With Ingewikkeld we’ve sent out a gift to some customers and other contacts. A book that has nothing to do with PHP. While this may seem odd, it definitely isn’t. What book? The Art Of Asking by Amanda Palmer. Amanda Palmer? Who is she? Amanda Palmer is an artist. Performance artist, musician, cabaret punker, living…
Very recently, elePHPant herder Cal Evans released a new book: Signaling PHP. The book is about handling signals when writing PHP CLI scripts that are long-running scripts. One could think of a daemon-like script, a long-running importer script or similar applications. I considered reading it on my flight to TrueNorth, but since I was waiting…
Now, the name Neal Ford wasn’t really familiar to me. Which is not surprising, as he is not at all someone from the PHP community. Ford is mostly active in Java, .NET and Ruby (as I gather from his book) as he works for ThoughtWorks (where he works with people like Martin Fowler!). This is…
Back in the days when I worked at Dutch Open Projects, summer 2007, I entered a survey for an author who was writing a book for PHP developers looking for a job. I explained my view on recruiting and what I was looking for when interviewing candidates. Time went on and I actually forgot about…
The subtitle for the book is “The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application.” I am sure this is indeed true. The approach to software development in this book sure is smart, fast and easy. Of course, not everything discussed will apply to every software development project, but it is not meant…
My first encounter with John Peel was through the Peel Sessions by Autechre, and later again those by Boards of Canada. I found that an extensive list of artists had done Peel Sessions, and so gathered from that, that John Peel was a special person. Someone who knew his music. Over the time, through several…
Yay, it’s in!
Every few months, there is a small local book market here in Woudenberg. Last saturday, another market was held. As every other time, I was there to have a good look at the books available. The great thing about this market is that it’s not organized by booksellers. It’s organized by a small musicians club…
For those who like the Dilbert comics, this book will be perfect. It combines the Dilbert comics with great and completely prejudiced information, views and opinions of Scott Adams, written in a similarly funny way. The book closes with a more serious part, which I found very interesting. All in all, this was a great…
Compared by many to the Da Vinci Code, expectations for this book were quite high for me, as I really enjoyed reading the Da Vinci Code. But if you start out that way, you may be disappointed. It’s not that this book is bad, not at all, it’s just quite different from the Da Vinci…