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This was my first foray into teaching game development in Godot. Apress wanted the book to target the upcoming version of the engine, which meant I had to write most of the book while it was still in alpha. As you can imagine, there were many revisions as APIs stabilized.

The first edition of this book was the first book I wrote for a publisher. It sucked. So, when I got the chance to rewrite it (under the guise of a second edition), I jumped at the opportunity.

This is a comprehensive overview of the Masonite Python framework, enjoyed over the process of building an example application.

This is a comprehensive overview of the AdonisJs framework, enjoyed over the process of building an example application.

Writing this book was eye-opening. The cover was about making games, but it was just a sneaky way to teach folks how to use modern JavaScript to build useful stuff. For the first time, I mirrored every code example with a live CodePen. This allowed readers to open and tinker with the examples without a lot of copy & paste.

This old book was from a time before PHP didn't have strong typing and a million Composer plugins.

This old book is about building a CMS out of React components.