Rapid, Interactive Prototyping With Xcode Playgrounds

What You’ll Be Creating Introduction Since their introduction in Xcode 6 alongside Swift, to their current iteration in Xcode 7.3.1, playgrounds have come a long way. With new features and better stability, they are evolving into a viable tool for rapid prototyping or quickly hacking together a proof of concept. As a developer, sometimes you have… Continue reading Rapid, Interactive Prototyping With Xcode Playgrounds

WordPress Hacker’s Guide to the Galaxy

WordPress is easy for nearly anyone to learn, but that doesn’t mean that all the code you write for it has to be messy. There’s nothing keeping you from leveraging modern programming techniques for your WordPress themes and plugins. Let me show you. https://youtu.be/fcllcGb19oY https://youtu.be/9CsxcEvwx9M https://youtu.be/n744Xe85_88 https://youtu.be/6dPKB7KEK3M https://youtu.be/8gPqPbutKBM https://youtu.be/SuJ946BdSYk

Advanced JavaScript Fundamentals

Without a doubt, JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world. While the web development industry is chock full of frameworks and libraries that simplify some aspects of JavaScript development, there’s something to be said about having the skills to write pure JavaScript. Frameworks, libraries and transpilers may come and go, but JavaScript… Continue reading Advanced JavaScript Fundamentals

Animated Animals in CSS and SVG

Learn some interesting animation techniques involving Sass and SVG filters for realistic motion effects on the example of animated animals. View demo Download source Today we want to show you how the clever use of HTML, CSS sequenced animations, and SVG filters can bring to life one of the most unlikely (yet adorable) things to… Continue reading Animated Animals in CSS and SVG

Build a Real-Time Polymer To-Do App

  If you kept up with Google I/O 2015, then you likely saw that Polymer 1.0 has been released to the public. If you have been around since Polymer 0.5, then you likely saw that all your favorite building blocks have been deprecated. For all those who have used 0.5, consider this a migration assistant.… Continue reading Build a Real-Time Polymer To-Do App

Professional WordPress Plugin Development for 2016

Course Description Have you ever wanted to know the secrets behind all the cool things that WordPress plugins and themes can do? This course is offered by an instructor who has developed over 250 WordPress plugins for major corporations and can now teach these skills to you. For Those Developers Who Would Like To Know… Continue reading Professional WordPress Plugin Development for 2016

Build a Custom Photo Widget for Your Desktop with Node.js

The first thing I do on any new device is customize the home screen. This has been a tradition of mine since my first non-DOS computer, when I used my Mario Paint manual to help me make some Legend of Zelda pixel art in MS Paint, and set it as the Desktop wallpaper. Now that… Continue reading Build a Custom Photo Widget for Your Desktop with Node.js

Framerjs: Innovative prototyping and design with interaction

Constant updates for free! Includes prototyping for Virtual Reality! Join more than 1400 students and learn how to use Framer JS with your Sketch 3 or Photoshop designs to create innovative prototypes, design animation and add interaction to your mobile and web designs and prototypes. This course will teach you step by step how to… Continue reading Framerjs: Innovative prototyping and design with interaction

Coding for Entrepreneurs: Learn Python, Django, and More.

Never coded before? No problem. We’ve worked with over 120,000 students just like you. Entrepreneurs like you are a rare breed. You create incredible businesses and come up with ideas that change the world. Technology has made the 21st century, the century of the entrepreneur. Thanks to the power of the internet, you can reach… Continue reading Coding for Entrepreneurs: Learn Python, Django, and More.

JavaScript from Beginner to Expert

The total length of the course is over 12 hours! You will learn theory and you will also gain lots of practice. During the course I will explain you how to write real life applications like for example galleries with thumbnails, image sliders etc. I will do everything so you understand JavaScript. After this course… Continue reading JavaScript from Beginner to Expert

Building Angular and Node.js Apps with the MEAN Stack

Course info ​ Level Intermediate Duration 4h 2m Released 31 Jan 2014 The MEAN stack is becoming more and more popular. Angular has become the hottest new MVC framework, and using it with Node and Express means a high level of harmony between the client and server. Throw MongoDB on for data storage, and you… Continue reading Building Angular and Node.js Apps with the MEAN Stack

Ultimate Web Designer & Developer Course: Build 23 Projects!

