Thursday, February 9, 2006

I paid money for PHP Hacks #

I bought a copy of PHP Hacks : Tips & Tools For Creating Dynamic Websites (Hacks) even though as a UC Berkeley person, I have access to an electronic version of the entire book online at safari.oreilly.com. I had stayed away from learning PHP until this semester because I didn't feel I had room for yet another programming language in my toolkit, which was already under-exercised. Working through many PHP-based examples in Flickr Hacks convinced me that I needed to know PHP better, if for no other reason than to help my class through PHP. I got to hand it to the O'Reilly folks for getting me to fork over money for essentially the same information in a different package. I considered buying the PHP in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell) but decided that I am fine with treating it as a reference book for which electronic access alone is adequate. In contrast, I like sitting in an easy chair or curling up in bed with books such as PHP Hacks so that I can soak up the ideas and allow myself to imagine the possibilities of the technology.   Posted by Raymond Yee on 2/9/06; 10:50:38 AM from the Unclassified dept. Discuss