Category Archives: Featured
May 28, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Coding, Featured
My newest post on Net.Tuts+ was published yesterday: 40+ Invaluable PHP Tutorials and Resources
It is a roundup of articles, tutorials and tools of interest to PHP coders, on topics such as security, OOP, frameworks, and WordPress.
PHP is one of the most popular scripting languages on the internet today, and one of the easiest to get into. Whether you’re a PHP newbie, or an experienced code-slinger, there is always something new to discover. A function you’re unfamiliar with a killer timesaving tool, a technique that you forgot about…
Head over to Net.Tuts+ to read the full article.
May 26
I have about twice the number of Twitter followers as I do RSS subscribers. RSS is an open standard built from the ground up to serve-up new content as it is released. It excells at delivering information and making it readable in a quick…
May 13
Yesterday I released my newest WordPress plugin: Tweetable. It helps integrate Twitter into your blog. It tweets your posts as they are published and adds a configurable sidebar widget that displays your latest tweets (with optional follower count). The automatic post-tweeting can be configured…
Apr 24
Nambu Networks, the people behind Tr.im and Pic.im, recently released a beta of Nambu OS X, a new desktop Twitter client with an impressive feature set and a native integration with OS X. (I assume that a Windows version will be released eventually, judging…
Apr 9
Collis Ta’eed, co-founder of Envato, is one of my favorite designers. His designs have a certain quality that you don’t see just anywhere. They’re simplistic, stylish, and unique.
Apr 5
If you’ve used Twitter for long, you’re probably aware of their impressive API. Nearly any day-to-day task that you can perform on Twitter.com can be done programmatically via the API. (This enables us to have useful applications like Twhirl.) Now, suppose you would like…
Mar 19
The Online Publishers Association is calling for new, more intrusive ad formats to combat banner-blindness. “A large-scale intrusive format is absolutely necessary in today’s market,” said Adam Kleinberg, chief executive of Traction, a San Francisco ad agency. “With the economy and the move to…
Mar 16
Internet Explorer is notorious for it’s laughable support for W3C standards. Look around in the web design community and you’ll find that a lot of designers do not like the browser one bit, as a result of having to find workarounds so a page…
Mar 1
My first post at NETTUTS was published a few days ago. What You Must Know About the New Safari 4 Beta is an overview of the beta of Apple’s latest browser release. The updated browser is lean and lightning fast, and it passes both…
Feb 27
Following up the hugely popular (and still relevant) 31 Professional WordPress Themes, Webmaster-Source brings you fourteen more high-quality, professional themes for WordPress blogs. Pick one out, customize it, and get back to blogging. Agregado
