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Theme Development

Out-of-the-Box WordPress: Bundling With Themes & Plugins and wp-config Tweaks

Tutorial • Intermediate

Move the core WordPress files, install WordPress, then install plugins and themes, switch themes... Is there quicker way to install WordPress?

Barış Ünver • 6 Sep 2015
Game Development

A* Pathfinding for 2D Grid-Based Platformers: Making a Bot Follow the Path

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, we'll use the platformer pathfinding algorithm we've been building to power a bot that can follow the path by itself; just click on a...

Daniel Branicki • 29 Sep 2015
Performance

How to Use New Relic Browser to Improve Your Web App's User Experience

Tutorial • Intermediate

In modern web applications, a big part of what the user sees, from page loading to actions triggered in JavaScript, happens inside a web browser rather than...

Jarkko Laine • 23 Sep 2015
iOS Development

iOS Quick Tip: 7 Tips to Speed Up Your Development

Tutorial • Beginner

Most developers are always looking for ways to improve or automate their workflow being it with a simple script to automate a common task or by learning...

Bart Jacobs • 22 Jul 2013
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: Validations

Tutorial • Intermediate

The Yii Framework's built-in, extensible validators provide powerful data conformance controls which speed web development. Learn how to use them and extend...

Jeff Reifman • 27 May 2015
Workflow

Text Expander III: Scripting Fill Ins

Tutorial • Advanced

TextExpander is an incredibly powerful Mac app. In this tutorial, I look at how to make it even more powerful by using scripting languages like JavaScript in...

Harry Guinness • 17 Sep 2015
Performance

Understanding Fluent APIs in JavaScript

Tutorial • Intermediate

While designing Babylon.js v2.0 (a library for building 3D on the web), I recently found myself wishing that more APIs were fluent—that is, I wish the...

David Catuhe • 23 Sep 2015
CSS

GetUserMedia: Using the Media Capture and Streams API

Tutorial • Intermediate

Today I’d like to experiment with the Media Capture and Streams API, developed jointly at the W3C by the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group and the...

David Voyles • 10 Sep 2015
Plugin Development

Toolbox of the Smart WordPress Developer: CMB2

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this part of the "Toolbox of the Smart WordPress Developer" series, we're going to go through CMB2, an extensive library for developing custom metaboxes...

Barış Ünver • 18 Aug 2015
Game Development

How to Adapt A* Pathfinding to a 2D Grid-Based Platformer: Implementation

Tutorial • Intermediate

Now that we have a good idea of how to modify an A* pathfinding algorithm to work for platformers, it's time to actually code it. Rather than build it from...

Daniel Branicki • 25 Aug 2015
JavaScript

Get Started Building Your Blog With Parse.js: Refactor

Tutorial • Beginner

Have you ever got excited by your idea for a website, but found yourself becoming miserable when trying to make it dynamic and actually run it on a server?...

Samantha Zhang • 2 Sep 2015
Corona

Build a High-Performance Mobile App With Famo.us and Manifold.js

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, I'll look at the new JavaScript framework Famo.us, launched in October 2014. Famo.us includes an open-source 3D layout engine fully...

David Voyles • 20 Aug 2015