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One of the tools that I commonly used to stay up-to-date with the latest design and development news is UsePanda. UsePanda can be used as a chrome extension or as a webpage. The chrome extension is great. After activating the extension, every time yo...
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Finding the right image for your featured product or the fullscreen background of your website can make or break the viewers perception of your app. That's why it's important to find the best high quality images for your app or product website. There...
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If you are looking for a simple and easy to use responsive chart solution. Chartist JS may be exactly what you are looking for. Chartist JS was created by a community of developers who were unhappy with the current charting systems available today, s...
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Amazon EC2 makes it very easy to scale the servers that our web applications live on. This video tutorial will show you how to load up an Amazon EC2 ubuntu server and setup Apache, PHP, & MySQL on the server. I will then go through the basics of sett...
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So, I finally decided to move away from using MAMP, which is great; however, I am having to do a lot of troubleshooting. After getting my MAMP stack all setup I was adding all my Laravel projects and going to get all the latest vendor resources via C...
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So The newest article by buzzfeed has been getting a lot of... 'buzz' (sorry for the lame reference)... Anyway they have done a good round-up of some things that developers will find funny. That's cool, but there are also some things in that article ...
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Using migrations in laravel 4 allows users to keep a version control of their database. If you aren't familiar with migrations I'll give you a quick rundown. A migration is a file that creates, updates, or removes tables and columns in your applicati...
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Lets say you've been digging Laravel Migrations and you run into an instance where you need to rename your table. Would you manually change the migrations you already created to reflect the new table name, rollback all your environments and then migr...
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Back when I was using TextMate I was easily able to navigate to a directory in terminal and type 'mate .' and open up a specific file or directory in TextMate. Well with Sublime Text 2 you can do this as well. Here's how to do it using a Bash Shell. ...
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I've been programming in PHP for nearly 10 years, and I would consider myself to be fairly competent with the language. It's funny that some of the simplest things that I would program in PHP I would just accept certain aspects instead of looking fur...