Start with a template Sure, you can start coding from scratch, but there’s a lot of interesting free templates that will make you save a lot of time. Among others, I recommend Mobile boilerplate, The 1140 grid and Skeleton. There’s…

Minus As a developer or designer, you often need to upload images for sharing them with clients or people you work with. Many websites allow you to do so, but what I really love with Minus is how quick and…

Prevent automatic image compression By default, WordPress compress jpg images when you upload them to your blog. This is useful because it saves bandwidth and loading time, but sometimes you may prefer to have full quality images (For example, if…

CatsWhoCode snippet library Some of you already know it, but a few weeks ago I’ve created a snippet library with a picky selection of usefull snippets focused on web development: PHP, JavaScript, CSS, htaccess… Approximately one new snippet is published…

Step 1: Creating a TextMagic account In order to send SMS to mobile phones, you need to use a third-party service. In this tutorial, I’m using a service called TextMagic to send SMS. There are lots of other services to…

Two things to note: First, any of these queries should be preceded by a backup of your whole database. Secondly, don’t forget to replace the wp_ table prefix by the prefix used on your WordPress install, otherwise the queries won’t…

Media Element MediaElement is an audio an video player which is written in pure HTML5 and CSS. Older browsers are supported by Custom Flash and Silverlight players that mimic the HTML5 MediaElement API. Media Element is skinnable, and offers plugins…

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.…

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…

What is the transients API, and why it’s useful Most developers who worked with WordPress in the past probably ever heard of the Options API, which allow you to save, update and delete custom values. The Transients API is pretty…

Text messaging with PHP using the TextMagic API If for some reason, you need to send text messages to your clients cell phones, you should definitely have a look to TextMagic. They provide an easy API which allow you to…

What is CoffeeScript? To keep it simple, CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. If you ever coded in languages such as Python or Ruby, you’ll probably love CoffeeScript a lot. Instead of awkward braces and semicolons, JavaScript…

Ofmlabs Codecs: Pure JavaScript audio decoding Ofmlabs is bringing audio decoding to JavaScript with two great pieces of code. The first, named JSMad, was the first proof that JS audio decoding is possible and is a port of libmad, a…

Add Google+ button to your posts automatically Google+ is a new “social” service offered by Internet giant Google. If you want to let your visitor “plus” your post, why not adding a Google+ button to all of your entries automatically?…

Preloading images Preloading images is useful: Instead of loading an image when the user request it, we preload them in the background so they are ready to be displayed. Doing so in jQuery is very simple, as shown below: (function($)…

All of the snippets below have to be pasted into your .htaccess file, which is located on the root of your Apache server. Waring: Always make sure you have a working backup before editing your .htaccess file! Force trailing slash…

Create an adaptable website layout with CSS3 media queries With the rise of both very large screens and mobile devices, web developers have to be able to create websites that display correctly and look good whatever the device is. Sure,…