Some of you might know that American post-hardcore/rock band from Irvine, California, Thrice are my all time favourite band. I have seen them every time they’ve visited Australia before they went on hiatus.
Today, my latest and quite possibly most prized addition to my Thrice music collection arrived, a rare and very hard to find promo copy of The Artist In The Ambulance in instrumental form. This was one hard CD to track down, but I found it and bought it for a steal as well. I would have paid way more than I did for this just to have it, but I am glad I didn’t.
Laravel is undoubtedly one of the best things to happen to PHP and you’ve probably guessed based on my post history, I really like it and want to expose more people to its cool features and help the PHP ecosystem move away from the stigma of all PHP code being bad.
Today, in this tutorial like post I will be explaining how you can add in a user following system like Twitter, Quora or any other social network that allows you to follow another user and have users follow you.
* …And adapting existing sites to conform to the new screen sizes and resolutions.*
The latest version of the Apple hypePhone has been announced, which means developers need to prepare new sites and existing sites to work with the new screen sizes and pixel densities.
Mobile First The iPhone 6 further highlights developers should be developing their sites mobile first. A mobile first strategy will all but ensure your site functions on any mobile or handheld device, regardless of how big it is.
Apples 2014 product line up announcements were some of the worse kept secrets in the companies history. The leaks were more or less accurate to what we saw revealed.
Two new iPhone models dubbed the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus (notice the lack of a C variant) and of course the worse kept secret of them all: the iWatch.
I actually switched to a Samsung Galaxy S4 a year or so ago after using an iPhone since the beginning because of lack of control, NFC and the small size of the phone itself. I actually kind of hoped the success of the Galaxy and HTC One would mean Apple finally starts competing and innovating again.
As most developers already know, Google offer a nice list of CDN assets that include jQuery and jQuery UI as well as AngularJS.
Although it isn’t publicly listed on Google’s CDN libraries list located here, separate modules like ngRoute and ngResource are also hosted and can be included. Why Google don’t publicly state this fact beats me.
Please ensure you change the version number to reflect the current version of AngularJS, at the time of writing this it was version 1.2.23.
The web industry is rife with job titles. Front End Ninja, Front End Overlord, Front End Engineer, Front End Developer, I could go on. The two I am focusing on are Front End Engineer and Front End Developer.
Is there are a difference between the two, and if so, what is the difference?
The definition of “engineer” according to Wikipedia is:
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical, societal and commercial problems. Engineers design materials, structures, and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.
Once upon a time Compass was an invaluable value add to any SASS project. Rather than looking up vendor prefixes all of the time or understanding the priority order, you could just include a Compass mixin and away you went. It was a great timesaving tool, but now the time has come to move on.
The one tool that I use nowadays is Autoprefixer. Basically what it will do is go through your CSS and add in vendor prefixes where required. This means you can write standard prefix-free CSS and not have to worry about finding fallback vendor prefixes or different syntax (I’m lookin at you Internet Explorer and Flexbox).
Chances are if you’re a web developer, front-ender, PHP programmer, web expert or whatever your title is, you use Sublime Text Editor and there is also a chance you’re using a single digit percentage of its true power.
This isn’t an overly complex or comprehensive list of shortcuts, just shortcuts I believe every developer should know. Knowing how to select a line or delete an entire line just using your keyboard is invaluable in itself.
Provided nothing is pushed back, the WordPress JSON REST API plugin is being integrated into the WordPress core and is slated for version 4.1.
As WordPress becomes more and more like a PHP application framework, the robustness of WordPress continues to grow. The JSON REST API will be a massive feature that will make creating single page websites and applications a whole lot easier. Being able to fetch a page, archive or single post as JSON and then use that to create fast and lean single page websites will be a welcome addition.
The common mistake that newbies make when using MySQL is using the same username and password for all of their connected applications. Generally, I’ve seen the default “root” user used as the user in an application like WordPress with permissions to modify all databases. This is bad.
Before we proceed, we want to login as the root MySQL user (the super admin). We achieve this by typing: mysql -u root -p – you will be asked for the root user password. Once you are in, this is where the magic happens. We are now logged in as the MySQL super-boss.