Rails for PHP Developers by Derek Devries

Rails for PHP Developers by Derek Devries

Explores Ruby through parallel code examples that illustrate the differences between the languages, and help you understand the Ruby idioms and how they differ from popular PHP code and style. This book then helps you learn the Rails framework by building a complete application, starting from the home page through to a finished product.

Derek DeVries has an education in fine arts and a strong background as a web application developer. As vice president of design for Maintainable Software, Derek leads design, branding, and user experience for the company. He is also a Zend Certified PHP Engineer with over five years experience leading PHP development teams at Xerox, Amici LLC, and several startup companies. Derek has worked on a number of Ruby on Rails products in his current position and in his spare time develops SportSpyder.com, a Rails application for finding the best new sports articles on the web.Mike Naberezny is the founder of Maintainable Software, a software development company in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has over ten years software engineering experience working with companies such as Flextronics and Instrumentation Engineering. Mike's PHP experience includes holding a senior position at Zend Technologies, and he sits on the Zend PHP Education Advisory Board. Mike heads engineering at Maintainable, where he has developed and deployed a number of Rails applications. He is a regular speaker at software conferences and contributes to several open source projects.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781934356043
ISBN 10	1934356042
Title	Rails for PHP Developers
Author	Derek Devries
Series	Pragmatic Programmers Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Pragmatic Programmers
Year published	2008-03-18
Number of pages	430
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