Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Earlier this week the New York Times reported that Facebook was offering publishers a deal: With 1.4 billion users, the social media site has become a vital source of traffic for publishers looking to reach an increasingly fragmented audience glued to smartphones. In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half…
An algorithm that just went up for auction in New York. (Chris Maury, “Progression: Triptych, 2011-2013.” Available on Artsy.net.) Until about three weeks ago, Pinterest was — hands down, no contest — my absolute favorite social network. Yeah, I know it lacks the cachet of Twitter or Snapchat. I understand its associations with the bored…
google_ad_section_start I’ve already written about how to get started with Gulp as well as how to get started with Grunt. They both automate our tasks, they both use Node, and they both require you to create tasks and install plugins of some sort. But do you wonder about the difference between the two, or even,…
Some parts of the WordPress code structure for PHP markup are inconsistent in their style. WordPress is working to gradually improve this by helping users maintain a consistent style so the code can become clean and easy to read at a glance. Keep the following points in mind when writing PHP code for WordPress, whether…
Controllers are the fundamental starting point of the Boiler framework, linking the raw HTTP request to the correct function. The following tutorial builts a “Hello World” controller, which you can run on your own machine. [For the purposes of this tutorial, we will assume you are running on localhost] When you first open Boiler using http://localhost/ You…
How to use bookmarklets in mobile Chrome Many of the bookmarklets used on your desktop version of Chrome can also be used on your mobile device. Here’s the steps you’ll need to get started. more+ Layered tabs in Chrome for Android. Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET There are Android apps that come with many features, possibly…
The fallout over the automatic update of Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin shows the WordPress community is suffering from a severe case of Developer Goggles. Background Yesterday (March 11th, 2015) Joost de Valk released a security update to the popular WordPress SEO plugin, currently running on over 1 million WordPress sites around the world. The release came after a…
April 21st (the day that Google will start using mobile-friendly compliance as a ranking factor in smartphone search) is coming, and if you haven’t done it already, you should really get your mobile ducks in a row. For most of us, mobile compliance is no longer optional. At SMX West this month, Mitul Gandhi of seoClarity…
We are excited to announce the release of PressForward 3.5, the latest version of our free WordPress plugin for collecting, discussing, and sharing online scholarship. This latest release includes significant updates and changes to the user interface, new features and enhancements, and a few bug fixes–all designed to make best practices for sharing online content easier…
Last year, Unreal Engine 4 switched to a $19/month subscription plan. It was the first in a couple of attempts to coax indie developers away from Unity—and CryEngine announced their own low cost subscription soon after. This year, Epic is going a step further. The studio has just announced that Unreal Engine 4 is available for free, along…