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Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
by Philip Greenspun

Paperback - 608 pages (April 1999)
This is a web publishing book for programmers. If you're a programmer you'll probably love it, either in spite of the sarcastic humor or perhaps because of it. Certainly it is a funny, wonderful book, with many uncaptioned photos, some of which are actually relevant to the text.

The best part isn't the humor, though, it's Philip Greenspun's positive, ebullient outlook. Well, okay, the best part is actually how he lays out completely and convincingly the rationale for the working Arsdigita Community System he has built, on the foundation of Unix, AOLserver, and the Oracle database.

This book is over 600 pages long, and I learned something on every page.Not only that, this book makes me happy. But then I'm a programmer and I like to read code and hear funny horror stories about things not working, and then working well later on. Sometimes much later on.

If you're interested, you might spin over to amazon.com and read a couple of the reviews.

If you can't wait to get the book, bop over to www.photo.net and read it all online. Hard to believe (at least at the time of writing), I know, but true, true, true.