Reviews
Hi!
Wow, it has been a while since I posted. I apologize for that, I think my schedule is clearing a bit and I hope to get back to this project because there’s still so much more I want to say about Zend Framework.
In the mean time, two reviews have recently been posted.
First:
Ivo Janish wrote Book Review: php|a’s Guide to Programming with Zend Framework You may remember Ivo from my recent blog post on my trip to Amsterdam. Even though we are good friends, Ivo still managed to do a good job of remaining impartial. I however, won’t and will simply give you a good quote.
First of all, the book is fun to read. I like Cal’s writing style. He’s able to teach stuff while keeping it light and funny. And that works; the book is never dull so it’s easy to read in a short time frame.
If you want to know his criticisms, you’ll have to read it yourself. :)
Second: php|architects Guide to Programming with Zend Framework I apoloize to the author of this review for not naming him/her. However the review, and the entire site for that matter is in Dutch and, well, if you followed my adventures in Amsterdam, you know about me and Dutch. BabelFish is my friend here and through it’s translation, I was able to pull out enough to know that the author thought the sample chapter was good enough to plop down the full price. I would do a quote but it would be a quote form BabelFish’s translation and well, those can be more humorous than intended. So I’ll just leave you with the link.
Thank you to both of the authors for taking the time to read and review the book. Ivo, thanks again for taking the time to correct the grammer. (Seriously, he gave me a marked up copy of the book!) I’ll start putting the corrections in next week.
If you have reviewed this book, I want to link to your review. Please respond here so I can post about it.
If you bought the book, thank you, If you read the book, thank you even more, and if you take the time to share with me what you like and dislike about the book, a HUGE thank you!
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Reader's Comments
You’re welcome! And thank you for the personally signed copy! :-) (note to readers; it came after the review, it didn’t influence my judgement ;)
Thanks for the Thanks Cal. I enjoyed your book and allthough I didnt read it completely at the time I recommended it. You can be sure about that ;)
I just bought the pdf version in the early hours of this morning and I’m glad I did. Even though I am new to OOP in PHP 5 I decided to use the Zend Framework as I believe it to be very flexible and easy to use (this was confirmed from reading your book). I haven’t quite finished it yet as I wanted to work through the examples a bit more, thank you Cal for writing such an amazing book.
Hi Cal,
Here’s another review, by another Dutchy by the way: http://www.scriptorama.nl/reviews/review-phparchitects-guide-to-programming-with-zend-framework
In English, as to prevent any Babelfish humor :)
Your book is simply fantastic. Being reading lots of tutorials and watching webinars. But your book simply brings all the pieces together. Great work!!
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