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Building Your Startup: Sending Reminders

Tutorial • Intermediate

Now that the infrastructure for people to customize their meeting reminders is in place, we need to deliver them just in time using our new HTML email...

Jeff Reifman • 21 Nov 2016
Yii

Programming With Yii2: Automated Testing With Codeception

Tutorial • Intermediate

The Yii Framework integrates Codeception, which aims to make writing tests fun. Learn how to integrate testing into your everyday development efforts.

Jeff Reifman • 17 Nov 2016
AJAX

Building Your Startup: Dynamic Ajax Forms for Scheduling

Tutorial • Intermediate

To improve the upcoming beta experience, I wanted to transform all of the scheduling commands to work interactively without a page refresh. Learn how I did...

Jeff Reifman • 15 Nov 2016
AJAX

Programming With Yii2: Using Ajax

Tutorial • Intermediate

Web pages rely on Ajax to offer interactive, app-like behavior. Learn how to make your web pages respond quickly with minimal page refresh with Yii and...

Jeff Reifman • 10 Nov 2016
Yii

Building Your Startup: Preparing for Reminders

Tutorial • Intermediate

With meetings planned, we need to allow people to set up reminders and manage their delivery. Come learn how we architected them for Meeting Planner.

Jeff Reifman • 10 Nov 2016
Security

Programming With Yii2: Security

Tutorial • Intermediate

The Yii Framework integrates design principles to make basic web application security easier for developers to provide. Let's review what you should know...

Jeff Reifman • 8 Nov 2016
Yii

Building Your Startup: Delivering Notifications

Tutorial • Intermediate

After meeting participants have made suggestions and changes, we create a text summary and deliver an update to other participants. Learn how to implement this.

Jeff Reifman • 4 Nov 2016
Yii

Building Your Startup: Notifying People of Meeting Updates

Tutorial • Intermediate

When meeting participants make changes, Meeting Planner needs to send notifications but delay long enough to consolidate them. Learn how to architect this.

Jeff Reifman • 24 Oct 2016
Yii

Building Your Startup: Responsive Email for Gmail

Tutorial • Intermediate

Meeting Planner's new templates looked great everywhere... but not in Gmail. Follow me and Alice as we go into the dark wonderland of automated CSS inlining.

Jeff Reifman • 21 Oct 2016
Yii

Building Your Startup: Refining Email Templates

Tutorial • Intermediate

As Meeting Planner evolved, I needed to improve the aesthetic of our emails for the fast approaching alpha release. Follow my search for resources and...

Jeff Reifman • 19 Oct 2016
Yii

Building Your Startup: The Open-Source Foundation Behind Meeting Planner

Tutorial • Intermediate

The "one man startup" is a myth—not for its growing scarcity but because startups rely on a variety of free, open-source software built by many men and women...

Jeff Reifman • 17 Oct 2016
Yii

Building Your Startup: Exporting iCal Files into Calendar Events

Tutorial • Intermediate

Now that meeting organizers are ready to finalize meeting plans, we need to build and attach .ics files so attendees can import them into their calendar of...

Jeff Reifman • 27 Sep 2016