Got my most recent order from bookpool yesterday containing lots of good solid reading for the next few weeks. What I saw in the box made me cringe (and wonder if maybe I need some help, heh).
Once I got past the awful blurring which I can kinda deal with coming from a freebie from a tech book distributor, I noticed the aged and ugly markup being used! Its almost as bad as programming tutorials that ‘teach’ you the language by having you explicitly code for bad & embedded markup.
As for the books, the reason for the box arriving in the first place, all was good there:
PHP 5: Your visual blueprint for creating open source, server-side content by an old friend Toby Joe.
Agile Web Development with Rails was in there too, and though I don’t have an immediate need to leave PHP development for Rails the idea of using a good MVC architecture for web applications has always been one I’ve been fond of – even if my first exposure to it was with Java.
And, at the bottom of the box was We The Media, Dan Gilmor’s tome on grassroots journalism.
