Packaging thirdparty plugins with your WordPress theme using TGM Plugin Activation library

When you’re shipping your theme for sell, it’s often required to bundle the required plugins. Some people just keep these plugins like general vendor libraries inside their theme and load them using php’s require_once.

from My Pocket http://hasin.me/2015/09/28/packaging-thirdparty-plugins-with-your-wordpress-theme-using-tgm-plugin-activation-library/

What Grid System Architecture and the Golden Ratio Do for Web Design

Good design in any discipline usually carries a structure of order and harmony. Since the Renaissance, artists and architects have used a strong understanding of proportions to create aesthetically pleasing architecture.

from My Pocket http://uxmag.com/articles/what-grid-system-architecture-and-the-golden-ratio-do-for-web-design?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UXM+%28UX+Magazine%29

Advanced WordPress Management With WP-CLI – Smashing Magazine

The command-line interface has always been popular in the world of developers, because it provides tools that boost productivity and speed up the development process.

from My Pocket http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/09/wordpress-management-with-wp-cli/

How to undo (almost) anything with Git · GitHub

One of the most useful features of any version control system is the ability to "undo" your mistakes. In Git, "undo" can mean many slightly different things.

from My Pocket https://github.com/blog/2019-how-to-undo-almost-anything-with-git

The Nearly-Headless CMS

If you’ve been paying attention to the CMS scene lately, you’ve probably heard the terms “headless” and “decoupled.” These terms describe websites and applications where the CMS is not used to render the actual site or application.

from My Pocket http://alistapart.com/column/nearly-headless-cms

Web Development Reading List #105 – Smashing Magazine

What’s happening in the industry? What important techniques have emerged recently? What about new case studies, insights, techniques and tools? Our dear friend Anselm Hannemann1 is keeping track of everything in the web development reading list2 so you don’t have to.

from My Pocket http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/09/web-development-reading-list-105/

Breaking Up Large Files Into Sections

The Lodge is members-only web design and development videos and live help. Log In or Sign Up.

from My Pocket https://css-tricks.com/breaking-up-large-files-into-sections/

Appendix N: Property Index

This appendix is informative, not normative.

from My Pocket http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/propidx.html

18 Tools to Help Content Marketers Block & Tackle SEO

In order to scale any content marketing program, every marketer must be equipped with the right tools. Not only is it essential that you create quality content on a consistent basis, but it MUST be optimized in a way that enables you to be the best answer wherever your customers are searching.

from My Pocket http://www.toprankblog.com/2015/09/18-seo-tools-content-marketers/

Get Browser Information with Intern

You know how you can't remember something your spouse feels is really important but you can remember every funny line from that movie you saw when you were 17?  That's how I feel after months of writing selenium tests using the Intern framework -- I've forgotten lots of important front-end stuff

from My Pocket http://davidwalsh.name/browser-name-intern

PHP News, Views and Community

Recent posts from the PHP Quickfix site:

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/23206

PHP News, Views and Community

Thijs Feryn has a post to his site sharing a video interview with Kristof De Jaeger talking about Drupalcon and Drupal 8 in general. Kristof is a well-known member of the Drupal community and has spoken at several events, including this year's Drupalcon Barcelona 2015.

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/23199

Get started

from My Pocket http://www.crowdfireapp.com/?r=tw

Web SEO Analytics API

from My Pocket http://www.webseoanalytics.com/api/

Interview with Chris Spruck

Downloads: 61

from My Pocket https://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2015/09/29/interview-with-chris-spruck-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+VoicesOfTheElephpant+%28Voices+of+the+ElePHPant%29

Top 10+ Selected Resources For Your Projects

In need of speeding up your web design work? We have gathered some of the best tools that will help you save time, enhance and develop your projects faster. Have a look!

from My Pocket http://davidwalsh.name/top-10-selected-resources-projects?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bludice+%28David+Walsh+Blog%29

Flexible and Easily Maintainable Laravel + Angular Material Apps

In this article, we’re going to set up a Laravel API with Angular Material for the front end. We’re also going to follow best practices that will help us scale with the number of developers working on the project and the complexity behind it.

from My Pocket http://www.sitepoint.com/flexible-and-easily-maintainable-laravel-angular-material-apps/

PHP News, Views and Community

In a post to his site today Shameer C shows you how to replace Pimple in Slim 3 as an application's dependency injection container. He replaces it with the Aura.Di container, a relatively easy replacement thanks to the container interoperability efforts. He starts by talking a bit about the Aura.

