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How I Set Up My Development Machine on Windows
Every developer is different. This article is not an explanation of what is “best” or what you “should” do, it is simply a look at one developer’s tools. I work with PHP, HTML, MySQL, CSS, and...
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Danger of the Accidental Click (and other UX issues)
When designing your application, website or form UI, one of the things you will think about is placement of various commands and buttons. This might be menu items, a toolbar, some buttons, text links,...
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Google Web Designer: Production-Ready Tool or Toy?
Google Web Designer is a graphical design tool for creating HTML5/CSS3/Javascript advertisements using animations and 3D transforms. By using their graphical tools such as drawing, text, and 3D...
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Getting Started with Vagrant on Windows
Vagrant is the hot new buzzword right now on the web, it seems like everyone must be using it. If you don’t know, you’ll know Vagrant is a program to aid in creating virtual machines via a set of...
View ArticleThe Best Markdown Editor for Windows
Markdown, originally written as a Perl script by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz in 2004, has caught fire and the technology has exploded into many different forms of “text to HTML” markup engines. The...
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10 Handy Disposable Online Services
Not everything useful on the web needs a login or a software download. Some services can be a bit more flexible, and a bit less permanent. In this article I'm going to take a look at a host of such...
View ArticleHow to Block Entire Countries from Accessing Your Website
If you run a website, then by default it is accessible to the whole planet. Many websites are simply not relevant to people in other countries. So, you should not expect significant traffic from them...
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13 Tips on Designing and Building Apps More Efficiently
I've been thinking a lot lately about all the small utility apps I've programmed over the years and how I could have designed them better. I loosely define a utility as any project designed to solve a...
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Best Free and Cheap Website Options for Small Businesses
Not long ago, if you wanted a website, you had to be willing to shell out at least a few grand for the most basic of static sites. I remember about ten years ago at a firm I worked for, quotes for...
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Transphporm – a Different Kind of Template Engine
If there is one thing the world needs, it’s definitely another PHP template engine! But wait, this one is different! Many PHP template engines (Smarty, Blade, Twig…) are little more than abstracted PHP...
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3 More Joins You Should Be Familiar With
There are many ways to JOIN data from two database tables and filter the information you require. Craig Buckler wrote a popular piece on understanding JOINs; namely INNER, LEFT, RIGHT, and FULL OUTER....
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MODX: The Best CMS You’ve Never Used?
MODX is a content management system that was first released in 2005 by Ryan Thrash, Raymond Irving and Jason Coward. They created it to give them freedom of design and yet retain robust security which...
View ArticleWhat’s the Difference between Meteor and Electron?
And which should I learn and use? Meteor and Electron are both cross-platform frameworks for developing apps using web languages and technologies such as JavaScript, Node, HTML, and CSS. For a while I...
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