8 CSS preprocessors to speed up development time

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 16 Comments

CSS allow you to do lots of things, but some features are missing to developers. What about variable, constants, and general faster syntax? As normal CSS can’t do that, people created preprocessors to allow the use of variables on CSS files and then parse it to regular stylesheets.

WordPress: How to insert data programmatically

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 35 Comments

Recently, a client of mine asked me to write an article importer for his WordPress powered site, which was a very interesting project for me. In this article, I’ll show you how you can easily add data (posts, comments, categories, etc) to your WordPress blog, without any manual effort.

10 life-saving PHP snippets

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 61 Comments

In order to be efficient, a web developer should have a toolbox with code snippets he can use and reuse when needed. In this article, I’m going to show you 10 extremely useful PHP code snippets to add to your web developer toolbox.

How to create a side blog with WordPress 3.0

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 63 Comments

Finally! WordPress 3.0 was released last week. Among other exiting features, custom post types are bringing lots of new possibilities to bloggers. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a side blog listing products using the WordPress 3.0 custom post type feature.

10 PHP code snippets for working with strings

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 38 Comments

Strings are a very important kind of data, and you have to deal with them daily with web development tasks. In this article, I have compiled 10 extremely useful functions and code snippets to make your php developer life easier.

Best practices for coding HTML emails

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 46 Comments

Even if you’re able to code complex website layouts, coding an html email is a hard job and there’s lots of things to take into consideration. This article features the most important things I’ve learned in 5 years of coding html emails.

Thematic WordPress Theme Toolbox: 10 extremely useful hooks

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 23 Comments

Do you like WordPress Theme Frameworks? To be honest, I’m a Thematic addict. Using this theme, I’m able to create any kind of site extremely fast. To help you getting started with Thematic child theme development, I have compiled 10 useful WordPress hooks in this article.

10 sites developers should have in their bookmarks

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 68 Comments

Over the millions of websites available, some are true tools for us web developers. In this article, I have compiled 10 extremely useful sites for web developers, that should definitely be added to your bookmarks.

Top WordPress hacks of early 2010

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 45 Comments

The first months of 2010 have been extremely prolific in terms of WordPress hacks. In this article, I have compiled 10 new WordPress hacks that you should definitely add to your library.