This particular book was just finished two or three years ago, although it builds upon materials written in the 1990's. It seems his attachment to AOLServer an

This particular book was just finished two or three years ago, although it builds upon materials written in the 1990's. It seems his attachment to AOLServer and Oracle are because they still work, and he personally has no reason to switch. Most of what I know about web programming I learned from Philip, though I have had only brief exposure to AOLServer and Oracle. What he's teaching transcends particular technologies, and it's fairly straightforward to apply it to, say, Apache+Python and PostGreSQL.