Translating Geek Into English
This is just a quick post to acknowledge/apologize for the lack of posts in the past week (especially for those purchasing the blog for Kindle through Amazon). I was out of town and had no time to put together any meaningful posts. But I’m working on a series discussing frameworks and the Yii framework for PHP in particular. Those will go up this week and will hopefully be quite useful. And by the way, that Kindle price is now only $0.99 (US). Whohoo!
Through Amazon’s Author Connect service, Amazon.com now has a “home page” for my work. Right now, my author page there lists all of my books, has my bibliography, and displays the feed for this blog (which means, in a circular connection, this post about Amazon’s service will show up there, too). In time Amazon plans on adding more features. This doesn’t really affect me much, although if it helps people find my work, all the better. The best thing for me is that I no longer have to maintain two blogs: my own and one at Amazon.
An article I wrote titled Integrating Flex and PHP—An Introductory Tutorial was just published online at DZone (specifically RIA Zone). As the title suggests, in this article I discuss how to use PHP and Flex (and a bit of XML) to create a Web-based application for managing employees by department. Basic understanding of both PHP and Flex are assumed.
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If you’re paying attention to dates (better than I am, that is), you might notice that it’s been more than a month since my previous newsletter and that one was a bit short, too! Well, I’ve been busy. I’ve been working on three good-size PHP-based Web sites, starting work on my e-commerce book, written an article on PHP and Flex, and preparing my house to sell and move. Ugh! But I’ve put together a few more things here and am giving away some books, too. I’m also starting to dig through some old questions I’ve been asked but haven’t yet answered. As always, thanks for reading and for any feedback and questions you may have.
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