Category: Code

Why You Should Use The Sage 10 Starter Theme

Why you should use the Sage 10 starter theme by Roots.io for your next project.

What are Breadcrumbs?

Panko, unseasoned, Italian style, and . . .text trails? We’re not talking about cooking, we’re talking about breadcrumbs for your website.

Headless Vs. Traditional CMS

Building a website used to be a quick process of finish and forget. Get it built, remove the builders, and then bring in another team to provide content. Traditional CMS used to be the standard approach with website building.

Content Security in Netlify

Adding Content Security Headers is necessary to protect a website from external attacks. The Theft Resource Center’s 2020 Data Breach Report reported 11,762 recorded breaches between January 1st, 2005 and May 31st, 2020.

What is Technical Debt, and How to Deal with it

If you’re the owner of a large website or web application you may have heard your developers talking about something called technical debt. It’s frequently used in conversations about development practice.

The Importance of Code Repositories

If you’re one of our clients, you’ve probably heard (or read) us mention the word repository, or “repo”. You may not realize how important a repo is to the development of your website.

Designing an Accessible Form

Designing a form that is both visually appealing and functional can be challenging. Whether it’s a contact form or a job application, there are a few rules to follow in order to avoid frustration.

How to Change the Display of a Variable Product Price in a Custom Woocommerce Theme

When building a custom Woocommerce theme, you may come across some things that are tricky to implement. To further complicate matters, some of the available documentation may be lacking.

Resolving “Bind: Address Already in Use” When Starting a Docker Instance

It’s a sunny day and you are starting your docker container when you get this message: “Cannot start container … bind: address already in use” … hmm, now what?

Using CORS and Ember-Data to point an Ember app to multiple backend deployments

At Curious Minds we have developers working from different offices doing backend and frontend work on the same projects, so we need a deployment scenario that allows developers to make local changes without fear of breaking things for everyone.

Seeding Relations in Ember Mirage with Factories

When we are working on an EmberJs project, for all but the most trivial applications, we like to mock API calls so we can develop the UI of our application independently of the back end.

Extjs 5, MVC and MVVM

Extjs 5 beta is coming up soon and with it the guys from Sencha are providing us with the MVVM architectural model. I am going to cover the basics behind MVVM, the difference between MVC and MVVM, and lastly when is MVVM advised for usage.

Architect 3 – build settings don’t go through?

To elaborate: Today the build.xml file on one of my projects got corrupted. Result: The Project was stuck building in production mode thus I was not able to properly debug it.

Sencha Touch 2 – Dynamically Loading the Store of a List and Asking the Server for Data by Parameter

This example shows how to dynamically create and load a Store in order to query data by a parameter. We are going to define our View which will contain two components – a list and a button to trigger the store load.

Passing Data from one View Controller to Another through Segues. Xcode fundamentals.

Every application uses data in one way or another. When you are writing an iOS native application there are two ways to transfer data that I find most straightforward and easy to use.

CSV / XLS Exporting in Adobe Coldfusion 9

Let’s talk about XLS Exporting in Adobe Coldfusion 9 (Excel Spreadsheets). ColdFusion has this neat little tag called cfspreadsheet. It allows the writing of, updating of, and reading of CSV/XLS files in ColdFusion.

AS3 Tutorial – The Singleton Pattern

One of the most important patterns that we use over here is the Singleton. It’s used when you need to restrict use of a class to one or only one instance.

AS3 Remoting ArrayCollection Tutorial – Part I

Okay, we’ve all used the <mx:RemoteObject> tag before, but now that we are following some good design principles and using a model view controller setup, we want to get rid of that tag and put the remote object logic into its own class.

ActionScript Tutorial – Encapsulation, Get and Set

Ready to take the plunge into the wild world of oo ? Then here’s a quick tutorial that will get you started on one of the most important concepts behind oo -encapsulation.

Embedding Assets in Flex

Just working on another fun project here, and I thought that I would share something that I don’t see alot of Flex developers doing out there. That is organizing your image assests into asset classes as constants.

AS3/PV3D Loading Data

With actionscript3 comes alot of new changes. One of the most often used features of flash is importing/loading and dealing with external data.

Relational Deletes in MySql and Foreign Keys

Managing relational tables in a database is a topic that all developers will eventually bump into. There are quite a few ways of managing relational data, and the best solution sometimes can be hard to find.