Literature suggestions for best practices / good coding techniques [closed]

Question

I am a mid level developer. Currently I work in C# ASP.NET but I have worked in PHP, classic ASP, and a tiny bit in Java (would like to get more into this in the future). I am looking for a few suggestions on good books to help me continue growing in my coding techniques.

Basically a book with lots of best practices, coding tricks, rarely used but very useful features and operators (e.g. the ?? operator), stuff like that. I am NOT looking for a book to teach me a specific language. I don't particularly care about what language the code samples are in but C or Java would probably be best. The suggestions don't need to be limited to pure code objects either. Books with information about database connection management ect. would be good.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Answer 1

Required reading: Code Complete.