Christopher Jones' Blog: New AJAX & PHP Book from Oracle Press
Christopher Jones has a quick post pointing out a new PHP and Oracle-related book from McGraw-Hill (written by Lee Barney and Michael McLaughlin covering web development with Oracle, PHP and Ajax:
The book looks at how to build "faster, lighter and more responsive Web applications while reducing code support and creation time". There's chapters on scalability, the basics of Ajax, PDO and multimodel communications.
The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
