Several times I’ve asked myself about the importance of knowing how to build and code my designs. Is that necessary? Even more, is that good for the final website?
Well those are difficult questions to answer, I’ve been reading and studying different opinions. Basically we have two opposite points of view.
– Coding is the jail of creativity.
– Coding is the key for a perfect web design.
Very opposite aren’t they? Ok Let’s explain both theories:
One of my favorite hobbies is playing computer games and streaming the gameplay using a web platform such as Amazon’s Twitch. I know, I know, it’s not very exciting to have a hobby related to computers if you already have to work with them on a daily basis, but believe it or not, streaming gameplays is actually a rising trend, with the most popular Twitch channels reporting millions of followers and views.
This trend has achieved such popularity that even Google is improving the YouTube platform to increase its streaming capabilities.
Usually, streamers like to play random sounds to enrich the experience for their viewers. For instance I love playing the infamous “toasty” clip from Mortal Kombat 2 whenever I kill another player in a game that has nothing to do with Mortal Kombat.
Of course, manually playing the sounds using a media player can be a very demanding task for someone who has both their hands already occupied playing a computer game. But how about we build a program that automatically plays the sounds we want whenever we press a key?
It isn’t rare that Android Play Store classifies the Apps for maturation time. Fixing application bugs is a constant work. But, we can fix some security bugs when making connections with the server.
Generally the amateur programmers think that no one may try to hack their code because the information isn’t “important”, or because it is simply impossible to hack (for lack of knowledge).
Nowadays we face a highly competitive market in most areas. That’s why it is so important to work towards perfection in order to make “the difference”, to be different. When choosing a provider (and not only for web development but for any other service) besides price and quality which are aspects that anyone can provide you also look for a good experience and added value.
The experience you provide to your customers during the entire process of building a project is what I believe makes you better.
People are the key to an excellent and unique experience as every person is unique. That’s why it so important to have your team highly motivated.
This document explains how to create, manage and filter by the most common attribute types (taxonomies) any custom created post type for Wordpress . You will need a little PHP programming knowledge to create some specific templates with some custom filters and loops.
After searching and trying several custom post types plug-ins, the best I can recommend, by far, is the Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM) available for free:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/
In this post I will show the basic usage of this plug-in and then how to create some templates with custom and complex filters for custom post listing and loops using PHP and WordPress functions. Continue Reading
Sentiment140 is a tool that allows you to evaluate a written text in order to determine if the writer has a positive or negative opinion about a specific topic. Facing 2015 Argentinian presidential election we are going to evaluate the public image of the most important candidates: Sergio Massa, Mauricio Macri and Daniel Scioli. For this purpose we are going to use the python library called Tweepy to collect thousands of tweets in which they are mentioned.
Sentiment analysis aims to determine the attitude of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or the overall contextual polarity of the document. The attitude may be his or her judgment or evaluation, affective state or the intended communication.
Written text can be broadly categorized into two types: facts and opinions.
Nowadays, when we talk about web design we assume that we are thinking about mobile and desktop design. Developing different interfaces with css and mediaqueries becomes all a challenge not only for designers but also for programmers.
Although one may think the best way to get started is by developing the desktop design and then moving on to mobile resolutions, the process should be inverse, we need to deliver a solid user experience to a growing number of devices, in addition, it is easier to start with a smaller mobile screen and then scale to a desktop.
So, if you’re developing either a mobile or desktop design, there are a number of things you should consider.
bbPress is a forum software which, in the older versions worked as a “standalone” forum and in some ways it had some degree of integration with WordPress forums, but not fully integrated. The latest versions of this software work as a WordPress plugin, having all functionality inside WordPress database and structure.
This is not one of my favorite forum software, and not one of my choice (mainly because there are a lot of functionality like emoticons, private messages, and other common forum tools that are not included, and for which we will need to download extra plugins to use those) but sometimes we need to take an existing bbPress forum and update it to the latest version of WordPress.
There are a few problems that show up when trying to migrate the forum data from an older version of bbPress (standalone versions) lower than the bbPress 1.2 version, in which case a few steps must be done for updating it, because an upgrade to the 1.2 version must be done manually.
Rest API authentication & security is crucial for most applications handling sensible information and user-specific data.
In this post we’ll discuss just one, token based authentication with PHP and the Slim micro framework (the logic can be applied to any routes framework or even if you have your own implementation).
