If you’ve got time to kill, or if you’d rather just not work, then check out .net Magazine‘s list of the top 20 Web conference talks of 2012. There’s a range of topcis covered and the slides or video for each is also provided. This one page is an easy and rewarding way to lose a day!
In conjunction with my “How to Become a Web Developer” presentation, given to the Boston PHP user group on December 12, 2012, I’ve composed this page of Web developer resources. Such lists can quickly become overwhelming, and therefore less useful, so in compiling it, I’ve tried to stick to resources that meet at least one of the following criteria:
– Are de facto standard resources
– Contain information not found elsewhere or not explained as well elsewhere
– Present a unique perspective
So while the Web is happily overrun with useful resources, those listed here are ones I considerable most notable. If you have your own recommendations, please post those as comments!
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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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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.
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).
