Tag: data

Learn SQL

Every web developer should know SQL. Although it has been around since the 70s, it is still widely used, and you can’t build a serious application without it. Most full-stack frameworks have libraries for dealing with the SQL complexity – ActiveRecord, Doctrine, Hibernate and more. But often times you need to get your hands dirty and write low-level… Continue reading Learn SQL

A Beginner’s Guide to AJAX with jQuery

In the first article of this series, we covered the fundamentals of AJAX. In the second, we looked at a working example using vanilla JavaScript. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through a few of jQuery’s AJAX-related functions and methods. More specifically, we’ll take a closer look at the shorthand load method and the generic ajax… Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to AJAX with jQuery

9 Free Database Tools For System Admins

Database management is the most essential thing that a developer needs to do in order to make sure that the website is up and running fine. Although, there is a huge plethora of tools available for database management but here in this compilation, we are showcasing only the 9 best database management tools for developers.… Continue reading 9 Free Database Tools For System Admins

An Example of AJAX with Vanilla Javascript

Following on from our introduction to AJAX, here’s an example which uses the XMLHttpRequest API to initialize an AJAX request. AJAX Example Have a look at the following basic structure: <div> <img src=”http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/Einstein.jpg” alt=”Einstein”> <button id=”request”>Learn more about Einstein</button> <div id=”bio”></div> </div> Also, consider the related visualization: Here’s what we want to happen: when we… Continue reading An Example of AJAX with Vanilla Javascript

New eBooks Available for Subscribers

Do you want to learn more about data analysis with Python? How about iOS 9 game development, Django, or Swift 2? Our latest batch of eBooks will teach you all you need to know about these topics and more. What You’ll Learn In the past couple of months we’ve made 16 new eBooks available for… Continue reading New eBooks Available for Subscribers

How to Make WooCommerce Product Attributes More Prominent

What You’ll Be Creating WooCommerce product attributes are a really useful feature, but by default they’re hidden quite a way down the page, in the Additional Information section. Depending on your theme, they might not be visible until the user clicks on a tab, which means many users may not look at them.  Sometimes it’s… Continue reading How to Make WooCommerce Product Attributes More Prominent

Display WooCommerce Categories, Subcategories, and Products in Separate Lists

What You’ll Be Creating WooCommerce gives you a few options as to what you can display on your archive pages: products categories (on the main shop page) or subcategories (on category pages) both products and categories. When I’m setting up a store, I normally select the third option: products and categories/subcategories. This means visitors to… Continue reading Display WooCommerce Categories, Subcategories, and Products in Separate Lists

12 Best Meteor Tools For Developers

Are you a developer who is looking for some free to use meteor tools? Well, if your answer is yes, then you are lucky enough to land on the right page. In this round up, we are presenting 12 best and extremely useful meteor tools for developers. Meteor tools or MeteorJS tools are very helpful… Continue reading 12 Best Meteor Tools For Developers

The Recently Released Webdev Resources You Would Need

Want to use Vanilla JS but find native APIs a bit unwieldy? Bliss is for you. Bliss is just a collection of helpers and light syntactic sugar over Vanilla JS. It does not account for browser bugs or lack of support of certain APIs, although it only uses features that are both supported across most… Continue reading The Recently Released Webdev Resources You Would Need

Build a Custom WordPress User Flow — Part 3: Password Reset

In the first two tutorials in this series, we have built custom pages for logging in and registering a new user. Now, there is only one part in the login flow left to explore and replace: what happens if a user forgets their password and wants to reset their WordPress password? In this tutorial, we’ll… Continue reading Build a Custom WordPress User Flow — Part 3: Password Reset

Data Structures With JavaScript: Tree

What You’ll Be Creating * { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Trees are one of the most commonly used data structures in web development. This statement holds true for both developers and users. Every web developer who has written HTML and loaded it into a web browser has created a tree, which is referred… Continue reading Data Structures With JavaScript: Tree

Posts, Pages and Post Types

In this part of this series on WP_Query, you’ll learn how to use WP_Query to query for posts, pages and custom post types. You can query for specific posts and pages or you can run a query to return posts of one or more post types. A Recap on How Arguments Work in WP_Query Before… Continue reading Posts, Pages and Post Types

WP_Query Arguments: Taxonomies

So far in this series, you’ve learned how WP_Query is structured and what its properties and methods are. Now we’re looking at the various arguments you can use with WP_Query and how you code them. WP_Query has a large number of possible arguments, which makes it extremely flexible. As you can use it to query… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Taxonomies

Dash – A Comprehensive Dashboard for Visualizing & Understanding Data

Our insatiable thirst for data grows more rapidly than our ability to understand it; and as we’re exposed to more rich media, build and grow businesses faster and connect more with our expanding digital world, there’s a growing desperation to keep track and make sense of it all. There’s more stored data and content created… Continue reading Dash – A Comprehensive Dashboard for Visualizing & Understanding Data

CouchDB – Database Stores Data with JSON Documents

CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. Access your documents and query your indexes with your web browser, via HTTP. Index, combine, and transform your documents with JavaScript. CouchDB works well with modern web and mobile apps. You can even serve web apps directly out of CouchDB.… Continue reading CouchDB – Database Stores Data with JSON Documents

A Beginner’s Guide to HTTP and REST

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the life of the web. It’s used every time you transfer a document, or make an AJAX request. But HTTP is surprisingly a relative unknown among some web developers. This introduction will demonstrate how the set of design principles, known as REST, underpin HTTP, and allow you to embrace its… Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to HTTP and REST

20+ HTML Forms Best Practices for Beginners

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Working with HTML forms can be somewhat daunting. They not only use some niche HTML elements, but also blur the line between static content and user interaction. Let’s review some things to remember when creating your next form. Good HTML forms require attention on at least four… Continue reading 20+ HTML Forms Best Practices for Beginners

30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} PHP is the most widely used language for server-side programming on the web. Here are 30+ best practices for beginners wanting to gain a firmer grasp of the fundamentals. We have also written posts like these for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. HTML & CSS 30 HTML Best… Continue reading 30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners

HTML5 features with GWT Elemental

HTML5 is revolutionizing the web. The web application has features which are comparable to most of the desktop applications. The new features of the HTML5 make browser a powerful platform to develop next generation applications. The APIs and document object model (DOM) are fundamental parts of the HTML5 specification. The programming language of choice in… Continue reading HTML5 features with GWT Elemental

25 Free WordPress Themes for You to Download

WordPress not only powering most of the websites and blogs on internet but gives you a secure and effective environment for you to manage your data easily. The most robust CMS of all time, WordPress is very important factor for the responsiveness of a website, its theme feature lets you choose a WordPress theme out… Continue reading 25 Free WordPress Themes for You to Download

Impressive Parallax Javascript Plugin That Supports Gyroscrope

Parallax effect is one of the coolest animation in web design industry. Its sibling – Parallax scrolling has been quite a famous web layout since last year!   We found this pretty cool Javascript plugin that bring parallax effect to a new level. Parallax.js reacts to the orientation of your smart device, offsetting layers depending… Continue reading Impressive Parallax Javascript Plugin That Supports Gyroscrope

Migrating Your WordPress Database: A Database Primer

When it comes to working with WordPress-based projects, arguably one of the most frustrating or tedious aspects of deployment is actually getting the databases across your environments in-sync with one another. Sure, there’s something to be said for using test data in development, user data in staging, and actual data in production, but there’s no… Continue reading Migrating Your WordPress Database: A Database Primer