Books

Rails for PHP Developers

Are you a PHP developer interested in the Ruby on Rails framework? Rails for PHP Developers kick-starts your Rails experience by guiding you through learning both Ruby and Rails from a PHP developer’s perspective. Written by developers with deep experience using PHP, Ruby, and Rails, this book leverages your existing knowledge of PHP to learn Rails application development quickly and effectively.

Advanced Rails Recipes

Advanced Rails Recipes is a collection of practical recipes for spicing up your web application without a lot of prep and cleanup. You’ll learn how the pros have solved the tough problems using the most up-to-date Rails techniques (including Rails 2.0 features) so you can deliver your stunning web app quicker and easier.

Mike Naberezny contributed a recipe named "Fail Early" that describes a strategy for ensuring that your application is never running on the wrong migration version.

PHP Cookbook

The PHP Cookbook is a collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for PHP programmers. The book contains a unique and extensive collection of best practices for everyday PHP programming dilemmas.

Mike Naberezny contributed an idea for using PHP stream wrappers to pre-process view templates.