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Deep dives into frontend architecture, cloud platforms, UX decisions, and bilingual writings in English and Urdu.
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اسلامی معاشرے کی اصلاح: ایک سے زائد نکاح کی حکمت اور جہیز کا خاتمہ
آج کا مسلم معاشرہ بہت سے سماجی اور اخلاقی مسائل کا شکار ہے، جن کی بنیادی وجہ اسلامی تعلیمات سے دوری ہے۔ دو اہم مسائل جو ہمارے معاشرتی ڈھانچے کو کمزور کر رہے ہیں
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Strategic Roadmap for Mastering Cloud Computing: Navigating AWS, Azure, and GCP
I. The Foundation: Demystifying Cloud Computing Before embarking on a learning journey, it is essential to establish a clear understanding of the core concepts
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ہون چنگا ریا ای
اپنی ہونڈا پر سوار میں تیز تیز اپنے دفتر کی طرف میں جا رہا تھا ساتھ ساتھ یاد کر کہ اللہ نے مجھے کن کن نعمتوں اور احسانات سے نوازا شکر ادا کر رہا تھا ۔تب ہی میں
Designinspiration
Three Important Approaches to Web Design
From flat design to particle backgrounds and broken grids, web design is a creature in constant evolution. And, since 94% of users will leave a site that looks
Ideainspiration
What did I learn while writing a Chrome and Firefox extension with React?
(Heads up: This might be a very long post to read. If you are interested, you shall continue despite my notification. ) Little Background about me: I was quite
GeneralTechnology
28 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About WordPress
Everyone knows what WordPress is, but do you know how profitable WordPress themes are, or about the connection between Panama Papers breach and WordPress? Keep
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Excited Gem - A tabs management extension for Chrome
Excited Gem is a tabs management extension for Chrome Browser, that I started building as an effort to improve a famous extension "One Tab" and also to learn so
Tutorial
Using the Lightroom Adjustment Brush to add Dimension to a Landscape Photo
Lightroom has the power to completely transform your landscape photograph into something far more powerful, something that hits home with viewers, and something
Photography
7 Little Secrets That Every Photographer Should Learn
There are many misconceptions about professional photographers and the things they know and do. Many beginning photographers won't figure these out until they'v
PhotographyTutorial
Shoot Hazy and Ethereal Photos Using a Sandwich Bag and Colored Markers
Photographer Jesse David McGrady has a super simple trick for adding a hazy, ethereal effect to your photographs: wrap a plastic sandwich bag around your lens.
PhotographyTutorial
You Can Use Your Hand as a Graduated ND Filter for Landscape Photos
Here’s a simple trick for landscape photos: when shooting a landscape photo that needs a hard edge graduated ND filter, you can use your hand. Yes your hand! It
PhotographyTutorial
You Can Use Your Hand as a Graduated ND Filter for Landscape Photos
Here’s a simple trick for landscape photos: when shooting a landscape photo that needs a hard edge graduated ND filter, you can use your hand. Yes your hand! It
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Long Exposure Photography without a Tripod
Sunset in Winters Source: Long Exposure Photography without a Tripod
TechnologyTutorial
22 Essential CSS Recipes
Some Great tips and tricks for your CSS Source: 22 Essential CSS Recipes
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Everything I know about responsive web typography with CSS — Zell Liew
I’ve learned a lot more about typography since then and picked up best practices like using relative units, vertical rhythms and meaningful typography scales.Th
NewsTechnology
Research Blog: Teach Yourself Deep Learning with TensorFlow and Udacity
Deep learning has become one of the hottest topics in machine learning in recent years. With TensorFlow, the deep learning platform that we recently released as
TechnologyTutorial
Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for npm Scripts — Medium
