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MODX: The Official Guide – Book Review

September 6th, 2011 · 15 Comments · Book Reviews, MODx

If you closely follow the happenings in the world of MODX you know that Bob Ray’s book MODX: The Official Guide is now available.  I was fortunate to receive a copy of the unreleased PDF a few weeks ago and have been looking through it. Now that the book is available for pre-0rder, I thought [...]

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Head First iPhone Development – Book Review

May 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Book Reviews

I have recently been reading and working through the excellent O’Reilly book Head First iPhone Development.  iPhone apps have proven to be a big hit, with apps for everything you can think of!  It’s getting even more interesting now with the iPad. I know this is a bit of deviation from my usual posts and [...]

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HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions – Book Review

June 22nd, 2009 · 7 Comments · (X)HTML, Book Reviews, Useful Links and Resources

I’ve been spending some time in the recent past revisiting my knowledge of (X)HTML/CSS, and one of the big things I’ve discovered is that I have more I need to unlearn than to learn.  I learned everything I know about building websites on the internet, by experimenting, searching w3c schools for syntax rules and tags, [...]

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Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide Book – Initial Impressions

March 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Book Reviews, Drupal, PHP, Useful Links and Resources

I recently got a copy of the new Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide ebook by Dorien Herremans to review. I am currently working through it and will be putting up a comprehensive review soon, but I wanted to share my initial impressions with you, having read through the first few chapters and skimmed the [...]

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Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6 – Book Review

March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Book Reviews, Drupal

Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6 by David Mercer is what I believe is the ultimate beginner’s book for Drupal.  While the other books that I’ve reviewed here focuses on how to build a particular type of website (Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions for a small business website and Drupal 6 Social Networking [...]

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