Thursday, February 5. 2009Review: Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer's Guide
I'm the kind of guy that buys a new gadget, ignores the manual and just starts to play with it. The same with software. If you need a manual to use it, then it's not intuitive enough. However, as things get complexer and more feature rich, it gets harder to simply discover all the useful features; it took me about 3 months before I accidentally discovered that my new iPod classic has a nifty context menu if you hold down the center button more than a second.
This is what manuals and books are useful for. To find the features you haven't discovered yet, but that turn out to be extremely useful. Continue reading "Review: Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer's Guide"
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Thursday, January 8. 2009Book Review: TYPO3 Extension Development
A couple of months ago I started working on a Typo3 project for a client, and at about the same time I was asked by the folks at Packt Publishing to review a book, so the choice fell naturally on "Typo3 Extension Development" by Dmitry Dulepov.
The book, published in September 2008, covers the entire extension development life cycle, from planning to uploading it to the Typo3 Extension Repository (TER). Continue reading "Book Review: TYPO3 Extension Development" Thursday, October 30. 2008Review: PHP5 CMS Framework Development "PHP5 CMS Framework Development", a book written by Martin Brampton, explores how to approach the typical requirements of a PHP5-based Content Management System and underlying framework.After contributing for a while to projects like Joomla! and Mambo, Martin took on the role of a lead developer of Mambo 4.6.1. The six months spent leading the project gave him a good understanding of its functionalities and limitations. Martin left Mambo (before they announced to drop support for PHP4 last September) to write his own CMS and "evolve out of the Mambo history", by taking advantage of PHP5 OO enhancements. The result is Aliro: a CMS, a framework and an extension project with traits and genes of the Mambo family. Aliro code is used throughout the book to support and illustrate his presentation. Continue reading "Review: PHP5 CMS Framework Development" Thursday, August 7. 2008Book Review: The Seven Day Weekend
Who doesn't like to have weekends that last for seven days, each week? I've just read a book written by Ricardo Semler, it's called "The Seven Day Weekend". I have to say, it's really inspiring!
Ricardo Semler is the owner of Semco, an organization that is globally known for its non-standard way of working. Semler has divided the book into five parts. Continue reading "Book Review: The Seven Day Weekend" Monday, August 4. 2008PHP Events in the UK and Ireland
Following the success of our two PHP seminars in London, we have decided to make it a tour and to visit other parts of the UK and Ireland as well. Next up are Leeds and Dublin - come and meet us in your city! Find out more about our events below.
Early-Bird Offer: Sign up for any of our events by 15th August, and receive a free copy of the new php|architect book on Enterprise PHP Development, written by our CTO Ivo Jansch! Continue reading "PHP Events in the UK and Ireland" Thursday, July 17. 2008Wow, this is so cool! This week it was finally delivered and I had the honor to receive the first copy of the book in our office. I'm talking about php|architect's "Guide to Enterprise PHP Development" written by my dear colleague Ivo Jansch. Last year he confided in me, said he wanted to write a book. And he actually did, within the year, 275 pages describing the complete development life cycle. For each phase in the development cycle, Ivo describes the common pitfalls, ways to get around them and tools others use to keep things running smoothly. Because Ivo covers the whole development cycle there should be interesting pieces for every software developing company. You can find more information about the book on the book's official website. And find out what others think about this book here and here.
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This week it was finally delivered and I had the honor to receive the first copy of the book in our office. I'm talking about php|architect's "Guide to Enterprise PHP Development" written by my dear colleague Ivo Jansch. Last year he confided in me, said he wanted to write a book. And he actually did, within the year, 275 pages describing the complete development life cycle. For each phase in the development cycle, Ivo describes the common pitfalls, ways to get around them and tools others use to keep things running smoothly. Because Ivo covers the whole development cycle there should be interesting pieces for every software developing company. 