OK, the title is lying,but just a little. This page is my dumping ground for programming book reviews. most of them will have at least some relation to C++ programming. Which isn't exactly surprising, given that I'm a C++ programmer.
All the books mentioned here were paid for with my own money - hey, no-one's offered me review copies yet - and I reserve the right to complain about books that I find bad value (or simply, well, bad). In a similar vein I may heap praise on the most expensive and obscure tomes simply because I find them indespensable.
In other words, everything published here is my own drivel, erm, opinion and should be taken with a rather large pinch of salt. Always do your own research but feel free to drop me a line if a review particularly helped you or enraged you.
I'm looking at these books together, as they are really volume 1 and 2 of the same book - well, that was already rather obvious by the title, wasn't it?
In depth comment/review to follow, but very useful books.
Indespensable reference for anybody who wants to make use of the standard C++ library, often but mistakenly referred to as the STL. In addition to providing a thorough reference, the books also serves up lots of examples so it can used as a textbook as well.
If you don't have this book already and you're writing standard complaint C++, go out and buy this book. Even consider paying for it yourself if your boss doesn't want to.