How to Make Email a Powerful Part of Your Web Application
My favorite popular productivity tools, iDoneThis and TeamSnippets, give me a simple way to record and share the tasks that I have completed each day with my teammates. Each day, the services send me...
View ArticleNew Course: Building Multitenant Apps in Laravel
Multitenant apps are all over the web, but tackling your first one can be challenging. Our new course walks you through developing a multitenant application in Laravel 4.2, covering both...
View ArticleKeeping Up with Ghost 0.5
What You'll Be CreatingOn August 11th, the open source blogging upstart Ghost released a major incremental update, Ghost 0.5 MSR1 (Ghost began as a Kickstarter project in 2013 by founders John O'Nolan...
View ArticleUsing Pull Requests as Code Reviews
When developing software, source control makes our lives so much easier. From tracking our changes to introducing code collaboration, it helps increase our productivity. Furthermore, the fact that...
View ArticleWooCommerce: Adding Physical Products to Your Store
In the first two parts of this series, you learned how to install WooCommerce and configure its settings, followed by how to configure product settings. Now it's time to add some products to your...
View ArticleSignals and Microinteractions for Smartwatches: Hands-On
In the previous article, I've introduced two design principles aimed at wearables, signals and microinteractions. In this article, we'll create a sample Android Wear project to show how these...
View ArticleBuilding Advanced Email Features With IMAP and PHP
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, I'll walk you through some real world examples of how you can use PHP and IMAP to build new features for managing your email—features that the big email...
View ArticleDesign Patterns: The Facade Pattern
When it comes to design patterns, you may have questions:Why should we use design patterns in programming? Our code can work just fine without it.To that, my counter question would be: "Would you...
View ArticleBuild a Custom API to Connect WordPress With Ruby on Rails
What You'll Be CreatingOnce upon a time, web applications used to be monoliths that did everything all by themselves. These days, not so much. With web services opening up their APIs, developers are...
View ArticleGet a Free Year of Learning With Your Hosting Plan
For a limited time only when you purchase an InMotion Hosting plan for just $3.49/mo you'll also receive a free yearly subscription to Tuts+ (worth $180).What Will You Get?Your hosting plan with...
View ArticleSolutions to WordPress eCommerce Challenges
In the previous part of this series, we looked at some of the challenges come up when implementing an eCommerce solution using WordPress themes and plugins.In this particular post, I intend to offer...
View ArticleGetting Up to Speed With Xcode 6
Each release of Xcode presents developers with enhanced tools to help building their apps. This year's release, Xcode 6, introduces new ways for developers to design and build their software. In this...
View ArticleUnit Testing Succinctly: NUnit
This is an extract from the Unit Testing Succinctly eBook, by Marc Clifton, kindly provided by Syncfusion.The following table maps the attributes used for writing tests with NUnit with Visual...
View ArticleUnit Testing Succinctly: Advanced Unit Testing
This is an extract from the Unit Testing Succinctly eBook, by Marc Clifton, kindly provided by Syncfusion.In this article, we're going to begin talking about a few of the advanced topics that come with...
View ArticleUsing AlterEgo to Add Two-Factor Authentication to Your WordPress Site
While WordPress does a good job at handling basic security, its login is still only as secure as your username and password — just like the login on pretty much every web site out there. The jury is...
View ArticleSecuring Your Server Login
What You'll Be CreatingThanks to the growing abundance of useful self-hosted apps such as WordPress and the affordable growth of cloud hosting providers, running your own server is becoming...
View ArticleUnit Testing Succinctly: Other Purposes
This is an extract from the Unit Testing Succinctly eBook, by Marc Clifton, kindly provided by Syncfusion.Unit testing is also valuable for other purposes.As Examples of UsageOne of the side benefits...
View ArticleCreating Dummy Text in WordPress
When developing a new WordPress site, you'll often want to add some dummy text to your posts and pages so you can see what the site will look like before the content is published. In this tutorial,...
View ArticleBasic Functional Testing With Symfony 2's Crawler
Testing your web applications is one of the best things you can do to ensure its health, safety, and security, both for the app and your app's visitors. Symfony 2 offers a complete integration testing...
View ArticleCreating Maintainable WordPress Meta Boxes: Verify and Sanitize
Throughout this series, we've been creating a plugin that's meant to provide authors with a way to collect, manage, and save ideas and references to content that they're creating within WordPress.While...
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