The Zend Framework in Practice

A little while back I need to work with a custom framework that used PostgreSQL as its database. In particular, I needed to be able to set the site up on various machines both for testing and deployment purposes. As I had absolutely no experience of working with PostgreSQL, I went looking for a suitable book, and settled on this one. It proved to be an excellent choice. (more…)

Books or articles about PHP or JavaScript have usually been pitched at the novice programmer; this is fine if you are a novice programmer, but as someone with considerable experience of C++ and other such languages, I don’t fall into that category. As a result, I find these works tend to finish at the point where I’d like them to begin! For me, the chief merit of Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP by Quentin Zervaas is that it is pitched at a higher level, and therefore addresses the sort of topics that I am more interested in. (more…)