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Bézier Curves – Under the Hood (4min video)

Take a peek under the hood to see how computers draw cubic Bézier curves, as used in design and motion 

CSS, Featured, HTML5
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Joshua Davis – my hero of Flash – in two excellent interviews (audio, video)

Joshua Davis is the reason why I’ve started to code. Seriously. Back in the late 90ies, the internet was a 

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Local Development, PHP, PHPStorm, UI / UX
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Get Github’s code colors in PHPStorm (2014 style)

I really love the colors on GitHub’s code previews but couldn’t find any themes that copy that in a beautiful 

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A super-simple introduction into PHP namespaces (7min video)

Once again, Jesse of JREAM totally nails it right on the head. A super-simple introduction into PHP namespaces. If you 

CSS, Fonts, HTML5, Local Development, Typography
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Adobe releases Firebug-like developer tools to edit and extract PSDs

A big step in frontend-development: According to this presentation on Adobe Max 2014 Adobe has just released a very interesting 

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When PHPStorm’s cache eats up your harddisk space

I recently stumbled over this: By default PHPStorm (obviously in all versions since 1.0) creates a local history of all 

The architecture of ...
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How Instagram.com works

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LAMP, PHP
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How to setup / install PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ships with PHP 5.5 by default, but if you want to use PHP 5.6, then it’s just 

Laravel, Modern PHP, PHP, Refactoring
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Support FLARUM, the future of PHP forum scripts (with some dollars on Kickstarter)

PHP forum scripts are horrible, let’s face it. Nearly everything that’s available is hard to install, hard to handle, hard 

CSS, Fonts, How do THEY do it ?, HTML5, JavaScript, Refactoring, Running a company, The architecture of ...
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[Link] Improving Smashing Magazine’s Performance: A Case Study

The title says it all: A very interesting guide through the optimization process on one of the largest blogs in 

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Quick fix for 404 error in WordPress category / tag page

Just a quick fix for a common problem: Sometimes, especially after switching themes, wordpress will generate 404 errors on the

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[Link] Set up Nginx with PHP 5.5 easily

As there are surprisingly no good tutorials on how to set up NGINX with PHP 5.5 properly, here’s an excellent

How to get a single table out of a massive MySQL .sql database backup file (mysql dump splitter)

Imagine the following situation: Somebody backs up an entire MySQL database – a very large one – with common tools.

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Profiling PHP Applications by Bastian Hofmann (video from PHP UK Conference 2014)

The title says it all: Profiling PHP applications.  

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How to debug code on a remote server (or in vagrant box) with PHPStorm

Please also note: There are several methods to do remote debugging. This is the one that works without any browser

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Generate Vagrant boxes with Laravel, HipHop, Nginx, WordPress, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, RabbitMQ etc. with one click

Excellent new web tool: Protobox allows extremely easy setup of Vagrant boxes using a wonderful web UI. Beside the standard

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How to install/setup latest version of PHP 5.5 on Debian Wheezy 7.0/7.1/7.2 (and how to fix the GPG key error)

Please note: This works fine. But this package will also upgrade your apache to version 2.4 which has different config

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DigitalOcean rolls out interesting feature: Transfering server snapshots directly to the client’s account

Today DigitalOcean has rolled out a quite interesting new feature: You are now able to transfer a server snapshot (which

Soundcloud’s “VP of Engineering” about using SSDs

Excellent [german] statement from Alexander Grosse (Soundcloud’s Vice President of Engineering) about using SSDs for the main application (music data

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How to setup a (or multiple) server/LAMP-stack inside a virtual machine for local development with Vagrant and PuPHPet

You know this: You need a new server, something to develop on, something to test on, something to put your

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