Posted in php on March 15th, 2009 by Nick – 9 Comments
I’ve been reading tons of books lately, mostly to do research into technologies I’m thinking about trying out. I have several projects going on and I’m primarily a java developer. For a new project I just started last week I’ve decided to give it a go using PHP, which I’ve never touched before. My main reason for this was, from what I hear, that PHP is good for simple projects that need a fast turn around. This is exactly what I’m looking for, in addition to integrating with wordpress. I starting going through a bunch of lame tutorials on the web, but they’re mostly geared for a beginner and there’s a lot I can skip over. I decided to get a couple of recommended books on PHP and one that I found very useful is called Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problemsby William Steinmetz with Brian Ward. read more »
