I found a review of my brother’s Magento book earlier today.  Starting off with “However, I’m not really the type of person to give accolades unless something is absolutely stellar. As such, this post will primarily be about the shortcomings of the book” I wasn’t particularly surprised that there was more of a focus on [...]

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I relaunched the PHP Job Hunter Handbook blog.  After a job move last summer, and the book getting shifted from self-publish to external publisher, I unfortunately let the blog grow stale.  I’ve relaunched it today with an explanation about what happened, and some more detail about the progress of the book over the last year.
Also, [...]

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I started my “PHP Job Hunter’s Handbook” many moons ago, and had interest from PHP Architect last summer/fall about publishing it.  After some false starts in finishing it, we wrapped it up several weeks ago, and happily it’s ‘out there’.  Whew!
The perfectionist in me was somewhat reluctant about publishing it at first, but after several [...]

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Manuel Lemos did an interview with Maurício Garcia on the topic of PHP certification.  It’s good to see this sort of thing talked about more, and to get an ‘international’ point of view.  My view on the topic is somewhat necessarily limited by my geography and experiences, but seem to mirror Mauricio’s fairly closely.
My PHP [...]

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As probably some of you out there can relate to, I can go through up and down cycles - periods where you’re really fired up on a project or goal, then the inevitable periods of backsliding.  I’ve been going through a couple of those the past several months, but was revitalized (again) by Jared Richardson.  [...]

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So, tomorrow (technically *today* in Australia!) is the date for PDF delivery of my brother’s new book - the PHP Architect’s Guide to Programming with Magento (I think that’s the full title).  More details here.  I’m really excited for him, as I know he put a lot of work over the past several months learning [...]

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These deserves more than a twitter…
1. I just got my copy of Scott Davis’ “Groovy Recipes” book - I’ll be posting a review as soon as a I can. First impression is about a 8.5 out of 10.
2. Just came across this -> http://froth-and-java.blogspot.com/2007/06/html-screen-scraping-with-groovy.html <- didn’t know about [...]

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I just picked up Dreaming in Code from the library yesterday (or was it Friday evening?) and I’m about a third of the way through it.  I saw it at digitalguru.com when I was there a couple weeks ago, but didn’t know what it was about.  Then I read a review in the latest “strategy [...]

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I went to a bookstore in China and saw some interesting computer books.
I’m doing some Grails work these days, so was surprised to see this:

Bill Wagner is one of the organizers of the CodeMash conference, and the only name I could find in the Chinese bookshop that I knew personally.

Also, I chuckled a bit seeing [...]

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Aaron Wormus kindly agreed to contribute a book review to techbookreviews.com, which was just posted this morning.  His take on The Definitive Guide To Symfony can be found there, hot off the presses.  Does that phrase even make sense in this digital age anymore?  How long before most people won’t even understand the origins of [...]

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