Non-ActiveRecord Models in Rails 4
ActiveRecord comes with a powerful set of validators and other features for attributes of a persisted data model. On other hand, forms are one of the oldest and most important building blocks of...
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What You'll Be CreatingHave you ever wondered how those mysterious links pointing to apps appear in your search results when you search the web with Google? How can app developers make sure their apps...
View ArticleSerialization and Deserialization of Python Objects: Part 1
Python object serialization and deserialization is an important aspect of any non-trivial program. If in Python you save something to a file, if you read a configuration file, or if you respond to an...
View ArticleNew Course: Essential WordPress Plugins
With the right plugins, your WordPress site will run more smoothly, get more visitors, and be less likely to face problems. Discover some of the most useful plugins and find out how to use them in our...
View ArticleBuilding a WordPress-Powered Front End: A Custom Directive for Post Listing
In the previous part of the series, we bootstrapped our AngularJS application, configured routing for different views, and built services around routes for posts, users, and categories. Using these...
View ArticleAndroid From Scratch: Hardware Sensors
One of the things that makes developing for mobile devices different from other platforms is that a mobile phone or tablet is packed full of sensors and other hardware that developers can take...
View ArticleBuilding a WordPress-Powered Front End With the WP REST API and AngularJS:...
In the previous part of the series, we built a custom directive for listing posts on the front end. This directive takes arguments directly in the HTML attribute as well as in the URL to fetch posts...
View ArticleSerialization and Deserialization of Python Objects: Part 2
This is part two of a tutorial on serializing and deserializing Python objects. In part one, you learned the basics and then dove into the ins and outs of Pickle and JSON. In this part you'll explore...
View ArticleInstalling AMP in WordPress
What You'll Be CreatingWhat's AMP?Last October, Google announced AMP as an open-source initiative to provide faster mobile web browsing. As described by TechCrunch, many see AMP as an attempt by Google...
View ArticleHow to Create WordPress Pages With Hierarchy and Templates
In this video from my course on creating content in WordPress, you’ll learn how to create pages, how to add them to a page hierarchy for your site, and how to use page templates.How to Create WordPress...
View ArticleLet's Go: Command-Line Programs With Golang
OverviewThe Go Language is an exciting new language that gains a lot of popularity for a good reason. In this tutorial you'll learn how to write command-line programs with Go. The sample program is...
View ArticleNew Course on WordPress Basics: Create a Navigation Menu
What You'll Be CreatingNavigation menus are key parts of most sites. A good navigation menu will help your visitors find their way around the site and connect to your content.In our new Coffee Break...
View ArticleWhat's New in watchOS 3: Background Tasks
IntroductionWith the upcoming watchOS 3 update to all Apple Watch devices, the performance of many watch applications is going to significantly improve. This is mainly due to the new forms of...
View ArticleMailgun Delivers a New Reporting Dashboard
What You'll Be CreatingBack in May, Exploring Mailgun: The Email Engine for Developers encouraged you to make yourself familiar with the capabilities of Mailgun, my favorite programmable email service....
View ArticleUseful *NIX Shell Commands for Web Developers
So, why *NIX and why do you need to go to the console?According to the statistics of W3Techs, Unix is used by 68% of all the websites whose operating system they know. This means that if you are web...
View ArticleCommand-Line WordPress
What You'll Be CreatingDevelopers and users of WordPress are all too familiar with the /wp-admin administration panel and how it works.This guide is for users and admin alike. I’ve heard them many...
View ArticleCreating Custom WordPress Administration Pages, Part 1
In a previous series, I provided an in-depth guide to working with the WordPress Settings API. For those who are new to WordPress or who have been using other tools such as The Customizer to handle...
View ArticleBuilding Your Startup: Delivering the Meeting Invitation
What You'll Be CreatingIntroductionThis tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to...
View ArticleAndroid From Scratch: Using REST APIs
Most of us have developed voracious appetites for new information, what with the Internet being such an important part of our lives. Our attention spans too are shorter than ever, so building Android...
View ArticleFull-Text Search in Rails Using Elasticsearch
In this article I'm going to show you how to implement full-text search using Ruby on Rails and Elasticsearch. Everyone is used nowadays to entering a search term and getting suggestions as well as...
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