…en developing software, source control makes our lives so much easier. From tracking our changes to introducing code collaboration, it helps increase our productivity. Furthermore, the fact that there are a number of different tools available - Subversion, Perforce, Mercurial, and so on - make it even better by providing…
…etting up an online shop has never been easier, with so many options available, one can easily get lost in the maze of plugins that developers launch every single day. So what WordPress options do you have? What should you look out for when setting up a WordPress eCommerce website? Below I…
…e CreatingThanks to the growing abundance of useful self-hosted apps such as WordPress and the affordable growth of cloud hosting providers, running your own server is becoming increasingly compelling to a broader audience. But securing these servers properly requires a fairly broad knowledge of Linux system administration; this task is not always suitable…
…eries, we've been creating a plugin that's meant to provide authors with a way to collect, manage, and save ideas and references to content that they're creating within WordPress.While doing so, we're also looking at ways that we can organize our plugin so that the code and the file organization…
…esting your web applications is one of the best things you can do to ensure its health, safety, and security, both for the app and your app's visitors. Symfony 2 offers a complete integration testing suite that you can use to make sure your applications run just as you expect.…
…e of the most popular modern PHP frameworks. It has the advantages of being modular, extensible, and feature complete. Our new course, Getting Started With Symfony 2, is designed for first-time users of the framework, and will walk you through all its basic coding features. What You'll LearnWe'll cover everything you need to…
…ere is a general perception that WordPress is free and easy to set up, and that one can rapidly set up an online store and start trading. The truth of the matter is, there are a lot of considerations one has to think of first before setting up an online store.In…
…eat payment processor that allows anyone to send you money, which you can then send directly to your bank account. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to make a WordPress plugin allowing you to generate a Buy Now button, using a variable shortcode.The main shortcode will have a default value…
…e come up on the end of this series, we have two more topics to cover:Saving information to and retrieving information from the databaseRefactoring the code so that it becomes more maintainable for usIn the previous article, we looked at validation, sanitization, and implementing this functionality for the elements that we've…
…e PaaS as hosting for your application, you probably had or will have this problem: Your app is deployed to small "containers" (known as dynos in Heroku, or gears in OpenShift) and you want to scale it. In order to do so, you increase the number of containers—and every instance of your app…