Data Model
"The Data Model Resource Book, Volumes 1, 2 & 3"
To help us provide a strong data model foundation for the project we are using entity designs from these books and from various standards bodies. These books have been an excellent reference and useful design guide for handling business related data. Open For Business uses a variation on the models in the book, but most concepts from the book are actively used, enough so that it is very worth it to buy these books, at least volume 1.
Learning
"Apache OFBiz Development: The Beginner's Tutorial ."
A tutorial on release 4.0, as it's based on basic functionnalities, all should still apply. Good to know: Packt pays a percentage of the entire sales back to the ASF
"Apache OfBiz Cookbook"
Over 60 simple but incredibly effective recipes for taking control of OFBiz. Good to know: Packt pays a percentage of the entire sales back to the ASF
"OFBiz E-Commerce Out-Of-The-Box"
"Getting Started with Apache OFBiz Manufacturing"
Accounting and Supply Chain
"Accounting Best Practices"
This book covers general processes and methods for financial and to some extent general enterprise resource management. It is understandable for those who are not accountants, yet still of incredible value to those who are. These are some of the best practices approaches that we have already or plan to incorporate into the OFBiz applications.
"Supply Chain Strategy"
Reporting, Warehousing and Mining
"The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Second Edition"
"Data Mining, Second Edition" and "Document Warehousing and Text Mining"
Data Mining, Second Edition covers general data mining principles with practical demonstrations based on the open source Weka software. These concepts and tools are used for things such as classification, clustering, decision trees, etc. Has brief coverage of text mining, but on that topic Document Warehousing and Text Mining is much more complete and applicable.
User Interfaces and HTML/CSS
"Don't Make Me Think!"
"The Design Of Sites"
"The Zen of CSS Design"
This is a great book about effective use of CSS for web sites. These patterns help achieve goals such as easily changing L&F with only CSS changes, and minimizing the explicit styling information in HTML, ie using more implicit structure information and special purpose classes or ids. The companion web site has some great examples:"Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition)"
Standards, argues Jeffrey Zeldman in Designing With Web Standards, are our only hope for breaking out of the endless cycle of testing that plagues designers hoping to support all possible clients. In this book, he explains how designers can best use standards - primarily XHTML and CSS, plus ECMAScript and the standard Document Object Model (DOM) - to increase their personal productivity and maximize the availability of their creations. Zeldman's approach is detailed, authoritative, and rich with historical context, as he is quick to explain how features of standards evolved. It's a fantastic education that any design professional will appreciate.
Java & J2EE
"Head First Java"
"Core J2EE Patterns"
Other Stuff
"Understanding Open Source & Free Software Licensing"
"Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion"
"SQL In a Nutshell, Second Edition"
"XSL-FO, Making XML Look Good in Print"
This book covers general information about the XSL-FO standard from W3C and has extensive example of how to achieve specific effects and such.