August 2010
34 posts
Farewell Tumblr, It's Been A Blast
In late January we moved the Envato Marketplace blogs here to Tumblr, and it has been a blast. A crazy 4,006 posts later over seven tumblogs, we’ve come to appreciate Tumblr’s speed and flexibility, its informal atmosphere, its variety of post types, its integration with other social media sites, and its bookmarklet that allows you to create Tumblr content from just about anywhere.
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Best 10 Cheap Web Hosting Providers →
“If you own a website and have your own domain name registered, chances are that you also have a hosting provider where you have uploaded all the files of your website. It’s very important on the part of bloggers or webmasters to choose a reputed hosting provider for their business.
“Using a good web hosting provider ensures that your website is running smoothly and do not face any...
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Quick Tip: An Introduction to Sammy.js →
“You’ve been seeing it for a while now with Google’s Reader, Gmail, and most recently, on Facebook. Probably, you, too, would like to write RESTful evented JavaScript applications. Well, fellow developers, meet Sammy.js, a tiny JavaScript framework built on top of jQuery. Sammy utilizes the URL hash (#) to allow you to create single page AJAX applications that respond to your browser’s back...
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“I want a website that pops-up on peoples GPS systems when they drive by my...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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HTML5 Apps: What, Why, and How
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“If you want to build web apps, you might want to think about using HTML5. HTML5 is the new hotness when it comes to app development, and it has the potential to change the way software is made and sold. It also activates the millions of people out there who know how to make web pages, and never thought their skill set could be used for something else. But before jumping into development,...
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Who Needs University? The Best Nettuts+ Screencast... →
“Education is expensive…very expensive! But, luckily, 95% of the tutorials and courses on Nettuts+ are free! And, should you require more training, a Tuts+ premium subscription is extremely cheap, at only $9 per month. Whether you’re hoping to learn jQuery, WordPress, CSS, Tumblr, PHP, CodeIgniter, or JavaScript, we’ve got you covered! Further, if screencasts are your thing, you’re...
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WatchCodeIgniter from Scratch: Profiling, Benchmarking & Hooks
“In this 15th episode of the series, we are going to learn about three subjects: Profiling, Benchmarking and Hooks. You can use these tools to analyze your CodeIgniter applications performance, and figure out what part of the code you need to optimize. We are also going to make even further improvements to the Profiler library to...
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“How can I send my newsletter to customers who didn’t check “I want to receive...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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How to Use CakePHP’s Access Control Lists →
“If you’re building a CMS, you’ll probably need different user roles—superusers, admins, users—with different permission levels. Too complicated to code? Enter CakePHP’s ACL (Access Control Lists). With the right setup, you’ll be checking user permissions with just one line.”
July 2010
73 posts
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Start Using HTML5 WebSockets Today →
“One of the cool new features of HTML5 is WebSockets, which let us talk to the server without using AJAX requests. In this tutorial, we’ll review the process of running a WebSocket server in PHP, and then building a client to send and receive messages to it over the WebSocket protocol.”
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International website
clientsfromhell:
After creating and delivering a website as requested I received an email from the owner of the business asking to translate the website.The email was originally from his partner.
“Hey [Owner’s Name] can you ask [my Name] to translate the website to at least 5 or 6 languages?, my son sent me a link to Babelfish and I think it would be a wasted opportunity if we only have the...
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Behind the Scenes of Nettuts with Collis! →
… Nine months after launching Psdtuts+, it was time to expand out the clearly successful formula to other types of tutorials. Beginning with web development and Nettuts+, we launched over the course of two years a total of seven more sites. Each one applies the same overall editorial concept into a different niche, with a different editor and different writers.
The plus side of this is that the...
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How to Build a Successful Blog Business →
The Complete Handbook on Building a Blog Business Written by Collis of Envato
Here at Envato we’re pretty famous for building a lot of successful blogs, like this one! We’ve done quite a few now, so last year I decided other people might find our techniques and systems useful. Today I’m really happy to announce my new book How to Build a Successful Blog Business which is a step by step guide to...
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Build an Incredible HTML5 App: $7000 Competition →
Can you write HTML5 code? Don’t miss out on these prizes in Nettut+’s latest competition!
“As HTML5′s popularity continues to increase, we at Tuts+ and CodeCanyon would like to do our part in promoting and rewarding those who are on the cutting edge of what’s possible with HTML5, local storage, geolocation, SVG, and CSS3. Not only that, but we’re also, at the conclusion of...
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Bad PHP coding practices →
Here’s an interesting thread on the CodeCanyon forum.
“Thought I’d start a thread about some annoying/bad PHP programming code. The large PHP projects I get handed (which were started by cheap out-sourcing or self-taught programmers) tend to include these or similar over and over again.”
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Top 15 Premium WordPress Plugins →
“If you have your own blog, you probably already love WordPress – it’s the most popular blogging platform by far. It lets you host your own blog, allowing you to retain control over your content, and does just about everything you need from a blog. And if there’s something it doesn’t do, a host of plugins are available that let you add all the functionality you’re dreaming about.
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