Introduction to Grunt

Easily improve the performance of a website by automating the testing and building process to improve the development workflow. Watch as I, Aurelio De Rosa, give you a tour of Grunt. Grunt can speed up your workflow by automating repetitive tasks in a project. These include tasks like minifying JavaScript and CSS files, removing unused CSS declarations from your style sheets, and parsing CSS files to add vendor-prefixes where needed. By using Grunt, a developer like myself is able to improve the performance of a website with ease.

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Using Chassis for WordPress Development

When I wrote the first article on WordPress and Vagrant I introduced WordPress VVV. VVV is a Vagrant configuration for developing WordPress themes and contributing to the core. One common problem, however, is that many people were overwhelmed with VVV. Especially those new to Vagrant, who just wanted to get something simple up and running fast. There are many other Vagrant configurations, one of the easiest and most popular in WordPress circles is Chassis. Chassis is a simple Vagrant configuration, popular among WordPress plugin and theme developers. It's easy to get started with and use on a per project development. In this article I'll walk you through setting up Chassis. The folder structure is a bit different, so we'll get into that too. The Chassis configuration has a hierarchy, so understanding how that works is also important. The last topic we'll cover is extending Chassis by adding plugins that include more features.

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Bundling in ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a technology stack that has earned a reputation in enhancing productivity. With the release of ASP.NET 4.5, the stack has pushed the envelope by adding automated bundling of web resources, making it easy and flexible to work with. In this article, I would like to take a look at bundling in ASP.NET. I’ll […]

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3 Principles For Perfect Typeface Pairing

The number of amazing typefaces keeps growing and growing — there are new ones debuting every single day. It’s easy to get distracted and select your favorite fonts at random to use in your work. What’s harder is that if you want to make it to the top of the design field, you’ll need to […]

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Preparing and Building a PHP Project in Jenkins

In a previous article, we went through the installation of Jenkins and prepared everything to get started. We will continue in this article by actually preparing our project. If you have a Jenkins setup ready from before, no need to go through the previous part - you can follow along with this one quite nicely.

Prepare composer

We are going to prepare our project first. We could use the project supplied by Sebastian Bergmann, but it’s rather a basic project and will run without problems in Jenkins. In this article, we will be using a different repository in which we will have to overcome some hurdles. We will be using a fork of Jumph as our basis.

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Create A Custom Keyboard on Android

Moonbase

Lovely responsive One Pager for a new service to help launch your next idea called 'Moonbase'. Love the intro arrangement of text over the Moon background and this Futura and Elena font blend is really working for me. The space theme is consistent but both team members as Astronauts would just nail it;)

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