Lately, I’ve been thinking that our current method of using inline media queries throughout our Sass partials has not been flexible enough for the projects we’ve been building. While it was simple and allowed for easy implementation, I think it is time...
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A Day in the Life of a WebDevStudios Developer
A couple weeks ago, one of @WebDevStudios‘ followers on Twitter sent us this: @webdevstudios Hi! QuikQues: what's a typical day like for a WebDev? I want to compare to a IT Support person. Thanks!! — Tony Obfenda (@TonyObfenda) April 30, 2015 That...
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Getting started on a new project is always exciting, but it often includes a lot of repetitive work, such as setting up the basics of your code that you need for any plugin, or downloading a boilerplate and filling in your project’s details. Yeoman...
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What is Lean UX? Lean UX was born out of the Lean startup movement. The concept of ‘being lean’ is derived from Lean manufacturing principles, which essentially postulates [1]: “making obvious what adds value by reducing everything else.”
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Every month, WDS releases a bunch of goodies over on Github (and occasionally WordPress.org and elsewhere). While we typically share the links on social media, we know that it’s easy for things to get lost in the noise, so we will be...
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So, you get an email like this one every time WordPress publishes a new release. 4.2 just went out, so I got this email a few days ago. I’m not a serious plugin developer like most out there. They aren’t premium plugins;...
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One extremely confusing set of functions within WordPress is the concept of “wp_cron“. For those of you unfamiliar with it, is a scheduling tool on Unix systems and, in itself, is not without its own confusing elements. Let’s take a more user-friendly example...
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Let me count the ways… I have been having a great time testing Brackets.io, the open source text editor by Adobe. Ever since switching from Espresso to Sublime Text, I have missed many of the preview features in Espresso…and then along comes Brackets.
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Every project tends to be unique in requirements, goals, and size, but you can manage almost every project using a similar process. The key is finding ways to managing your projects efficiently. You aren’t always going to have a project manager available to you; maybe...
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