Udi Mosayev

To be honest, I think they should name this book differently. Although you do learn exactly how to create a “social network” – users, profilers, events, status stream.. you actually get so much programming information from this book, that I’m afraid that people who wants to learn PHP might miss this book. For example, in [...]

Have you heard about this book already? It explains how to develop a social network with PHP5 and MVC. Most if the chapters talks about pretty simple tasks, what’s more interesting is Chapter 11 – Developing an API, and Chapter 12 – Deployment, Security and Maintenance. I’ll review this book for you once I’ll finish [...]

“Pro PHP Refactoring” written by Francesco Trucchia and Jacopo Romei, published by Apress.
This book is for beginners and professional web developers.

I never read a book about refactoring, maybe few chapters or articles here and there, but I never learned this subject. To me it was always just doing what feels right, I never thought about “what technic should I use here…”. If you are like me, and you feel that this book can’t really teach you something, you better take a look at the table of contents [Google Preview in Apress], I’m sure you’ll find few interesting chapters there.

The book “CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development” written by Adam Griffiths. I’ve already wrote a little bit about the book before, and Few days ago I got it in the mail and finished reading it already. The author is a well known developer in the CodeIgniter community, who also contributed nice authentication library. So as expected, I saw a [...]

Hi Guys, Recently I’ve read REWORK – the new book from 37signals, the same guys who wrote Getting Real. First of all, the book is has great lessons for starting a business as Getting Real has for developing web applications. Those who follow Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson can see there’s lots of topics [...]

Hi! I got for my birthday the new book from Wrox – Expert PHP and MySQL by Andrew Curioso, Ronald Bradford and Patrick Galbraith. “This book examines some of the technologies and techniques needed to make robust and scalable applications perform in today’s high-demand world” (From the Introduction of the book..). In this book you [...]