Posts in category: Tutorials

Tutorials | Development

Stop MAMP delay between saving and viewing changes

I’ve noticed recently when using MAMP to test PHP 7 that changes are not shown right away when...

30th Oct 2015 12:14 AM

Demos | Javascript | HTML | Tutorials

Dynamically set iframe properties with jQuery

Using jQuery it’s possible to pass properties to set the src, width and height of an iframe fr...

25th Oct 2015 12:03 AM

HTML | CSS | Tutorials

iframe set height to 100%

Iframes are useful to loading external pages into an existing page and avoiding any style conflicts,...

24th Oct 2015 11:30 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Social Media

Post updates to Buffer using PHP

Buffer is a great social media management tool, perfect to scheduling facebook and twitter updates....

12th Oct 2015 09:45 AM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Leverage PHP to decrease page load times

Increase your page speed by merging your various css and js files into a single css and js file.....

27th Aug 2015 10:34 PM

Demos | Javascript | Tutorials

Duplicate form sections with jQuery

When working with forms it can be incredibly useful to duplicate parts of the form, for instance whe...

22nd Aug 2015 09:15 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Tools

Sending emails with PHPMailer and Mandrill

Sending emails with PHP’s mail function is not recommended it’s not reliable and hard to...

22nd Aug 2015 04:23 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Create a list of items from a folder using scandir

Quick tip to create a list page that will read the files from a directory and link to them is super...

18th Jul 2015 09:34 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Reading markdown files with parsedown

Read me files on GitHub are written in Markdown, I wanted to be able to grab the contents of a...

18th Jul 2015 09:07 AM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Scraping GitHub

For an upcoming project I need to be able to dynamically get information about a GitHub repository s...

17th Jul 2015 09:10 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

comparing multiple values against in_array

PHP's in_array is useful to determine if an item is in an array but when needing to compare...

17th Jul 2015 01:20 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Using Premailer to convert styles to inline styles for HTML emails automatically with PHP

Sending HTML emails can be tricky, not all mail clients support the same css. Most ignore external s...

12th Jul 2015 07:36 PM

Javascript | HTML | CSS | Tutorials | Tools | Development

Speed up your website using minify

One of the factors to consider when improving your search engine ranking is page speed. Reducing the...

12th Apr 2015 11:35 PM

Tutorials | Development

What type of web development tutorials do you prefer?

I’ve been giving a lot of though to the tutorials I create recently, when I go through tutoria...

10th Apr 2015 08:07 AM

Javascript | HTML | Tutorials

Add hour to datetimepicker

When working with dates and forms I like to use datepickers, these allow the users to use a calendar...

2nd Apr 2015 08:37 AM

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