I was a big fan of Gulp. But on my last project, I ended up with 100’s of lines in my gulpfile and around a dozen Gulp plugins. I was struggling to integrate We
PhotographyTutorial
10 common camera mistakes every photographer makes | Digital Camera World
Here are the top 10 most common camera mistakes that most photographers make at some point and how you can avoid them. Source: 10 common camera mistakes every p
inspirationPhotography
500px ISO » Stunning Photography, Incredible Stories » 10 Most Popular Double Exposures on 500px
The double exposure is an art in and of itself. These 10 photographers mastered it. Source: 500px ISO » Stunning Photography, Incredible Stories » 10 Most Popul
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Blurring Is the Auto-Tune of UI Design, and Other Things We Thought About While Designing Wildcard 2.0 + Subtraction.com
Source: Blurring Is the Auto-Tune of UI Design, and Other Things We Thought About While Designing Wildcard 2.0 + Subtraction.com
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Meet Mycroft: Open Source Artificial Intelligence Powered by Snappy | Ubuntu Insights
This is a guest post by the Mycroft team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using Ubuntu techno
TechnologyTutorial
Crawling and Searching Entire Domains with Diffbot
I’ll also be using my trusty Homestead Improved environment for a clean project, so I can experiment in a VM that’s dedicated to this project and this project a
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11 Inspirational Image Collections - Digital Photography School
One of the most popular types of posts here at DPS are our ‘image collection’ posts where we highlight great examples of different types of photography – all ar
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Ace your next job interview by adopting this mindset
If you’re looking for a job, chances are you’ve heard the standard tips: "Don’t underestimate the value of eye contact," "Dress for the job you want" and, "Reme
DesignTutorial
Fitting After Effects Into A UX Workflow
We all aim to be as agile as possible in today’s fast-paced web design world, while also remaining thoughtful of the end user and those we work with. After Effe
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How to eloquently explain gaps on a resume
Resume gaps are viewed as imperfections on our work record. One day you're working, and the next day you're sitting at home wondering, "What's next?" Source: Ho
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Lexus just unveiled what it calls a real, working hoverboard
Lexus posted a video on Tuesday for a vehicle we've all dreamed about but never thought possible: a real hoverboard.The video is short, and doesn't show the use
Technology
Slack, Netflix, Pinterest crash and you can't blame the leap second
Amazon Web Services, which provides the backbone Netflix, Slack, Pinterest and thousands of other services, appeared to suffer widespread outage Tuesday. Source
PhotographyTutorial
Long Exposure Photography without a Tripod
For me, as a travel Pet Sitters, the size and the weight of the photography equipment that I carry around is very important. Over the years, I learned how to ca
Technology
Myth - CSS the way it was imagined.
Myth is a preprocessor that lets you write pure CSS without having to worry about slow browser support, or even slow spec approval. It's like a CSS polyfill. vi
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15 landing pages with outstanding UX | Webdesigner Depot
15 landing pages with outstanding UX | Webdesigner Depot.
Design
Mood Boards (Or How to Bottle Your Inspiration)
Mood Boards (Or How to Bottle Your Inspiration).
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A Designer’s Sublime Text Setup — Design Notes — Medium
As I mentioned before, I switched to a Mac a few years ago. After doing so, I realised that Notepad++ is not available on OSX. That was the reason to start sear
Design
Don’t blame the designer — Medium
As managers, it’s easy for us to blame our design team for m via Don’t blame the designer — Medium.