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/23200

Mars Google Doodle Posted Shortly After NASA Shared Evidence Of Water Flowing On The Red Planet

Just hours after today’s announcement from NASA that it had found evidence of water flowing on Mars, Google posted a Mars-themed Doodle to mark the major discovery.

from My Pocket http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/GCnh3twjbXw/mars-google-doodle-posted-shortly-after-nasa-shared-evidence-of-water-flowing-on-the-red-planet-231854

Joind.in at the PHPNW Hackathon

It's PHPNW time again, and that means hackathon! This conference has a strong tradition of hands-on building as well as the usual talks you'd expect to see, and next week will be no exception to that as there's a hackathon on Friday night before the main conference on Saturday and Sunday.

from My Pocket http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2015/joind-in-at-the-phpnw-hackathon-2

PHP News, Views and Community

On the SitePoint PHP blog they've posted a tutorial from author Nicola Pietroluongo that wants to help demystify regular expressions with a few more real-world examples.

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/23195

Interviewing Kristof De Jaeger and discussing Drupal 8 & Drupalcon

Last week I had the privilege to chat with Kristof De Jaeger (AKA @swentel on Twitter) at Drupalcon in Barcelona. I did an interview with him and we talked about a bunch of things, all of which are somewhat Drupal related. We did the interview at a skatepark near the conference venue.

from My Pocket http://blog.feryn.eu/2015/09/28/interviewing-kristof-de-jaeger-and-discussing-drupal-8-and-drupalcon/

PHP News, Views and Community

Kevin Schroeder has a quick post to his site showing the Magento users out there how to configure the SSL connection to their MySQL database backend. [...] All database configurations are stored in the local.xml file and the XML specification does not allow numbers for XML node names.

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/23197

PHP News, Views and Community

On the SitePoint PHP blog they've posted a tutorial showing you how to build a chat application with Ratchet, a library in PHP that lets you work with WebSockets for more real-time communication between your frontend and backend systems.

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/23198

Flexible and Easily Maintainable Laravel + Angular Material Apps

In this article, we’re going to set up a Laravel API with Angular Material for the front end. We’re also going to follow best practices that will help us scale with the number of developers working on the project and the complexity behind it.

from My Pocket http://www.sitepoint.com/flexible-and-easily-maintainable-laravel-angular-material-apps/

Morgan Stanley: No, Apps Aren’t Winning, The Mobile Browser Is

Last week comScore released its Mobile App Report, which we covered. The report contained many interesting findings but its big takeaway was this: consumers spend the majority of their mobile time with a very few heavily used apps.

from My Pocket http://feeds.marketingland.com/~r/mktingland/~3/t9kdRsMerLI/morgan-stanley-no-apps-arent-winning-the-mobile-browser-is-144303

Google Announces Customer Match: Upload Email Lists For Search, Gmail, YouTube Ad Targeting

Google is on the cusp of rolling out an anticipated and in-demand product feature in AdWords: the ability to upload and target audiences built from advertiser email lists. The company is announcing the new capability during Advertising Week in New York City on Monday afternoon.

from My Pocket http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/e47arNT3nnA/google-announces-customer-match-upload-email-lists-for-search-gmail-youtube-ad-targeting-231737

Thanks Google for Open Source TCP Fix!

The Google transport networking crew (QUIC, TCP, etc..) deserve a shout out for identifying and fixing a nearly decade old Linux kernel TCP bug that I think will have an outsized impact on performance and efficiency for the Internet.

from My Pocket http://bitsup.blogspot.com/2015/09/thanks-google-tcp-team-for-open-source.html

Wordsum Postmortem - The 10 year journey of a solo game developer

Working on Wordsum was a personal test for me. I had been attempting to make games for around 10 years. Most of my time was spent learning the basics, building prototypes and completing lots of tutorials. All of this effort amounted in 0 games completed.

from My Pocket http://gamasutra.com/blogs/CarletonDiLeo/20150925/254610/Wordsum_Postmortem__The_10_year_journey_of_a_solo_game_developer.php

Shoptiques (YC W12) Is Hiring for International Business Development (NYC) | Hacker News

from My Pocket https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10285711

Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers

On the coastal edge of Tunisia, a signal bounces between 11 rooftops and 12 routers, forming an invisible net that covers 70 percent of the city of Sayada. Strategically placed, the routers link together community centers—from the main street to the marketplace.

from My Pocket https://www.wired.com/2015/09/hey-fcc-dont-lock-wi-fi-routers/

Why Windows 10 is the most secure Windows ever

Microsoft added two game-changing security features for enterprise users in Windows 10, but until recently, the company has been relatively quiet about them. So far the buzz has mainly been about Windows Hello, which supports face and fingerprint recognition.

from My Pocket http://www.computerworld.com/article/2984449/security/why-windows-10-is-the-most-secure-windows-ever.html

Care for your build system at least the same as for your code - this heart of your development, not necessary evil.

Care for your build system at least the same as for your code - this heart of your development, not necessary evil. (continuousdev.com)

from My Pocket http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mkc9z/care_for_your_build_system_at_least_the_same_as/

Can you find the 5 smells in "I reviewed your code last night and deleted all of it since it's crap"

Can you find the 5 smells in "I reviewed your code last night and deleted all of it since it's crap" (blog.zuehlke.com)submitted 1 minute ago by loading...

