Book Review: Programming PHP
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Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
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Little Black Book, Second Edition
Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition
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Book Excerpt: Linux Programming by
Example, Part 2
Book Excerpt: Linux Programming by
Example, Part 2
06/05/2005 11:10 PMConcluding our tour of the V7 ls command.
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Book Excerpt: Linux Programming by
Example, Part 1
06/05/2005 11:10 PMA tour through the V7 ls command.
Book Excerpt: Getting started with Cocoa
programming for Mac OS X
Book Excerpt: Getting started with Cocoa
programming for Mac OS X
05/28/2004 06:17 PMThis article is excerpted from the newly published book Cocoa
Programming for Mac OS X, Second Edition. Assuming you have installed
the developer tools, you will find Xcode in /Developer/Applications/.
Drag the application to the dock at the bottom of your screen; you
will be using it a lot. Launch Xcode. Xcode will keep track of all the
resources that go into your application. All these resources will be
kept in a directory called the project directory. The first step in
developing a new application is to create a new project directory with
the default skeleton of an application.
Review: Advanced PHP Programming
Review: Advanced PHP Programming
04/09/2004 03:58 PMReading Advanced PHP Programming by George Schlossnagle feels like
looking into the mind of a true PHP guru. I know George has an
intimate knowledge of the PHP internals and Zend engine, and is an
expert on PHP performance tuning. The book also covers PHP5, and most
of the examples are in PHP5.
Like most of the best gurus, George has a clear style and direct
approach. For example, in the chapter on templates, he says of Smarty:
Smarty is one of the most popular and widely deployed template
systems for PHP... Smarty has a good bit of bloat that I think is best
left alone. Like many template systems, it has grown in a number of
ill-advised ways that allow complex logic to appear in the templates.
Of course, features can be ignored or banned on the basis of
policy.
And he writes about PEAR:
Throughout the book, I use a number of PEAR classes. In both this
book and my own programming practice, I prefer to build my own
components. Especially in performance-critical applications, it is
often easier to design a solution that fits your exact needs and is
not overburdened by extra fluff. However, it can sometimes be much
easier to use an existing solution than to reinvent the wheel.
The range of technologies covered is very wide, including Templates,
Caching, Databases, Sessions, RPC, Server Farms, Proxies,
Benchmarking, Profiling, and Zend Internals. All the parts I read
show George has spent a lot of time thinking and designing
technologies in these areas. His discussion on performance tuning PHP
is particular good. In many places, I can remember going through the
same blind alleys he went through. At the end of each chapter, there
is a further reading list - nowadays one book is never enough to cover
everything. I also have a feeling that George is careful to write
about areas in which he has the appropriate expertise. For example, I
did not see any reference to PDF or GD usage in the index or in the
text.
Another thing I like about Advanced PHP Programming is that it is not
merely a discussion on advanced PHP technologies. There are several
chapters on design; these include chapters on PHP coding styles,
design patterns, unit-testing, CVS and packaging, designing APIs.
In conclusion, this book is a one of the two best books on PHP i have
ever read. The other book is PHP and MySQL Web
Development by Luke Welling and Sarah Thompson,
which is an excellent introduction to PHP and MySQL. Both books
complement each other. Highly recommended.
php traveller: Review of Core PHP
Programming
php traveller: Review of Core PHP
Programming
12/02/2003 01:36 AMIn a return from a hiatus,
php traveller has posted a
new review of the book
Core PHP Programming, 3rd Edition.
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review has been posted for the third edition of the
"Core PHP Programming" book from Prentice Hall
publishing, written by Leon Atkinson with Zeev Juraski.
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Mini-review: Programming PHP by R
Lerdorf and K Tatroe
Mini-review: Programming PHP by R
Lerdorf and K Tatroe
08/05/2002 10:44 PMMy company has a subscription to the
Safari online library. This is a
collection of the best computer books by several publishers, including
O'Reilly, Sams Publishing, MT converted to HTML pages. Every month,
you get to choose a new set of books to subscribe to.
This month, I subscribed to
Programming PHP.
I browsed through the chapters that interested me, and this book is a
wonderful introduction to PHP. It strikes an excellent balance between
introductory material and advanced stuff. For beginners and
intermediate users, highly recommended.
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CodeWalkers: New Book Review
CodeWalkers: New Book Review
03/19/2003 10:24 PMOver on
CodeWalkers.com this
morning, there's a new review of a book (from Sams Publishing, not
Wrox) about the second edition of the book
PHP and MySQL Web
Development.
Book Review: iPhoto 4 For Mac OS X
Book Review: iPhoto 4 For Mac OS X
07/07/2004 11:17 AMStu Gitlow checks in with another in a series of Mac book reviews.
