Christmas is next week, but that’s not stopping us from plugging ahead at the office! Here are the things we’ve been reading this week:
On WordPress
- Spontaneous shuffling of your admin area colour schemes with the Color Rotator and Color Schemes Roulette plugins.
- Want to add new custom colour schemes of your own? Matt Cromwell shows you how.
- Tidy Repo is a curated-by-hand listing of good WordPress plugins. Kudos to Jay Hoffmann for putting this together.
- A tutorial on auto-updating WordPress plugins from GitHub.
Writing Code
- A CSS 3D editor in your browser.
- Exploring 3D transforms in CSS.
- The future of JavaScript MVCs.
- Browser-based IDE Codio adds a Sublime Text-like command bar.
- Add Trello-like boards to Github issue tracking with HuBoard.
- Continuous deployment from repo to production w/ dploy.io
- Ember.js tutorials are now available on Code School.
- Unheap is a curated collection of neat jQuery plugins.
Building a Startup
- The types of startup stories that reporters want to write.
- Buffer shares their team salaries & compensation model.
- The ingredients for successful consumer web products.
- Chris Lema on being a professional and avoiding lost profits.
Other Stuff
- “You don’t need to learn to code.”
- Strange object stops massive tunnel boring machine in Seattle.
- Why some educators switch from Macs to Chromebooks.
- Plants won’t grow near wifi routers.
- The new generation of annoying pop-ups. (NSFW language.)
- Freebase: A community-driven database of people, places n’ things.
- China tightens restrictions (again) on BitCoin.
That’s it for this week!
Have yourself a great weekend and a safe and happy holiday. 🙂