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Help! My Portfolio Sucks · An A List Apart Column
What if a lot of your past work reflects times when you satisfied the client, but couldn’t sell them on your best ideas? How do you build a portfolio out of cho
DesignTechnology
How to Create an Interactive Prototype With Marvel - Tuts+ Web Design Tutorial
Marvel is an excellent online tool which allow designers to create prototypes of mobile applications and web projects like new casinos online. In this tutorial
Technology
The 5 Most Popular Frontend Frameworks of 2014 Compared
Nowadays there is a deluge of CSS front-end frameworks. But the number of really good ones can be narrowed down to just a few. In this article we’ll compare wha
DesignTechnology
5 SEO Trends You Need to Consider for 2015
I hope you’re not buying into the latest hype that “Search Engine Optimization is dead,” and “social is the new search.” SEO is far from dead. In reality, SEO i
DesignTechnology
How to Get Started in 3D CG
The world of 3D is huge. The sheer number of industries, software and tools that are involved in learning 3D can be daunting. Before you ever drop the money for
DesignTechnology
Important Skills for Becoming a Motion Designer
Motion graphics can be seen in just about every thing from television, movies, commercials and more, although we all know that watching any of these for too muc
DesignTechnology
Design Principles: Visual Weight And Direction - Smashing Magazine
Every element on a web page exerts a visual force that attracts the eye of the viewer. The greater the force, the more the eye is attracted. These forces also a
Generalinspiration
The 5 Most Common Mistakes in Design — The Year of the Looking Glass — Medium
There’s no learning without mistakes. And I’ve done the following (as well as seen the following done) too many times to count. Luckily, there’s this thing call
TechnologyTutorial
Enhancing User Experience With The Web Speech API - Smashing Magazine
It’s an exciting time for web APIs, and one to watch out for is the Web Speech API. It enables websites and web apps not only to speak to you, but to listen, to
TechnologyTutorial
Flexbox Nav Bar with Fixed, Variable, and Take-Up-The-Rest Elements | CSS-Tricks
I already sent Izak a response, but I'll share that solution here. Flexbox! I'm sure it comes as no surprise that flexbox is a wonderful layout tool. I have a g
TechnologyTutorial
How To Master Fireworks’ CSS Properties Panel And CSS Professionalzr - Smashing Magazine
Today, being a designer is about much more than drawing beautiful interfaces in Photoshop or Fireworks. To properly design a website or application, a UI design
TechnologyTutorial
A Complete Guide to Flexbox | CSS-Tricks
The Flexbox Layout (Flexible Box) module (currently a W3C Candidate Recommendation) aims at providing a more efficient way to lay out, align and distribute spac
Technology
“How to Make a Performance Budget” an article by Dan Mall
It all seems to have stemmed from Chris Coyier’s tweet, and I was coincidentally on stage at An Event Apart San Francisco talking about performance budgets at t
Technology
Improved Android Emulation with Genymotion
If you have been developing Android apps for some time and have been using the default emulator, then you know how frustratingly slow it can be. Even on a power
Technology
Sass Frameworks: Compass or Bourbon?
Once in a while, we see this question pop on Twitter, Reddit or StackOverflow. Pretty much anyone who has ever worked with Sass has at some point asked themselv
Technology
Sass vs. SCSS: which syntax is better?
Since the creation of Sass nearly 5 years ago, it has been plagued by many levels of controversy. It billed itself as "a better CSS" and added brand new feature
Technology
3 Ways to Develop Cross Platform Desktop Apps with PHP
PHP as a cross-platform desktop app development language? Blasphemy! Nonetheless, it’s possible. A few years ago, everything those interested in bringing PHP to
TechnologyTutorial
Using Chassis for WordPress Development
When I wrote the first article on WordPress and Vagrant I introduced WordPress VVV. VVV is a Vagrant configuration for developing WordPress themes and contribut
Technology
Easy Internet Explorer Testing with RemoteIE
Web developers have a duty to ensure their shiny new web site or application works on a variety of browsers. At the absolute minimum, that means Chrome/Opera, F
TechnologyTutorial
Make a 3D Model from Pictures
Without having an expensive 3D scanner I found a way to take pictures and make a 3D model with completely free software. In this Instructable I will take you th
Technology
What's New in Chrome 39
Despite being six years old, Chrome is rapidly approaching middle age in version numbers. Chrome 39 has been released and you probably have it installed. There
