[authorfly]

Yes - This book alongside one on AJAX (oh the days of ready state). I still had databases named mismatch_<x> up until about 2014 IIRC!

The book was a perfect example of frictionless starting to code, jumping over hurdles, skipping wholistic education (e.g. all column types/more than select, update, insert in MySQL) for getting something that worked simply and linearly.

And funny examples that stuck in memory (decades later as it turns out..)... like a dating app that matches by opposites between "opposites attract".

Still got anything running based on it?