Hello Nadim, Friday, July 1, 2005, 7:23:44 AM, you wrote:
NA> Two PHP magazines available are: NA> - php|arch (www.phparch.com) NA> - phpMag (www.php-mag.net) NA> Want to subscribe to one of these 2. Please help me decide by sending your NA> comments on these 2 mags. They're both good. I only read the PDF version of php|a, which is much cheaper and lets me print out only the pages I want to scribble notes on. php mag is nicely laid out and the content quality is as high as php|a, but it's pretty expensive. Why not just buy a couple of issues of each and see which you prefer? On the topic of PHP Magazines, they are maturing quite a lot but still suffer badly from coming across more as a collection of un-related articles written by developers about their latest projects. Because all the contributions come in from across the world, there's very little consistency either in writing style or theme of content each issue, and sometimes authors whose native language isn't English create works that are harder to read. They're both a great read and I appreciate nearly all of the articles in them, and the people who've spent the time writing them. The disjointed nature of the content isn't the authors fault, it's just the way they are edited at the moment. Regular columns (such as Security Corner in php|a or Guru Speak in php-mag) are helping to address this, but what you won't find in them are all the authors working together to address a specific topic. For example in most development magazines I read they'll often have a theme for the issue, i.e. security, and then the articles will be centered around that theme from differing levels of complexity and scope. I am sure the current crop of PHP magazines will migrate towards something more coherent in structure as time goes on (and their circulations increase), rather than feeling like a grab-bag of non-specific PHP goodies as they do today. Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." - Isaac Asimov -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
