...without the sort of $$$ companies like Nokia, Apple and Sony Ericsson regularly throw at "your phone is a statement of who you are" marketing campaigns, I doubt phones based on this software will make much of an impact outside of geek circles.
Unless one of the big guys gets on board, that is.
Great, now every time I fall off my bike or some other stupid accident that involves my hands, I won't be able to log in at all due to not matching the timing/pressure/etc. I can definitely see this ending in smashed keyboards. "It's me!!! Let me in you b@st@rd machine!"
This is the most dissapointing PHP book I've read. The 'sample application' built during the course of the book is a complete P.O.S and has so little respect for the concept of instilling best practices early on that beginners are the LAST people I would be recommending this book to.
Ok, so it's no good for beginner and too basic for anyone else...
One positive note though -- the introduction to designing and using DTDs is quite good, especially for newbies, but that alone is not worth the price of the book.
Purchasing this book also resulted in a regular flow of Sitepoint spam until I wrote an abusive email to their marketing department saying that I had most certainly never ticked any of their "Spam me to death" checkboxes and that I couldn't be any less interested in discounts on their books. Surprisingly, their response thanked me for the honest feedback. At least it ended well:)
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Since when did being blind remove you from the gene pool? ...ouch!
I can think of somewhere you could aim it to become eligible for a Darwin Award...
(captcha: "treasure", as in jewels, as in OUCH!)
...without the sort of $$$ companies like Nokia, Apple and Sony Ericsson regularly throw at "your phone is a statement of who you are" marketing campaigns, I doubt phones based on this software will make much of an impact outside of geek circles.
Unless one of the big guys gets on board, that is.
Captcha: "overdue" - damn right.
Great, now every time I fall off my bike or some other stupid accident that involves my hands, I won't be able to log in at all due to not matching the timing/pressure/etc. I can definitely see this ending in smashed keyboards. "It's me!!! Let me in you b@st@rd machine!"
This is the most dissapointing PHP book I've read. The 'sample application' built during the course of the book is a complete P.O.S and has so little respect for the concept of instilling best practices early on that beginners are the LAST people I would be recommending this book to.
:)
Ok, so it's no good for beginner and too basic for anyone else...
One positive note though -- the introduction to designing and using DTDs is quite good, especially for newbies, but that alone is not worth the price of the book.
Purchasing this book also resulted in a regular flow of Sitepoint spam until I wrote an abusive email to their marketing department saying that I had most certainly never ticked any of their "Spam me to death" checkboxes and that I couldn't be any less interested in discounts on their books. Surprisingly, their response thanked me for the honest feedback.
At least it ended well