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Handling Stripe Errors
This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series Processing Payments with StripeIf you’ve sequentially followed this series on implementing payments with Stripe, you now know everything you need to be...
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Devising a Strategy for Responsive Design
Jared M. Spool, a renown UI and UX expert, just posted a great article titled “Devising a Strategy for Responsive Design“. In the article, Mr. Spool covers the current issues surrounding designing web...
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Review of “100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People”
In November and December of 2012, I finally got around to reading the book “100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People“, by Susan M. Weinschenk, Ph.D. This is an extremely helpful book, and...
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What Is Larry Thinking? #66 => Goals
In this edition? About This Newsletter What is Larry Thinking => Good Goals for 2013 On the Web => Mobile Web Development Resources On the Web => Code Testing and The Grumpy Programmer Q&A...
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Stripe Testing and Tricks
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Processing Payments with StripeTo wrap things up on my eight-part series on processing payments with Stripe, I’ll mention a few random things under the guise of...
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Finding the Right License with TLDRLegal
I’ve not spent much time thinking about software licenses in my career. Partly this is because I don’t sell software and partly it’s because “Who can be bothered?” As with anything legally-related,...
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Understanding Routes in the Yii Framework
A topic critical to controllers, although not dictated within the actual controller code are routes. Routes are how URLs map to the controller and action to be invoked. Chapter 3, “A Manual for Your...
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Getting Help Online
Last night, while researching something related to Arduino (my newest/only hobby), I came across a forum thread that literally made me laugh out loud every time I read it. I tweeted it, which was...
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Useful Services from Thomas Fuchs
Thomas Fuchs, creator of the script.aculo.us JavaScript library and the Freckle online time tracking site, posted a great page of useful services a couple of weeks back. These are sites and tools that...
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“The Yii Book” version 0.5 Update Posted!
Over the weekend, I posted an update to “The Yii Book“. This is version 0.5, which means I’m halfway there. This is about the time I was hoping to have the book done. So much for good intentions. With...
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What is Larry Thinking? #67 => Public Speaking
In this edition… About This Newsletter What is Larry Thinking => Public Speaking and Me On the Web => BarCamp Harrisburg On the Web => Top 20 Web Conference Talks of 2012 On the Blog => Two...
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Watching for Model Events in the Yii Framework
Much of the work done with models involves using the methods defined within the model classes. These methods, such as rules() and relations(), are created by the code generator Gii. You’ll also add...
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Public Speaking for Developers
A couple of developers that attend a lot of conferences put together an online “Day Camp 4 Developers“. These are live, half-day blocks in which great presentations from recent conferences are done...
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Working on “The Yii Book”
Quick update on my progress on “The Yii Book”… Today I’m wrapping Chapter 13, “Using Extensions,” and then I’ll begin writing Chapter 14, “JavaScript and jQuery.” Once those two are done, I’ll send...
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How to lose weight (in the browser)
A team of very smart Web developers recently posted “How to lose weight (in the browser)“. This is a front-end guide to improving the performance of your Web site. The site has 24 specific...
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Presenting “How to (not) Get Rich Writing Books” at Pittsburgh TechFest
I am happy to report that my presentation “How to (not) Get Rich Writing Books” has been selected for the 2013 Pittsburgh TechFest. Pittsburgh TechFest is a one-day event on software development and...
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How to Screw Up Professionally
In the past couple months, I’ve had two experiences with two different business that screwed up. In both cases, these are business to which I have given a substantial amount of money. What was notable,...
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“The Yii Book” version 0.6 Posted!
I’m happy to announce that a new version has been posted today. This version includes Chapter 13, “Using Extensions,” and Chapter 14, “JavaScript and jQuery.” This concludes Part 2 of the book (better...
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Using Content Decorators in the Yii Framework
Content decorators are a less heralded but interesting feature of the Yii framework. Content decorators allow you to hijack the view rendering process and add some additional stuff around the view file...
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What is Larry Thinking? #68 => Going Big, Macro Version
In this edition? About This Newsletter What is Larry Thinking => The Myths of Going Big Q&A => How do I get started with a new site? Q&A => Who should I use for my hosting? Q&A...
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