It's been a long time since I last coded on the server-side. In fact, if you've read some of my tutorials, you may have noticed that I use ColdFusion as my...

When I started working in information technology professionally in 1989, things were pretty easy in terms of choosing a direction to head into. At least in...

Some of you may have read my Ember.js series of articles and realized I'm pretty smitten with the framework. But as a professional developer, it's important...

We spend a lot of time following the thought leaders in web development, in many cases using the tools and libraries they've built, reading the posts they've...

We live in a very exciting time. Never before has education been so cheaply available to the masses (if not free). The medium, itself, has made tectonic...

I'm pleased to release our first ever round table, where we place a group of developers in a locked room (not really), and ask them to debate one another...

The career of a web developer is an interesting one with many slopes. Considering a learning curve this steep, you can fully expect to live through periods...

One of the best things about WordPress is its vibrant economy. For many users, it's trivially easy to find themes to fit the design for which they're aiming,...

Last time I wrote about contributing to WordPress, I was primarily thinking about contributing to WordPress Core, that is the software itself. This time,...

The core idea of Test-Driven Development (TDD) is writing tests before writing any functional code, and then writing only the least possible amount of code...

GitHub has become the corner stone for all things open source software. Developers love it, collaborate on it and are constantly building awesome projects...

We all recognize that we should be writing semantic code. Maybe, you're even using <section> or <em> correctly, and feel pretty good about...