100% done

I’m happy to announce that my latest book “Advanced Web Application Architecture” is now complete. With ~390 pages it has become a well-rounded book full of useful design patterns and architectural principles built around the notion of object-pure code, that will help you create decoupled applications that are testable by definition, and support a domain-first approach to software development.

Use this link to get 10% off the price: https://leanpub.com/web-application-architecture/c/RELEASE_DAY

While Advanced Web Application Architecture is still a work in progress, I decided to release another project in the meantime: a book for beginning PHP developers called PHP for the Web.

Of course, there are PHP books for beginners, but most of them aren’t very concise. They cover many related topics like relational databases, CLI applications, and sending emails. I wanted to write a book that only shows what makes PHP so special when it comes to web development.

In the Epilogue of the Object Design Style Guide, I started happily outlining some of the architectural patterns I’ve been using for several years now. I wanted to give some kind of an overview of how the overall design of your application would improve if you apply the object-design rules in that book. I soon realized that an Epilogue was not enough to cover all the details, or to communicate the ideas in such a way that they would be applicable in everyday projects. And so a new book project began…