WordPress is easily the most powerful open source blogging and content management system available online today, and so working knowledge of its intricacies is a boon to any developer or designer resume.
Today, WordPress powers 25% of the Internet. It’s easy to use, incredibly popular, and not going anywhere anytime soon.
But WordPress can be slow. So how do you optimize it?
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Today, JavaScript is at the core of virtually all modern web applications. The past several years in particular have witnessed the proliferation of a wide array of powerful JavaScript-based libraries and frameworks for single page application (SPA) development, graphics and animation, and even server-side JavaScript platforms. JavaScript has truly become ubiquitous in the world of web app development and is therefore an increasingly important skill to master.
Over the last year, I took part in three large projects. My task was to move away from the old architecture based on PHP and server-side HTML generation, and transition to REST API.
This experience is based on the time I got tasked to build a website based on Shopify for the first time. TL;DR, Shopify is an paid e-commerce platform that has all its hosting done on their servers. Similar to wordpress.com, Shopify also uses a web-based code editor. The editor comes with features like code and matching tags highlighting which is pretty good.
Hi, I’m Tony Sanjaya, a web developer at Stampede Design. As my experience in web development grew over time, I needed a place where I could share my thoughts and findings. Other times, I wanted to share with others on what I have built. This was the problem statement that came about and to solve it I realised I needed some kind of CMS or blogging platform to post my works. It needed to be customisable, free of complications and easy to maintain.
Sublime Text is a fast and powerful text editor that has many features catered for programmers. It is available on OS X, Linux, and Windows.
One of the reasons why this is such a great editor is because it can be fully used using just the keyboard, leaving both hands free for coding. Primary functions are binded to hotkey combinations. If you are familiar with Terminal, then you will feel at home with its interface.
You may be familiar with Laravel, the free open-source PHP framework built specifically for web artisans. Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel was not satisfied with the existing PHP frameworks at the time (CodeIgniter, Yii, Zend and Symfony) and because of this, decided to build his own. It has been 5 years since its introduction to the web and now its latest version is arriving soon, Laravel 5.3.
WordPress 4.6 Beta 1 was released on June 2016 and has been getting consistent updates up till now. The current announced version is Beta 4 which is already available now. Its fully functioning date of release will be in August 2016, so be sure to check it out then. So without further ado, let’s find out what’s new.
As a developer, we want to maintain our code well. This is to ensure that ourselves and others can understand the code later on. We should have a standard in writing a code, and one of the most basic collections of principles that can help us is Clean Code. When your code is clean, it becomes better, understandable and a lot more maintainable. The best method to achieve this is refactoring.
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