New Course: Programming .NET 4.5
Getting started with the .NET Framework can be a daunting task, as the .NET Framework class library is quite big. But there are a core set of classes and concepts that you'll find yourself using...
View ArticleCreating a Web App From Scratch Using AngularJS and Firebase: Part 4
In the previous tutorial, we implemented the sign-up functionality and also saw how to use AngularJS services to share data between controllers. In this part of the tutorial series, we'll be creating...
View ArticleCreate a Dancing Hangman Game in Corona: Gameplay
What You'll Be CreatingIn the first part of this two-part series, we laid the foundation for transitioning between screens and for drawing the hangman using Corona's drawing API. In the second and...
View ArticleWindows Phone 8 Succinctly: The User Interface
What Is XAML? XAML is the acronym for Extensible Application Markup Language. It’s a markup language based on XML, and its purpose and philosophy are very similar to HTML. Every control that can be...
View ArticleDiagnose WordPress Performance Problems With New Relic
What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial continues where we left off in Using New Relic to Monitor WordPress Performance. Here, I'll give you a conceptual overview of WordPress performance and guide you...
View ArticleSwift from Scratch: Delegation and Properties
In the previous tutorial, you created your first Swift project in Xcode, a simple to-do application. In this installment of Swift from Scratch, we're going to add the ability to create to-do items....
View ArticleAn 8-Step Checklist for Publishing a WordPress Theme on ThemeForest: Part 2
In the previous part of this series, we started reviewing the theme approval process at ThemeForest. In this second part, we'll continue that and go through another set of checklist items.Let's...
View ArticleSetting Up a Mac Dev Machine From Zero to Hero With Dotfiles: Part 2
Hello and welcome to a second edition of Setting Up a Mac Dev Machine From Zero to Hero With Dotfiles. Since I wrote the first article, a few things have changed.This article will go over what's...
View ArticleQuery Improvements in WordPress 4.1
WordPress 4.1 "Dinah" was released in December, and much has been written about the improvements to the user interface: the most talked about change has been the improved writing experience.But if...
View ArticleCreating Compound Views on Android
When building complex applications, you'll often want to reuse the same group of views in various places of the application. One way to solve this problem is by creating a view that encapsulates the...
View ArticleEffectively Contributing to Open Source Projects: Webmaker
What You'll Be CreatingContributing to open source projects has lots of merits. While contributing to such a project, you get to learn the professional way of development that is deployed by big...
View ArticleNew Opportunity for Freelance Writers at Envato Studio
Are you a freelance writer? Are you looking to get more business? If so, our parent company Envato has an exciting opportunity for you.Envato Studio is an online shopfront for freelance services, with...
View ArticleProtecting Your Keys From GitHub
What You'll Be CreatingIn December 2014, Slashdot ran an alarming story Bots Scanning GitHub To Steal Amazon EC2 Keys, based on developer and blogger Andrew Hoffman's experience trying out Ruby on...
View ArticleCreate A Simple CRM in WordPress: Creating a Custom Post Type
If you're a freelance designer, developer, or a business owner, you know how difficult it is to keep a central store of prospective customer data. Once you've accomplished that, it's sometimes...
View ArticleCreating Your First Universal Windows App
Universal Windows apps enable you to target every Windows device in one solution. You develop once, share most of your code, and deploy on Windows, Windows Phone, or Xbox.The goal is to maximize the...
View ArticleA Firefox Experience for iOS
What You'll Be CreatingA Firefox Experience for iOSIn the past few months, Mozilla has been hinting that they might start to work on a Firefox experience for iOS. Recently Firefox VP Jonathan...
View ArticleRunning Your Own Open Source Email Server
What You'll Be CreatingAbout the time of Edward Snowden's NSA PRISM revelations, I began exploring alternative email systems. Australia-based FastMail caught my attention because of a friend's...
View ArticleNew eBooks Available for Subscribers
This month, our new eBooks cover everything from MongoDB to Shopify, and from Backbone.js to Node.js. Read on to find out more about what you can learn.What You'll LearnThis month we've made eight new...
View ArticleWindows Phone 8 Succinctly: Core Concepts
In this tutorial, we'll cover some of the core concepts of Windows Phone development, such as asynchronous programming, navigation, and managing orientation changes. We'll also take a quick look at the...
View ArticleNode.js Succinctly: Introduction to Node.js
What Is Node.js?According to the Node.js website, “Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven,...
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