I have a few non-hobby projects I need to devote my time to, so I'm going to focus on those and get them out of the way. Consequently, Cripes! is going to be a little sluggish for the next week or so.

Books

I got three new books today! No, the GameDev.net book will get here Thursday, but I went to Borders and got some really good programming books. The first, Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL, is really, really in depth, covering a variety of pertinent subjects such as classes in PHP (which I've been interested in) and security. I looked at pretty much every PHP book at the store, and this book - though I've only read one chapter right now - looked a lot better than the rest.

The next book I got was Head First: Design Patterns. I wanted a book on design patterns, and I like the Head First series... though it helped that there weren't any other design pattern books, heh. The third book is Sams Teach Yourself Ajax, &#106avascript and PHP</i>, which I got for the same reasons I got book number one: web development. I've never, ever done anything with Ajax or &#106avascript, so I don't feel bad getting a more basic volume.<br><br><h2>MusicShake</h2><br>I've done three other tracks using the MusicShake software since I last posted! I can't seem to extend them very far over two minutes, but I kind of like leaving them short, so...<br><ol><li><a href="http://eng.musicshake.com/Listen/Song/SongContent/?CONTEST_NUM=38269">Atmosphere (01:47)</a></li><br><li><a href="http://eng.musicshake.com/Listen/Song/SongContent/?CONTEST_NUM=38313">Flight Over the Ocean (02:29)</a> -- Please excuse the corny title!</li><br><li><a href="http://eng.musicshake.com/Listen/Song/SongContent/?CONTEST_NUM=38355">Escape Velocity (02:03)</a></li><br><li><a href="http://eng.musicshake.com/Listen/Song/SongContent/?CONTEST_NUM=38428">Crystal Music Box (01:47)</a></li></ol><br>Enjoy! [smile] And comments wouldn't hurt either. [wink]<br>~Jonathan<div> </div>