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• Introducing Prise, a smart productivity application

• What are Behaviours in Elixir?

• What are Specifications and Types in Elixir?

• Writing Comments and Documentation in Elixir

• Working with Mnesia in Elixir

• What is ETS in Elixir?

• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook [Review]

• Building a Casino in Elixir

• Elixir in Action [Review]

• Working with Supervisors in Elixir

• Organising your Elixir project with Mix

• Understanding GenServer in Elixir

• Using Agents in Elixir

• Working with State and Elixir Processes

• Using Tasks in Elixir

• Understanding Concurrency and Parallelism in Elixir

• Artificial Intelligence - A Guide to Intelligent Systems [Review]

• Implementing Password Reset using Ruby on Rails and Trailblazer

• Working with Processes in Elixir

• Writing Integration Tests in Ruby on Rails

• Understanding Comprehensions in Elixir

• Using Trailblazer Cells in Action Mailer

• What are Elixir Protocols?

• Confirming Users with Trailblazer

• What are Elixir Structs?

• Building out a User Confirmation flow in Trailblazer

• Working with Enumerables and Streams in Elixir

• Getting started with Trailblazer Cells

• Understanding Recursion and Tail Call Optimisation in Elixir

• Using Inheritance for Trailblazer Operations

• Branching and Conditionals in Elixir

• Using Trailblazer Operations in Controllers and Views

• Multi-clause Functions with Pattern Matching and Guards in Elixir

• What are Trailblazer Contracts?

• Understanding Pattern Matching in Elixir

• Getting started with Operations in Trailblazer

• Functions as First-Class Citizens in Elixir

• Getting started with Trailblazer and Ruby on Rails

• Understanding Function Arity in Elixir

• Trailblazer - A New Architecture For Rails [Review]

• Using the Pipe Operator in Elixir

• Working with CSVs in Ruby

• Working with Functions and Modules in Elixir

• Zero to One [Review]

• Working with Keyword Lists and Maps in Elixir

• Creating a Sign Up Form flow in Ruby on Rails Part 3

• Understanding Lists in Elixir

• Creating a Sign Up Form flow in Ruby on Rails Part 2

• Using Tuples in Elixir

• Creating a sign up form flow in Ruby on Rails Part 1

• Working with Strings in Elixir

• Writing Functional Tests in Ruby on Rails

• Understanding the Types in Elixir

• Testing Active Job and Active Mailer in Ruby on Rails

• Programming Elixir [Review]

• Getting started with Action Mailer in Ruby on Rails

• Getting started with Elixir

• Getting started with Active Job in Ruby on Rails

• Advocacy - Championing ideas and influencing others [Review]

• Replacing Fixtures with Factory Girl in Ruby on Rails

• Setting up Mandrill Webhooks with Laravel

• Using Form Objects in Ruby on Rails with Reform

• Setting up and using Cron Jobs with Laravel and AWS Elastic Beanstalk

• Migrating WordPress data for a Ruby on Rails application

• Adding Intercom support to your Laravel application

• Rendering Markdown and HTML in Ruby

• Adding Slack Slash Commands to a Laravel application

• Implementing Roles and Permissions in Ruby on Rails

• Dealing with different types of something with The Strategy Pattern

• Creating Polymorphic relationships in Ruby on Rails

• Importing demo data into a Laravel application

• Authenticating Users in Ruby on Rails

• How to create a Zip Archive in PHP

• TDD Active Record Models with MiniTest

• Dealing with brute force attacks in Laravel

• Creating Views in Ruby on Rails

• How to test uploading and returning files in Laravel

• Creating Controllers in Ruby on Rails

• Returning secure files from an API with temporary URLs

• Defining URL routes in Ruby on Rails

• Dealing with scheduling in PHP

• Querying with Active Record in Ruby on Rails

• Sending data via Pusher in a Laravel Application

• Understanding Active Record Callbacks

• Authenticating with Pusher in a Laravel application

• Design Patterns in Ruby [Review]

• Setting up Pusher in a Laravel Application

• What is Active Model?

