Weekly Roundup No. 3

Web Development

Must-Have jQuery Plugins You Will Need for Designing any Web Dev Project

When it is necessary to add any interactive element (slider, mega menu, popup window, etc.) to your design, you could write a piece of code, or you can use ready-made jQuery scripts that will help you get the job done much faster.

Cloud IDEs For Web Developers – Best Of

Nowadays, the browser is essentially a thin client that allows users to access a variety of Cloud-based applications and services. However, many are still hesitant to put their full faith in a remote Cloud IDE for development purposes. Tools like Github and Pastebin helped to ease the transition to Cloud-based development, and full-fledged Cloud IDEs are now commonly used by many developers.

The Big List of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML Development Tools, Libraries, Projects, and Books

I’ve been meaning to do a roll-up of top JavaScript, CSS & HTML development tools that I use or have been recommended to me and after having lunch with my bud Brian Wilpon today, I realized I just needed to do it.

AngularJS

5 AngularJS Frameworks to Get Apps Up and Running Quickly

Now that you are well-versed in the basics, it is time to get started on building your own web application with AngularJS. AngularJS made building a Javascript-based app more intuitive using what’s called directives, which works hand-in-hand with your HTML markups.

Let’s Write Faster AngularJS Apps

AngularJS is the most popular JavaScript framework as of now – but even with its crazy popularity, it’s not as fast as it should be. But things are improving.

Tutorial – Create an AngularJS application with LoopBack and Orchestrate

The StrongLoop API Platform features the popular open source LoopBack framework. LoopBack enables you to quickly compose scalable APIs, runs on top of the Express web framework and conforms to the Swagger 2.0 specification. Orchestrate.io exposes the power of Elasticsearch without the operational burden of managing it yourself. Data objects are automatically indexed for powerful, real-time Lucene queries.

PHP

AngularJS with Slim PHP Micro Framework

AngularJS is a popular front-end framework that can be used with many server-side technologies. In many AngularJS web applications, each web page is really a single-page application (SPA), so the role of the server-side is really an API consisting of a set of web services to interact with the server-side databases.

Functional Programming in PHP

Functional programming has gained a lot of traction those 3 to 5 last years. First, there are some success stories around it : Twitter move to Scala, Whatsapp being written in Erlang. Then we have some new kick-ass languages like Rust. Finally, it seems the new hype is to create a functional language compiling to javascript : Elm, Purescript.

15 very useful PHP code snippets for PHP developers

List of 15 most useful PHP code snippets for PHP developers. send email, validate email address, get ip address, unzip file, redirection in php, base64 encoding decoding, parse xml, parse json, database connection

From Our Partners

When WordPress Cache Plugins Are Not Enough

WordPress cache plugins can help your site go faster – improving page load times and your ability to serve much more traffic without degradation in performance. But there will come a time when a cache plugin will not be enough. All it takes is a huge peak of traffic.