There’s a great tutorial being shared over on Tutorialzine that’s covering how to develop an app using Google’s App Engine.
It’s worth a bookmark, especially since it’s creating a app that’ll help you monitor your site uptime. Not bad.
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There’s a great tutorial being shared over on Tutorialzine that’s covering how to develop an app using Google’s App Engine.
It’s worth a bookmark, especially since it’s creating a app that’ll help you monitor your site uptime. Not bad.
A neat little plugin that does one thing very nicely: Create dummy content for WordPress:
Quickly add all the test data you need. Use the default options to quickly insert a bunch of posts, or tweak them for more control.
Perfect for WP developers and theme creators. Planned updates include more data types (pages, comments, authors, etc), even more control over variables, and more html tags for fully testing your themes!.
I can’t wait to see the additional updates; what a great plugin concept! I hope they make it customizable!
by Tom
Regular Expressions are extremely powerful and a necessary tool for any software engineer, but they can be extremely frustrating especially as the complexity of the string and/or pattern increases.
txt2re provides an interestesting solution, though.
[Read more…] about txt2re – A Regular Expression Generator For Programmers
by Tom
I always get a kick out of seeing new tools that are geared at creating content for the web without actually using the typical web languages.
Some attempts are an obvious fail but some are really cool.
Such is the case with Nanoc.
by Tom
We’ve covered version control several times throughout the rest of our properties. I contend that if you’re working on any sizeable codebase – especially for someone else – then you should be using version control.
Perhaps one of the most challenging aspects of source control is simply knowing where to get started.
Although everyone has there preferences, using one is generally going to be better than not using one at all and there are a number of free options available.
[Read more…] about ProGit – A Free eBook For Learning Version Control
by Tom
If you’ve ever attempted to build an application that interacts with Twitter, odds are you’ve spent a bit of time in the Twitter API documentation.
Not that great, right? Sure, it provides all of the information that you need to know but it’s not that easy to navigate and that can end up being a huge timesink when it comes to needing to write any code.
But the Twitter API Explorer seeks to change that…
[Read more…] about Twitter API Explorer For Browsing, Learning The Twitter API