Not good. Only a third of the way through chapter 2, yes, chapter TWO and I'm seriously considering retiring this book. Things had not been working as they ought to (as he said they would) until I got my hands DIRTY. Dirty as in "retro-fitting" my server to use an OLD version of the Zend framework. Only then did things "start" to work. This author simply moves TOO FAST even for an intermediate programmer. Also, there are NO "workarounds" for common problems a user may run into. It's not good for difficult subjects like ZEND.