Paul M. Jones | Books2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:0050% Off "Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP"2015-11-30T08:37:53-06:00For Black Friday/Cyber Monday, and the rest of this week, my books Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP and Solving the N+1 Problem in PHP are 50% off. If you've been waiting for a sale to get these books, now is your chance!...A New Book About The N+1 Problem, and an Update to MLAPHP2015-03-18T11:31:01-05:00I’ll have a new book finished and ready for you soon: Solving the N+1 Problem in PHP. Although I have written and spoken about the N+1 problem several times over the past few years, this book is an extended disstertation on the topic.
Describing th...How Ayn Rand Captured The Magic Of American Life2014-11-02T17:13:36-06:00Rand expressed the glory of human achievement. She tapped into the delight a human being ought to feel at watching another member of our species doing things superbly well. The scenes in âThe Fountainheadâ in which the hero, Howard Ro...Back On The Market!2014-08-01T08:49:02-05:00After a year spent writing my book, working on Aura, speaking at conferences and user groups, advising startups, and proposing new design patterns, I am back on the market.
I've been writing PHP code since 1999, and in that time I've been everything ...Literary Status Envy: “Peddle your angsty crap elsewhere, lit-fic wannabes! Let’s put SF back in the gutter where it belongs!”2014-07-31T01:15:03-05:00The victims of literary status envy resent the likes of David Weber, and their perceived inferiority to the Thomas Pynchons of the world; they think the SF field is broken and need to be fixed. When they transpose this resentment into the key of poli...Sci-Fi 1939 Retro Hugo Ballot2014-07-19T00:06:14-05:00Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis (The Bodley Head)
Galactic Patrol by E. E. Smith (Astounding Stories, February 1938)
The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White (Collins)
The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson (Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1938)..."Mists of Avalon" Author, Marion Zimmer Bradley, was a child abuser -- says her own daughter2014-06-20T13:54:27-05:00Marion Zimmer Bradley, celebrated science fiction and fantasy author, recipient of the, cofounder of the Society for Creative Anachronism, posthumous recipient of the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, has just been revealed by her own dau...Book Announcement: Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP2013-12-09T10:09:37-06:00There you are, working late for the second night this week. Everyone else in the office has gone home. Most of the lights are out. Yesterday it was trying to copy a feature over to a different section of the site, because marketing wanted their new c...D. H. Lawrence on Edgar Allan Poe2013-05-15T13:22:37-05:00This is just genius:
POE has no truck with Indians or Nature. He makes no bones about Red Brothers and Wigwams.
He is absolutely concerned with the disintegration-processes of his own psyche. As we have said, the rhythm of American art-activity is d...Why I Like Dick2013-05-07T22:55:37-05:00Consider the reality we're living in today. Schoolchildren kept in line by use of drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall. Technology that is as exasperating as it is necessary. Criminal syndicates operating at the speed of light from the other side of th...