The second edition of my “Effortless E-commerce with PHP and MySQL” book is now at the printer, and the electronic version is already available. So, you may ask, what’s new in the 2nd edition? In this post, I’ll highlight additions and changes in the book, and in a subsequent post, I’ll put up the complete table of contents. (And, in the interim, I’ll be working to finish up another book that just won’t end!)
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Yeesh! So where am I behind, and by how much? Let me count the ways…
I haven’t put up a blog posting in almost a month
I haven’t updated the Yii book in two months (ugh!!!)
I haven’t sent out a newsletter in almost three months
But other than that…Oh, I haven’t exercised in four months (in the spring, I had started exercising daily, which I did successfully do for two months). So, where have I been?
On August 17, 2013, at the Northeast PHP conference in Boston, I gave a new presentation titled “How To Get There”. This was a motivational-like presentation, which is virgin territory for me, but I think it turned out well. In the talk, I recommend 21 behaviors and attitudes one should have in order to succeed, in order to achieve one’s goals. The tl;dr version comes down to this:
Be honest. Work hard. Never stop learning.
This is common sense, yes, but often it’s the things that should go without saying that most need to be said.
As I’m preparing for my three presentations at Northeast PHP in Boston next weekend (August 16th-18th), I’ve been reviewing some of the resources I have regarding public speaking. I thought I’d share three great posts on speaking at conferences.
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I am thrilled to say that I have accepted a position as a Support Engineer at Stripe. Here are the why’s and how’s of my decision.
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