Programming with Yii2: Getting Started
What You'll Be CreatingIf you're asking, "what's Yii?" check out my earlier tutorial: Introduction to the Yii Framework, which reviews the benefits of Yii and includes an overview of what's new in Yii...
View ArticleIntroduction to Tablesorter
What You'll Be CreatingTablesorter is a straightforward jQuery plugin that provides dynamic column sorting and pagination in your HTML tables. It's a nice way to provide sortable, scripted tables that...
View ArticleNew Course: Speedy Workflows With Atom
Atom is the latest feature-packed text editor created by GitHub. If you're already a fan of Sublime Text but love the convenience of a fully integrated development environment, just wait until you see...
View ArticleAdding the CSS for a Color Scheme in the Theme Customizer
In the first part of this two part series, I showed you how to create the settings and controls for a color scheme in the WordPress theme customizer. In this part, you'll use these to define CSS in the...
View ArticleCreate a Fruit Ninja Inspired Game with Unity
What You'll Be CreatingIntroductionIn this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a mobile 3D game using C# and Unity. The objective of the game is to cut the fruit that appears on the stage using the...
View ArticleIntroduction to Generators & Koa.js: Part 2
What You'll Be CreatingWelcome to the second part of our series on generators and Koa. If you missed it you can read read part 1 here. Before starting with the development process, make sure that you...
View ArticleDesign Patterns: The Adapter Pattern
In the last article, we looked at how the facade design pattern can be employed to simplify the employment of any large and complex system using only a simple facade class. In this article, we will...
View Article50 Filters of WordPress: An Introduction to Filters
WordPress is an amazing platform and the most popular content management system in the world. The reason for this title is because of its extensibility. In this series, we're going to learn about...
View ArticleAndroid SDK: Working with Picasso
In this quick tip, we take a brief look at the popular Android image library, Picasso. It's a simple and practical library created and maintained by Square. It is great for working with images in your...
View ArticleBuilding With the Twitter API: Getting Started
What You'll Be CreatingGetting started with the Twitter API may seem a bit complicated, but it’s actually quite straightforward. There are a number of libraries for common languages that make the...
View ArticleUseful Shortcuts and Tips for a Faster Workflow in Sublime Text 3
Sublime Text 3 has a lot of features and shortcuts for the modern coder to play with. Let’s take a look at the most important which I think will boost your workflow to a new level. Learn how to use...
View ArticleUseful Shortcuts for a Faster Workflow in Sublime Text 3
Sublime Text 3 has a lot of features and shortcuts for the modern coder to play with. Let’s take a look at the most important which I think will boost your workflow to a new level. Learn how to use...
View ArticleUnit Testing Succintly: Strategies For Unit Tests
Testing approaches depend on where you are in the project and your “budget,” in terms of time, money, manpower, need, etc. Ideally, unit testing is budgeted into the development process, but...
View ArticleBuilding a Social Profile Widget to Display Your Follower Count
In the first part of this series, we looked at how to to programmatically retrieve the count of a Facebook page's Likes, and Twitter and Google+ followers. By the end, we had created three PHP helper...
View ArticleCreate a Facebook Style Sliding Menu in Sencha Touch
The Facebook style sliding menu has become a widely used design pattern in mobile applications. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the power of HTML5 and Sencha Touch's Menu class to create your...
View ArticleNew Course: Windows Phone 8 Development
In the landscape of mobile applications these days there are three main players: iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. While Windows Phone may be in a distant third place at the moment, it is definitely...
View ArticleHow Theme Frameworks Actually Work
Theme Frameworks can be extremely powerful. For non-technical WordPress users, they make it possible to create a unique site which looks like it's running a bespoke theme, and for WordPress developers...
View ArticleCreate a Text to Speech App With Swift
With the release of iOS 7, Apple introduced a text to speech API that allows developers to add text to speech functionality to an application in a quick and easy way. This can be useful when adding an...
View Article50 Filters of WordPress: The First 10 Filters
In the first post of the series, we introduced the idea of the world of filters within the context of WordPress. In this tutorial, we're going to start reviewing 50 selected filters by explaining what...
View ArticleBecome an Envato Meetup Host
Inspired by your enthusiasm and support for Envato meetups over the years, and our desire to solve the one grumble about them (“Why can’t one be held in my town?”), we’re excited to announce the Envato...
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