Interesting post, David. Thanks for sharing the experience.
>For the PHP part, I just took a quick trip to the local Barnes and Nobel, got a cup of coffee from the Starbucks there, and spent about 2 hours skimming a few PHP books before deciding on one to buy.
Which book did you decide on? Some time ago I went with 'PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites' by Larry Ullman, mostly because I like the Visual QuickPro series it's part of. But I really haven't had to rely on it much because I don't yet have a paying contract that requires these tools, although I think it's only a matter of time.
>...My take is this: Once you've been around the block a few times in application development and understand the concepts and architectural choices (especially with web development), it all boils down to a few trade-offs and different syntax.
You're absolutely right. "Concepts is concepts, and code is code."
>So, does this mean that I should expect to be run out of town now?
Nah. Just don't wear a penquin pin to Advisor DevCon. < s >
Rick Borup, MCSD
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see recursion.