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BuddyPress: One Plugin, Five Communities

September 26, 2012 — Siobhan McKeown looks at some successful implementations of BuddyPress. Five communities that are using BuddyPress, some big, some small, some established, some emerging, some successful and some unsuccessful. Read more…

Charles Hannon wrote

Design Patterns: You Already Know How To Use It

September 25, 2012 — How does a company like Apple make such great new things that people already know how to use? As Alan Cooper writes in “About Face”: ‘All idioms must be learned; good idioms need to be learned only once.’ Read more…

Ronan Cremin and Luca Passani wrote

Server-Side Device Detection: History, Benefits And How-To

September 24, 2012 — Your customers are now interacting with your website on countless different devices. In this post, the authors discuss a useful tool for addressing the control over the Web user experience and the ability to map your business requirements to the interactions that people have with your website. Read more…

Ariel Salminen wrote

How To Establish An Open Device Lab For Better Mobile Testing

September 24, 2012 — This article will cover most of the things needed to be considered when opening a device lab. It will also work as a guide and give practical tips: things like location, how to get devices, what devices to get and what software to use. Read more…

Vitaly Friedman wrote

Practical JavaScript Libraries and jQuery Plugins

September 23, 2012 — In this two-part overview, we feature some of the most useful JavaScript and jQuery libraries which could be just the right solutions for your common problems. We hope that this overview will help you find or rediscover some tools that you could use in your next projects. Read more…

Christian Heilmann wrote

It’s Not All Doom And Gloom On The Web

September 21, 2012 — What do you think about the future of the Web? In this post, Christian Heilmann argues that its future is not as problematic and endangered as a lot of people make it out to be. Read more…

Anne Brady wrote

Typography Carved In Stone

September 20, 2012 — Anne Brady offers an insight into the creative thought processes she followed in designing a typographic solution for the Garda Memorial Garden. She discusses her choice of typeface, the detailed layout, the size of type, the materials, and more. Read more…

Vitaly Friedman wrote

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