Leaning web development (php, mySQL, AJAX...)

[Kareem Shehata]

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> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf 
> Of Aaron Vegh
> Sent: Tuesday 18 December 2007 11:03
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Leaning web development (php, mySQL, AJAX...)
> 
> > It might just be easier to learn something like Drupal.  That way a 
> > lot of the tedious stuff is done for you.  Instead of 
> re-inventing the 
> > wheel and all.
> 
> Bah. Why invent a particular brand of wheel when you can make 
> your own? :-) Learning PHP and MySQL is the way to go: it's 
> the always-there, 1-2 punch of web application development. 
> Drupal is fine, and Rails is cool, but frameworks make you 
> work a certain way.
> 
> I used a dead-tree book called "PHP and MySQL Development", 
> some years ago, to learn how to do this stuff. Here's it on 
> amazon.com, which is an updated version:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Development-Developers-Library
> /dp/0672329166/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197993692&sr=8-1

Thanks, I'll have a look at that one!

> Great book, and very easy to follow through from total basics 
> to advanced topics. I used it to help me as I tackled a 
> project head-on (to echo a former poster, it's the only way 
> to go). And unless you have an ebook reader on hand, you 
> can't beat having a separate thing on your desk to reference 
> as you code.

I have a tablet PC that I don't normally use for coding.  It's great for
docs, email, and ebooks!  My current project involves Oracle, and it would
probably require the restarting of a few papermills if I asked for
documentation on paper!

-kms

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