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Posted by "Nadim Attari" on 07/01/05 16:36
"Richard Davey" a ιcrit dans le message
> 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.
Someone (Richard Lynch) advised me to subscribe to the PDF versions of both
magazines if i can afford.
I think it's a possibility !
>
> 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
Seems that i'll subscribe to both, PDF versions !!!
> 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
Best Regards and thanks,
Nadim Attari
Alienworkers.com
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