging aspects of HTML, CSS, and other web standards.

Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation, by Nathan A. Curtis, New Riders, Jul 2009. This defines the role of web page components and why they matter, maps out how to organize and build a component library, discusses how to use components in practice, and teaches a process for documenting and maintaining components.

Mommy, Where Do Customers Come From?: How to Market to a New World of Connected Customers, by Larry Bailin, Larstan, Nov 2007. This details changes in approach necessary to successfully market and sell products and services to connected customers.

Search Engine Advertising, 2^ndEd : Buying Your Way to the Top to Increase Sales, by Kevin Lee and Catherine Seda, New Riders Publishing, May 2009. Outlines the strategy in buying specific keyword positions to lead users to the page you want, describes how to turn poor-performing ad copy into targeted sales-getters, and shows how to evaluate and correct low visitor-to-buyer conversions.

Web Site Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for Building and Administering Your Web Site, by Doug Addison, O’Reilly and Associates, Feb 2006. This covers the essential skills you need to create engaging, visitor-friendly websites, addressing the practical issues regarding their inception, design, and maintenance.

Java

Java Cookbook 2^ndEd, by Ian F. Darwin, O’Reilly and Associates, Jun 2004. A comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples, with 100’s of proven Java recipes covering all of the major Java 1.4 APIs and the most important features of the upcoming 1.5 APIs.

Java Examples in a Nutshell, by David Flanagan, O’Reilly and Associates, Jan 2004. 193 complete, practical Java examples: over 21,900 lines of densely commented, professionally written Java 1.4 code, covering 20 distinct client- and server-side APIs. A companion to Java in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, and Java Enterprise in a Nutshell.

JavaScript & Dynamic HTML

Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries, by Jonathan Snook, Aaron Gustafson, Stuart Langridge, and Dan Webb, Apress, Sep 2007. A book for experienced JavaScript / DOM designers, this teaches advanced techniques, illustrated by 3 projects.

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5^thEd, by David Flanagan, O’Reilly and Associates, Aug 2006. Comprehensive guide to JavaScript, JScript, and ECMAScript, plus DOM elements they often manipulate, including advanced material on the latest developer topics, such as scripting Flash with JavaScript, HTTP and Ajax, SVG, XML, web services, and remote scripting. Tutorial sections show how to program in JavaScript. Reference sections summarize syntax and options, with copious examples.

JavaScript and DHTML Cookbook, by Danny Goodman, O’Reilly and Associates, Aug 2007. An extensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for JavaScript programmers, applying state-of-the-art standards and best practices.

Pro JavaScript Design Patterns, by Ross Harmes and Dustin Diaz, APress, Dec 2007. Master OOP with design patterns.

Perl

Intermediate Perl, by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and Brian D Foy, O’Reilly and Associates, Mar 2006. An introduction to intermediate Perl, by the authors of the classic Learning Perl.

Learning Perl, by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and Brian D Foy, O’Reilly and Associates, Jul 2008. The book to buy if you want to learn Perl. Updated for Perl 5.10.

Mastering Perl, by Brian D Foy, O’Reilly and Associates, Jun 2007. This book, for those who have mastered Learning Perl and Internediate Perl, pulls everything together to show you how to bend Perl to your will.

Perl Best Practices: Standards and Styles for Developing Maintainable Code, by Damian Conway, O’Reilly and Associates, Jul 2005. This offers 256 guidelines on the art of coding to help you produce code that is clear, robust, efficient, maintainable, and concise.

Perls of Wisdom, Randal Schwartz, APress, Dec 2004. A collection of 70+ of Randal Schwartz’s columns, teaching everything from Perl basics to how to decompose XML using an HTML parser. Good reading for those who want to enhance their Perl skills.

Pro Perl, by Peter Wainwright, Apress, Mar 2005. Presents in-depth practices to exploiting Perl’s best features. For experienced developers who want to reap more from Perl.

PHP

Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, by W. J. Gilmore, APRESS, Jun 2004. An introduction to using PHP 5 with MySQL.

PHP and MySQL Web Development, 4^thEd, by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson, Sams Publishing, Oct 2008. Introduction to PHP and MySQL for the purpose of creating dynamic Internet sites.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization

Building Findable Websites: Web Standards SEO and Beyond, by Aarron Walter, New Riders, Feb 2008. Shows how sites can be built with SEO coding strategies, microformats, standards, accessibility guidelines, and third party APIs, all in an effort to drive traffic.

Search Engine Marketing, Inc, 2^ndEd: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company’s Web Site, by Mike Moran and Bill Hunt, IBM Press, Sep 2008. This helps you define your SEO/SEM goals, craft a best practices program for achieving them, and implement it flawlessly.

Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, 3^rdEd, by Peter Kent, For Dummies Publishing, Jun 2008. This shows how to build sites that rank high in the search engines and that generate high traffic.

When Search Meets Web Usability, by Shari Thurow and Nick Musica, New Riders, Apr 2008. This shows how to make an deffective Web site that is search engine friendly, to result in better search rankings, how to bridge the gap between a Google search and a Web site, and how to improve the users’ experience once they get to the site.

SQL

The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, 3^rdEd, by Michael Kofler, Apress, Aug 2005. A comprehensive guide to MySQL, updated for MySQL 5.

PHP and MySQL Web Development, 4^thEd, by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson, Sams Publishing, Oct 2008. Introduction to PHP and MySQL for the purpose of creating dynamic Internet sites.

Pro MySQL, by Michael Kruckenberg and Jay Pipes, Apress, Jul 2005. A comprehensive MySQL 5 guide for intermediate and advanced MySQL users, focusing on advanced MySQL 5 applications in enterprise environments.

Usability

Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design, by Robert Hoekman Jr., New Riders, Oct 2006. This explores the character traits of great web applications and uses them as guiding principles of application design so the end result of each project instills customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2^ndEd, by Steve Krug New Riders, Aug 2005. Learn how to make sites which are easy to use.

Eyetracking Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice, New Riders, Dec 2009. Learn how much a user’s goal or task affects how they read and traverse a website, which parts of a page users attend to first, how readers react to ads and design elements that look like ads, where people look first for common page elements and navigation, how they respond to text, pictures, and multimedia, and more.

Handbook of Usability Testing: Howto Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests, by Jeffrey Rubin and Dana Chisnell, Wiley, May 2008. This provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to help you test your product for usability.

Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works, by Janice (Ginny) Redish, Morgan Kaufmann, Jun 2007. A thorough overview of the issues in writing for the web, showing how to write so that visitors will read what you write.

Prioritizing Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger, New Riders, May 2006. Learn about site design, user experience and usability testing, navigation and search capabilities, old guidelines and prioritizing usability issues, page design and layout, content design, and more.

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems, by Steve Krug, New Riders, Dec 2009. Details an approach to usability testing that anyone can easily apply to their own web site.

When Search Meets Web Usability, by Shari Thurow and Nick Musica, New Riders, Apr 2008. This shows how to make an deffective Web site that is search engine friendly, to result in better search rankings, how to bridge the gap between a Google search and a Web site, and how to improve the users’ experience once they get to the site.

Other

Fluid Web Typography, by Jason Cranford Teague, New Riders, Dec 2009. This shows how to apply principles of fluid typography, websafe fonts, downloaded fonts, and type on images to create robust scalable designs.