For those wondering about the status of his book, "Zend Framework: Survive The Deep End", Padraic Brady has posted an update of where he's at.

Since the rumor mill has been active a while, I confirm two chapters of the book will be released this week. [...] To kick off a new spell of book updates, the next Chapter will be "A Simple Hello World Example", with an Appendix titled "Virtual Hosts On Apache 2". The following Chapter approximately one week later will be an introduction to the application to be built for most of the first half of the book.

He notes that, while normal print books usually have schedules, self-publishing is a bit more flexible. He does want to assure the readers of the book that work is actively being done and the chapters will keep coming.

Padraic Brady has an update about his "Zend Framework: Survive the Deep End" book he's been self-publishing on his site including a change to his current donation set up.

In experimenting with making money (so I can buy that Macbook Pro) I'll be adding some changes to how donations work. One main change is that while the current PDF file for the existing chapters will remain available (including future updates), PDF files covering the entire book to date will only be available to those who donate.

The online HTML-only version of the chapters will always be free of charge, but the PDFs (from here on out) will be for those who donate. He is also considering adding screencasts to the series to provide a bit more interactive feel to the whole Zend Framework topic.

From the JSLabs blog today comes a helpful tip for those running a WordPress blog that might be taking a beating - like from being linked on digg.

This is usually caused by a large amount of traffic that is overloading your database (because each page that is loaded requires a query or multiple queries). A great way to not only improve the speed of your entire blog, but help prevent the above error from occurring is to install a plugin called WP-Cache.

The WP-Cache plugin automatically caches your pages without the need to install any outside methods. The post steps through how to get it installed and how to

From the JSLabs blog today comes a helpful tip for those running a WordPress blog that might be taking a beating - like from being linked on digg.

This is usually caused by a large amount of traffic that is overloading your database (because each page that is loaded requires a query or multiple queries). A great way to not only improve the speed of your entire blog, but help prevent the above error from occurring is to install a plugin called WP-Cache.

The WP-Cache plugin automatically caches your pages without the need to install any outside methods. The post steps through how to get it installed and how to