If you’re like me, you are curious about how changing the interface of a mobile application or website may influence the engagement and the earnings of your product. The idea for this article came to me after reading a tweet posted on the 11th of April by Luke Wroblewski. His statement Obvious always wins and the image associated with it …
Hamburger menu, drawer menu, off-canvas menu: Whatever you call it, hiding a website’s primary navigation just off screen is becoming a ubiquitous pattern in responsive web design. More and more sites feature a fixed-position icon that, when tapped, pushes the entire site to the side to reveal a hidden navigation menu. While there are plenty of jQuery plugins that will …
In the last survey on the best PHP IDE for 2014, my longtime favorite PhpED was missing. I didn’t act on it then, but what better way to spread the love than to devote an article to it. I’ve spent the first part of my programming career without a real IDE. UltraEdit was meeting most of my needs. At a …
A handful of news cropped up again that didn’t really get the attention they deserved, so I’ll use this opportunity to rehash some of them and explain others. The “news” here are usually less than brand new – instead, they’re bits of information you should pay attention to if you’re even the least bit interested in the PHP community and …
Today I’ll break this habit by giving you a preview of some APIs that are still at a very early stage. To give you an idea of how cutting edge these APIs are, consider that 2 out of 3 were announced just few days ago. Because of this, the bad news is that none of them can be used right …
Vagrant has changed the way I work. In this article I discuss how Vagrant, a tool for creating and managing virtual environments, helps me work more efficiently. I will then introduce Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV), an evolving Vagrant configuration purpose-built for WordPress developers. via When WordPress Meets Vagrant: VVV.
Handheld projectors are nothing new, but TouchPico from TouchJet offers a new twist that could be useful: the ability to turn any flat surface into an interactive screen. The small, white hand-sized device runs any Android app and projects up to an 854 x 480 pixel, 80-inch image on any wall. At 150 lumens, it lights up any room, and …
For most of the short history of web development, the only platform that we could rely on for graphic purposes was the desktop computer, that have the enough graphic power for this and other graphic demanding activities as video games, you can play with the use of overwatch boost online. I doubt I have to tell you, as SitePoint readers, …
PHP in version 5.5 comes with a caching engine built-in – OpCache – which stores precompiled script bytecode in the memory. If you’re familiar with APC or Xcache, you will already know how such engines work. As each PHP script is being compiled at runtime, a part of the execution time gets used for transforming the human readable code into …
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’ve had enough. Stop telling me what to do and show me those kittens instead. via MVC – a Problem or a Solution?.