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The Wheel: Twig

piccoloprincipe — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:26:20 +0000

A question that comes up cyclically every year in the PHP community: do we need a templating language for PHP or the language itself is already practical enough that you can write view in plain PHP? For the ones who think the first option is the correct answer, Twig is a good choice for the language itself. Preview Text: As complexity goes up, you...

Alternative Jobs For Bored Web/App Developers

fecak — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:30:00 +0000

I’ve recently seen a spate of engineers declaring boredom and/or dissatisfaction with their current roles and responsibilities, which leads them to openly question what options are available. Perhaps building accounting software products or maintaining the web presence of an insurance firm just isn’t inspiring you to get out of bed anymore. Preview Text: ...

Check Out cfBrackets

BenForta — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:30:00 +0000

Thanks to Reto Aeberli, Brackets is getting some CFML love in the form of cfBrackets. It's early days for this project, but this one looks really promising. Preview Text: Thanks to Reto Aeberli, Brackets is getting some CFML love in the form of cfBrackets. It's early days for this project, but this one looks really promising. ...

Creative Cloud is Here

cfjedimaster — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:30:00 +0000

Good morning, folks. I know a few of you are tired (as I am) after staying up last night for the launch of Creative Cloud. If you haven't kept up to date, the Creative Cloud (CC) is the new version of our Creative Suite. Preview Text: If you haven't kept up to date, the Creative Cloud (CC) is the new version of our Creative Suite. Creative...

JavaScript tip: Log those important APIs and get some code coverage

dublintech — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:30:00 +0000

Any web architecture using JavaScript will always have plenty of AJAX requests to the server. There are many, many, many different ways AJAX calls can be made. Suppose you're thinking good software engineering and you want to avoid coupling your client code to the AJAX mechanism you are using? You could use a wrapper / bridge / proxy type object which contains all the APIs to get...

New Trends in Web Design – Summer 2013

AramisGC — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:30:00 +0000

New Trends in Web Design – Summer 2013 First at all, I would like to apologize for our delay with tutorials, the reason is that I had been on vacation from June 6 to 17 June. Only yesterday I came home. Today I have prepared a new hand-selected collection of new trends in web design for your imagination and inspiration. If you are looking for a fresh ideas how to enhance your website – this...

A Few Random Thoughts on Design

deconcoder — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:30:00 +0000

In using iOS7 for a bit, my biggest problem with it is that the design is in my face, and I am constantly reflecting back on that body snatchers video of Jony Ive explaining the rationale. That‘s today‘s target. The good news is I still really like the phone and find it mostly pretty usable. The better news is that I think this is going to be a veryinteresting test of Apple‘s ability to...

Alternative Jobs For Bored Web/App Developers

fecak — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:50:16 +0000

iPad App Submission - Don't Use Apple's App Loader

KChodorow — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:04:16 +0000

My iPad app is approved and going live on July 1st! Music Gremlins is an ear-training game where you beat gremlins by matching the notes that they play. Different types of gremlins demand different strategies. As a musician, I found it very difficult to practice relative pitch and this makes it easier and more fun. Preview Text: My iPad app is...

APIMASH Webcast Recording: Exploring Social Networking APIs

gduthie — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:49:16 +0000

If you missed last week's APIMASH Webcast on the Social Networking APIs, don't fret…below, you'll find the recording of the webcast featuring yours truly, and my peers Lindsay Lindstrom and Tara Walker: Here's the abstract from Channel 9: Preview Text: If you missed last week's APIMASH Webcast on the Social Networking APIs, don't...

Flightstats APIs: Global Coverage of Commercial Airline Flight Info

stevenwillmott — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:20:16 +0000

Originally Authored by Vanessa Ramos APIs have been a core part of our business since 2003. We’ve built FlightStats around providing day-of-travel data and services to the travel industry. APIs are the primary delivery mechanism. Preview Text: I find it useful to think about APIs as a class of user experience. They are a projection of your...

Links You Don't Want To Miss (June 19)

mitchp — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:20:16 +0000

There’s no such thing as Declarative and Imperative With imperative programming, you tell the compiler what you want to happen, step by step. With declarative, you write code that describes what you want, but not how to get it. Right? Not so, say Liz Keogh and Dan North. Preview Text: Some interesting insight on declarative and imperative...

Typical Rails bugs

andrzejkrzywda — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:30:00 +0000

As part of my research on improving Rails application, I noticed a pattern in the bugs that are quite characteristic to Rails in several applications. They have certain 'visible' things in common: Preview Text: As part of my research on improving Rails application, I noticed a pattern in the bugs that are quite characteristic to Rails in...

Get Current Plugin URL

paulund1 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:30:00 +0000

During WordPress plugin development you will need to include any Javascript or CSS files used by plugin inside the plugin folder, this means that it can be used exactly the same way on any theme you have installed. Preview Text: During WordPress plugin development you will need to include any Javascript or CSS files used by plugin inside the...

Getting Started With Google’s Dart Language

simpleprogrammer — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:30:00 +0000

I was a little skeptical of the Dart language when Google first announced it. When I looked at the syntax of the language I thought that it didn’t really seem to offer anything new. Why create another language that is not very different than what we already have? How is this actually much better than JavaScript? Preview Text: Why create...