Recently, I realized that despite talking about Karl Fogel's book – “Producing Open Source Software” – numerous times over the past year[1][2][3], I've never written a review of it. So without further ado, here we go. I originally picked up my copy in mid-2007. It took me a couple months to get to it, but […]
After the recent beating I gave Packt Publishing's “PHP Team Development” , I had a number of people ask what books I would recommend. To be honest, that's one of the easiest questions I've gotten in a while. And that's because when we put together Blue Parabola about a year ago, I had the chance […]
Generally, I only use this space to talk about concepts, products, and events that are important to me when I believe others can find value too. I try not to write negative reviews because I don't believe it adds value to the community… but occasionally, I have to do otherwise. In terms of disclosure, I […]
At php|tek 2009 this year, I picked up a copy of php|architect’s Guide to PHP Design Patterns by Jason Sweat. In the following month (June), I read it and took a number of notes. First off, personally, I come from a Java background and got deep into Design Patterns there. Reading Fowler’s “Patterns of Enterprise […]
Disclaimer: The author of this book – Bob Walsh – was a CodeSniper last year, set me up with a free copy of this latest work, and recently invited me to contribute to the new Business of Software Wiki on Joel On Software. I may be biased, but would I buy it again? Read on… […]
Disclaimers: In case you can't tell, I'm not the most unbiased person who could write this review. In fact, as the author of the dotProject Manual, I'm probably the last person who should write about this but when I was offered a free copy by the publisher, I couldn't pass on the offer. The dotProject […]
I know you've heard of my dotProject Manual – currently approaching its third edition – but did you know there's an actual dotProject Book? Yes, it's an honest real paper book by Lee Jordan. I heard about it at the MySQL Conference in April and had seen the table of contents but as of this […]
Disclaimer: I have quite a few disclaimers this time around… First of all, I happen to know one of the authors – Eli White. We've run into each other at a number of conferences, had a few beers together, and I've even been over to his house to play cards. I happen to like the […]
Disclosure: After recently registering a Flickr account for this site, I happened across Rob Kunkle one of the co-authors of this book. He and the great people at Apress arranged for a copy of this to be delivered to my door. There was no cash crammed in the cover, so they need to work on […]
A few weeks ago, Chris Shiflett author of Essential PHP Security was nice enough to give me some time for an interview on CodeSnipers. I figured the least I could do is give him and the community some feedback on his book. Read on for details. I've been a software developer for quite a few […]