Packt Publishing started the 2010 Open Source Awards. In 2009 WordPress won the yearly Open Source Awards Award in what was a very close contest with MODx and SilverStripe. The 2010 Award will feature a prize fund of $24,000 with several new categories introduced. While the Open Source CMS Award category will continue to recognize […]
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OpenX Ad Server: Beginner`s Guide by Packt Publishing Review
This is my review of the book “OpenX Ad Server: Beginner`s Guide” written by Murat Yilmaz and published by Packt Publishing (Open Source). OpenX is an open-source PHP/MySQL based advertisement platform which supports unlimited advertisers, campaigns, banners, zones and websites. You can use OpenX to structurize the advertisement on one or multiple sites with one […]
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CodeIgniter 1.7 by Packt Publishing review
Pack Publishing asked me to do a review of their “CodeIgniter 1.7” book. Since I’m familiar with Packt Publishing and books (not with reviewing) I said I’ll give it a go. This book is for PHP programmers who are familiar or unfamiliar with model-view-controller framework CodeIgniter. After reading this book you should be able to […]
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jQuery for Designers Beginner’s Guide review
You are now reading my review of the recently published book “jQuery for Designers: Beginner’s Guide published” by Packt Publishing. What`s the book about? jQuery is a JavaScript library that makes daily routines in JavaScript easier. jQuery is provided under the MIT and GPL licenses. At the moment of writing this review, version 1.7.2 is […]
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Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook review
As the title might suggest, this book is a cookbook about Inkscape version 0.48 written for illustrators. This book is published by Packt Publishing and falls in the categories: open-source, graphics, illustration, SVG and is one of Packt’s cookbook series. As a fellow Inkscape-newbie and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) enthusiast I will be reviewing this […]