Packt Publishing recently sent me a review copy of “WordPress 2.7 Cookbook.” I’m a huge fan of the cookbook line; they’re similar to a huge string of quick tips. So if you don’t have time to read for an hour straight, you can always pick up a web dev cookbook and learn a few neat techniques within minutes.

WordPress 2.7 Cookbook is no different, and though it’s more of a quick reference book, rather than one that you would traditionally read front-to-back, I still found myself devouring the pages within a day or so.

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Cost: Free
Found Via: David Ferguson

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Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache – Free 191 Page Preview

Learn about everything you’ll need to build and maintain your Linux servers, and to deploy Web applications to them.

Whether you’re planning on running Linux at home, or on a leased Web Server, this book will walk you step-by-step through all of the common administration tasks, from managing traffic reporting to log-file rotation. This guide even includes step-by-step instructions on installing Linux (Fedora 4), Apache 2.0, PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1 on a home or office development server, so you can test all of your applications before rolling them out.

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Found Via: http://ekinertac.com/

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Found Via: Playground.ebiene.de

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The Art & Science of JavaScript – Free 100 Page Preview

For intermediate JavaScript developers who want to take their JavaScript skills to the next level without sacrificing web accessibility or best practice.

If you’ve never written a line of JavaScript before, this probably isn’t the right book for you—some of the logic in the later chapters can get a little hairy. If you have only a small amount of experience with JavaScript, but are comfortable enough programming in another language such as PHP or Java, you’ll be just fine—SitePoint will hold your hand along the way, and all of the code is available for you to download and experiment with on your own. And if you’re an experienced JavaScript developer, they would be very, very surprised if you didn’t learn a thing or two. In fact, if you only learn a thing or two, you should contact them at SitePoint—they may have a book project for you to tackle!

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The PHP Anthology – Free 207 Page Preview

A compilation of the best solutions provided to common PHP questions.

The PHP Anthology will save you time, and eliminate the frustration of completing PHP tasks, with a comprehensive collection of ready-to-use solutions. If you’re building web applications with PHP you’ll never let this book out of your site!

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Those of you who follow us on Twitter might be aware that I’ve recently become smitten with Netbeans. Personally, when coding, I prefer to use a dark theme. It’s less harsh on my eyes. Unfortunately, there simply aren’t many available for Netbeans. After an hour or so of searching, I was able to find exactly one theme — which was mostly specific to Ruby. So, I took it upon myself to convert the popular Twilight theme to Netbeans/PHP!

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Cost: Free, links back
Found Via: http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyPhoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/

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This free app should be great for any newsletter management needs. Copy this one file onto your site, and you’re ready to send and archive all newsletters, manage e-mail addresses and categories, and configure a template for your e-mails. If needed, the source code is well documented!

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