I have been poring through the responses, working them in to the book project, and there’s some really great stuff in there.  I got re-energized during the past two weeks, which has given me more oomph to get this book out.  I’d wanted to have it available for my OSCON presentation, but I don’t think [...]

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Hello all!
It’s taking longer than I thought to parse through all the great responses to the survey.  There were over 30 detailed responses, and it’s proving to be more time consuming than I estimated to go through each one and make useful sense out of all of these.  I haven’t dropped this project, and will [...]

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I’ve put together the first draft of the survey/interview questions.  I was initially planning on doing all face to face (or skype to skype) interviews with people, but I think time constraints are going to make that very difficult.  To get around that, I’m putting out the invitation to the PHP community to participate in [...]

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I’ve spent the last couple days revisiting what I have since I’d put the PHP job book project on hold last year, and it’s really - well, it’s better than I remembered, which is encouraging.  Although I would not say I’m a professional writer, I think like many writers, I may be my own worst [...]

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I’ve been working on and off (mostly off!) for a long time putting together a book aimed at the PHP job hunter. I’ve received a lot of encouraging response from people about the idea of the book, and I’ve recently rekindled the book project.
If you’re interested in learning more about the project, please drop [...]

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