July 14, 2015 in Learn
Learn How: Programmatically Open File Downloads in a New Window with JavaScript
Have you ever wanted a way to update all file download links on your site to have the behavior of opening a new browser window? This is a better user flow than having the user follow the link and then…
July 8, 2015 in Learn
How to Build an npm Package
What is npm? npm is a package manager for JavaScript. It manages dependencies for both front-end and back-end projects. If you’re a company wanting to distribute a way for developers to connect to your service or an open-source developer who…
July 6, 2015 in Learn
How to Create Static Pages in Rails
Have you ever wanted to create static pages in Rails? These are pages that don’t necessarily contain any dynamic info or pull from the database and don’t require an entire controller. While some pre-built gems allow this to be done…
July 6, 2015 in Learn
An Introduction to the Rails Command
If you’ve worked with a Rails application, you’ve used the rails command. In this post, we’re going to go in depth with the rails command and find out what it does. For the purposes of this post, placeholder text will…
July 1, 2015 in Learn
How to Choose a Programming Language
I’m going to tell you how to choose a programming language: don’t. Wait … what about all the high-paying tech jobs? Isn’t this the best time to be a programmer? Many people are curious about code. Unfortunately, choosing a programming language can…
June 30, 2015 in Learn
How to Use jQuery to Asynchronously Load an Image
Back in May I shared how to load images asynchronously with JavaScript. I had a lot of requests from people on how load images using jQuery. So here we go! Asynchronous Image Loading Instead of having images load like this:…
June 24, 2015 in Learn
New Collection Types in ECMAScript 6
ECMAScript 6 is out! I covered what ECMAScript is and the new and improved syntax in this post here. But the syntax is not the only change you’ll see in ECMAScript, there are new types too – the most useful…
June 10, 2015 in Learn
Learn JavaScript and Up Your Photoshop Game
You’re a Photoshop master. You have your preferences perfected, the menus memorized. You’re a Wacom wielding wizard. Or are you? If you use Photoshop and you don’t code, you’re wasting time and effort with every project you touch. That’s time…
June 8, 2015 in Learn
Getting Started with Ionic
What is Ionic? Ionic is a set of performance-focused, beautifully designed HTML, CSS and JavaScript components optimized for building mobile applications. Ionic is composed of Cordova, the open sourced part of the PhoneGap platform, Sass and AngularJS. It allows you…
June 1, 2015 in Learn
Beginner’s Guide to PHP for WordPress – Part 1 of 3
WordPress allows us to do so much in terms of building websites without knowing any code. With themes and plugins and a powerful admin area there is a lot we can do without typing any HTML, CSS, JS or PHP….
May 26, 2015 in Learn
Regular Expressions in 10 Different Languages
You might’ve heard that the word “OK” is the most globally recognized phrase in the world. It’s found in almost every spoken language from Arabic to Zulu. In the programming world, we have something similar: Regular Expressions. Regular Expressions, or…
May 26, 2015 in Learn
Introduction: Learn the Power of Swift Generics
Note: You can download the following post as a Playground! One of the more powerful features introduced in Swift was generic programming, or generics for short. Generic code allows you to write flexible, reusable functions and types while still maintaining the…