Blink Monitor » PHP http://blinkmonitor.com News on technology books in the Ottawa Library via RSS feed. First, click in the tag cloud below at the right. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:31:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Rapid Cakephp http://blinkmonitor.com/2012/01/rapid-cakephp/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2012/01/rapid-cakephp/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:11:14 +0000 rleir http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=4924 Rapid Application Development with Cakephp, Jamie Munro, – 2011

PHP programmers will want to read this practical little book, which seems to have been self-published. 150 pages.

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A book for bloggers and webmasters. The book will also interest plugin developers. 300 pages.

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Programmers will like this book.

  • installing, customizing and getting the most out of the web’s most versatile content management system
  • the inner mechanics of WordPress
  • plugins, themes and APIs to add extra functionality
  • Multisite capabilities to host and manage your own centralized network of WordPress websites
  • localization techniques and marketing tips

O’Reilly, 400 pages.

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Programmers will like this book.  Legendary O’Reilly quality, 250 pages.

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Web designers will like this introduction to the new world of HTML5. The book itself is nicely designed. 300 pages.

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Web application developers who use PHP will like this tiny self-published book. 150 pages.

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]]> http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/06/cakephp-1-3-application/feed/ 0 Professional WordPress Plugin http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/05/professional-wordpress-plugin/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/05/professional-wordpress-plugin/#comments Mon, 30 May 2011 17:41:16 +0000 rleir http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=4008 Professional WordPress Plugin Development, Brad Williams, Wrox, 2011

Web programmers will want to read this, particularly when working with PHP. 500 pages.

]]> http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/05/professional-wordpress-plugin/feed/ 0 Drupal 7 http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/03/drupal-7/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/03/drupal-7/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:20:36 +0000 rleir http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=3745 Continue reading →]]> book coverDrupal 7 Visual QuickStart Guide, Tom Geller, – 2011

This book will help you lay out and configure a CMS web site using Drupal. You don’t need to know much about coding (PHP, Javascript, etc); you will mostly be working in web dialog forms. From the title you would expect to see mostly graphics (such as screendumps), but this well written book only uses graphics where appropriate. 200 pages.

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