I just submitted the last chapter of the third edition of my PHP Advanced book, now titled “PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual QuickPro Guide.” I still need to perform the rewrites, but as I’m good with page counts (for once), I think the table of contents is fairly solid (shown after the break).

The book is written for intermediate PHP and Web developers, and covers a range of topics to further extend what you know into more real-world, complex situations. I believe it’ll be available in September. Amazon currently has it for $30.81.

I just returned from three busy days spent in the San Francisco Bay Area and thought I’d report back for those of you that follow what I do.

Two weeks ago, I had the honor of doing two days of training on JavaScript, jQuery, and Mobile Web Development for a group of about 20 community college instructors. For the JavaScript and jQuery parts, I used presentations created as ancillary materials for my " Modern JavaScript: Develop and Design" book. Because those ancillary materials are owned by the publisher (who will freely give then to instructors), I cannot post those parts of the presentation online. Here, however, are the slides for the “Introduction to Mobile Web Development” part of the training.

The presentation introduces the core concepts when it comes to mobile Web design, and then discusses jQuery Mobile in particular. Most of the information comes from various online resources, and whatever else I’ve figured out along the way. The one book I have read that discusses mobile Web design is O’Reilly’s Head First Mobile Web. I absolutely detest the Head First series, but found that book to be a decent introduction to the topic.

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In this edition…

• What Were You Thinking? => Sponsorship and Ads
• On the Web => Top 100 E-Commerce Tips
• On the Web => Under the Hood of Yii’s Component Architecture
• On the Blog => Interview with Douglas Crockford
• On the Blog => Transliteration in PHP 5.4
• Q&A => Do You Ever Use an E-commerce Framework?
• What is Larry Thinking => Skills Required for Jobs Today
• Book Giveaway => Lots of Books!
• Larry Ullman’s Book News => “PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming”

I (i.e., the blog) have been a bit quieter lately than I would prefer. I strive to post three times per week, but some weeks are more forgiving than others! So here’s a quick update on what’s going on in my world…

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 with the release of Yii2).

The presentation quickly explains where Yii current stands, how Yii got to be here, and where Yii is going in the future. There’s even a reference to yours truly!