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WordPress Optimization Tip: Close Comment on Older Posts If your site is responding quickly and rarely suffers downtimes then I wouldn’t recommend you to turn comments off on older posts, as this removes some of the visitor interaction and also makes your older posts more static. That being… |
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How to Upload Files with Ease Using DragonFly: New on Premium File uploads are generally a tricky area in web development. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, we will learn how to use Dragonfly, a powerful Ruby gem that makes it easy and efficient to add any kind of upload functionality to… |
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How to Customize Your Command Prompt Lately, I’ve been getting this question a lot: “how did you get your terminal to look the way it does?” If you’ve noticed my terminal and are curious about how I set it up, this is the tutorial for you!… |
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Attention Developers: NewRelic is your Secret Weapon While the title of this article may sound like a cliche, hatched in the bowels of PR hell, I’m serious when I say that NewRelic is your secret weapon. In this article, I’ll talk about the common aspects of web… |
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Web Dev PSA: Your Favorite Tools Have Been Updated The last week was a bit of a whirl with many of our favorite tools receiving updates and tweaks. Usually, I’d save the announcement for our monthly “Recently in Web Development” piece, but considering how much, and how often, we… |
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Introducing CatsWhoCode code snippet library! A code snippet library on CWC? Over the years, CatsWhoCode has become a place of interest for web developers. Most popular articles on the blog are those who showcase useful code snippets which can be used directly on your projects.… |
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Do You Exclusively Use webkit Prefixes? You’ve undoubtedly read about the vendor prefix web development drama of the week. If not, the W3C mailing lists have been on fire ever since it was discussed (and essentially announced) that Microsoft, Opera, and Firefox will begin to adopt… |
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3 Awesome Uses For The Simple 301 Redirects WordPress Plugin Often when designing and building custom WordPress sites for clients we are converting an existing website from HTML, PHP, or another CMS to WordPress. This usually always results in the URLs or permalinks changing from something like http://yourdomain.com/about.html to http://yourdomain.com/about… |
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Using JavaScript’s Prototype with MVC In this article, we will review the process of using JavaScript, from an MVC-based perspective, to manipulate the DOM. More specifically, we’ll engineer our JavaScript objects, their properties and methods, and their instantiations parallel to the intended behavior of our… |
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Easy Script Loading with yepnope.js Officially released by Alex Sexton and Ralph Holzmann in late February of 2011, the yepnope.js resource loader features asynchronous, conditional loading and preloading of both JavaScript and CSS resources. This makes managing dependant, conditional code a breeze. March of 2011… |
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Turbocharge Your Website With Memcached Your latest PHP/MySQL website is finally online. And it’s awesome. But it’s not as fast as you want it to be, because of the many SQL queries running every time a page is generated. And above that, you have the… |
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Amazing things to do with PHP and cURL Check if a specific website is available Want to know if a specific website is available? cURL is here to help. This script can be used with a cron job to monitor your websites. Don’t forget to update the script… |
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JavaScript Testing From Scratch: New on Premium This likely isn’t the first tutorial on testing that you’ve ever seen. But perhaps you’ve had your doubts about testing, and never took the time to read them. After all, it can seem like extra work for no reason. This… |
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Creating a Shared Content Box Across All of Your WordPress Blogs More than five years ago, I was bit by the Autoblog bug. I don’t build them anymore, but I still build WordPress blogs in large numbers. One of my pet peeves when I was working with 100+ different blogs was… |
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