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LinuxFan
Posted Tue Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2012
The author give an practical overview of the both technologies working together , concerning the fact that MongoDB is pretty new on the web database market compared with well known technologies like MySQL for web site building , this book can help to a variety of web profesionals to discover the NoSQL database advantages with MongoDB. There is a good amount
of practical examples with explanations covering MongoDB installation/config/admin ,session management , queries ,MapReduce etc. I highly recommend to people willing to understand fast the main concepts in building MongoDB driven web sites.
Alex_PK
Posted Sun Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2012
Disclaimer: I received the book from Packt Publishing to review it. I tried hard to be objective. General review In a word: excellent. But it can be improved. If I recall correctly, this is the first book about integrating PHP and MongoDB. The writing style is easy and most concepts are clearly explained. Some dark spots remain in the functional programming concepts in the map-reduce dedicated chapter. A deeper explanation could have helped. Every chapter sports various code examples and quizzes scattered through the books help recalling just-read concepts. Maybe they are a little too few. Solutions to the quizzes are in the appendix. Every chapter also has "call to actions" (without solutions, naturally) inviting the users to implement solutions based on explained concepts. My preferred part of the books are the examples: the code is presented full and complete, and only after that, you can read the explanation, with snippets taken from it. You can have a full view of the code and analyse it by yourself, or read the description snippet by snippet. Most other technical manuals split the code, or fill it with comments, making it nearly unreadable. The book style appears to shift a little away from classical technical manual, reminding academic books. Sometimes it seems (often rightly) there is much more behind some functionalities and that the book teaches only the basic usage. In some cases it is clearly written (including a link) that you can deepen your understanding reading online articles. Some minor typos, like array fields defined by : (as in javascript) instead of => in PHP code, or missing quotes in array indexes, are easily spotted and don't lower the quality.
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