Just a quick update on the status of " The Yii Book" (the project that never ends)…

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.

The good people behind the Northeast PHP conference (starting next Friday, August 16th!) have recently posted two videos of interviews with conference presenters. And one of them is me.

Tomorrow night, Thursday, August 1, at 7:30PM ET, I’ll be doing a live online interview with Matt Murphy of the Boston PHP group. In the interview, I’ll preview the three presentations I’ll be given at the Northeast PHP conference in Boston on August 17th and 18th. The plan is to broadcast the interview live (via Google Hangouts On Air, I think). If this all works, I’ll be able to answer questions sent to @nephp or @larryullman. For more information and details (to be determined), watch this page or @nephp, @bostonphp, and @larryullman.

Oh, and if you haven’t bought your ticket for Northeast PHP yet, what are you waiting for?

In this edition…

• About This Newsletter
• What Are You Thinking? => On Stripe, and Joining Stripe
• On the Web => Stripe
• Q&A => How does Stripe compare to X?
• Q&A => How did you get the job?
• Q&A => What will you be doing at Stripe?
• What is Larry Thinking? => On Joining Stripe
• Q&A => How will joining Stripe impact your other work?
• Larry Ullman’s Book News => “The Yii Book” and “Effortless E-commerce with PHP and MySQL (2nd ed)”

The CDbCriteria class let’s you customize queries through an object. The first thing you should do to become more comfortable with Active Record when using the Yii framework is master usage of CDbCriteria.

This is an excerpt from Chapter 8, “Working with Databases,” of " The Yii Book".