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Building Your Startup: Automatic Time-Zone Detection

Tutorial • Intermediate

As people plan meetings, it's important not just to allow time-zone customization but to make it proactive and simple. Follow our PHP and JavaScript...

Jeff Reifman • 24 Jan 2017
Yii

Building Your Startup: Preparing for Text Messaging

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn how to integrate common SMS services into the Meeting Planner application. Today we demonstrate basic signup, integration, and trial text messages.

Jeff Reifman • 17 Jan 2017
Yii

Programming With Yii2: Using the Debugger

Tutorial • Intermediate

It's time to click that butterfly icon in the bottom of your screen and explore the Yii Framework debugger, a powerful assistant once you get to know it.

Jeff Reifman • 3 Jan 2017
Yii

Building Your Startup: Invite People via URL

Tutorial • Intermediate

Now that Meeting Planner can schedule group meetings, I decided to add a secure shareable URL to simplify broadcasting invitations.

Jeff Reifman • 30 Dec 2016
AJAX

Building Your Startup: Ajax for Meeting Times and Places

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this Ajax followup, I'll show you how I learned to reinitialize troublesome Bootstrap widgets and leverage the Google Chrome Browser Developer tools for...

Jeff Reifman • 29 Dec 2016
Yii

Programming With Yii2: Helpers

Tutorial • Intermediate

In Yii, Helpers are small, extensible modules providing useful features for common tasks such as string and image management or HTML and URL generation.

Jeff Reifman • 27 Dec 2016
Security

Building Your Startup: Security Basics

Tutorial • Intermediate

We'll look at security over several episodes, but today we'll focus primarily on locking down a web server. Join us and learn the basics of cloud-based VPS...

Jeff Reifman • 20 Dec 2016
Yii

Programming With Yii2: Routing and URL Creation

Tutorial • Intermediate

With any MVC framework, routing is an important element of application design, security, and even performance. Learn how to manage routes and create URLs in...

Jeff Reifman • 13 Dec 2016
AWS

Programming With Yii2: Using Amazon S3

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn how to use a Yii extension to upload and retrieve objects and files from Amazon's cloud-based storage service.

Jeff Reifman • 6 Dec 2016
Yii

Building Your Startup: Issue Tracking and Feature Planning

Tutorial • Intermediate

The challenges of managing ongoing and upcoming aspects of a startup require good tools. Learn how I used Asana to track features and bugs for Meeting Planner.

Jeff Reifman • 2 Dec 2016
Yii

Building Your Startup: Improving the Mobile Web

Tutorial • Intermediate

While I'm not ready to invest in multi-platform mobile apps for Meeting Planner, I wanted to enhance people's mobile experience with more responsive web design.

Jeff Reifman • 28 Nov 2016
Yii

Building Your Startup: The Dashboard Foundation

Tutorial • Intermediate

The prospect of the alpha launch and talking to investors highlights the need for administrative management and activity reporting respectively. Let's build...

Jeff Reifman • 23 Nov 2016