Yii2, What’s New

June 22, 2012

Alexander Makarov, recently gave a presentation at the Yiiconf 2012 (note that site is in Russian) titled “Yii2, What’s New“. In the presentation, Makarov, one of the core Yii framework developers and the author of the Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook, discussed both Yii’s current status and the expected changes in the upcoming Yii version 2. I believe that an alpha version of Yii2 will be out later this summer (and, in fact, I’ll be coordinating the writing of [intlink id=”3187″ type=”post”]my Yii book[/intlink] 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!

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How to Make PHP Apps Scale

June 15, 2012

I recently came across this article at Infoworld titled How to Make PHP Apps Scale. The article is a bit short on details, particularly in terms of solutions, but I think does a decent job of explaining where the bottleneck commonly is on PHP-MySQL-Apache sites.

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What It Means To Be A Writer, Part 2 => Getting a Book Deal

June 13, 2012
This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series What It Means To Be A Writer

[intlink id=”3206″ type=”post”]In my first post[/intlink] in this new series I’m writing, I discussed the process of identifying the book you want to write. This comes down to answering these questions:

  • What topic do you want to write about and what do you want to say on that subject?
  • Do you have the expertise and writing skills to do that?

Once you’ve answered those questions, and therefore defined the book you want to write, the next step is to get a book deal: officially begin turning the idea of a book into an actual book. Now, to be fair, what it means to be a writer doesn’t always follow these steps (e.g., I’m sometimes lucky enough to be offered book deals without answering the first question), but when you’re just getting started, this is the logical path. Continue Reading…

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What is Larry Thinking? #56 => Istanbul

June 11, 2012

In this edition…

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Building a Successful E-commerce Venture, or Failing Gracefully

June 8, 2012

Here are my slides from my “Building a Successful E-commerce Venture, or Failing Gracefully” presentation that I gave in Istanbul, Turkey at the E-commerce Expo on May 30, 2012. A couple of the 3D graphs got clipped, but other than that, it’s all there. I actually started off writing a formal script, so the notes are fairly true to what I said during the presentation.

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