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Larry Ullman
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Larry Ullman's personal blog at larryullman.com covers programming and writing. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Larry Ullman's books and tutorials on C, PHP and MySQL, plus Yii and MVC. Commenters recommend them to people learning those languages and frameworks.
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What Hacker News says?
I always like Larry Ullman's books, especially his PHP and MySQL one. When I was learning C, his book was really helpful: http://www.larryullman.com/books/c-programming-visual-quicks... C as a language is pretty simple to learn. Using C in practice is where things can be tricky when you need to dance with the compiler and work on low level systems where a datasheet is always open, and if you haven't had your "Pointe…
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on “C is 38 years old. K&R V2 is 22 years old. What's the best modern C book?”Submitted Review of “Technical Blogging” by Antonio Cangiano as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI'd suggest choosing one of the many MVC frameworks for PHP ( http://www.phpframeworks.com/ ) and reading that framework's tutorials and guides then getting to work on a real project. For example, there's a series of tutorials for Yii ( http://www.larryullman.com/series/learning-the-yii-framework... ) as well as an intro to the concepts behind the MVC pattern ( http://www.larryullman.com/2009/10/08/understanding-mvc…
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on “Ask HN: How to write great PHP code?”Submitted Review of “100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People” as a story · 2 points
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