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New PHP Magazine Launched

Posted by timothy on from the birds-of-a-feather dept.

Marco Tabini writes "The website for php|architect was launched today. php|architect is a monthly magazine distributed through secure PDF technology dedicated exclusively to the world of PHP programming. php|a features articles that tackle "advanced" PHP topics, such as SNMP management and performance improvement techniques. Our goal is to bring a complete reference point to a PHP community that is growing in ranks and ability, dealing with subjects that go beyond the traditional tutorials that have been available until now. What's more, because it's published in PDF, it's available worldwide at a very reasonable cost (or, at least, we think so!)"

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  1. ebook plugin required or not? by sporty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Our goal is to bring a complete reference point to a PHP community that is growing in ranks and ability, dealing with subjects that go beyond the traditional tutorials that have been available until now. What's more, because it's published in PDF, it's available worldwide at a very reasonable cost (or, at least, we think so!)"



    Hm. If this is via the pdf ebook security thing, i couldn't find a mac plugin for adobe's pdf reader 5. I think they mistakenly alienated all the non-adobe acrobat readers or those who the plugin isn't avail.
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  2. sample issue by ceejayoz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There really needs to be a sample issue before I consider coughing up the cash - or at the very least, a sample article.

  3. Ugh, PDFs.. by bsr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    PDFs are only good for one thing: printing stuff out, and paper sucks. I loose paper, I can't copy from a paper document into a text buffer, people recycle it on me, I'm drowning in paper - bits on a hard drive never really get lost, I can easily copy text out of one document and into another, and I can easily search across gigabytes of documents, except of course when they're PDFs.

    Why couldn't they make it a subscription only website? It seems to have the same reach as a PDF downloaded over the internet, and has the added benefit that you don't have to keep downloading another 50MB PDF each time you move to a new computer.

    --bsr