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30 What is it? THE annoying advertising messages plastered across web pages. At least online companies have largely scrapped 'pop-up' ads in favour of more sophisticated messages these days.  How important is it? HUGELY.
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Try these (slightly) more palatable tactics.
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Stefan Mischook has updated his "Object  Oriented PHP for Beginners" tutorial with more new steps bringing the count up to 11 of the 20 planned steps.   Based on an article I wrote for a web design magazine; the tutorial is presented as a series of simple steps where I walk the reader through the process of building objects while at the same time, exposing them to basic object oriented concepts.   Eventually, he will be producing videos similar to these for all of the sections to help make things easier for the beginners out there.
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It's as easy as ones and zeros Episode 30 â¦
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The ProDevTips website has posted part seven of their series covering the construction of a community site (or CMS) with the combination of Smarty and the Zend Framework.   Since XOOPS didn't do it for me when it comes to this project I have started with the blog component. As it turns out, a blog is more complicated than you would think. Therefore this part will not cover the whole component, only as far as I've gotten at the moment. Covering the whole process in one piece would make it a very long piece indeed.   He provides the code examples and complete SQL structure to get the blog up and rolling as well as some handy tips and explanations along the way.
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On the Dallas PHP Users Group site today, there's a new, quick book review from baron covering Wiley Publishing's "Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML and CSS".    This is a hands on book useful as an HTML refresher and introduction to XHTML, CSS1, CSS2, JavaScript and general web related topics including; site design, page layout, hosting, and search engines.  This book contains many valuable links to external tools and sources of information such as syntax validators, browser archives, royalty-free image sites, sites with detailed CSS information and demonstrations, and much more.  The books contains a comprehensive reference section which provides a fast lookup of XHTML elements, CSS properties, special characters, mime types, etc.    His review isn't all too positive, unfortunately - there were code errors in the examples, and some subjects were just touched on too lightly. He notes that it's a good refresher/learing tool, but for anything more advanced than that, look elsewhere...
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Attention to details and solid advice make up for less-than-stellar graphics.
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Following up on this article from Akash Mehta, Bryan has posted five more suggestions he has to help make you a better PHP developer.   I thought all of Akash's suggestions were good but a little broad and seemed to involve a lot of reading. And while any budding developer will jump at the chance to expand their burgeoning technical library, I thought there were a couple of items we could add to his list.  The recommendations that made his list are  Start a project that other people (developers and end users) will use. Learn another language. Teach someone PHP. Ask for suggestions not solutions. Use what you read.   I'm particularly a fan of the third one (teaching) - not only does it spread PHP out even more through the masses, but it can really test you on your knowledge (some of those "how do I.." questions can get a bit complex, even from beginners).
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PÃ¡draic Brady has a quick update today pertaining to the PHPSecInfo project - a new manual (currently in development).   I'll keep adding to it over the days, weeks and months ahead. The current form is going to be mainly a draft. When it's done, I'll go through it and do some serious editing. Next priority is getting in the material on actually using and implementing PHPSpec...   You can find the manual at http://dev.phpspec.org/manual/ with quite a bit of content already filled out. Topics currently covered include installation guides, your "first steps", testing the code and some examples of it in use.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted a review of Theo Schlossnagle's book from the Developer's Library series "Scalable Internet Architectures".   I had the pleasure of meeting Theo Schlossnagle at OSCON 2006. He gave me 30 minutes to peek inside his brain and do an interview. 30 minutes just was not enough time. So when I received his latest book in the mail I was excited. Finally a chance to get more in-depth on some of the topics we covered. I've taken the time to collect my thoughts for you here so you can decide whether this book is a good one for you.   Cal talks about how he hated the book (from a reviewer's perspective, not a developer), the contents of the book, and his personal favorite section - "Distributed Databases are Easy, Just Read the Fine Print". His only critism is that the book seems to come across in a "demanding" tone (misunderstood by those that don't know Theo's style as just being matter of fact).
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By Anonymous  ITI Releases New Edition of Extreme Searcher  Information Today, Inc. published The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher, second edition (ISBN: 978-0-910965-76-7, 360 pp., $24.95) by Randolph (Ran) Hock.
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Daily Blog Tips has put together a list of 30 traffic generation ideas as compiled from 30 different bloggers.  Of course, you don&#8217;t actually have to be a blogger to take advantage of some of these ideas, such as participating in the comments of other blogs which are read within your industry, article distribution and [...]
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Also: Seeking readers via online 'book trailer'. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Site Offer Save 30% on comprehensive Fedora guides
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By Marilyn Miller, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Dec. 15--You can learn a lot about the Akron area in five minutes and 50 seconds.
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Nikon leads SLR market in Japan...gaming the Creative Commons...new geotagging tech...30-minute Olympus E-3 video...Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 3...Microsoft Popfly video humor
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Mikkel Aaland's guide to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is good for newbies and beyond--but you'd better act fast if you're interested in a book on the software.