When it comes to running a business, a lot of the discussion and effort goes towards getting new clients. Getting new clients is important, of course, especially when you’re just getting started, but I believe that many business and people don’t focus enough on the clients they already have. As happy as you are when you get a new project and client, how long is it before your eyes start to wander to that next possible job? This is natural, and certainly I’ve been guilty of it myself. But I would argue that you should put at least as much thought and effort into treating your current clients right as you put into getting new clients. Let’s look at the why’s and how’s…
Continue Reading...Last week, the first public preview of version 2 of the Yii framework was announced. Qiang and the entire team have been working very hard, and this is a great milestone to reach. The code is available on Github, and there’s a whole forum dedicated to feedback and design discussions. Input from the Yii community is actively encouraged. All that being said, understand that Yii 2 is not nearly ready for production uses yet. Many bugs will undoubtedly be found, and other changes to the framework’s design are inevitable, too.
Besides mentioning this exciting news, I also wanted to explain how I expect this impacts my self-published book on the Yii framework…
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A couple weeks ago, I posted a link to the Nettuts+ article “HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know – Part 1” by Pavan Podila. That was the first part of a two-part article, covering what every Web developer ought to know about the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. That article explained the fundamentals of HTTP, and is something that that truly every Web developer should read. Nettuts+ just posted Part 2. In this article, Podila goes into…
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I’m working on Part 3 of “The Yii Book”, and have made reference to the fact that I’ve been working on Chapter 15, “Internationalization,” and Chapter 16, “Leaving the Browser.” These are not the original chapters, per the first table of contents. Here, then, is an updated table of contents. These are still subject to change, but considering there’s not that much of the book left, there probably won’t be any dramatic changes.
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Pádraic Brady just posted “20 Point List For Preventing Cross-Site Scripting In PHP”, a thorough list of steps you should take when developing a Web site to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Arguably, it would have been useful to include the explanations for some of these, but then the post could have been too long. In any case, it’s worth a quick read. I particularly like the following:
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