Re: How to get an unix programmer started on web programming?

Jacob Atzen wrote: 
On 2005-08-31, Volker Hetzer <volker.hetzer@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Now, I can do oracle no problem but I'm pretty wet behind the ears about
everything else.
What books could you recommend to me so that I can learn:
- what all this apache stuff is about, the mod_*

You don't really need to know a whole lot about apache or mod_* until
you start doing really advanced stuff. PHP will get you very far on
itself.

Ok.

- what html or xml looks like, what a css and a dtd is and what I need
it for

HTML/CSS is of course imperative. XML may be depending on your
application. IMHO XML is mostly suited for getting disparate systems to
talk to eachother and usually not very interesting internally in a
system.

I think I'll find something.

You might want to checkout this review on slashdot:

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/16/0434205&tid=169&tid=6 
Looks good to me. I haven't had much use of that OOP stoff over the last eight years.

Lots of Thanks!
Volker
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