I dislike code generation and usually, I see it as a “smell”. If you are using code generation of any kind, there is a good chance something is wrong with your design or solution! So perhaps instead of writing a […]

In the last article, we explored the advanced controls available in the Theme Customizer, and how to implement them.
We’re going to look at how to create our own custom control, allowing you to choose which […]

In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to use the accelerometer, one of the many hardware sensors of modern smartphones, in an Android application. I’ll explain what an accelerometer is and why it may be […]

So you’re learning to use the Django Web Framework and you’re loving it. But you want an attractive, easy to use API for your application? Look no further than the Django Rest Framework (DRF). The DRF is powerful, […]

Typically, in a WordPress website, the home page shows the blogger’s latest posts, but what if you wanted the homepage of your website to display the same page every time? For those of you who are just getting […]

IntroductionXcode, the de facto integrated development environment (IDE) for iOS and OS X development, is a fantastic piece of software. It offers everything a Cocoa developer needs to go from a fragile idea to a […]

Over the past few months, we’ve been taking a look at all of the features and aspects that make WordPress a potential foundation for application development.
In fact, we’ve spent roughly 15 articles talking about […]

It's been awhile since we've seen any updates in the editor space. The last big splash was made by Sublime Text which took the web development community by storm, especially once Package Control came around to […]

In the first post in this series I gave a quick overview of Grunt and in the next post I’m going to walk you through the necessary steps as to how using Grunt can improve your WordPress development skills. […]

The number of people browsing the web using mobile devices grows every day. It’s therefore important to optimize websites and web applications to accommodate mobile visitors. The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is […]

Whether you’re creating a mobile application or a web service, keeping sensitive data secure is important and security has become an essential aspect of every software product. In this tutorial, I will show you […]

Regardless of the language you’re programming in, we always want to try to produce clean, concise, and correct code. This is a sign of a good programmer and it lets you know your apps are running properly. Linting […]

This is the second part of step-by-step tutorial on plugin development. As you may remember, in previous part we have discussed the concept of the plugin and defined the plan of development process. I you have not […]

In this first introduction video (of a new series), I’ll show you the basics of working with the Symfony 2, PHP framework. We’ll go over finding the online documentation, downloading, installing, and simple […]

So far in this series you’ve learned how to access WordPress meta data, and work with the arrays in which they are returned. We don’t just add custom fields to WordPress posts so we can display this information, […]

In the first part of this tutorial, we set up the project and created the game’s interface. We also created and implemented a function to create a deck of cards. In this second tutorial, we will create the game […]

In the first part of this series about using CreateJs, we had a look at EaselJs. In this second and last part, we will look at PreloadJs, SoundJs, and TweenJs.

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PreloadJS
PreloadJS is a library that lets […]

In this two-part tutorial, I will show you how to build a poker game using the Corona SDK. You will learn about touch controls, tweening elements, timers, and how to create a custom sort function.<br […]

Over the past year I have given a presentation about using the browser for debugging client-side bugs. Throughout the presentation I would focus on using Chrome, as it’s my primary browser and I just don’t have […]

Throughout this series, we’ve been looking at the various facilities that make it possible to treat WordPress as a foundation for web application development.
Thus far, we’ve covered a lot of ground:

We’ve talked […]