50 Filters of WordPress: An Introduction to Filters – Tuts+ Code Tutorial

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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 series, we’re going to learn about filters – one of the best ways we can extend WordPress. In the foundation of this feature lies hooks – filters and actions of WordPress. Without them, we …

Experimenting with the Web Speech API

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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 a developer can do with it to improve the user experience. This talk was inspired by two articles I wrote for SitePoint titled Introducing the Web Speech API and Talking Web …

Google’s Material Design Brought To Real Life With Gorgeous, Tactile Postcards – DesignTAXI.com

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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 the 2014 I/O Conference, Google has gotten San Francisco-based design studio Manual to bring its Material Design philosophy offline and translate it into a real, physical product that one can hold in their hands. The …

What’s the Difference Between Photoshop and Illustrator?

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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 which of the two programs will work best for you, since on the surface they seem so similar. We’ve compiled some of the main differences between Photoshop and Illustrator to help you get started. via What’s the …

Modern Debugging Experience: Part 1 – Tuts+ Code Tutorial

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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 get a introductory look at the various panels in the DevTools and what workflows they’re suitable for. There’ll also be a focus on writing and executing JavaScript code through the browser rather than …