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Lot of useful information in this one about publishing a book for kindle.. I wonder how many of us here at hn have self published something this way?

Try youlookgoodtogether.com. It's crowdsourced matchmaking...very interesting idea if I do say so myself.

Grab a free copy, some interesting stuff in there...

its for marketers...just explains VERY basic concepts...variables, if/then/else...things like that. Aimed at affiliate marketers who want to punch up their websites with a little PHP. I'd hardly call it a technical manual. And besides, I can explain things when I have reference material in front of me...but on the fly in an interview would be totally unable to.

Hm that's a good point, I never thought of it in those terms...

Ruby seemed pretty easy. I flew threw the codecademy class in a couple hours with no problems whatsoever. I never got around to playing with Rails tho...

Yeah, I hand code my php stuff.

Funny...I play the guitar but don't read much music :-p

I've done a lot of this...I run a blog at MarketingFool.com and have an insiders club at Insiders.MarketingFool.com where I teach people my affiliate marketing tactics and how to use PHP...I even released a book recently at Amazon called "PHP Programming for Affiliate Marketers" http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Programming-Affiliate-Marketers-eb...

It was a #1 best seller for a few hours in its category.

Been there, done that...ready for bigger challenges...

Very good points...yeah I'll start using it.

yeah I can fizzbuzz

thanks, got it..

Good points...yeah I should really start doing that.

weird...it's working on my end and the server says we're at 14% of available memory...

I don't want my code to be looked at though...it's proprietary. It powers the software that I sell to make a living...why would I spread it around? Though I get your general gist...

I've never understood GitHub...I just write code in notepad and then sftp it into my server to deploy...why go through github?

I've got a shelf of those books...I've always used them.

Thanks, that's really helpful, I'll look into some open source projects.

yeah, this is just my personal blog...it's not geared up for the heavy hit of traffic from HN that I didn't expect to get...I've beefed it up a bit, it should be working now.

Thanks I'll check out that book...

I've done well for 16 years...it's time for a change.

I've built lots of stuff that doesn't suck. I'd still bomb a technical interview.

Yeah I've got a pretty long list of things I've built...software, web sites, etc.

Yeah, we're allocating more memory...didn't realize this would make it to front page HN...should be back up in a jiff....

Good tip, I'll look into that!

My girlfriends mom was going to buy one but immediately realized she should wait for the pro...and she's as non-technical as you can get.

Everyone is waiting for the pro version to come out...why buy this one?

Obviously it's a good idea for ANYONE to learn to code...but marketers should really make an effort. Even if they just pick up a little bit...enough to recognize what they're looking at...it can only help them.

because teaching people the basics like variables and if/else statements will lead to poorly built sites?? Everyone has to start somewhere.

how so?

Ah telescreens....