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Recommended Reading

I am the "business guy" involved in a young internet startup (much of the coding is in php). My tech knowledge is fairly limited. While I am never going to be a developer, I would like to gain a better understanding of at least the basics of the tech side. Any books/reading that people out there would recommend?

Thanks.

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Re:Recommended Reading by greenlblue on Saturday December 18, 2010 @08:09PM (#2020756)
"Code" by Charles Petzold is a wonderful book about how computers work and it covers pretty much everything but in a way that is accessible to anyone who understand basic algebra.
Re:Recommended Reading by blurry on Sunday December 19, 2010 @12:09AM (#2021157)
If scalability is relevant to your product, this is an accessible classic:

http://www.amazon.com/Building-Scalable-Web-Sites-Applicatio...

Re:Recommended Reading by kunjaan on Sunday December 19, 2010 @02:32AM (#2021332)
>basics of the tech side

This is a very vague target.

Do you want basics on web development? networking? computer science? programming language? managing softwares? databases description? survey of computer science?

Re:Recommended Reading by jdritz on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @11:28PM (#2030571)
Basics on web development, yes. I was just given a book on php and sql, which hopefully will help since both are involved in the project. Thanks.