Gaaks – Templates, Scripts, CMS, Graphics, Fonts, Flash, E-Books, 3D, Tutorials, Wallpapers. Markdown: The Ins and Outs. Markdown is a shockingly simple markup language that allows you to write, using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write, plain text format.
This format can then, in seconds, be converted into another markup language, such as HTML! If you're not familiar with it, let me teach you about it today! Markdown does a fantastic job of getting out of the way. Markdown does a fantastic job of getting out of the way. I'm sure everyone has, at some point, emphasised text in a plain-text document by surrounding the phrase with an asterisk, *like so*.
It's no surprise that Markdown's philosophy is to produce content, which can be "published as-is, without looking like it's been marked up with tags. " The benefits should be obvious to anyone who's tried writing web-based content and had to worry about formatting it, too. A number of Markdown editors exist, both web and desktop-based, but you can, of course, use any old text editor. The Markup Paragraphs Simply becomes: Becomes, quite jarringly: Headings Becomes: Code. What’s This Meteor Thing?
Lately, there has been a considerable amount of buzz around a new web platform, called Meteor.
In this article, I will explain what it is, and why you should consider it for your future applications! First Things First Don't think of Meteor as a package manager, because it is far more powerful than that! Meteor is a JavaScript framework, built around many small packages - some of which you may already be using, like MongoDB or jQuery. But don't think of Meteor as a package manager, because it is far more powerful than that! Meteor is by far the easiest development environment to install, with just a one line command that installs a database, development server, and a command line program, which takes care of creating and deploying your applications. If I had to define, in short, how Meteor can help you, I would have to say that it is the speed at which you can develop your applications. Meteor is "Realtime by Design""Database Access" from the Client"Latency Compensation" Deployment.
Creating "Faux-DRs" From Single RAW Files In Lightroom (Or Any Other RAW Software) How To Create A Great Web Design CV and Résumé? Advertisement The economy is bad.
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Ali Felski‘s design is beautiful and simple, but manages to convey Steve Stevenson’s strong design skills. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.