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User Interface/Experience Should Be Easier Than This
User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) are two important topics for web developers. There are plenty of recommended books on these subjects, such as Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think“, and very...
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“The Yii Book” Update, version 0.7
Yesterday I (finally, finally, finally) posted another update to “The Yii Book“. This is version 0.7, with two new chapters: Chapter 15, “Internationalization” Chapter 16, “Leaving the Browser” This...
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What Is Larry Thinking? #70 => Going Big, Micro Version, Part 2
In this edition… About This Newsletter Q&A => How do you optimize a database? On the Web => 15 Pro-tips for MySQL Users On the Web => How to lose weight (in the browser) Larry Ullman’s...
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Speaking at the Northeast PHP Conference 2013
I’m very happy to say that I’ll be speaking at the 2013 Northeast PHP Conference, taking place in Boston on August 16-18. This is the second year of the Northeast PHP Conference, and my first year...
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“How to Win at Email” by Nikil Viswanathan
Although I’m able to charge a nice hourly rate, I’m all too aware that vast amounts of what I do doesn’t map to an hourly charge to any client. A considerable amount of my time is spent (in no...
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On Joining Stripe
I am thrilled to say that I have accepted a position as a Support Engineer at Stripe. Here are the why’s and how’s of my decision. TL:DR Version: Stripe consists of brilliant, wonderful, accomplished...
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Be Productive with the MySQL Command Line
I recently read this short but awesome post titled “Be Productive with the MySQL Command Line“. In the post, the author Stephane Combaudon, presents three extremely useful tips for when you’re using...
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Scott Mattocks on LUCID Development
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...
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Using CDbCriteria in the Yii Framework
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...
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What is Larry Thinking? # 71 => On Joining Stripe
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...
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Join Me for a Live Online Interview Thursday Night
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 at...
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Preview Videos for the Northeast PHP Conference
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 can...
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Speaking at Conferences
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...
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“The Yii Book” Status Update, #1,492.9
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 thousand...
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“The Yii Book” Update and a Site Update
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,...
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My 3 Presentations from Northeast PHP 2013
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...
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“How to decide when to work for free” by Penelope Trunk
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...
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“Going Big” With a Website
I’ve created a three-part series posted as a guest blogger on the site of my hosting company, ServInt. The series is titled “‘Going Big’ With a Website”, and is based upon a series of newsletters I put...
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What Third-Party Library Do You Integrate with Yii?
I’m looking ahead to writing Chapter 20, “Working with Third-Party Libraries,” of “The Yii Book” (I’m currently writing Chapter 19), and was wondering what people wanted me to specifically demonstrate....
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Debugging Database Operations in Yii
Whenever you begin working with a database, you introduce more possible causes of errors. Thus, you must learn additional debugging strategies. When using PHP to run queries on the database, the...
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