Tag: HTTP

Cloudinary – Real-Time Video Transcoding and Management in the Cloud

Posted · Category: Video Web and mobile developers face many challenges when trying to manage videos on their sites and in their apps. The Cloudinary Video Management solution simplifies the process by enabling developers to quickly and easily optimize and transcode videos in real-time in the cloud. The solution, which integrates with existing workflow, gives… Continue reading Cloudinary – Real-Time Video Transcoding and Management in the Cloud

Social Media Sharing Buttons without JavaScript

Posted · Category: MIT License, Social Love or loathe them, sharing buttons will not go away for a while. The default social media sharing scripts provided by the networks themselves are big, often download multiple files and track users across the web. Social Media Sharing Buttons generator outputs social media sharing buttons that do not… Continue reading Social Media Sharing Buttons without JavaScript

Barba.js: A plugin for page transitions

Barba.js is a lightweight and dependency free javascript plugin to create fluid and smooth transitions between your site pages. It uses PJAX to enhance the user’s experience. Coded by by Luigi De Rosa. It helps reducing the delay between your pages, minimising browser HTTP requests and enhancing your user’s web experience. Project page

Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles

Cocycles is a new code search service that enables code to be found by functionality. In this article, Cocycles team member Jonathan explains the idea behind this approach to code searching. We’re all familiar with it: that moment when you’re forced to abandon your code editor, interrupt your workflow and open your browser to search… Continue reading Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles

Weekly News for Designers Week 8

New Resources & Tools Bricks.js – A blazing fast masonry layout generator for fixed width elements. Imperfect Buttons – “Hand-Drawn” border effect on buttons with CSS border-radius. 30 Projects in 30 Days to Learn Swift – A self taught project to learn Swift from Allen Wang. Editor Color Schemes – A collection of color schemes… Continue reading Weekly News for Designers Week 8

WP REST API: Setting Up and Using OAuth 1.0a Authentication

In the previous part of the series, we set up basic HTTP authentication on the server by installing the plugin available on GitHub by the WP REST API team. The basic authentication method allows us to send authenticated requests by sending login credentials in the request header. While being quick and handy, there’s also a… Continue reading WP REST API: Setting Up and Using OAuth 1.0a Authentication

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

A Journey Through Beautiful Typography In Web Design

First impressions are lasting impressions. Whether you realize it or not, your typography helps to create an experience for users before they’ve even read a word or clicked a button. Typography has the potential to go beyond merely telling a story — it shows the user who is behind the website and what you’re about. The treatment… Continue reading A Journey Through Beautiful Typography In Web Design

24 Cool PHP Libraries You Should Know About

It is an exciting time to be a PHP developer. There are lots of useful libraries released every day, and with the help of Composer and Github, they are easy to discover and use. Here are 24 of the coolest that I’ve come across. Your favorite is not on the list? Share it in the… Continue reading 24 Cool PHP Libraries You Should Know About

Ruby on Rails Study Guide: The History of Rails

Ruby on Rails – or simply, Rails – is an open source, rapid web development framework, with a continuous goal of maximizing developer happiness and productivity. Created nearly a decade ago, Rails today forms the backbone of many of the most popular applications on the web, and has an incredibly vibrant and passionate community. In… Continue reading Ruby on Rails Study Guide: The History of Rails