Steven Osborn
"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code".

Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

Zend Certified Engineer

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

I've recently started studying for the Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) program. I received the book a couple of weeks ago, but hadn't really looked at it until yesterday. I'm somewhat disappointed in the study guide I purchased. I paid $45 (after shipping) for it and it's just ...

Javascript Pocket Reference

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Javascript Pocket Reference has been many times more useful than books five times it's size and price. I keep it at work and I constantly have to hunt it down because someone else has borrowed it. It's an indispensable reference for web developers. Certainly a well spent 10 bucks; this ...

PHP Cookbook (2nd Edition)

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

I find most technical books impossible to read from front to back. I typically just use them as reference books. Unfortuanately most techbooks aren't organized with this in mind. That's why I love the cookbook series. They tend to contain far more example code then typical programming books and are ...

XCode PackageMaker Tutorial

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

I've never been satisfied with Fink or Darwin Ports on OS X. So I'm always compiling things from source. This would be fine if I only had to do this once or twice, but I unfortunately I've installed PHP and all of it's dependencies ...