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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 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
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
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?
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 …
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 issues, and it can be more than 40 hours a week. With this in mind, it’s important to have the ability to customize your coding tools to suit your visual preferences and …
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 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 …
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 winning visual effects for films like Inception, Dneg’s reputation within the VFX community is stellar. However, with its newest film, Interstellar, the studio’s weighty contribution to the art and science of film making can now be said to extend into the …
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 creating 2D and 3D models within many software apps. The video is a good resource for anyone looking for a basic introduction to the mathematical calculations behind how subdivision surfaces are derived. These calculations are often unknown to …
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, it’s a format so flexible and ubiquitous that it often even serves as an interchange format for other non-photoshop apps, such as Premiere and Illustrator. Looking back, …