Open Source Disqus Alternatives AlternativeTo AlternativeTo is a free service that helps you find better alternatives to the products you love and hate. The site is made by Ola and Markus in Sweden, with a lot of help from our friends and colleagues in Italy, Finland, USA, Colombia, Philippines, France and contributors from all over the world. That's right, all the lists of alternatives are crowd-sourced, and that's what makes the data powerful and relevant.
Everything you need to know about Loading Animations A brief history of loading animations. For such type of feedback, designers use progress bars, loading indicators, preloaders or spinners. They explain to users when something is happening or loading and ideally reduce mental waiting time. When do you think designers start thinking about that type of feedback? Automatic Face Detection in Photos with PHP I have always wondered how to detect faces automatically with php script. I have seen in many photo sharing and social network sites automatically detect a face and tag a name after being uploaded. In this article, i will explain how possible this task can be achieved with simplicity with OpenCV and PHP Facedetect extension. Both are free to download and opensource.
Why Postgres - Craig Kerstiens This post is a list of many of the reasons to use Postgres, much this content as well as how to use these features will later be curated within PostgresGuide.com. If you need to get started check out Postgres.app for Mac, or get a Cloud instance at Heroku Postgres for free UPDATE: A part 2 has been posted on Why Use Postgres Very often recently I find myself explaining why Postgres is so great.
Complete HTML True Color Chart; Table of color codes for html documents The background color in each cell is produced by the color code shown. Black, grays and white are shown in bold red. Primary colors and complements are in BOLD ITALIC. This site was created by Photius Coutsoukis and it is hosted by ITA.
About - Materialize Material is the metaphor The metaphor of material defines the relationship between space and motion. The idea is that the technology is inspired by paper and ink and is utilized to facilitate creativity and innovation. Surfaces and edges provide familiar visual cues that allow users to quickly understand the technology beyond the physical world.
Let's Encrypt Tutorial SiteGround has been supporting the Let’s Encrypt global initiative for creating free SSL certificates for everybody from its beginning. We automatically issue and install a free certificate for the majority of the domains that are pointed to our shared servers and we allow one click installations for domains on cloud and dedicated accounts. Now, all of our customers can also install free Let’s Encrypt Wildcard to any of their domains pointed with us. Creating a Flat-File Blog Engine Using Slim In this article, we will learn how to create a flat file blog engine in PHP using the Slim framework. If you don't understand the jargon, don't worry. We're simply going to create a spartan blogging application, which utilizes text files instead of a database to store data. If you're a beginner, fret not!
Combined Facebook, Twitter & RSS Social Stats with jQuery, PHP & YQL Martin Angelov As we increasingly depend on more and more social services, there rises the need to provide a simple way to let our website visitors take part of our diverse social presence. In this tutorial we are going to create a simple widget, which combines the number of your RSS readers, twitter followers, and fans of your facebook fan page, to give a rough estimate of your social popularity.
10 Agile Bloggers You Should Know About, But Don’t - Agile BenchAgile Bench Paul Dolman-Darral over at Value Flow Quality recently published a list of The Top 20 Most Influential Agile People. This is a great list of established Agile Bloggers, many of whom are book authors. But these people get all of the attention. There are lots of hard working, throughful bloggers out there that you haven’t heard of and should start paying attention to. Not everyone on our list blogs regularly, but when they do you should listen.
Skeleton: Responsive CSS Boilerplate You should use Skeleton if you're embarking on a smaller project or just don't feel like you need all the utility of larger frameworks. Skeleton only styles a handful of standard HTML elements and includes a grid, but that's often more than enough to get started. In fact, this site is built on Skeleton and has ~200 lines of custom CSS (half of which is the docking navigation). Love Skeleton and want to Tweet it, share it, or star it? Well, I appreciate that <3
14 of the best JavaScript APIs Here's our pick of the best JavaScript APIs around right now, plus a guide to getting started using them. These will help you add new and interesting functionality to your sites and apps. A word of warning: many of these APIs are still in development, so make sure you check browser support before you start using them, and provide fallbacks where necessary. You'll find a note of the API status at time of writing at the top of each entry. The best HTML APIs How to Connect to a Database with PDO We've covered PHP's PDO API a couple of times here on Nettuts+, but, generally, those articles focused more on the theory, and less on the application. This article will fix that! To put it plainly, if you're still using PHP's old mysql API to connect to your databases, read on! What? It's possible that, at this point, the only thought in your mind is, "What the heck is PDO?"
Simple AJAX Commenting System Martin Angelov This time, we are making a Simple AJAX Commenting System. It will feature a gravatar integration and demonstrate how to achieve effective communication between jQuery and PHP/MySQL with the help of JSON. Step 1 – XHTML