You want to do WHAT with PHP? Chapter 5
Quick! Raise your hand if you know the most underutilized feature in PHP? If you're thinking type-juggling you're wrong (that's probably the most over-utilized feature). It is, in my mind, SPL. If you...
View ArticleYou want to do WHAT with PHP? Chapter 6
One of the things that I think PHP developers do not do well is asynchronous processing. PHP developers have written reams of applications that do all their calculations up front and over-and-over...
View ArticleYou want to do WHAT with PHP? Chapter 7
Most PHP developers are used to dealing with files. Files that are uploaded, downloaded, etc. If we work with data files it is usually in the form of XML or CSV or something like that. But what if the...
View ArticleYou want to do WHAT with PHP? Chapter 8
PHP is a langauge generally not suited for running daemons. That said, PHP can do it, and in certain circumstances does it sufficiently for the job. In this chapter we look at some of the things you...
View ArticleYou want to do WHAT with PHP? Chapter 9
There is a bunch I could say to introduce this chapter. However, I think that by reading the first few paragraphs you will know what I'm talking about. For those who are experienced developers some of...
View ArticleYou want to do WHAT with PHP? Chapter 10
With the book out and released I now reach the final chapter excerpt that I will have. As I said in one of my previous chapter excerpts, I did not write this book to cover a wide range of topics. I...
View ArticleYou want to do WHAT with PHP? GIVEAWAY
I just got my copies of my book "You want to do WHAT with PHP?" today. During my conversations with MCPress, my publisher, I had asked for 3 copies to do a social media promotion and they agreed. I...
View ArticleRead first, then tweet, for a free book
A few weeks ago I blogged that I was going to give away 9 copies of my book, You want to do WHAT with PHP? Well, today is the day to start. There are a few ways you can win.
View ArticleThis week’s book giveaway
This Friday I will be giving away the second (technically 4th and 5th) copies of my book "You want to do WHAT with PHP?" The rules still apply; if you win I will ask you to cover shipping costs. See...
View ArticleLast Facebook and Twitter book giveaway
OK, this is it. The LAST giveaway for "You want to do WHAT with PHP?" The giveaway will occur at the end of the day on Tuesday! This will also be the second last giveaway for the User Group library....
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