London Yii PHP Framework Group

Yii framework in 2014 - v2.0 overview part II

February 18, 2014 · 7:00 PM
Digital Annexe

Agenda:

19:00: Welcome, neetworking, beers

20:00: Presentation - Cass Surek - Yii 2.0 intro - part II

20:30: Video - Alexander Makarov (Yii core dev) - Q&A

21:00: More networking and more beers

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Matteo 'Peach' P.

Hi all, I've finally managed to complete the subtitling of the Q&A session with Alex Makarov, and it's now available on Youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Giovanni helped me fixing the recording of his own session introducing Yii Playground 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Hope you enjoy.

PS: the first video is uncut, so the first 5 minutes can be skipped already.

1 · March 30
Cassiano S.

Hi everybody!

Thanks for coming to the meetup this week. I've uploaded the slide deck to http://www.slideshare.net/cassi... for your peruse.

Additionally, we had a live feed with one of Yii core devs, Alex Makarov which clarified a lot of information about the framework. He has also shared a video recorded before the meetup responding to several questions we put to him : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Giovanni Derks also spoke about the conversion of his Yii Playground to Yii v2.0 which is currently going on at http://www.yiiplayground.com.

We are excited about next month and we'll set a date for the next meeting before the end of this week.

If you want to contribute/speak/present at next month's meeting, please give us a shout!

See you soon!

Cass

2 · February 20
Giles H.

The best yet! this meetup just keeps getting better. Really informative. Great bunch of people.

3 · February 19
Giovanni D.

Hello, great to read that we'll have a chat with samdark ;-)

Also, I just managed to update Yii Playground for Yii 2 creating the SyntaxHighlighter extension and doing so I learned a few new things and collected a list of questions... so if there is time and someone is interested just let me know!

http://yiiplayground.com/yii2/

1 · February 16
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- Cassiano S.
  
  Thanks, Giovanni. It'll be a pleasure to hear about the Playground II. Can you send me the list of questions here please? Due to the time difference with Russia, Sam Dark will record a video with the answers for us. Regards, Cass
  
  1 · February 17
- Matteo 'Peach' P.
  
  So one basic question I'd like to make is: "how does he feel as a Yii developer, regarding the direction PHP has taken, especially in regards to the integration with Composer"
  
  0 · February 17
- Giovanni D.
  
  Sure, thanks:
  
  1: what is the best way to create an extension (with its own assets) without using composer? (how is the auto loading handled in that case?)
  2: related to the first question, how is the autoloading exactly working / which are the differences?
  3: do you think that Yii 2 has a steeper learning curve compared to Yii 1?
  4: what new features do you like the most?
  5: what have been the biggest challenges / are you happy to the adopted solutions?
  
  about question #2, I read on the guide about PSR-4 but for example, for my first Yii 2 extension the namespace is giovdk21\yii2SyntaxHighlighter while the actual folder name is giovdk21/yii2-syntaxhighlighter but I did not split it as giovdk21\yii2\syntaxhighlighter ... should this be considered a mistake?
  
  0 · February 17
Cassiano S.

Hi, I have some exciting news!

I managed to contact one of the core Yii developers and he has agreed to respond to our Yii related questions in video.

That's a golden chance to ask those questions that only core devs can answer. What would you ask?

Please send me your questions by Friday 18:00 GMT and will get everything ready to present them to the group Tuesday.

Many thanks!

Cass

2 · February 13