When I first started using Sass, there was one thing that drove me crazy about it compared to Less. For…

Determining your app's base dir (or document root if you're from a PHP background) isn't as straight forward as you'd…

The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're coming from…

For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel Pro, and a…

Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for working with…

Here's a challenge that a friend of mine came across yesterday. He needed to iterate over an array of file…

Today I launched the third major iteration of DirtyMarkup, a free tool to clean up HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The…

It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like this: I [...]…

I recently made the decision to stop using modal dialogs in my apps. What once was a good way to…

At just over 200 lines of code, you'll never want to deal with AJAX-based form submission any other way. Features…

As a web developer, your code is often visible to anyone who wants to review it. If you're like me,…

How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? <?php $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name = 'somedb';…