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mkeat/can_you_find_the_5_smells_in_i_reviewed_your_code/

Twitter's Tips for Making Software Engineers More Efficient

Twitter's Tips for Making Software Engineers More Efficient (spectrum.ieee.org)submitted just now by sidcool1234loading...

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mkhjx/twitters_tips_for_making_software_engineers_more/

How two L.A. start-ups are racing to develop transportation more amazing than self-driving cars

Two Los Angeles start-ups are racing to develop tubes to zip people hundreds of miles an hour between cities — the so-called Hyperloop.The plan was hatched by entrepreneur Elon Musk.

from My Pocket http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-0927-cutting-edge-hyperloop-20150927-story.html

pybee/voc

This is experimental code. If it breaks, you get to keep all the shiny pieces. These things should all be possible - it's just a matter of time and development effort.

from My Pocket https://github.com/pybee/voc

Hi all the redditors out here... I've been studying programming for a while...

Hi all the redditors out here... I've been studying programming for a while... (pastebin.com) Check the sidebar. There are lots of linked subreddits where it is appropriate to ask for software development career advice or job listings; this is not one of them.

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mlbgj/hi_all_the_redditors_out_here_ive_been_studying/

Jeff Atwood: Learning to code is overrated

Jeff Atwood: Learning to code is overrated (nydailynews.com)submitted 2 minutes ago by loading...

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mlhr4/jeff_atwood_learning_to_code_is_overrated/

Do You Need To Know More Than One Language?

Do You Need To Know More Than One Language? (simpleprogrammer.com) You mean there's actually people who think it's a bad idea? Wow.

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mm900/do_you_need_to_know_more_than_one_language/

The Future Of Coding Is Here, And It Threatens To Wipe Out Everything In Its Path

The Future Of Coding Is Here, And It Threatens To Wipe Out Everything In Its Path (techcrunch.com)submitted 22 minutes ago by loading...

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mmf1y/the_future_of_coding_is_here_and_it_threatens_to/

Caramel - a modern syntax for the oldest programming language in the world.

Caramel - a modern syntax for the oldest programming language in the world. (github.com) So what is this? Cobol?

from My Pocket http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mmr2p/caramel_a_modern_syntax_for_the_oldest/

MVC and Entity Framework Code First, Code Migration approach

Learn and build web application using MVC and Entity framework code first, code migration approach Video : https://www.youtube.

from My Pocket http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1033616/MVC-and-Entity-Framework-Code-First-Code-Migration

Phantom Js (Amazing library for web scraping)

Web scraping is an extremely well-visited area while developing any project that involves large amount of data.

from My Pocket https://advencode.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/phantom-js-amazing-library-for-web-scraping/

Pinterest Opens API Platform To All Developers

Pinterest is throwing open its API sandbox to all developers. This summer, the social bookmarking network gave API access to selected developers, leading to integrations with Polyvore, IFTTT and, this month, Topshop.

from My Pocket http://feeds.marketingland.com/~r/mktingland/~3/A72ul4MWYGc/pinterest-opens-api-platform-to-all-developers-144018

Google Voice Search Now Faster and More Accurate

Is Google suddenly understanding more of what you’re saying to it? It’s not just you, the company has made some improvements to voice search. Google’s voice search is running on a whole new engine that’s able to recognize and anticipate words with a higher rate of accuracy.

from My Pocket http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-voice-search-now-faster-and-more-accurate/141946/

Google My Maps Now With Material Design Look

Google My Maps now has a new look and feel, going with the Google Material Design style. Here is a link to the old design.

from My Pocket http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/bc4mxtynN2Q/google-my-maps-material-design-20945.html

Google: The Real Time Penguin Algorithm May Launch Before Years End

Back in June, Google told us the Penguin update is months away at best. We also know Google is working on a real time update to the algorithm, so it runs immediately and would not require manual pushes.

from My Pocket http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/ierQuzefyS4/google-penguin-real-time-20946.html

7 Game-Changing Marketing Trends To Tackle in 2016

Marketing constantly adjusts and reacts to changes in technology and attitudes. While digital marketing has undergone a substantial transformation in the last few years, the technology that incited the changes is growing at a faster pace than most brands can keep up with.

from My Pocket http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/7-game-changing-marketing-trends-to-tackle-in-2016

Pinterest & Retailers Agree: Buyable Pins Are Driving New Customer Acquisition

Nearly three months after launching Buyable Pins, Pinterest is still keeping quiet about the product, but early returns from a number of merchants that we spoke with are promising. And Pinterest was willing to tell us this week that Buyable Pins are bringing new customers on board.

from My Pocket http://feeds.marketingland.com/~r/mktingland/~3/u5oViMJGUco/pinterest-retailers-agree-buyable-pins-are-driving-new-customer-acquisition-143762