PROGRAMMING : Books

Jeez those guys at O'Reilly's know what they're doing. check out Hardcore Java. That kind of book tickles all my buttons, in a nerdy, java kind of way. Seems to be a collection of all those little articles I've read over the years about optimization and 'the right way to do things' and formed into one coherent mould.
Greg here at work has informed me that I should wait until i get to the UK before buying it as books are much cheaper there, so it may be some time before my book review :) (BTW, I find it really dissapointing how emoticons looks so crap in proportional fonts)
Another is better, faster, lighter java which looks like something I wouldn't mind having a glance at. HAving written a few light weight frameworks myself, I'd be interested, but I don't know what new this book would have to offer philosophy wise.
Java Extreme Programming Cookbook looks like a good reference for ant, junit, httpunit, cactus, tomcat and XDoclet. I don't have any written stuff on these, and for some reason I do _like_ to have written stuff.
It just goes on and on really :)
Finally there are the Martin Fowler books I have yet to purchase, especially "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" and "Refactoring to Patterns" (I have his refactoring and analysis books.)
Damn, I really love books. As I've mentioned before I probably lap them up a little too easily - Brendon always bitches and moans. I think there is probably a happy median.