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2nd April2005

When: 10:30 – 17:00, Saturday 2nd April 2005

Where: SeminarRoom1, Building 59 (Zepler), Department of Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.

Who was there

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PHP

Question was “Can anyone recommend a good PHP book?”

I have used both web sites and books over the past 4 years as I learned PHP.

The php website uk.php.net (for the UK mirror) is excellent, especially the user comments, although beware that a number of user comments and tips are wrong. For that reason, it is worthwhile getting a good PHP book too, to cross reference other material. I have a number of books on PHP, but probably a good one to start with is the PHP Bible, published by Wiley. It also has specific focus [continued…]

Boot Log

Put the line

BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes

in /etc/default/bootlogd, and Debian will log the output of all its init scripts on startup. That’s all.