Posts filed under “Books”

Pro PHP

Posted by Daniel Cousineau on April 16th, 2008. No comments.

My copy of Pro PHP: Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and More by Kevin McArthur has already been worth the money I spent on it. In our, albeit slow, upgrade to more modern development practices (code version and unit testing being the last elements on my list), I was particularly fearful of code versioning namely concerning issues [...]

Playing Catchup On Quotes

Posted by Daniel Cousineau on February 5th, 2008. No comments.

I’m a sucker for good quotes, so without further ado, my favorite quotes to catch this blog up. In the future I’ll post quotes that I find particularly good or inspirational. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin I have never let [...]

QBVII

Posted by Daniel Cousineau on February 4th, 2008. No comments.

So I’ve been on a pseudo Leon Uris binge lately (pseudo in that this is my third Uris since Christmas, depressing considdering I used to knock out 2 novels a week). I absolutely adore his writing. It’s historical fiction, always somehow rotating around the Jews and/or Israel (in the 40′s). He likes to present two [...]