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A Reasonable Approach for Getting Comfortable With Command Line

Considering how much the command line is an integral part of the developer’s workflow, it should not be thought overly difficult or tedious to learn. At one time I avoided it myself, but one day began teaching myself ways to make the difficult as easy as it should be. I got over the hurdle, and you can too. It wa...

Your First PHP Code

The following is a short extract from our new book, PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 6th Edition, written by Tom Butler and Kevin Yank. It’s the ultimate beginner’s guide to PHP. SitePoint Premium members get access with their membership, or you can buy a copy in stores worldwide. Now that you have your v...

SmashingConf 2018: Fetch Those Early-Bird Tickets! 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

   Great conferences are all about learning new skills and making new connections. That’s why we’ve set up a couple of new adventures for SmashingConf 2018 — just practical sessions, new formats, new lightning talks, evening...

Kylo Ren CSS Page Preloader

Today we want to share something a little bit different with you: an image-less animated Star Wars tribute to Kylo Ren made with HTML & CSS only. This demo is kindly sponsored by PageCloud, the website builder you’ll love to use. If you would like to become a demo sponsor, you can find out more here. Wait, ...

Inspiring Desktop Wallpapers To Make November Even More Colorful (2017 Edition)

   November is a rather gray month in many parts of the world, so what could be better as some colorful inspiration to start it off with the right foot? To tickle your creativity, artists and designers from across the globe once aga...

Build a React App with User Authentication in 15 Minutes

This article originally appeared on the OKTA blog. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. React has quickly become one of the most favored front-end web frameworks, and is second only to plain old HTML5, according to JAXenter. So it’s no surprise that developers are learning it, and emplo...

How to Optimize MySQL: Indexes, Slow Queries, Configuration

MySQL is still the world’s most popular relational database, and yet, it’s still the most unoptimized – many people leave it at default values, not bothering to investigate further. In this article, we’ll look at some MySQL optimization tips we’ve covered previously, and combine them with ...

Make Like it Matters

(This is a sponsored post.) Our sponsor Media temple is holding a contest to give away a bunch of stuff, including a nice big monitor and gift cards. Entering is easy, you just drop them an image or URL to a project you’re proud of. Do it quickly though, as entries end on Tuesday. Then the top 20 will be publicly...

Emulating CSS Timing Functions with JavaScript

CSS animations and transitions are great! However, while recently toying with an idea, I got really frustrated with the fact that gradients are only animatable in Edge (and IE 10+). Yes, we can do all sorts of tricks with background-position, background-size, background-blend-mode or even opacity and transform on a pse...

Variable Fonts from Adobe Originals

It’s one thing to see a variable fonts demo (oooooo one font can change things like weight, width, and slant?) but it feels a lot more real when fonts you see and work with all the time go variable. Adobe made six of them available: Source Sans, Source Serif, Source Code, Myriad, Acumin, and Minion. You can’...