Today was a great day of learning at the Web Directions North conference in Vancouver, BC. This 2-day event (excluding workshop days, which I did not attend) is being held at the Hyatt on Burrard St., one of the better hotel conference venues I've experienced.
The day kicked off with a keynote by Jeffrey Zeldman, one […]

Any self-respective web developer is well-aware of the achievements of 37signals, creators of Basecamp and the extremely popular Ruby on Rails development framework. Having already read and thoroughly enjoyed their web application development manifesto, Getting Real, I was excited to get my hands on 37signalers Matthew Linderman's and Jason Fried's 2004 book on web usability, […]

Apress is another publisher that has been putting out some excellent books focused on open source technologies in recent years. Last year's much needed entry to the world of Drupal development is no exception. Pro Drupal Development by John K. VanDyk and Matt Westgate covers the popular open source content management framework with a […]

Professional Web APIs with PHP by Paul Reinheimer is a book that I first got a glimpse of at the Vancouver PHP Conference last spring. Alas, I didn't have any cash on me to pick it up, but I promised Paul that I would buy it through his website so he could pick up the […]