Getting to Know LibSass
LibSass is getting more and more popular every day. Not a day goes by without someone claiming they have proudly moved their codebase over to LibSass. Oh, great.Do you feel a bit lost? Not quite sure...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Adaptive Design
Apple has been pushing developers to create universal iOS applications for some time now. At WWDC 12, Auto Layout was released for iOS and improvements followed for it in iOS 7. And now with iOS 8,...
View ArticleBuild Your Own T-Shirt Shop With the Spreadshirt WordPress Plugin
What You'll Be CreatingSelling Your Own T-ShirtsEarlier this year, I had an idea to sell T-shirts that counter our increasingly anti-social technology-oriented society. I came up with the brand...
View ArticleNew Course: MongoDB and Ruby
If you feel you have trouble maintaining your data because it's either too big or too slow or too expensive, then perhaps you should consider taking MongoDB for a spin.In MongoDB and Ruby, you'll learn...
View ArticleReleasing your WordPress Theme Framework
You may have just developed your theme framework for yourself and/or your team in which case the steps involved in releasing your code won't be relevant. But if you want to make your code widely...
View ArticleWriting Documentation for Your WordPress Theme Framework
So, you now have a WordPress theme framework. Congratulations! The hard work you've put into developing it will pay off in the long run and make your development process smother, more streamlined and...
View ArticleApply to Be the Next Tuts+ Code Course Producer!
Tuts+ Is Looking for a New Code Course Producer!We’re looking for a new Course Producer to drive the content direction of Tuts+ Code Courses, working with a great team of regular instructors to produce...
View ArticleDesign Patterns: The Decorator Pattern
Earlier in this series we explored both the facade and adapter design patterns in this series. Using facade, we can simplify large systems, and by implementing adapter we can stay safe while working...
View ArticleCreating Your WordPress Knowledge Base's Front End
In the previous part of this series, I showed you how to register custom taxonomies for your knowledge base and deregister the ones you don't need.The next step is to create the front end, by creating...
View ArticleSwift from Scratch: Closures
If you've worked with blocks in C/Objective-C or lambdas in Ruby, then you won't have a hard time wrapping your head around the concept of closures. Closures are nothing more than blocks of...
View ArticleDesign Patterns: The Strategy Pattern
Earlier have covered three design patterns in this series. We have defined four categories of different design patterns. In this article, I am going to explain about Strategy Design Pattern, which...
View ArticleDesign Patterns: The Simple Factory Pattern
When you think of a factory, what comes to mind? For me, it's a place where things are created - that is, it's a centralized placed where things are produced. Later, the delivery of said products are...
View ArticleDynamically Adding Four Footer Widget Areas
These days, many WordPress themes have a number of widget areas in the footer, meaning you can create a "fat footer" with multiple widget areas side by side. It's something I use on all of my...
View ArticleCSS Level 4 Selectors to Watch Out For
It’s about time we started learning some new CSS, isn’t it?We’re all used to new features being introduced to frameworks left and right, but we often forget that new features are constantly being...
View ArticleiOS 8: How to Build a Simple Action Extension
App extensions were introduced during WWDC 14 as a way to extend the functionality of iOS apps to other parts of the system and to allow for better inter-app communication.To name a few, you can use a...
View ArticleHow to Set Up Configurable Products Using Options in OpenCart
One of the many useful features provided by OpenCart is "Options". In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Options to set up different variations of the same product without actually creating...
View ArticleImport and Archive Your Tweets With WordPress
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, I'll guide you through the installation, configuration and customization of a free, open source Twitter Archive plugin and its accompanying WordPress theme.Why...
View ArticleHow To Write a Product Feature Set
One of the key benefits of a product feature set is that it helps communicate your product vision with others, such as your team or investors. In this article, I'll teach you how to structure your...
View ArticleHosting a WordPress Website on Google App Engine
When WordPress started out, it was just a blogging platform, but it has continuously evolved into a full content management system, offering its users the ability to create and publish awesome websites...
View ArticleNew Course: WebSocket-Powered Rails Applications
Today's web applications demand real-time, low-latency data transfer. Users expect to interact with data in as close to real time as possible without minimizing the overall user experience. WebSockets...
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