How to Adopt Model View Presenter on Android

In the previous tutorial, we talked about the Model View Presenter pattern, how it is applied on Android, and what its most important advantages are. In this tutorial, we explore the Model View Presenter pattern in more detail by implementing it in an Android application. In this tutorial: we build a simple application using the MVP… Continue reading How to Adopt Model View Presenter on Android

How to Use BrowserSync for Faster Development

BrowserSync is an automation tool that makes web development faster. In the past we’ve automated a lot of actions like compilation of SASS files, image compression etc. BrowserSync brings a whole new type of automation to the table with batteries included. BrowserSync makes your tweaking and testing faster by synchronizing file changes and interactions across… Continue reading How to Use BrowserSync for Faster Development

How to Work With WordPress Comment Metadata

Throughout this series, we’ve looked at a number of the metadata APIs that are offered by WordPress. This includes the Post Meta API and the User Meta API. Today, we’re going to be rounding out the series by looking at the WordPress Comment Meta API. Note that this is that the final metadata API WordPress… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Comment Metadata

8 Photography Portfolio Themes for WordPress

In this roundup we’ll take a look at some important things to consider when building an online photography portfolio with WordPress. We’ll go over eight tips and ideas, simultaneously looking at some top selling themes from Envato Market to help demonstrate each point. Say cheese! 1. Introduce Yourself Emotional design is hugely important on the… Continue reading 8 Photography Portfolio Themes for WordPress

Deploying from GitHub to a Server

GitHub, and the Git version control system it’s based on, are fantastic tools for managing and collaborating on projects – code-based or otherwise. In this article, we’ll look at options for making Git and GitHub projects fit better into developer workflows, allowing for a smooth and hands-off deployment process. I’ll break these options into the… Continue reading Deploying from GitHub to a Server

How to Install WordPress: The Application

In this introductory series for how to achieve some tasks in WordPress, we’ve talked about themes and plugins and how to install our web server. The one thing we haven’t covered, though, is how to install WordPress. In this tutorial, I’m going to walk through the process of downloading a copy of the WordPress source… Continue reading How to Install WordPress: The Application

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

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