Object Media recommend the following resources.
Books
- Code Complete, by Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press. ISBN:1-55615-484-4
- The C++ Programming Language, by Bjarne Stroustroup, Addison-Wesley. ISBN:
- Effective C++ Second Edition, by Scott Meyers, Addison-Wesley. ISBN:0-201-92488-9
- Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows Fourth Edition, by Jeffrey Richter, Microsoft Press. ISBN:1-57231-996-8
- Debugging Applications, by John Robbins, Mirosoft Press. ISBN:0-7356-0886-5
- Debugging Windows Programs, by Everett N. McKay and Mike Woodring, Developmentor/Addison-Wesley. ISBN:0-201-770238-X
- Undocumented Windows NT, by Prasad Dabak, Sandeep Phadke, Milind Borate, M&T Books. ISBN:0-7645-4569-8
- Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference, by Gary Nebbett, Macmillan Technical Publishing. ISBN:1-57870-199-6
- Undocumented Windows 2000 Secrets, by Sven B. Schreiber, Addison-Wesley. ISBN:0-201-72187-2
- Inside Microsoft Windows 2000, Third Edition, by David A. Solomon and Mark E. Russinovich, Microsoft Press. ISBN:0-7356-1021-5
- Writing Secure Code 2, by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc, Microsoft Press. ISBN:0-7356-1722-8
- Rootkits - subverting the Windows Kernel, by Greg Hogland and James Butler, Addison-Wesley. ISBN:0-321-29431-9
Magazines
- MSDN (formerly MSJ)
- Windows Developers Journal
- Dr Dobbs Journal
Websites
- Microsoft Developer Network. The best source of information and SDKs for development with Microsoft operating systems.
- System Internals. An excellent source of Windows internals information.
- Rootkit.com. Website discussing implementations and implications of rootkit development and rootkit detection for Microsoft operating systems.
- The Code Project. Simply the best Windows community developer related website. For any-use windows related source code, you can't get better than this.
- Software Verification Limited. Superb software tools at excellent prices. We wrote the software tools that Software Verification sell.
- The Register. Industry gossip that is often closer to the truth than they realise.
- Techdirt. More industry gossip.
- Slashdot. Linux based industry gossip. Not as good as it used to be.
- User Friendly. Topical industry cartoon.

