Now that it's been announced by Manning, I think I can talk a little more about the project that's been taking up most of my spare time!
Zend Framework in Action is a collaboration between myself and Nick Lo. We are still writing, but Chapter 1 is available for you to download and see where we are heading with the book. Manning has an early access program where you can get access to pre-production PDFs of each chapter if you can't wait. As a bonus for signing up early, you get to tell us what's wrong (and what's right!) before the prose is committed to the printed page so we can fix it and you'll get a better final book.
In order to set expectations, I should probably point out that Zend Framework in Action is a tutorial book intended to show how to use the components of the framework together within "real world" projects. Each component is dealt with in a "what is it?", "why use it?", "how do you use it?", "let's use it in the real world" manner. It's not an advanced exposition of each component as that would take many books!
So far, I've learnt that writing a book is considerably different (and much harder!) than writing a tutorial. Having help from the excellent people at Manning has eased the transition from writing when I feel like it to sitting down and writing daily. I still need to work out how to write good quality prose at a decent pace though!
September 13th, 2007 at 07:13 #
I'm sure it'll be a great book.
Of course, if you feel the need to give away a free copy..... *cough*
:)
(Probable typo on page 9 - 'registerAuthoload()' - in the free chapter, which reads very well so far).
September 13th, 2007 at 08:41 #
Yes!
I can't wait !
thank you in advance for your work, I'm sure i'll buy your book.
see you on #zftalk!
September 13th, 2007 at 16:47 #
Sound's like a big thing! Hope You'll made it. Greets!
September 13th, 2007 at 20:24 #
Glad to hear it's coming along fine. Good luck!
September 14th, 2007 at 04:16 #
First the getting started tutorial, then a book...
This is great! This is just what the ZF community needs. I hope that there will be a copy in my local bookstore. It's so hard to find specific titles here in the Philippines! :-(
Thanks again akrabat!
September 14th, 2007 at 06:12 #
Great news!
Sure that will be a nice book to read.
Thx,
Felipe
September 14th, 2007 at 08:22 #
Thanks guys!
Rob...
September 14th, 2007 at 09:36 #
As a professional PHP developer, testing the water with ZF, I'm really looking forward to getting a copy of this book to lessen the gradient of the learning curve. The first chapter looks great. There is a slight grammatical error on page 15 which reads "...in they way you use all the components...".
Cheers.
September 18th, 2007 at 23:20 #
great idea! thanks for your time
September 20th, 2007 at 08:37 #
Will there be a sample application implementing Google Maps in Zend Framework? Thanks!+
September 27th, 2007 at 05:08 #
Will there be a section on TDD (test driven developmet), unit testing in ur book?
September 28th, 2007 at 08:39 #
Kiran,
TDD is not a focus of the book, though we do talk a little about unit testing.
Regards,
Rob...
October 10th, 2007 at 11:14 #
Thanks, Rob! I appreciate your contribution. Please don't stop! :)
November 10th, 2007 at 01:59 #
Wow, great. Can't wait for.
Thanks for all!
November 20th, 2007 at 08:48 #
There is a topic in your book called 'What you (should) already know?' Plz tell what I should already know if I want to start learning from your book...
Coz till the time book is released I will be ready to start with it.
November 20th, 2007 at 08:56 #
hi Kiran,
That chapter covers basic PHP concepts such as classes, abstract classes and interfaces.
Regards,
Rob...