About the Author
Fabrizio Caldarelli is an Italian programmer who started his professional career
in his youth by programming with desktop-oriented languages, the rst being Visual
Basic. From the year 2000 onward, he spent 5 years developing software to manage
radio broadcasts. During that period, he studied C#.NET to make porting of all
software versus this new platform.
During the same period, he learned web programming, HTML, and ASP, and
in 2003, he began to develop software using PHP as the default programming
language for web pages. During those years, he collaborated as a teacher for PHP
programming courses with
http://www.html.it/, an important online reference
for developers in Italy.
In 2008, he added new skills to his experience by starting to develop mobile projects
for Nokia devices with Symbian C++, and a few years later, he started working on
projects for iOS, Android, and naturally Windows phone.
After many PHP-based web projects, in late 2012, he moved on to the Yii framework
as his primary framework for developing web applications.
Since then, he has built many important projects based on Yii 1 and later on Yii 2, day
by day discovering the powerful improvement that Yii provides to getting work done.
Now he lives in Sacrofano, a small town near Rome, with his wife, Serena.
I want to thank Erika Accili for supporting me during the writing and
organization of this book. I also want to thank my wife, Serena, for
sustaining me during all the work, and for the rest of her life indeed!
