One aspect of the book is how it supports Git as the source code control system for developing PHP code under NetBeans. An entire chapter shows how to use Git from this vantage point. Perhaps some of you already use Perforce, CVS or Subversion. Then the text suggests that transitioning to Git will be fairly painless. The conceptual load is minimal, from the steps described in the chapter. Perhaps the biggest impedance is that you need to trust in the Git depot having a full copy of your code base. Other control systems let you designate a server that is your machine, on your premises. Yes, Git uses a remote depot. Which is a plus in case of a disaster at your location. But of course, it is the fact that your code is accessible to sysadmins at the Git data center that might cause heartburn. The chapter on Git covers all the necessary points about using it, in terms of the mechanics of using the commands and the user interface. Unfortunately, it fails to discuss the above issue about security. Taking it perhaps as a done deal that you have already made with yourself, where 'you' here can refer both to you as an individual and to your company. Of the rest of the text, it does demonstrate that the NetBeans development platform has been comprehensively built out. With extensive aid available to the developer. Of these, you might want to check out the PHP editor. Certainly, you can go hard core and just use a minimal text editor like vi or emacs. But the NetBeans package developers went much further. They made an editor optimised with windows for PHP. Having syntax highlighting for the keywords in PHP. But also more, like a one click way to go from where a function is referenced to the place in the code where the function is actually defined. Readers who also have used java in Eclipse will have seen such capabilities before. So it is reassuring that PHP has a similar mature environment.