TechnologyTutorial
What You Should Tweak in Your WordPress Theme Options Page (But Forgot) • 1stwebdesigner
Every website or blog needs some modification in its theme. Only then can you make your blog to stand out from the crowd and bring traffic to it. via What You S
Technology
Resources for JavaScript and DOM Compatibility Tables
One of the best info-apps to come about in recent years is the well-known and super-practical Can I Use by Alexis Deveria. Although Can I Use is great for many
TechnologyTutorial
50 Filters of WordPress: An Introduction to Filters - Tuts+ Code Tutorial
WordPress is an amazing platform and the most popular content management system in the world. The reason for this title is because of its extensibility. In this
TechnologyTutorial
Experimenting with the Web Speech API
A few days ago, I spoke at WebTech Conference 2014 giving a presentation titled Talking and listening to web pages where I discussed the Web Speech API and what
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Google’s Material Design Brought To Real Life With Gorgeous, Tactile Postcards - DesignTAXI.com
Google’s Material Design Brought To Real Life With Gorgeous, Tactile Postcards By Dorothy Tan, 17 Nov 2014 COMMENT SHARE Share on Facebook Twitter To celebrate
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Increase Productivity with Komodo: an Extensible, Multi-language IDE
It’s undeniable that most of a developer’s time is spent inside an editor, writing code. Add to that the time you spend identifying and trying to fix code issue
Technology
Modern Debugging Experience: Part 1 - Tuts+ Code Tutorial
In this two part tutorial series, we'll take a look at writing & debugging JavaScript code using modern tooling such as the Chrome DevTools. In part 1, you'll g
Technology
Pixar Researcher Explains the Math of Subdivision Surfaces
In a recent video, educational filmmaker Brady Haran interviewed Pixar’s lead researcher Tony DeRose who provides a quick introduction to the math behind creati
Technology
The VFX of Interstellar: A True Marriage of Art and Science
VFX studio Double Negative (Dneg) is no stranger to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible aesthetically and technologically. Having produced Academy Award w
Technology
What is Adobe Extract - And Why Should You Care?
The PSD format lies at the core of modern design. It was born in the 1980’s and has — for most of that time — been the industry standard for imagery. In fact, i
Technology
What's the Difference Between Photoshop and Illustrator?
Photoshop and Illustrator are two of Adobe‘s massively popular graphics programs. If you’re working on a new project, you might have a hard time figuring out wh
Technology
What is the Best WordPress Theme?
Your choice of WordPress Theme determines many important aspects of your site. Choosing the right theme can be tricky for newcomers to WordPress, since most peo
Technology
6 Current Options for CSS Preprocessors
A CSS preprocessor helps you write maintainable, future-proof code and it will seriously reduce the amount of CSS you have to write. Where these tools shine bes
Technology
15 Best Sublime Text Plugins for Developers - Code Geekz
Sublime Text Edior is well known name amonsgt developers, if you are a developer you cant underestimate the power of this tool. Sublime Text is a cross-platform
Technology
5 Tips for Character Rigging
Whether you are creating a character rig for yourself or the animators within your pipeline, you need to take into account some of the important things that go
Technology
The Best Sublime Text 3 Themes of 2014 ♥ Scotch
Sublime Text offers developers so many tools to help with productivity and workflow. It also let’s us develop in style with theme packages. We’ve gone in depth
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Using Git Inside of Sublime Text to Improve Workflow ♥ Scotch
Improving workflow and increasing productivity is very important to us developers. Every second counts since the time we spend on small tasks adds up. Small tas
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7 Reasons to Choose the Yii 2 Framework
Late last year, SitePoint published an article highlighting the top PHP frameworks. Tied for the number four spot was the Yii (pronounced Yee) Framework. At tha
Technology
Building a PhoneGap App with a WordPress Backend
In this tutorial, we will cover how to use WordPress as a backend for a PhoneGap mobile app. We’ll then look at how we can create REST APIs for WordPress so tha
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LOGO CHOICE RESEARCH 2014 - DesignContest.com
