URL for recorded Adobe seminar
April 18th, 2008
The URL for the Adobe online seminar about Dreamweaver CS3 that I gave in late March is rather hard to find. So, here’s a direct link. When you get to the Adobe site, you’ll be asked to login with your Adobe ID, and answer a couple of simple questions. The recording is one hour long.
Towards the end of the recording, I give out a promotional code for a 25% discount on the eBook version of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP. The eBook is available by going to this page on the friends of ED site, and clicking the “Buy as eBook” link. Want a hint as to what the promotional code is? Well, it’s three letters followed by two numbers. The fact that the seminar was part of Adobe Developer Week 2008 should give you a “strong” clue. The code is valid until the end of April 2008.
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1. John Sutton | April 29th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Hi David,
Please forgive my off-topic question but I’m interested in learning more about the Zend engine, and while I know something about PHP –having read and used both your books PHP Solutions and Essential Guide to DWCS3, I’m not sure what the best way to go about it would be.
Do you have a recommendation? If I had to say, I would classify my skill level as moderately intermediate. I can usually decipher explained code, but if I had to write it myself I ‘d be lost.
With appreciation and many thanks for your time.
JS –Arlington, Vermont, USA
2. David Powers | April 29th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
The Zend Engine is a complete mystery to me. It’s written in C, a language I have never studied. There’s a basic chapter on writing PHP extensions at the end of “Programming PHP” by Rasmus Lerdorf and Kevin Tatroe (O’Reilly). AFAIK, the only book that goes into the Zend Engine in detail is “Extending and Embedding PHP” by Sara Golemon (Sams).
Hope that helps.
3. John Sutton | April 29th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Hi David,
If I may please indulge your patience, I’d like to refine my question a little as this sounds like it could take me deeper into the theoretical realm than I need or want to go.
My interest is primarily in web design and development. While I’m comfortable with and enjoy the graphic end the most, I’ve been building my understanding of the development side by the seat of my pants. In time my appreciation and enjoyment of development has also increased, and I’m acutely aware that the depth of my understanding in this arena is not remarkable.
I’ve learned a great deal from the PHP Solutions and the Dreamweaver CS3 books, and I would like to gain a broader understanding of what PHP can do, and how to go about implementing those functionalities. At the same time, I don’t feel the need to reinvent the wheel, but I would like to exploit where the wheel can take me. Do you know what I mean?
So, regarding ZEND, I’m wondering if ZEND Studio would be a tool worth learning to use, or are the conceptual tools you so throughly explain in PHP Solutions, along with those in Dreamweaver CS3 and capabilities of that program, are more than sufficient to do most of the development I might want to do short of building a large commercial site.
Thank you,
John Sutton
4. David Powers | April 30th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Zend Studio for Eclipse is excellent. I have been using it for a couple of months now, and apart from a couple of minor annoyances, I’m delighted with it.
As for exploring PHP in more depth, you might be interested in my forthcoming book “PHP Object-Oriented Solutions”. I put the finishing touches to the first draft yesterday. The book still needs to go through the editorial process, but is due to be published on August 21.
Although it sounds like blowing my own trumpet too much, I think there’s a serious gap in the market for “good” intermediate books. There are several “cook books” that offer stock solutions to common problems, and some project-based books, but nothing that helps bridge the gap between intermediate and advanced. I’m hoping that “PHP Object-Oriented Solutions” will go some way towards filling that gap.
5. John Sutton | April 30th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
This is good news!
If you have one, please put me on your email notification list announcing book availability. Sometime in the middle of last year I picked up a copy of Object-Oriented PHP by Peter Lavin and tried getting into it, but it just didn’t work for me though I’m sure the fault was mine and not the author’s.
Having said that, the same topic presented in the inimitable Powers way I’m sure will have an instant an lasting appeal to your many fans on this side of the pond.
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