The best writers often work with an editor (or two), who will help them coalesce their words into something more compelling or easier to understand. Having worked with several editors, Paul Lloyd really came to appreciate this aspect of the writing process. Refinement is an essential aspect of any creative process. As refactoring code can make a program more logical and efficient, editing a text can allow an underlying idea to be more clearly stated, or make a piece more enjoyable to read. And when he heard about Editorially, a collaborative writing tool designed with Web writers in mind, he immediately signed up.
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You are about to experience truly hair-raising excitement as you get to grips with the intricacies of the hugely interesting CSS timing function, which is a bit of a hidden gem when it comes to CSS animation, and you could well be surprised by just how much you can do with it. For example, they define where an animation accelerates and decelerates, you can break an animation into any number of steps, rather than tweened motion, and much more!
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If you are building a product, you should always speak with customers and test your idea before. But you probably don’t know that *you *might be making some of the most common mistakes when running your experiments. Mistakes include testing the wrong aspect of your business, asking the wrong questions and neglecting to define a criterion for success. In this article, Grace Ng will show you a guide to designing quick, effective, low-cost experiments.
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In this article Mark McDonnell will go through all of the steps he took to write an open-source gem named Sinderella (available on GitHub) and how he prepared it for release as a gem via RubyGems. He’ll also show you how to set up your tests to run through a continuous integration (CI) server using the popular Travis CI service, and how to use Coveralls to measure the code coverage of your tests and to obtain a statistical history of your commits.
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WordPress powers websites for some of the world’s largest companies and is even being promoted as a platform to power the next generation of Web apps. In this article, David Smith will share with you how his team has used the PHP dependency-management tool Composer to streamline their development processes and to maintain their WordPress project dependencies across the development team consistently and reliably.
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During brainstorming sessions, UX professionals would generate concepts as paper or whiteboard sketches. But this artifacts limit participants from visualizing interactivity and the system’s flow. In this article Svetlin Denkov will look at clickthrough prototyping on the iPhone with the Prototyping on Paper (or POP) app. His goal is to introduce the tool, share his prototyping experience and discuss competitors.
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Fortunately, learning is not limited to only a small minority of people anymore; it is not even limited to visiting a school or a university. The Internet makes it possible for us to distribute knowledge at a small price, and is full of web design resources to expand everyone’s knowledge on an enormous variety of topics.
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Function binding is probably your least concern when beginning with JavaScript, but when you realize that you need a solution to the problem of how to keep the context of “this” within another function, then you might not realize that what you actually need is Function.prototype.bind().
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In this article, you’ll look how to modify admin post lists with WordPress. Daniel Pataki will focus on how to extend existing tables. You’ll do this using an example from a theme that he and his team recently built, named Rock Band. Rock Band includes event management, which means that they needed some custom event-specific interface elements and details to make the admin section more useful!
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You want to be lean and you want to be agile by using technologies that will help you succeed in the short and long term. And those technologies are not always easy to pick out. Full-stack JavaScript hits all the marks. You’ve probably seen it around. With JavaScript, you can create scalable, maintainable applications, unified under a single language. There’s no doubt, it’s a force to be reckoned with. In this article, Alejandro Hernandez will introduce these components piece by piece.
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