There are different contests clients hold on our website. Number of logo contests is the most significant. We have conducted a small survey to reveal several lo
Technology
What web designers can learn from Google’s Material Design | Webdesigner Depot
Material Design is Google’s new visual design language. It was introduced at the 2014 I/O Conference in June, and it’s beginning to find real traction in all ar
General
12 Tips for Naming Your Startup
Recently, I published a roundup of some effective tools to help you name your startup. Tools can be a great help but there is definitely a sense of satisfaction
Technology
A Standing Desk Might Not (Necessarily) Save Your Life
A couple of years ago I found myself unable to work effectively, with constant screaming headaches and stiff necks. It turned out this was due to my working at
Technology
Parallels Plesk 12: Harden Up and Supercharge Your WordPress Site
This article was sponsored by Parallels. Thank you for supporting the sponsors who make SitePoint possible! Web management tools aren’t new, they’ve been around
Technology
The Anti-hero of CSS Layout - "display:table" | colintoh.com
The topic of table usage in layouts is a sensitive one. Almost every web developer knew that a table-based layout is atrocious and the number of reasons against
Technology
Track Your Coding Productivity with WakaTime
Back in June, I wrote an article about Codeivate, which is capable of tracking the language you are currently programming in, awarding points to your virtual pr
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You Are Not A Machine. You Are Not Alone. | Smashing Magazine
Many of us struggle silently with mental health problems and many more are affected by them, either directly or indirectly. {Geek} The sedation dentist Houston
Technology
Responsive Web Design · An A List Apart Article
The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should
Technology
The Hub - Developer's Toolbox: Grunt - Aurelio De Rosa - Learnable
Improve the performance of a website by automating the testing and building process to improve the development workflow. Watch as Aurelio gives you a tour of Gr
Technology
Turning WordPress into a Self-Hosted Business Powerhouse
As a web developer, chances are you have a mid to high end hosting plan with a large amount of resources you probably don’t come close to using.You might also b
Technology
7 JavaScript Libraries for Specific Visualizations
Apart from the usual charts and graphs libraries used to create interactive data visualizations already covered here, which can present a steep learning curve a
Technology
Mastering WordPress Cron for Scheduling Events
Mastering WordPress Cron for Scheduling Events via Mastering WordPress Cron for Scheduling Events.
Technology
Replacing Radio Buttons Without Replacing Radio Buttons
Forms elements! They’re a pain to style, aren’t they? It’s tempting to replace them altogether, with some custom markup and CSS of our own design. The trouble i
General
Database Changes to Improve WordPress Performance
If you’re starting a website – be it a news site, a blog or an ecommerce site, chances are that you consider using WordPress. Once users begin to warm to the we
General
4 Sass Features You May Not Have Tried
Once you’ve gone to the trouble of converting your workflow over to Sass, it’s easy to fall into familiar patterns. You may be so pleased with the power of what
General
5 Photoshop Plugins to Save Your Time (and Sanity)
5 Photoshop Plugins to Save Your Time (and Sanity) via 5 Photoshop Plugins to Save Your Time (and Sanity).
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5 Steps to a Smooth and Successful Freelance Career
5 Steps to a Smooth and Successful Freelance Career via 5 Steps to a Smooth and Successful Freelance Career.
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How to be a Good Developer
As a PHP developer, or any kind of developer as a matter of fact, you need to constantly improve yourself in this ever-changing industry; you need to learn and
Technology
JavaScript Beyond the Web in 2014
JavaScript has evolved far beyond its role in the DHTML websites of the 90s. It is fast becoming the leading contender for a common language for the Internet of
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Introducing GIFV – Imgur Blog
IFs are no longer about .GIFs–the culture of the GIF now trumps the file format. With Project GIFV, Imgur is reimagining the looping GIF video with all the rich
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15 Free Ebooks about User Experience and Interface Design » paul olyslager
15 Free Ebooks about User Experience and Interface Design » paul olyslager.
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45 Free eBooks for Developers and Designers - Speckyboy Web Design Magazine
