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A New Year and New Learning

If you can already believe it, we’re a month into 2017! The start of each new year is filled with new goals, things we’ll change, and things we’ll continue to improve upon from the previous year – be it personal or professional. With all...

My Local: Getting Started with Laravel Homestead

Developers have their own way of working, and I’m no exception. With a half a dozen apps running at any given time to make my code structure, workflow, and deployments as smooth as possible, I depend on simple easy-to-use tools to get...

10 Reasons Why You Should Be Using InVision as a Project Management Tool

One of the great challenges project managers run into is the best way to accurately scope a project with a client. To 100% nail down each user interaction is a hefty task. One of the biggest game changers when it comes to that...

Visual Composer: Taming and Customizing a WordPress Page Builder

Options are great. It’s always a wonderful thing to have options. I think most of us likely grew up being told that having options was important–for instance, fallback options, or when Plan A falls apart. Sometimes, though, too many options can create...

Unit Testing Your Plugins with Dockunit

I think we can all agree that unit testing is pretty neat. An automated system for checking if your code changes break any functionality is almost magic, and if you aren’t sure where to get started with it, you should read my previous...

Getting Started with Flexbox: First Impressions, Tips, & Tricks

Recently, here at WDS, we started incorporating Flexbox into our projects. I wanted to share some great resources I’ve come across to get going with Flexbox and highlight some of the early first impressions and some of the struggles you might encounter...

The PHPStorm Debugger is Pretty Awesome

In a previous post, I wrote about how awesome PHPStorm is in the context of being a front-end developer. In this post, we are going to look at getting the PHPStorm debugger setup to work with Xdebug and then test it to...

PHPStorm for Front-End Developers

As a developer, front-end or back-end, there is no lack of strong opinions on why or why not developers choose their text editor or IDE. It tends to be a very personal choice. A few popular editors in use these days are...

CSS @font-face: 2016 Edition

Remember back in 2009/2010, when @font-face was introduced? Developers rejoiced, because they no longer were they forced to use a (small) handful of fonts! There were some caveats though…browser support was just okay. To make @font-face work across Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE, and mobile, you had...

Easily Turn a WordPress Site Into a Desktop App

Everyone is eager to turn their WordPress site into a mobile app, and we offer two services, Reactor and AppPresser, to help you to do that. However, as an alternative (or in tandem!), a desktop app may provide a good user experience, so I’m here to walk you through...