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“How to decide when to work for free” by Penelope Trunk 26 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
On August 17, 2013, at the Northeast PHP conference in Boston, I gave a new presentation titled “How To Get There“. This was a motivational-like presentation, which is virgin territory for me, but I t...
My 3 Presentations from Northeast PHP 2013 20 Aug 2013 | 05:31 pm
Over the past weekend I was fortunate enough to give three presentations at the excellent Northeast PHP conference in Boston: How To Get There Ajax: You Can Do It, Too! How to Teach PHP and Web Dev...
“The Yii Book” Update and a Site Update 17 Aug 2013 | 12:32 am
A couple of quick updates on “The Yii Book” and its corresponding website, yii.larryullman.com… First, yesterday I posted an update to “The Yii Book”. This includes two new chapters: Chapter 17, “Imp...
“The Yii Book” Status Update, #1,492.9 12 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm
Just a quick update on the status of “The Yii Book” (the project that never ends)… I’ve written several thousand words for Chapter 17, “Improving Performance”. And I’ve finally completed a few thousa...
Speaking at Conferences 9 Aug 2013 | 11:49 pm
As I’m preparing for my three presentations at Northeast PHP in Boston next weekend (August 16th-18th), I’ve been reviewing some of the resources I have regarding public speaking. I thought I’d share ...
Preview Videos for the Northeast PHP Conference 7 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
The good people behind the Northeast PHP conference (starting next Friday, August 16th!) have recently posted two videos of interviews with conference presenters. And one of them is me. First, you ca...
Join Me for a Live Online Interview Thursday Night 31 Jul 2013 | 07:42 pm
Tomorrow night, Thursday, August 1, at 7:30PM ET, I’ll be doing a live online interview with Matt Murphy of the Boston PHP group. In the interview, I’ll preview the three presentations I’ll be given a...
What is Larry Thinking? # 71 => On Joining Stripe 29 Jul 2013 | 10:09 pm
In this edition… About This Newsletter What Are You Thinking? => On Stripe, and Joining Stripe On the Web => Stripe Q&A => How does Stripe compare to X? Q&A => How did you get the job? Q&A => Wh...
Using CDbCriteria in the Yii Framework 24 Jul 2013 | 05:08 pm
The CDbCriteria class let’s you customize queries through an object. The first thing you should do to become more comfortable with Active Record when using the Yii framework is master usage of CDbCrit...
Scott Mattocks on LUCID Development 22 Jul 2013 | 07:01 pm
There are many theories on how software should be developed, probably several for each programming language that exists. Some approaches go in and out of vogue, whereas the applicability of others gre...