45 Free eBooks for Developers and Designers - Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.
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20 More Docs and Guides for Front-End Developers
To start out the week, you might be in the mood to learn something new or maybe refine your abilities in a particular language or technology on the front-end. I
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CSS shapes in email » STYLECampaign »
CSS shapes allow us to move away from boxy designs, towards organic magazine style layouts. In the photo below the text follows the contours of the image, as we
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How 50+ Startups Manage Their Code
We reached out to over 50 startups to ask them how they manage their code to hopefully pass on some useful tips you can use when managing your codebase. Heaps o
Technology
What You May Not Know about WordPress Security Plugins
When it comes to securing your WordPress install with a security plugin, it can be tempting to enable every feature of the plugin to harden your site. If you st
General
5 Well-paid Web Writing Gigs You're Overlooking
When people think of web writing, they think primarily of three things: blogging, feature article writing, and copywriting for marketing sites. Fortunately, the
Technology
A Beginner’s Guide to Website Speed Optimization by Kinsta
Website performance optimization, according to the Toronto Online Marketing agency the focal point of technologically superior website designs is the primary fa
Technology
Fixed vs. Fluid vs. Elastic Layout: What's The Right One For You? | Smashing Magazine
The problem has boggled the minds of Web designers for years: fixed, fluid, elastic or a hybrid layout design? Each option has its benefits and disadvantages. B
Technology
Original And Innovative Web Layouts | Smashing Magazine
The layout is the foundation of your website. It guides the user through the sections and tells them what is most important. It also sets the aesthetic of the w
Technology
Turning design limitations into design strengths! | Webdesigner Depot
Think of design as a road map for consumers, taking them where you want them to go. Design makes an efficient way to get across the message and still make it pr
Technology
15 Things You May Not Know WordPress Can Do
We all know WordPress as the perfect tool for running a blog or regular website. But due to it’s open architecture, WordPress is much more than just a CMS, with
Technology
Being a Full Stack Developer
The barrier of entering the web development industry as a web developer is still low, but it’s getting increasingly complex. The dynamic nature of the whole ind
Technology
Google Web Designer: Production-Ready Tool or Toy?
Google Web Designer is a graphical design tool for creating HTML5/CSS3/Javascript banners and advertisements using animations and 3D transforms. Using their gra
Technology
3 Old and Outdated UX Patterns (And How to Fix Them)
In one of my recent articles, The Evolution of the Hamburger icon we talked about the history of this commonly-used pattern, and about who’s using it and why. I
Technology
How to Protect Yourself From Rogue WordPress Plugins
Before installing software on your computer, you would probably do a bit of research on the software before loading it on your system, or maybe some video games
Technology
On Our Radar This Week: Polymer, Patterns and Programmers
Welcome to On Our Radar, a weekly round-up of news, trends and other cool stuff from the world of web development. This week saw the release of iOS 8, which arr
Technology
PhpStorm 8 Released - See What's New and Grab a Free License
This week marks the release of PhpStorm 8. It’s no secret PhpStorm has been a long personal favorite of mine after having won me over from Zend Studio, Netbeans
Technology
Sass for WordPress Developers
There are many benefits of Sass for WordPress developers. You’ve probably heard many arguments for using a pre-processor by now. CSS pre-processors provide the
Technology
The WordPress Database Demystified
Since it was released over a decade ago, WordPress has become the most popular CMS choice for beginners and experts alike. Although the installation of WordPres
Technology
What to Expect from Yii 2.0
Yii 2.0 was released into beta last April and the goal for a first stable release was set for the middle of 2014. The GitHub issue list has 300 open issues and
Technology
An Introduction to Icon Fonts with Font Awesome and IcoMoon
Icon fonts are all the rage nowadays, with more and more developers taking advantage of them in their designs. If you haven’t yet looked into icon fonts, this a
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The Next Web: Motorola Moto G (2014) review: A brilliantly compromised handset that goes just one step too far
The Next Web: Motorola Moto G (2014) review: A brilliantly compromised handset that goes just one step too far. Posted from WordPress for Android
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Why Companies Need Full-Time Product Managers (And What They Do All Day) | Smashing Magazine
What is a product manager? What do product managers do all day? Most importantly, why do companies need to hire them? Good questions. via Why Companies Need Ful
