Looking to the Past, to Predict the Future by Eli White:
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Clean Application Development by Adam Culp:
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Web Scraping with Node.io by Mark Henderson:
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Up and Running with Twitter Bootstrap by Jen Kramer:
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Usability Testing for the Common Man by Heather O'Neill:
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Introduction to Laravel by Jonathan Barronville:
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Package Management in PHP: Better Late than Never! by Sequoia McDowell:
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Don't Be STUPID, Grasp SOLID by Anthony Ferrara:
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Scaling PHP to 40 Million Uniques by Jonathan Klein:
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How and use regular expressions in PHP and why use them by Joel Lord:
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Building a REST API by Michael Stowe:
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Teaching PHP & Web Development by Larry Ullman:
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Developing For the Cloud, In The Cloud by David Duggins:
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Magic Methods: Spilling the secret by Matthew Barlocker:
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Pragmatic API Development by Andrew Curioso:
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Berserk for Responsive Design Frameworks! by Jen Kramer:
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jQuery Mobile: Sites That Feel Like Apps by Anna Filina:
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Practical Responsive Web Design by Jonathan Klein:
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Agile in the Workplace by Michael Stowe:
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Ajax: You Can Do It Too by Larry Ullman:
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Git Essentials by Matthew Barlocker:
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Team Plaatjes: Building JS Applications with Vector Graphics by Ross Tuck:
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How To Get There by Larry Ullman:
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Coding the Semantic Web with HTML5 by David Kelleher:
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How to hire a good engineers by Bryan Healey:
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The UX of URLs by Ryan Freebern:
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Layout on the web by Brian Del Giudice:
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Testing UX Design with Reverse Card Sorting by David Kelleher:
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Cracking the Code of Web Content Development by Jason Rubin:
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Designing software for the Agile generation by Martin Kemp:
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Mobile-First Design by Katelyn Sessions:
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Introduction to User Experience (UX) Design by Meghan Reilly:
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UI Patterns: A Practical Toolkit by Jim O'Neill:
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You Can UX Too: Avoiding the Programmer's User Interface by Eryn O'Neil:
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Ten Evil Things - Features Engineering at Wikipedia by Terry Chay
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This year's Northeast PHP Conference will be held again at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center, affectionately referred to as the NERD. We're excited to be holding the event here again having been voted the number one event for 2012 at the NERD. The NERD is a fabulous event venue and the best part is that Microsoft makes the space available to us for free! This has helped us to keep the ticket prices affordable.

Located in Kendall Square, the NERD is a catalyst for innovation throughout the region. The NERD has done a tremendous job of supporting the local technology community. Last year alone the NERD hosted over 700 events including Boston PHP meetups. Some upcoming events at the NERD include:

• Boston I/O (9/7/2013): Boston I/O is a free 1-day conference for approximately 300 high school and college students. Boston I/O helps transition students from school to the local startup culture by offering hard skills as well as solid, specific advice for emerging tech entreprenuers and technologists.
• HACKFit Boston 2013 (9/20/2013 - 9/22/2013): HACKFit events are weekend-long competitions designed by technologists and fitness gurus to test your all-around hacking skills, true grit, and camaraderie.
• zCon East (10/21/2013 - 10/22/2013): The zSpace Developers Conference is an educational environment that stimulates communication and collaboration among developers of 3D applications, hardware and content who are interested in immersive, lifelike and interactive technologies.

See you at the NERD for the Northeast PHP Conference!

We're excited to have Engine Yard as a sponsor for the Northeast PHP Conference again for the second year in a row. Engine Yard's support has made it possible for us to host a Saturday evening party for all attendees. Thank you Engine Yard!

Engine Yard is a leading Platform as a Service empowering developers to plan, build, deploy and manage applications in the cloud. But rather than talk about Engine Yard's product offering, I'd like talk about a great initiative that Engine Yard has just announced. This initiative is called Prompt and the goal is start a conversation about mental health in the technology industry. Engine Yard is encouraging conferences to invite a mental health speaker to raise awareness of the issue and create a more open dialogue and support network.

Engine Yard describes their motivation behind this initiative:

"Our <product / service / software> makes developers lives easier". How often have you heard that phrase? It’s often used by companies that make tools for developers. We’ve said it ourselves, here at Engine Yard.

The real meaning of that phrase, however, is "we make developers work lives easier".

Prompt is an effort to actually try to help improve the lives of developers, especially those who are affected in any way by things like depression, anxiety, or any other mental illness.

Prompt was started by Eamon Leonard and John Dalton of Engine Yard, in collaboration with Ed Finkler and Greg Baugues.