Tag: review

Recently the nice folks at Addison Wesley sent me a review copy of "The Developer's Guide to Social Programming" by Mark Hawker (you can find it here on amazon). This is right up my street as I'm doing so much with with APIs, social and otherwise, at the moment and the book covers things I'm using such as OAuth and google's services.

I've been putting off writing this post, because I wasn't sure I could do the book justice, but I read and really enjoyed "The Passionate Programmer" last summer, and I've been dipping into it again and again ever since. The book was actually a recommendation from Travis Swicegood, after he saw me give my talk Open Source Your Career. It seems like it's not a well-known title so I thought I'd share my thoughts on the book and what I got from it.

This review has been in my drafts folder for 9 months, because I didn't feel I was doing the book justice. It seems like I never will, so here it is - as it was written then, but hopefully still useful and relevant to someone

I bought this book last year when I was still working at Ibuildings, and my role changed a lot to include events and community representation. Before that I was doing entirely PHP development and it was around this time that I noticed myself saying "has everyone forgotten I'm actually a developer?" a lot! So I quickly decided that I needed a copy of The Art of Community, a book by Jono Bacon published by O'Reilly. Actually, I should thank O'Reilly at this point for publishing the book and even more so for sending Josette and her book stand to conferences - I was able to buy the book and it came with a pep talk :)

Recently the kind folks at Prentice Hall contacted me to ask if I'd like to read a new publication of theirs , "Making it Big in Software". It sounded like something I'd be interested in and the copy duly arrived. My first impressions were of a wordy book, very much aimed …

I was recently contacted by Packt Publishing asking if I would review a copy of one of their new titles - PHP Team Development. I happily agreed and the book promptly arrived in the post (just in time for me to take it on holiday and read it by the pool …

When I received and unpacked the book, it was a little lighter than I had expected, however REST …