Yeah... it's very addictive
The more I read, the more little lights go on in my head... "ahh so thats why that's like that" or "so that's what a curly brace does"
I can't wait to finish the book and start doing some examples and some of my own variations.

RE: Your CMS..
yeah, I saw that in your sig in a post I was reading... I visited the site and took a little look.
It sounds very interesting... I was thinking of downloading it and trying it if I had some time over the weekend.

I'm an avid user of CMS's and in particular Joomla!, but I'm always on the look out for a good CMS, something versatile that can perform as more than one type of site.
It's what got me into PHP and web design. Using and modifying CMS's to see how they worked. Now I want to develop my knowledge so that I can modify what I want my way or write what I want to suit my needs.
It's so much easier to get what you want when you can do it yourself.

I have spent waaaay too many hours in forums trying to solve problems or find that module that does what I want and hopefully someone has built it.

For ages I could read code perfectly and understand what it did, but for some reason, I could never write a line lol. Aparently I hear there are lots of people like this out there :/

Good luck with the CMS and hopefully I will get a chance to demo it over the weekend