I just got a gift voucher from a nice client for Amazon books and I think I need a hand picking some out. As this was work related I wanted to get books that had something to either do with business or programming.  Do you have any recommendations of books for:

• starting up  a business
• running your own business
• web development
• programming
  • PHP
  • Ruby on Rails 
  • CSS
  • Database

As I’m am new to the world of working for myself I think that I should at least get a few books on this topic.

Any help would be greatly appricieated, the more recommendations the better !

 

Update : I’ve started to keep the list online here in case anyone else wants to view it.