Are you looking for an all-in-one Web Design, Web Development and Career Building course that takes you step-by-step through the all of the skills you need know to start a working professionally? Are you a programmer looking to improve your design skills, so your designer colleagues can stop making fun of your bad designs? Or… Continue reading Ultimate Web Designer & Developer Course: Build 23 Projects!

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

How to convert PSD files to WordPress

Perhaps it would be best to start here with the why. About a quarter of all websites run on WordPress, the online blogging platform. This makes it by far one of the most popular open source content management systems on the planet. The vast majority of web designers still use Photoshop to design a website,… Continue reading How to convert PSD files to WordPress

Apple Swift Makes iOS and Mac Apps Development Easy

Apple’s New Free Programming Language – Apple Swift is set to make iOS App development easier than ever. Apple announced a totally new programming language known as SWIFT, for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, at WWDC 2014. It is a big deal for Apple as they launched a new programming language after a long break of… Continue reading Apple Swift Makes iOS and Mac Apps Development Easy

CSS Fundamentals

This course contains a high-level overview of Cascading Style Sheets, while exploring the basic concepts, terminology, and tools of the language. Beginning with an exploration of CSS syntax, author James Williamson explains how CSS modifies text, borders, backgrounds, and color; demonstrates CSS and HTML integration; and contextualizes the current state of CSS. The course also… Continue reading CSS Fundamentals

How To Create And Customize A WordPress Child Theme

The WordPress platform is a magnet for those who want to take matters into their own hands, who want complete control over their websites and want to be independent in running them. WordPress does make it really easily to completely customize a website. If you have a bit of knowledge of HTMl, CSS and/or PHP,… Continue reading How To Create And Customize A WordPress Child Theme

A Rundown of Bourbon Neat Variables

In this last section about Bourbon Neat we’ll look at the various “built-in” Sass variables it gives us. This will be a short ride, but knowing how to tweak your grids is important. Variables We’ll be covering the following: default-layout-direction visual-grid-opacity border-box-sizing visual-grid-index disable-warnings visual-grid-color default-feature grid-columns max-width visual-grid column gutter Before we start, I… Continue reading A Rundown of Bourbon Neat Variables

Code Clinic JavaScript

Successful programmers know more than a computer language. They also know how to thinkabout solving problems. They use “computational thinking”: breaking a problem down into segments that lend themselves to technical solutions. Code Clinic is a series of ten courses where lynda.com authors solve the same problems using different programming languages. Here, Ray Villalobos works… Continue reading Code Clinic JavaScript

How to Make WordPress Sites Different by Geography

An Approach to Geolocal WordPress Sites In order to launch an inexpensive global network of sites run by volunteers that would provide shoppers categorized directories to local stores, I needed to leverage the power of WordPress with some unusual customizations and workarounds. There are a number of approaches to providing local experiences with WordPress. In this tutorial, I’m… Continue reading How to Make WordPress Sites Different by Geography

Learn Web Designing & HTML5/CSS3 Essentials in 4-Hours

The Best Way to Learn HTML5 & CSS3 PSD to HTML5/CSS3 is a simple course that will teach you to take a Photoshop Mockup Design and hand-code it into a beautiful, semantic, valid HTML5 & CSS3 website. Start Speaking the Language Right Away Just like learning a human language, the best way of learning is… Continue reading Learn Web Designing & HTML5/CSS3 Essentials in 4-Hours

Fullscreen Scrolling Tiles with pagePiling.js

Parallax and page scrolling plugins are rather popular among the open source community. A new one to add into the mix is pagePiling.js. This completely free open source plugin runs on top of jQuery for a unique “slide” design. Each section of the page slides out of the way while scrolling. It’s not exactly parallax,… Continue reading Fullscreen Scrolling Tiles with pagePiling.js

The Benefits of WP Engine Developer Tools

What You’ll Be Creating If you’re like me, you’ve been a passionate self-hosted WordPress developer for a long time. But there’s one managed host that’s consistently stepping forward to provide solutions to common publishing challenges: WP Engine. WP Engine isn’t your typical bare-bones managed hosting provider for WordPress. Instead they are developer-oriented and work hard… Continue reading The Benefits of WP Engine Developer Tools