TechnologyTutorial
An Introduction to Web Components and Polymer (Tutorial)
Modern web applications are not only complex to design but also quite difficult to develop. Given the range of tools involved, amount of testing required, and t
Technology
Uncovering WordPress Vulnerabilities with Ease
As a developer or design professional, one of the biggest benefits of building your sites on WordPress is that in most cases you are building your code on a pro
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What’s new for designers, September 2014 | Webdesigner Depot
The September edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, CSS tools, software, email templates, inspiration resources, product
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Refining The Way We Structure Our CSS At Trello | Trello Blog
Have you been reading all the blog posts about the CSS architecture at various companies out there? No? Check out the ones for GitHub, CodePen, Lonely Planet, M
Technology
5 Steps to Uncovering Your IT Security Gaps
From local businesses to Google, IT breaches can happen to anyone. According to IBM, there were 1.5 million monitored cyber attacks in the United States last ye
General
OptionTree - Advanced Options
In the previous article we covered how to install OptionTree and how to integrate it with your theme. We also explored many of the most basic, but incredibly us
TechnologyTutorial
Responsive Web Design Tips from Bootstrap's CSS
With the release of version 3, Bootstrap has gone mobile first, building on its already responsive base. What kinds of things does Bootstrap include in its CSS
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JAAPOKKI - A Free Font For You All
Memories and photos from JAAPOKKI - A Free Font For You All.
Technology
Tweaking Your Website? Do It Safely with Google Experiments
You might be aware of Google Analytics’ Experiments feature, but it can be a little intimidating if you’ve never used it. There’s no need to be scared, though:
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End Inbox Overwhelm With These 10 Gmail Add-ons
Gmail overtook Hotmail as the world’s most popular webmail platform in 2012, and hasn’t slowed down since. It’s still 1, and many more people who don’t have @gm
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Improving Smashing Magazine's Performance: A Case Study | Smashing Magazine
Today Smashing Magazine turns eight years old. Eight years is a long time on the web, yet for us it really doesn’t feel like a long journey at all. Things have
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Media Queries: A Look at Different Media Features
If you have worked with responsive design, you have probably used media queries. Media queries are a clean and simple way to create responsive websites using CS
Technology
MVC - a Problem or a Solution?
Repositories, Adapters, MVC with all it cousins, SOLID, RTFM… As a (PHP) developer, those words are thrown at you from every corner of the web. And I hate it, I
General
Three Freelance Proposal Mistakes That Are Losing You Business
For many freelancers, creating a proposal is their least favorite part of the client intake process. What do you include? What do you leave out? How do you walk
Technology
4 Warning Signs that Your Team's Agile Process Stinks
Getting used to doing things in an agile way can be challenging for everyone in an organization, from senior management all the way to the core team engineer. B
General
Learning Gulp
Gulp is an automatic task runner, or build system, written in node.js and can handle many common workflow tasks. In his git-book, David Nowinsky described Gulp
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Git & GitHub for Front-End Developers
Over the past couple of years, the differentiation between front- and back-end web development has become much more distinctive. While traditional programming s
Technology
A New Cross Platform Option, Introducing Intel XDK
Intel XDK is a new tool for developing cross platform mobile applications. It attempts to keep the process simple by including all possible target platforms in
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Building A Simple Cross-Browser Offline To-Do List With IndexedDB And WebSQL | Smashing Magazine
Making an application work offline can be a daunting task. In this article, Matthew Andrews, a lead developer behind FT Labs, shares a few insights he had learn
Technology
Hack the – The Pastry Box Project
There are no true rules in reading. Apart from the visual process which we all share, everything else is utterly intimate and subjective. It can be anything fro
Technology
Top 5 Tools for Project Management
Whether you’re on your own or working in a team, it’s important to keep a close eye on your projects. Project management tools are designed to help you keep tra
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5 Grunt Tasks that Improve the Performance of Your Website
Many times on SitePoint I’ve mentioned how achieving good performance is a main concern today and how you should strive for fast web pages. In some articles of
TechnologyTutorial
Faking Pro Portraits with your Phone Camera
