For those of you interested in such things, here’s an update on my forthcoming books for 2015-2016 (spoiler alert: they’re all revisions of existing books).
First up is the second edition of " The Yii Book" (self-published), for version 2 of the framework. I’m not providing an estimate of when that’ll be completed, but I’m making OK progress so far. I currently plan to release the book in three updates of about 8 chapters each.
Second, I’ll be doing the second edition of " Modern JavaScript: Develop and Design" (Peachpit Press). This is slated to be published by the end of the year (i.e., in 2015). I’ll post a revised table of contents in time, but the primary goals are to clean up anything not great in the first edition and to update/expand Part 3, Next Steps. Specifically I’m going to remove the discussion of the YUI framework (RIP), expand coverage of jQuery and jQuery-related things. Do more with the advanced material, and talk about the Node Package Manager, Grunt, and Bower.
Third and fourth, in 2016, I’ll be writing the fifth editions of " PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide" and " PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide". I don’t know in which order I’ll be doing these, but both should be published in 2016. Both will be updated for PHP 7.
I continue to concurrently work 30-35 hours/week for Stripe (and don’t expect that to change), so I don’t imagine I’ll do much of anything else for the next two years. And then I’m never writing another book again. I’m kidding, but I’m going to need a serious break from writing by the end of 2016.
As always, thanks to everyone for your interest in what I say (er, write) and do! And, especially for reading my books!