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Thursday, February 5. 2009

Review: 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.


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Posted by Ivo Jansch in planetphp at 20:47 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)
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Thursday, January 8. 2009

Book 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).


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Posted by Lorenzo Alberton in planetphp at 15:04 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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Thursday, October 30. 2008

Review: 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.


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Posted by Marcello Duarte in planetphp at 16:03 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)
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