"Richard Davey" a écrit 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