• Marshalling SQS jobs in Laravel

• Using Form Objects in Ruby on Rails

• How to design and build a PHP data export service

• Working with Validation in Ruby on Rails

• Generating PDFs from HTML and PhantomJS

• Understanding Active Record Associations

• Sorting Multiple Languages and Weird Characters in PHP and MySQL

• Getting started with Active Record in Ruby on Rails

• Sending template emails through Mandrill in Laravel

• Understanding Ruby on Rails Migrations

• Handling complex API requests with Pipelines

• Creating your first Ruby on Rails Model

• How to use the Pipeline Design Pattern in Laravel

• Getting started with Ruby on Rails

• Setting the Context in a Laravel Application

• Getting started with Sinatra

• Managing Context in a Laravel application

• What is Ruby Rack?

• Implementing Business Rules as Guards

• Testing with RSpec

• How to resolve environment specific implementations from Laravel's IoC Container

• Testing with Mini Test

• Migrating existing users to a new password hashing algorithm

• Creating a Ruby Gem

• Adding Oauth to a Laravel API

• Confident Ruby [Review]

• Dealing with Exceptions in a Laravel API application

• Understanding and Using Ruby Rake

• Adding Validation to Ember Forms

• Eloquent Ruby [Review]

• Creating new Ember Data objects

• Using Ruby Exceptions

• Transitioning to new pages in Ember

• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby [Review]

• Adding related models to an Ember Application

• Working with Mixins in Ruby

• Mocking your JSON API with Ember CLI Mirage

• Creating and using Modules in Ruby

• Introducing Controllers and Models to an Ember.js Application

• Understanding Inheritance in Ruby

• Writing your first Ember.js Acceptance Test

• What is Monkey Patching in Ruby?

• Creating a new Ember project

• Understanding Class Methods verses Instance Methods in Ruby

• Understanding and Creating Components in Ember

• The difference between Public, Protected and Private methods in Ruby

• Finding, Creating and Saving records with Ember Data

• Writing Ruby Classes

• Working with Records in Ember Data

• Working with Ruby Methods

• Defining Models in Ember Data

• What are Lambdas in Ruby?

• Understanding Models and Ember Data

• What are Ruby Procs?

• Using Controllers in Ember

• Understanding and using blocks in Ruby

• Working with Routes in Ember

• What are Symbols in Ruby?

• Routes and Resources in Ember

• Working with Structs in Ruby

• Using Templates in Ember

• Working with Hashes in Ruby

• Getting started with Laravel and Ember

• Working with Arrays in Ruby

• Creating a New Post Application Service

• Working with strings in Ruby

• Creating a new Thread Application Service

• Getting started with Ruby

• Creating the Groups Application Services

• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture [Review]

• Creating the Follow a User Application Service

• Creating a PHP Shopping Basket Part 7 - Transforming and Formatting

• Setting up a Password Reminder Service

• Creating a PHP Shopping Basket Part 6 - Meta data and Processing

• Implementing the User Registration Process

• Creating a PHP Shopping Basket Part 5 - The Reconciliation Process

• Laying the Foundation of the Application Layer

• Creating a PHP Shopping Basket Part 4 - The Basket object

• Creating the Foundation of a User Settings System

• Creating a PHP Shopping Basket Part 3 - Creating the Product object

• Storing User Settings in a Relational Database

• Creating a PHP Shopping Basket Part 2 - Working with Collections

• Setting up a Notification system in PHP

• Creating a PHP Shopping Basket Part 1 - Money, Currency and Taxes

• Modelling a Notification System in PHP

• What is Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)?

• Converting Markdown to HTML in PHP

• What is Service Oriented Architecture?

• Using Aggregates as a Gateway to Functionality

• What is Hexagonal Architecture?

• Enforcing Business Rules through Aggregate Instantiation

• What are Factories in Domain Driven Design?

• Modelling a Discussion Forum

• What are Aggregates in Domain Driven Design?

• Using Entities in different Bounded Contexts

• What are Modules in Domain Driven Design?

• Creating Domain Objects Recap

• 6 Principles for Writing Maintainable Code

• Moving to a new Bounded Context

• Strategies for Integrating Bounded Contexts

• Creating the Twitter Follower Model using Doctrine

• What are Bounded Contexts and Context Maps in Domain Driven Design?

• Failing Domain Rules and Validating User Input

• What is the Domain Model in Domain Driven Design?

