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Thanks, O'Reilly :-D

Saturday, April 28. 2007

One week left until the PHP Unconference in Hamburg, and finally the goodies have arrived

O'Reilly was kind enough to sponsor a care package with lots of cool PHP and MySQL related books, writing blocks, pens and key-holding band thingies (what are they called again?). Among the books are timeless classics like PHP in a Nutshell, PHP Design Patterns, PHP Hacks or MySQL Internals... really great stuff! Here's what I got from them:

The books will be given away to the unconference attendees in a raffle on day two... now all I have to come up with is some fun way to raffle them out

Thanks a lot to Darren Cooper for contacting O'Reilly and making it happen, and of course to O'Reilly for being a cool company and supporting the Open Source community so much. On a side note, I bought a book from Tim O'Reilly himself once, who was helping out at an O'Reilly booth at FOSDEM in Brussels a few years back. It was really cool to see a Multi-Gazillionaire selling books at a rather improvised table that had a bit of a flea-market vibe to it. One can only like the guy

Too bad there isn't a PHP book in my current favourite series of O'Reilly books yet, the "Head First"-series. Kathy Sierra, if you ever read this: Hint, hint

Posted by Markus in Events, PHP, Programming at 19:49 | Comments (2) | Trackback (1)

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PHP Unconference in Hamburg
Markus Wolff organizes the PHP Unconference in Hamburg together with the PHP usergroup Hamburg, the department of computer science from University of Hamburg and the HITeC e.V., where he is giving a presentation about XUL. The conference is held on may 5. and 6. 2007 in the University of Hamburg. As this is not intended as a typical conference the visitors are encouraged to come up with topics, which can either be discussed or the visitors itself is invited to give a short presentation. Although…

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Hello Markus, First of all, great blog! Keep on posting! Concerning the books... Lucky guy!

Just a question. I didn't find PHP Design Patterns on the Web

Will it published soon ? Thanks. Have a good evening.

#1 Gilles (Homepage) on 2007-04-29 17:34 (Reply)

Hey Gilles, PHP Design Patterns is a german book by Stephan Schmidt, I don't know if there are any translations yet. If you're interested in design patterns in general, take a look at "Head First Design Patterns". Its examples are in Java, but the explanations are what's most important - and that's what the Head First series does exceptionally well. CU Markus

#1.1 Markus (Homepage) on 2007-04-29 22:46 (Reply)

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