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November 24th, 2009Looking for web freelancers to interview
August 25th, 2009
I’m putting out a call for fulltime web freelancers to possible be interviewed for an upcoming book project. PHP, Java, .Net, Front End Engineers, JavaScript, Graphic Designers – if you do web development or design for a living as an independent, we’d like to talk to you. Visit http://webdevpub.com/interview to fill out a quick background statement, and we’ll select a number of subjects from those who’ve filled out the form.
My book is published! (and other great books from PHP Architect)
May 31st, 2008I 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 rounds o feedback from some trusted sources, I was comfortable with it, and turned it in. Then it sat. 
That’s the publishing world I guess – hurry up and wait some times! My brother’s book on programming Magento took some precendence (understandably so) and PHP Architect’s “php|tek” conference needed to be snuck in there too
My release is coinciding with PHP Architect’s other two books – Stefan Preibsch’s “PHP5 Migration Guide” (timely because support for PHP4 is ending in a few months!) and Ivo Jansch’s “Guide to Enterprise Development“. Judging from the table of contents, each book looks to serve both timely and timeless needs in the PHP community. I’m more than honored to be sharing the bookshelf with such great material and authors (Jason Sweat, Ben Ramsey, Ilia Alshanetsky, Ron Goff and Davey Shafik!) and hope my book is helpful to those hitting the PHP job market in the next several months.
Looking for book reviewers
October 10th, 2007Specifically of technical books. I’ve got a small backlog of books I wanted reviewed for techbookreviews.com. I thought I had more time than I did, but I don’t (isn’t that always how it goes?). So, in the interests of time and getting other people besides myself involved, I’d like to invite some of you to help. I’ve done the first experiment, and it’s turned out pretty good so far. In return for reading through a technical book (such as a PHP, Javascript, Ruby, .NET or other book) and providing a review of anywhere from 500-1000 words, you get a free book, your review posted at techbookreviews.com, and some pay. I’ve not firmed this up yet – it’ll probably decide on the size of the book to some extent, but either a paypal xfer or amazon certificate for $5 or $10.
If you’re interested in participating, send me an email to mgkimsal@gmail.com with your name, mailing address, a list of technologies you’re interested in reviewing, and ideally links to some writing samples. I currently have books on C# and Javascript and DotNetNuke and possibly Ruby in my backlog, and more are in the pipeline.
Looking forward to hearing from you all!
