Monthly Book Roundup (February 2014)
There’s no overarching theme for this month’s books that I’ve read, there are just two newer technologies that I wanted to really dig into a bit more (AngularJS and MongoDB).
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Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS
This book was a really thorough and outstanding exploration of the AngularJS framework. It really goes into depth explaining how to organize your application and make use of some of the more powerful features like services, factories, directives, etc. The explanation of the $digest cycle gives some good insight into how the framework operates too. The book pulls examples from a practical CRUD application to really give you a sense of how you could build out a more complicated application. This is book is going to replace the O'Reilly AngularJS book as my go to reference.
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MongoDB: The Definitive Guide
This book is a pretty nice introduction to MongoDB, especially for someone like me who's more used to traditional relational databases. It gives a good general overview of MongoDB and generally does a good job of explaining how to do common database tasks (CRUD operations, relationships, indexing, administration, etc). This books was definitely enough to give me a pretty decent handle on the fundamentals.