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(I'm answering for James because he's out on vacation right now. At least I think he still is, he was yesterday.)

Yes, the Amazon and B&N links that are on OSWB uses the same HTML as the Hacking Linux Exposed books page (and the Building Linux VPNs books page too, since you're asking.)

So by all means, go out and buy bunches of copies of Open Source Web Development with LAMP and help the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the same time. Or, if you don't like to buy online, go to your favorite book store and buy it there, and send any money you saved on shipping to the EFF yourself.

I remember reading that any sales of Hacking Linux Exposed are donating online procedes to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (See their Books Purchasing Page. They list a lot of other great books too.)

Is this the case for Open Source Web Development with LAMP? Since James Lee is an author on both, I'd think that'd be the case, but I don't see anything meantioned on the OSWB Book Purchasing Page.

I went to my local Barnes and Noble and Borders to see if I could find this book, given the great review. No luck.

However I picked up a copy of Open Source Web Development with LAMP that's by the same guys that wrote Hacking Linux Exposed and it is really great. It has an extensive PHP chapter, but the real juice is in how it covers all of apache setup, perl, php, mysql, and even mason, HTML::embperl, and WML in one place. I'd never heard of it, but when I flipped through it on the shelf I couldn't put it down. I highly recomend it.

I worked for Morotola for many years, and had quite a few training classes through them. I imagine many other big companies have internal classes that are very hands on. Ours were 10-20 people, each with their own machine, which worked out really well. Lots of coding/experimenting/lab time is a must.

Most of the instructors were using stock Motorola class stuff, some of which wasn't great, but if you have a good instructor that can make up for it.

The best instructor was James Lee from Onsight.com who had a bunch of custom Perl (beginning and advanced), CGI, TCL, and a few others, all of which were outstanding. These are the guys that wrote Hacking Linux Exposed and I recently got Open Source Web Development with LAMP that is just excellent, and really mirrors their training skills.

I don't know if they do classes outside of Motorola (their web page seems to indicate they do), but I'd highly recommend them.

In general, if you work at a big enough company, they probably have good internal training classes available, or can send you to classes that are good outside.

I'd be wary trying to pick one on your own, though. I had very bad luck with some "big names" like Learning Tree which seem to just cobble together classes quickly, and try to debug them with you as the guinea pigs at hundreds of dollars a pop.

See the original /. comment as well as our website for our reasoning behind giving money to the EFF.

In short, yes, the donation will apply to any books that get credited to our affiliate accounts. You can go through the book links on any of the following sites:

• Hacking Linux Exposed
  The book that caused yet another "Hacking" vs "Cracking" thread on Slashdot. I apologize.

• Building Linux VPNS
  A book by Oleg Kolesnikov and I, reviewed on slashdot last year, other reviews here.

• Onsight.com
  James and my company.

• Open Source Web Development with LAMP
  A top-notch web development book by James Lee (co-author of HLE and HLEv2) and Brent Ware. I tech edited this book, and also benifited from it in a user capacity, for example setting up the handler that controls access to the auto linux hacking software.

Going through any of those links will work. If you prefer, you can just send money to the EFF directly and cut out the middle man.