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  1. Firebase for Android: File Storage

    Firebase for Android: File Storage

    Tutorial Beginner

    During the 2016 Google I/O conference, Firebase was reintroduced to the developer community as a major resource for providing quick back-end support for web...

  2. Host a Parse SDK Backend for Your iOS App on back{4}app

    Host a Parse SDK Backend for Your iOS App on back{4}app

    Tutorial Beginner

    Parse SDK is an open source and free backend for your app. In this tutorial you will learn how to create and account on back{4}app, as well as an app....

  3. Control a Star Wars BB-8 Droid With Arm Gestures and IBM Bluemix Internet of Things

    Control a Star Wars BB-8 Droid With Arm Gestures and IBM Bluemix Internet of Things

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this episode, we'll follow IBM Bluemix developer Rob Peeren as he guides us through integrating an armband control for the BB-8 droid.

  4. Control a Droid With Your Mind and IBM Bluemix Internet of Things

    Control a Droid With Your Mind and IBM Bluemix Internet of Things

    Tutorial Beginner

    Learn how to use the Force to control a BB-8 droid with your thoughts, an inexpensive consumer headset, and IBM Bluemix's Internet of Things.

  5. WordPress Development With VVV

    WordPress Development With VVV

    Tutorial Beginner

    VVV is a preset of the Vagrant configuration geared toward WordPress-centric projects such as developing a theme, a plugin, or contributing to WordPress...

  6. Useful *NIX Shell Commands for Web Developers

    Useful *NIX Shell Commands for Web Developers

    Tutorial Beginner

    Every web developer needs to use shell in some cases. I this article I am going to list and explain the most common shell commands and show how web...

  7. Alternatives to Amazon's Cloud Services (AWS)

    Alternatives to Amazon's Cloud Services (AWS)

    Tutorial Intermediate

    AWS is Amazon's most innovative and increasingly profitable service, but is it always best for developers? Explore a competitive list of alternative cloud...

  8. How to Program With Yii2: Uploading Files

    How to Program With Yii2: Uploading Files

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn how to manage file and image uploads in Yii2 with the easiest to use plugins. We'll upgrade our mini-Twitter application with Kartik's FileInput Widget...

  9. How to Use Pantheon to Set Up and Maintain a Production-Safe WordPress Site

    How to Use Pantheon to Set Up and Maintain a Production-Safe WordPress Site

    Tutorial Beginner

    To run a site safely without worrying about issues that might appear when you push your updates live, you need a Dev-Test-Live server setup. This tutorial...

  10. Automate All the Things With Ansible: Part Two

    Automate All the Things With Ansible: Part Two

    Tutorial Beginner

    Ansible is a modern, open-source, Python-based configuration management, orchestration and deployment framework. It strengths include an intuitive conceptual...

  11. Automate All the Things With Ansible: Part One

    Automate All the Things With Ansible: Part One

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial you'll learn how to automate your development and deployment environment with Ansible. Ansible is a modern Python-based configuration...

  12. Introduction to Vagrant

    Introduction to Vagrant

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Vagrant is a must-have tool for any serious developer. With vagrant you can create a virtualized development environment locally that mimics your production...