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'PHP 5 Power Programming' Available for Download

Posted by timothy on from the try-it-if-you-want dept.

OneSeventeen writes "As mentioned earlier on slashdot, the Bruce Perens Open Source series has expanded its selection with PHP 5 Power Programming. As with all of the books in this series, electronic copies are offered free of charge several months after its printed release. While it is always nice to have even more PHP books on the bookshelves, this has been officially released on the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series for download in the form of a 720 page PDF file. Better PHP programming is only 9.3MB away!"

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  1. Link by a1cypher · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is a link to said pdf: PDF

  2. Re:Why PDF? by NitsujTPU · · Score: 2, Informative

    Everyone uses PDF.

    There are 2 formats that I download almost constantly (reading academic papers) postscript and pdf.

  3. Elitist idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Part of being a good programmer is using the best tools for the job.

    For many contracts, to act in the client's best interests, you have to build code that they can get up and running on a typical web hosting package. Practically all hosts offer PHP support. I have yet to see one offer Ruby support.

    For many contracts, to act in the client's best interests, you have to develop something that other developers will be able to work on. This entails using commonplace languages like PHP, not obscure Japanese ones like Ruby.

    Even if you hate the language, there are lots of reasons to pick PHP over Ruby. Posting comments like yours just gives the impression you are some student who likes to think you're better than everyone else because you've jumped on the latest trendy bandwagon. Grow up.

  4. PHP 5 Power Programming by wdr1 · · Score: 2, Funny
    PHP 5 Power Programming? 720 pages?

    Isn't it as simple as:

    Chapter 1:
    Use Perl
    Index
    Perl, 1

    ;-)

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  5. enlightened publisher by bcrowell · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow, check out the Perens series' web page -- I hadn't realized they'd brought out so many titles. This is really impressively enlightened for a traditional print publisher. Note that all the books are available under a real free-as-in-speech license. Of the publishers that have tried making books free in digital form, almost all have made them free as in beer only. Prentice-Hall has really gone out on a limb for free information with the Perens series; it's even legal for their competitors to bring out competing editions of the same books! I hope this experiment turns out to be a commercial success, because that would be a big victory for free-as-in-speech books, and it would also help some of these writers to make a living while doing free information. BTW, all the books in the series are available for reviewing on theassayer.org.

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  6. Re:Why PDF? by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 2, Informative
    We send it to the printer as PostScript, and there's a command-line program to convert PostScript to PDF and back.

    Bruce

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  7. Re:Yeah i really dont like PDF by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 2, Informative
    We also make the document "source" available - be it Docbook or .doc files. Docbook is preferred. But the PDF we use doesn't make use of any proprietary features. It should render fine with Free Software. The main reason for using it is that we send PostScript to the printer, and there's a command-line tool to make PDF of that.

    Bruce

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