Online Training
- NomadPHP & NomadJS
- Day Camp 4 Developers
- Laracasts
- Treehouse
- learnhowtoprogram.com –by epicodus (a local Bootcamp)
- codeschool.com – great GIT intro
- freecodecamp.com
- coursera.org
- udemy.com – make sure you sign up for emails because they are always running great promotions
- lynda.com – your local library may offer a free subscription
Books
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software – by Erich Gamma
- Mastering Object Oriented PHP – by Brandon Savage
- Python 3 Object Oriented Programming – by Dusty Phillips
- Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby – by Sandi Metz
- Clean Code / The Clean Coder – both by Robert Martin
- The Pragmatic Programmer – by Andrew Hunt/David Thomas
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code – by Martin Fowler, Adam Culp has so graciously rewritten the examples in this book for PHP
Podcasts
A great resource for PHP Listing: phppodcasts.com
Some of my favorites:
Videos
YouTube has some great videos, here is a link to My PHP Subscriptions
People
There are so many fabulous people both within PHP and without. Here are a few of my personal favorites:
@dead_lugosi, @CalEvans, @adamculp, @adamwathan, @LornaJane
You can see all my PHP followings here: https://twitter.com/alenaholligan/lists/php
Practical ways to strengthen your skills
- Code Review
- Pair/peer programming
- Contribute to open source
- Open up a personal project
- Continuous learning
- Participate in the community,
- Meetup.com (check out PHPdx)
- php.ug
- Conferences (check out Cascadia PHP)
- Forums
- Teach