Blog Posts for Tag: book review

Book Review: PHP Solutions

Mon August 31, 2009

In my quest to expand my knowledge of the web industry, I knew I needed to understand more PHP.  PHP is one of the (if not the) most popular languages used on the web today.  I had been exposed to it a little, and I have experience with other C-ish syntax languages, but I needed [...]

Book Review: Javascript: The Missing Manual

Fri June 12, 2009

In my ongoing efforts to realize my dreams of becoming a true web ninja, I recently read Javascript: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer MacFarland.  I had read his previous book in the Missing Manuals series on CSS, and had both enjoyed it and learned a lot from it.
I did find this book interesting and [...]

Book Review: CSS: The Missing Manual

Sun April 26, 2009

I’m the kind of person that likes to learn by doing.
The first time I touched any CSS code it was out of necessity.  Being used to the old-school style of HTML, using tables and attributes for layout and color, I was trying in vain to alter a Joomla template I was working with by just [...]