Book Review: Against All Enemies
Book Review: Against All Enemies
04/17/2004 03:20 PMWhen Against All Enemies was published a few weeks ago, it was greeted
by a flurry of press and blogsphere discussion, almost entirely
focused on the book's criticisms of the Bush administration. Those
criticisms are largely contained within the book's final chapter, a
chapter that feels grafted on, and which is significantly different in
tone from the rest of the book. It's unfortunate that this chapter has
become the focus for discussion of the book - a fact which argues
that, perhaps, it shouldn't have been included at all. The majority
of the book is a discussion of how the first Bush administration and
the Clinton administration gradually came to realize the existence of
al Qaeda and tried to figure out what to do about it. The story is
framed, at the beginning and the end, by the events of September 11,
2001 (during which Clarke was one of the people primarily responsible
for government operations during the hours until President Bush took
charge) - but that is simply the framing; the real meat of the book
takes place in an earlier time. The time that laid the groundwork for
that day.
Book Review: WarDriving
Book Review: WarDriving
05/27/2004 06:24 PMNobody likes to make enemies, but I have to be honest about the
dollar-to-content value of this book: Let me be clear from the outset.
I don't know any of the authors of this book, except by reputation,
and have nothing but the highest regard for their technical knowledge
and their achievements. The folks who wrote WarDriving: Drive, Detect,
Defend are experts about most of what they write about, and offer
great technical insights and tips throughout. That said, I can't
recommend this book primarily because the best advice is already
available on the Web for free in much the same form; chunks of the
most practical early part of the book are repetitive to cover
different operating systems or scenarios with the same approach; the
middle part of the book comprises a 60-page-long set of anecdotes with
long code extracts; and the last part of the book features security
advice that's somewhat strange focusing on commercial software and
hardware that's obscure and hard to use and mostly out of keeping with
the kind of audience that could possibly be interested in this title.
A factor that led to book bloat (520 pages, no CD-ROM, $49.99) is the
lengthy reproduction of code, sometimes double spaced that a reader
must be expected to input rather than download or copy and paste from
a Web page. Further, many of the programs seem too idiosyncratic to be
of general utility, arguing against their inclusion in the printed
book even if other programs were printed in full. For fairness's sake,
after reading this book a few weeks ago, I sent the publisher's
publicist contact my remarks and a list of errors found in the book. I
was promised some follow up and didn't get it, so the statute of
limitations of waiting for a response to specifics has ended. I should
also make it clear that I have co-written a book on wireless
networking which has practically no overlap with this book. In
general, the book is best at collecting and providing documentation on
the trickiest aspects of scanning for, recording, and defending
against wardriving and Wi-Fi network cracking. Some of the areas on
defense are the strongest in the book, although other areas seem
highly misguided. From the first page of the book to the end of
Chapter 7, page 243, it's at its strongest. It's a cogent, how-to
guide to installing and...
CodeWalkers: New Brief Book Review
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Book review: Perl and XML (Slashdot)
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08/26/2002 08:32 AMBook review: Defensive Design for the
Web
Book review: Defensive Design for the
Web
05/13/2004 03:37 AMContingency design lets you take all those things into account that
can happen when real users start visiting your website. Defensive
Design for the Web is a book that shows you in a clear and concise way
what can go wrong and how to turn that to your advantage.
Book Review: Professional Apache 2.0
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09/20/2002 08:07 AMSlashdot Book Review: PHP4 XML
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10/22/2002 08:45 AMBook Review: Apache Cookbook
Book Review: Apache Cookbook
01/02/2004 06:03 AMA lot of helpful tips and advice make up for a few shortcomings.
Book Review: The Future of Work
Book Review: The Future of Work
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Professional PHP4: A Book Review
Professional PHP4: A Book Review
02/03/2003 10:14 AMAside from a few minor quibbles (and those weird covers), this is a
solid and well planned book.
New Report: Mac Bible Book Review
New Report: Mac Bible Book Review
05/19/2004 10:23 AMStuart Gitlow talks about his old Celica and how it relates to the
newest edition of "The Macintosh Bible."
802.11 Wireless LAN Fundamentals - Book
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Codewalkers.com: O'Reilly Book Review
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08/10/2004 08:29 AMCodewalkers.com has a new
review today covering a new O'Reilly book for PHP -
Web Database
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Book review: Mitnick's The Art of
Intrusion
Book review: Mitnick's The Art of
Intrusion
03/30/2005 08:40 PMKevin Mitnick is the hacker who went legit. He has just published a
second book, this time on the hackers themselves.
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