• Creating and Using a Command Bus

• Implementing Domain Driven Design [Review]

• Creating your own Domain Event Dispatcher

• Domain-driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software [Review]

• Building a Password Reminder Domain Service

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 16

• Creating a User Registration Domain Service

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 15

• Creating and testing Doctrine Repositories

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 14

• Creating a Mailer Infrastructure Service

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 13

• Creating Domain Services

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 12

• Implementing Domain Events

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 11

• Defining the building blocks of Domain Driven Design

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 10

• What are the benefits of using Repositories?

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 9

• The User Entity and The Ubiquitous Language

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 8

• Implementing The Specification Pattern

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 7

• Encapsulating your application's business rules

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 6

• Working with Doctrine 2 Filters

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 5

• Understanding Doctrine 2 Lifecycle Events

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 4

• Using Doctrine Query Language

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 3

• Working with relationships in Doctrine 2

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 2

• Working with Entities in Doctrine 2

• How to create an Active Record style PHP SDK Part 1

• How is Doctrine 2 different to Eloquent?

• What is Reflection in PHP?

• Getting started with Doctrine 2 and Laravel

• What are PHP Traits?

• The Foundations of CRUD in Laravel 4

• What's the difference between Active Record and Data Mapper?

• Creating Registration Events in Laravel 4

• Working with Products, Orders and Sales in PHP

• Adding Social Authentication to a Laravel 4 application Part 3

• Working with Money and Currency in PHP

• Adding Social Authentication to a Laravel 4 application Part 2

• How to handle money and currency in web applications

• Adding Social Authentication to a Laravel 4 application Part 1

• Create a HMAC-SHA authentication implementation for PHP

• Creating a basic user registration system in Laravel 4

• Avoid arbitrary precision errors in PHP with BC Math

• Creating an advanced Invitation System in Laravel 4 Part 3

• How to create a PSR-4 PHP package

• Creating an advanced Invitation System in Laravel 4 Part 2

• What is the difference between Entities and Value Objects?

• Creating an advanced Invitation System in Laravel 4 Part 1

• What is the Decorator Pattern?

• Creating a basic Invitation system with Laravel 4

• What are PHP Magic Methods?

• Sending Email with Laravel 4

• When should you use an Exception?

• Working with Configuration in Laravel 4

• When should I code to an Interface?

• Multi-Tenancy in Laravel 4

• What are Abstract classes?

• Exploring Laravel's IoC container

• What is the Factory Method Design Pattern?

• Eloquent tricks for better Repositories

• How to build a PHP package

• Using Events in Laravel 4

• Why being a broker is a fool's errand

• Model Presenters in Laravel 4

• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors [Review]

• Working with Pagination in Laravel 4

• Disrupt an industry through Deflationary Economics

• Create a News Feed in Laravel 4

• "Your margin is my opportunity"

• Using View Composers in Laravel 4

• How to ensure your software project is delivered on time

• Laravel 4 Cache as a Service

• Health startups and connected networks

• Creating Entities in Laravel 4

• What are Webhooks?

• Extending the Laravel 4 Validator

• Hatching Twitter [Review]

• Advanced Validation as a Service for Laravel 4

• How to create a product that gets shared

• Working with Cache in Laravel 4

• Fighting fragmentation in the web industry

• Eager Loading in Laravel 4

• Recovering from launching a product nobody wants

• Planning the main screen of your application

• Finding your competitors and the importance of supply and demand

• Seeding a Laravel 4 database

• Onboarding for online products

• Adding Bourbon and Bourbon Neat with Bower

• Getting Real [Review]

• How to structure your Sass for large web applications

• The 6 types of alliances you need to build a successful product

• Getting started with Bower

• The opportunity in aggregate data insights

• Setting up Sass with Grunt

• Analysing the AdWords business model

• Getting started with Grunt

• Should I use advertising to monetise my product?

