by Sourcetoad | Aug 30, 2016 | App Development, Cool Tools, Web Design
For those of you unfamiliar with pattern libraries, I’d recommend reading Paul Boag’s excellent blog post on the subject. Basically, a pattern library is a type of style guide for a software application; usually a large web project. They’re essential...
by Jun | Aug 26, 2016 | App Development, General
We recently received a ticket for a project requesting phone number validation in some forms. Seems like a simple enough problem to solve, right? Well, it’s not. Even with existing libraries that claim to handle phone validation, the more general the validation...
by Connor | Aug 23, 2016 | Programming
Too often have I come upon a code base, in a framework that I know, just to be lost in a mess of custom-written code. If you leverage the framework of choice, future developers of the code base will appreciate it, as they only have to learn the framework and not...
by Sourcetoad | Aug 8, 2016 | Cool Tools, Security
If you’ve ever used web platforms such as Uber, Kickstarter, or Elance, then you’ve seen split payments in action. Each of these websites use a type of transactional functionality more broadly known as third party payments. Stripe, Braintree, and Paypal are three...
by Sourcetoad | Aug 1, 2016 | App Development, Cool Tools, Programming
Is PhpStorm the best PHP IDE out there? In my last blog post, I talked about switching from my long-time editor of choice, Coda, to PhpStorm. I wrote about some of the issues I had with the switch. Complicated, and seemingly endless, preference menus made the...
