This week we have two new books to review, the first from Packt Publishing titled PHP web 2.0 Mashup projects and written by Shu-Wai Chow. The book is just 6 chapters and 283 pages, and include an introductin to create practical mashups in PHP. If you are new to web 2.0 and mashups, you will learn how to grab and mix data from different sources such Google maps, Flickr, Amazon, Youtube, MSN search, Yahoo!, Last.fm, and 411Sync.com.

You will get more familiar with web services and APIs such AWS, Internet UPC database, Microsoft Live Search API, Yahoo! Web API, ... A new experience to gain a thorough understanding of mashup fundamentals. The only problem is that API are frequently updated so you could be surprised to see your code not working anymore. Try to stay updated with the original documentation for each API you use.

The second title for this week is a framework that started gaining in importance from python users in the last two years : django. The definitive guide to Django, web development done right, is a book published by Apress and written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss. In about 450 pages and 20 chapters, the book aim to be your reference for the Django Framework and provide answers for advanced topics. This book is also available online for free at http://www.djangobook.com/.

The book cover almost all the necessary that you need from getting started to deploying your django project on server, you can easily become a django expert and be able to use this great framework on your web 2.0 projects.

Next week we'll have a very special book for Ajax magazine readers. Stay tuned !