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A new Cocoa book, Cocoa Programming, is shipping. Not sure what the deal is with the anemone on the cover though. Authors Scott Anguish, Erik Buck, and Don Yacktman are serious long-time Cocoa hackers, and the aspiring Cocoa jedi would be foolish to ignore their tome.

Jodi and I made a run to the Phoenix Central Library today. I came home with Web Application Development with PHP 4.0, and Cryptonomicon.

Miscellaneous h4xx0r note: PHP has a mutli-level break which I had not seen before in a language. Used normally, break will exit the current loop (while, for, etc). Using the optional integer argument:

break n will break you out of as many nested loops as specified. For example:

 10 /* Using the optional argument. */
 11 $i = 0;
 12 while ( ++$i ) {
 13     switch ( $i ) {
 14     case 5:
 15         echo "At 5
";
 16         break 1;  /* Exit only the switch. */
 17     case 10:
 18         echo "At 10; quitting
\n";
 19         break 2;  /* Exit the switch and the while. */
 20     default:
 21         break;
 22     }
 23 } 

Found here.

Although I got the web application book for PHP, I’m starting with the online PHP Manual. It’s probably the best step-by-step guide to a new language I’ve ever seen.