Thanks to the addition of cameras to our mobile devices taking photos has become easier than ever. No longer are we forced to struggle through text or an actual
Technology
How to Earn Passive Income by Creating Digital Info Products
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As one of the top user experience factors, website performance is more important than ever. Website speed and performance on mobile devices is particularly impo
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The most astounding fact | memolition
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This
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These 3 Illegal Drugs Should be Immediately Legalized and Used as Medicine
There have been many victims in the War on Drugs, from families being torn apart to victimless criminals rotting in a cage for possessing marijuana. But one vic
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This tree produces 40 different types of fruit (Science Alert)
An art professor from Syracuse University in the US, Van Aken grew up on a family farm before pursuing a career as an artist, and has combined his knowledge of
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Tips to Be A More Attractive Guy - Business Insider
Every man wants to know what will make him irresistible to women — especially when it comes to things he can change and control. How much time should he spend a
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Top 5 Tools for Project Management
Whether you’re on your own or working in a team, it’s important to keep a close eye on your projects. Project management tools are designed to help you keep tra
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Understanding Version Control with Diffs
Every project is made up of countless little changes. With a little luck, they will finally form a website, an app, or some other product. Your version control
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Work from Home Business Ideas : Pakistan
If you want to work in your pajamas, want to set up your own working hours and have a good coffee at the desk after a lot of work, then there are so many other
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Writing a Flexible Grid Script for Photoshop - Tuts+ Web Design Article
Being a capable web designer means having a solid grasp on grids, especially if you want to pursue responsive web design. In this tutorial we'll take a look at
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Making of Facebook Profile Picture
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SolidRocks for Vray
SolidRocks is an Autodesk™ 3dsmax™ plugin which automates the complex process of setting up rendering. It brings the best of the powerful V-Ray™ rendering engin
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Everything that has a beginning, has an END!
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ہوٹل کے ایک ٹیبل پر بیٹھی وہ کہہ رہی تھی دنیا سے غربت ختم ہونی چاہیے۔ غریب لوگوں کو دیکھ کر میرا دل بھر آتا ہے۔ بیچاورں کے پاس تو کھانے کے لیے بھی کچھ نہیں ہوت
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Second Annual Microsoft Conference
میں ٹائم سے کچھ آدھا گھنٹہ پہلےہی اواری ہوٹل پہنچ گیا۔ اندر سے کوئی محل محسوس ہو رہا تھا۔ میں لفٹ کے زریعے پہلے اس منزل تک پہنچا جہاں کانفرنس کا انقاد ہوناتھا۔
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Zen Coding
Zen Coding is an editor plugin for high-speed HTML, XML, XSL (or any other structured code format) coding and editing. The core of this plugin is a powerful abb
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Zen Coding for PHP and Wordpress
Just like you saw the previous post for Zen Coding, that is a great thing for developers like me and others. Initially it was just for HTML/CSS. Then I thought
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گدھے کہیں کے
یہ ان دنوں کی بات ہے جب میں کالج میں گریجویٹ کا طالبعلم تھا۔ گرمیوں کے دن تھے۔ ان دنوں ٹرانسپورٹ کیلیے نیو خان بسیں یہاں بہت عام تھی۔ طلبہ اور طالبات کیلیے کرای
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Flexible 960gs-Writing a Flexible Grid Script for Photoshop
I have developed this script for the web designers who design their template on Photoshop using 960gs. This script adds guides to your Photoshop document. You c
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If it is love?
Yesterday I went to doctor for a check-up. I was feeling certain abnormalities. I couldn’t help going to doctor. I asked doctor: My heartbeat upsets when I thin
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Interact to Edit
Initially , my challenge was to have some interactive method to edit the Table cell in an Web Application, without opening any dialogue or popup, and that is ve
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LESS : The dynamic stylesheet language.
LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. LESS runs on both the client-side (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) and serv
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Poverty and Us
Sitting at a table of a hotel , she was saying "Poverty should be removed from the world. Watching those poor people makes me sad. Poor people! they don't even
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