I’ve posted my slides from my “Introduction to the Yii Framework” presentation that I gave at True North PHP in Toronto, Canada on November 2, 2012. Although the conference organizers had hoped to record all the sessions, that didn’t end up working out. I should also warn you that half, or more than half, of the presentation was me doing a live development of a Yii-based site. All that content is not reflected in the slides. Those caveats aside, here you go…
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In this edition…
- About This Newsletter
- >On the Road => True North PHP Conference
- On the Web => How to Write a Book
- On the Web => 5 Rules to Sell Thousands of Copies of Your eBook
- On the Web => Scrivener
- On the Blog => What It Means To Be A Writer
- On the Blog => How Much Should I Charge for the Yii Book?
- What is Larry Thinking => Self-Publishing, Part 1
- Book Giveaway => “PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual QuickPro Guide”
- Larry Ullman’s Book News => “PHP Advanced and OOP” and “The Yii Book”
It’s three in the morning, and I’ve just arrived at my hotel in Instanbul, Turkey. It took 49 hours of travel to get here. I haven’t really slept in 37 hours. My one piece of luggage is nowhere to be found, which means that I don’t have my suit, laptop cords, laptop remote, or business cards. The presentation is in 8 hours. I have 8 hours to make up for two days without a good night’s sleep and to go shopping for presentable clothes. Oh, and did I mention that I’m deathly uncomfortable with public speaking?
Surprisingly, the presentation is going to go okay, in part because I had the good fortune to have read Scott Berkun’s “Confessions of a Public Speaker.” That may sound like hyperbole, but it’s true.
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In this edition…
- About This Newsletter
- On the Road => Speaking at Boston PHP
- On the Road => True North PHP Conference
- On the Web => Bootstrap, from Twitter
- On the Web => The impress.js Presentation JavaScript Library
- On the Web => Great JavaScript Resources by Addy Osmani
- On the Web => JavaScript Style Guide and Beautifiers
- On the Web => JavaScript Best Practices
- On the Web => JavaScript Resources from Peter Cooper
- On the Blog => Testing for Strict Mode in JavaScript Using this
- Book Giveaway => “PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual QuickPro Guide”
- Larry Ullman’s Book News => “PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming” and “The Yii Book”
In this edition…
- About This Newsletter
- On the Web => PHP Percolate!
- On the Web => Yii 2, What’s New
- On the Web => True PHP North Conference
- On the Web => Yii vs. Rails
- On the Blog => The Yii Book, an Update
- On the Blog => Working with Layouts in Yii
- What is Larry Thinking => Choosing a Framework
- Larry Ullman’s Book News => “PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming”
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