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“How to Become a Web Developer” Unedited Video

December 17, 2012

Ernie and Matt over at Boston PHP have already managed to post the unedited video from my “How to Become a Web Developer” presentation given on December 12, 2012. You can find it on Vimeo. I’ve not looked at it myself yet (and am not planning on it), but Matt said that my part begins at about the 3 minute mark. In a couple of weeks, perhaps after the holidays, the edited video will be posted, which will be a combination of the video and the slides together. My sincerest thanks to Matt and everyone at Boston PHP for hosting me, and to Ernie for handling the video.

Also, I had promised (in the presentation) and do promise (in the video) a page of resources to go with the material. I’m working on that now, but it’s a bit more work than I expected, so let’s plan on that going live on my Web site on Wednesday, December 19th. Thanks!

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“How to Become a Web Developer” Slides

December 14, 2012

I’ve posted my slides from my “How to Become a Web Developer” presentation at SpeakerDeck. This presentation was created for the Boston PHP user group, and presented on December 12, 2012.

The presentation WAS recorded, and I’ll post a link to that once I know what it is. There’s also a page of related resources that I need to create, which I hope to do over the weekend.

My thanks to everyone for coming out, and to those others of you interested in this.

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$9.99 eBook Deal on “PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide”

December 7, 2012

My publisher, Peachpit Press, has a 68% sale price on the eBook of my “PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide” this week. This is my beginner’s guide to programming with PHP, intended for those without any programming experience. This is the fourth edition, which came out last year. The sale price is good until the end of day tomorrow (Saturday, December 8th, PST).

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Status on “The Yii Book”, Initial Thoughts on Self-Publishing

December 3, 2012

I haven’t written much about my book on the Yii framework on this blog in a while, so it’s high time for an update. As you may know, as of October 30, 2012, I began selling a self-published book titled, simply enough, “The Yii Book”. I’m selling the book in electronic formats—ePub, mobi, and PDF—to begin, and I’m selling it as I write it. I’ve been wanting to write a book about this excellent framework for some time, and thought such a book would be a good candidate for self-publishing, which I feel is an interesting little experiment.

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Recreating “Knowledge is Power” Using Frameworks

November 30, 2012

A reader of my “Effortless E-commerce with PHP and MySQL” book took the time to recreate the first example in the book, called “Knowledge is Power”, using frameworks.

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