You may have seen my introductory talk on steps toward modernizing a legacy application at Nashville PHP or at php[world]. That was the presentation that formed the first few chapters of Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP.

The MLAPHP book has been a great help to a lot of people. But there are a lot of other developers who learn best by watching-and-listening first, instead of reading. They know it can be a great help to have someone talk them through the whole moderizing process, and see the steps being performed.

Usually you have to go to a conference for that sort of thing. You have to pay for the ticket, and for the hotel, and for travel, and meals, and everything else. Even if your employer helps with the money, there's still the time involved: you have to be away for several days at a time.

Well, now you can have a conference-level training experience in the comfort of your own home, without the travel hassle and hotel expense. I have put together an online weekend "boot camp" where we go through the entire modernization process, from basic prerequisities at the beginning to setting up a DI container at the end. After that end-to-end study of the steps involved, you should be able to jump-start your own modernizing project much more easily.

The 8-hour camp will combine lecture and "live" coding with examples. In particular, there will be plenty of opportunity for you to get answers specific to your own modernizing situation, and to chat with other attendees.

The two-day camp will be on Sat 11 July and Sun 12 July. Each day will run from 12 noon to 4pm (US Central Daylight), with time for breaks built in. That makes it 10am-2pm for Pacific time zone attendees, and 1-5pm for Eastern, which should be convenient for almost everyone.

With your ticket to attend the boot camp, you get:

  • Two days of online boot camp, four hours each
  • A review of the entire modernization process from beginning to end
  • A bonus recording of the camp
  • For $399

This might be the only time I lead this kind of boot camp, so get your ticket while there are still seats available!

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