• Add an Asset Pipeline to Laravel 4

• The Consumerisation of Enterprise Technology

• How to build a Coming Soon page for your product

• Build traction for your product through meta-modelling

• Optimise your Photoshop workflow

• Why you need to build your own distribution channel

• How to create a Responsive Web Application

• Techniques for Persuasion and the Art of Sales

• How to wireframe a web application

• The Four Steps to Persuasion

• Researching and planning a web application

• How brands use stories to sell their product

• Password reminders and reset in Laravel 4

• Why a great product needs a great story

• How to use Laravel 4 Filters

• Founders at Work [Review]

• Registration and Authentication in Laravel 4

• Building defensible barriers against disruption

• Using Blade in Laravel 4

• How to disrupt an industry through unbundling

• Routing in Laravel 4

• Customer acquisition for online products

• Creating forms in Laravel 4

• How to beat digital piracy

• Building out RESTful Controller methods in Laravel 4

• Building a profitable Open Source business from Cross Subsidisation

• Extending Eloquent in Laravel 4

• How to pitch your idea

• Creating Laravel 4 Validation Services

• Mistaking features for benefits is losing you money

• Getting started with Mockery

• Competitive Advantage - Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance [Review]

• How to structure testable Controllers in Laravel 4

• How to use the unique characteristics of the Internet to achieve success

• Creating flexible Controllers in Laravel 4 using Repositories

• Killing offline businesses online

• Setting up your first Laravel 4 Controller

• How to grow traction for social networks

• Creating a Laravel 4 package

• What is Freemium and how can it work for you?

• Setting up Vagrant with Laravel 4

• How to make product partnerships work

• Laravel 4 Eloquent Model Relationships

• How to build traction and acquire users for ecommerce or subscription based companies

• Creating the Twitter following model in Laravel 4

• How to create a unique product

• Laravel 4 Fixture Replacement with Factory Muffin

• Differentiation and it's role in Competitive Advantage

• Getting started with testing Laravel 4 Models

• The Long Tail [Review]

• Setting up your first Laravel 4 Model

• How to fuel the growth of a two sided marketplace

• Laravel 4 Migrations

• How to build a two sided marketplace

• Getting started with Laravel 4

• How to find disruptive opportunities

• Does #Music signal the future of Twitter?

• How to make the Groupon business model work

• What are RESTful Web Services?

• Adding a service layer to incumbent industries through discovery and curation

• How to deploy WordPress themes with Git

• The right way to build an online affiliate based business model

• What is Dependancy Injection?

• Why groundswell is critical to building successful online products

• What are PHP Lambdas and Closures?

• The importance of understanding what is working in online marketing

• What analytics software should I use?

• Getting started with PHPUnit

• What is Test Driven Development?

• Little Bets [Review]

• Elements of effective testimonial pages

• Finding your Product's Limiting Reactant

• Getting started with Memcached

• The huge opportunity of resource allocation in connected marketplaces

• Getting started with Compass

• Convert more customers with Product Qualified Leads

• What is Object-Relational Mapping?

• How to prequalify your traffic for higher conversions

• How to save PHP Sessions to a database

• Do More Faster [Review]

• Great artists steal: How to dramatically improve as a Web Developer by stealing from Open Source

• The importance of intent in building successful websites

• Why do you need to Salt and Hash passwords?

• My 4 secrets for creating a regular blog

• Getting started with Sass

• The intersection of Content and Commerce

• What is PHP Composer?

• Loyalty apps are dead: Why you need to solve the bigger problem

• What is Namespacing?

• Create a PHP Money Class

• Blue Ocean Strategy [Review]

• jQuery Effects

• The Developer's Dilemma

• jQuery Ajax

• 5 of the best Open Source framework websites, and what makes them so good

• jQuery Form Events

• Why your website isn't generating sales

• jQuery Mouse Events

• The death of the homepage

• jQuery - Manipulating content

• What is MVC? (Model-View-Controller)

• Introduction to jQuery

• The problem of Survivor Bias in Split Testing

• Creating HTML email templates

• Lessons to learn from Foursquare

• A solution to lack of traction

• Javascript Control Flow Structures

• Is Freemium right for your product?

• Surely you're joking Mr Feynman! [Review]

• Create an automatic Email Marketing Campaign that actually works

• Javascript Objects

• Why you need to start using Git today

• Javascript functions

• How Betaworks is leading the new wave of intelligent media

• Roll your own PDO PHP Class

• The Ultralight Startup: Launching a Business Without Clout or Capital [Review]

• Prevent PHP SQL Injection with PDO Prepared Statements

• Basics of Javascript

• How to design effective pricing tables

• The correct way to approach B2B sales via Social Media

• Introduction to HTML5

• Quiet: The power of Introverts in a world that can't stop talking [Review]

• The Sunk Cost Fallacy of Web Development

• What does it take to found a startup? - 4 traits of successful Entrepreneurs

• Create a CSS progress bar

• How to spot a good WordPress developer

• Elements of successful Social Commerce websites

• Taking advantage of the rise of Ecommerce 2.0

• Really simple inline Javascript validation

• Hacking Distribution

• Customising WorldPay and creating a Callback

• The Startup Owner's Manual [Review]

• Integrating WorldPay into a database driven website

• Finding your Viral Coefficient

• Getting started with WorldPay integration

• Attract the right kind of traffic to your website

• How to open files by file type in PHP

• Why you should start your online business today

• How to prevent CSRF attacks on your Web Apps

• Startups that don't solve a real problem

• How to prevent XSS attacks on your website

• Functions to handle multidimensional arrays in PHP

• Elements of inspiring "Work for us" job pages

• 9 of the most inspiring Commencement Addresses

• Why your company does not need a mobile app

• The Founder's Dilemmas [Review]

• Enabling services for web tech startups

• 13 essential WordPress plugins

• The decentralisation of our world

• WordPress Bootstrap Theme

• How to connect to MySQL through PHP

• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing [Review]

• What is your company's killer marketing word?

• Dealing with Darwin [Review]

• Resources for getting a job in the web industry

• How to develop User Personas for your website

• How to make a home page that converts

• Should I interlink my website for SEO?

• How to get the most from your business blog

• Inside the Tornado [Review]

• Why Apple winning the content consumption war is a good thing

• Design features of Software as a Service and Web Applications

• The importance of design in business

• Should my business use an off-the-shelf WordPress template?

• Failing to understand that success is the exception to the rule

• Characteristics of landing pages that convert

• Conversions are the foundations of a business website

• Make data your competitive advantage

• The value of email lists

• The Start-up of You [Review]

• Confusing visionaries with the mass market in new market startups

• How to make decisions based on data, rather than assumptions

• Why you need to constantly reinvent yourself online

• Debunking 4 myths of small business digital marketing

• The New Lanchester military strategy for startups

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany [Review]

• Choosing the right company structure in the UK

• Why you shouldn't just jump straight into starting your first company

• Moving your product from a fad to a utility

• CSS3 Gradients and Textures

• The evolution of online communities and the social web

• Sheryl Sandberg - The most prolific woman in tech

• Why Facebook is a success

• Top 12 blogs for business startup advice

• The ultimate guide to getting your first job in the Web Industry

• The designers behind the hottest iPhone apps

• Why Oink has already lost to Foursquare

• The Lean Startup [Review]

• The 3 levels of user authentication

• Prediction: Microsoft to buy RIM in 2012

• The Innovator's Dilemma [Review]

• Knowing when to quit

• What I have learnt this year

• The top 10 Tumblr blogs ever

• Highlights from Le Web 2011

• Avoiding the "Brand partnership" trap

• How to validate ideas and get honest feedback

• Welcome to Culttt

• Why personal branding will become more important than a degree

• Flipboard is great, but...

• 10 of the most annoying Facebook statuses ever!

• Why Path will finally succumb to Facebook

• The real reason why domain names don't matter anymore

• How to make vanity URLs using PHP, .htaccess and MySQL

• 3 simple steps for learning how to code

• My top 10 Internet TV shows

• The fragmentation of television, why TV will move online

• How to align a DIV vertically and horizontally

• How to create an invite system using PHP

• The key to start up success is attacking the niche

• Facebook's loss of relevancy, and the pivot into communication

• Crossing the chasm [Review]

• Is social going to kill SEO?

• If you know where you're going, you're not pushing hard enough

• If The Big Bang Theory cast were Googlers

• The rebirth of Cultivatus!

• The rise and fall of Internet super giants

• Why Apple NEED Square and Jack Dorsey

• Fighting the bloat: The curse of the start up

• Twitter and Digg - A match made in user submitted news stories heaven!

• My top viral advertisement videos of 2010

• Using Twitter for B2B lead generation

• Twitter for Business: It's not all about you!

• Twitter for Business: Identifying yourself

• Developing your online personal brand

• Beginning Digital Strategy for Business

• Digital strategy for the insurance industry

• Creating intimacy on Twitter

• What are the uses of Twitter?

• Geo-based Social Networks, The game changer?

• What the heck is Twitter?!

• Crush It! Reviewed

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