Dave Lowther

Dave Lowther

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Member Since September 19, 2014

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  • Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Core WordPress Theme Files
  • How WordPress Templates Work
  • Finishing Your WordPress Theme
  • Custom Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Adding a Blog to a WordPress Theme
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Building Out WordPress Navigation
  • Building Page Templates in WordPress
  • The WordPress Loop
  • WordPress Header and Footer Templates
  • Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • WordPress Widgets
  • Custom Post Types in WordPress
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Local WordPress Development
  • Advanced Directives
  • Concepts on Advanced Functions
  • Advanced Variables, Mixins, Functions, and Placeholders
  • Getting Started with Advanced Sass
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • Classes
  • Objects and New Collection Types
  • The Cooler Parts of ES2015
  • ES2015 Basics
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • DOM Traversal
  • DOM Manipulation
  • Events
  • Hello, jQuery!
  • Completing and Testing the API
  • Communicating with Mongo Through Mongoose
  • Modeling Data for the API
  • Building API Routes in Express
  • Building a REST Service
  • Express Middleware
  • Sessions and Cookies
  • User Registration and Login
  • What is Authentication?
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Doing More with Express
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • The Request and Response Objects in Express
  • Developing Express Apps Like a Boss
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • Putting it all Together
  • Actions, Dispatch and Reducers. Oh my!
  • Modularizing the React Scoreboard Application
  • Getting Started with Redux
  • Going Further with Routes
  • Navigating and Nesting Routes
  • Getting Started with React Router
  • Component Lifecycle
  • Designing Dataflow
  • Stateful Components
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • WordPress User Roles
  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Themes
  • The WordPress Customizer
  • Managing Media in WordPress
  • Managing Content in WordPress
  • How to Install WordPress on Your Computer
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • A Route to a Delete Action
  • Routes to Update Actions
  • Routes for Create Actions
  • A Route to a Read Action
  • Rails Resource Index
  • Adding a Model Attribute
  • Using the Rails Console
  • Handling Rails Requests
  • Creating Rails Apps
  • Sinatra Finishing Touches
  • Updating Data in Sinatra
  • Adding New Data in Sinatra
  • Sinatra ERB Templates
  • Creating New Sinatra Apps
  • Gems In Depth
  • Ruby Gems
  • Ruby Standard Library: Part 2
  • Ruby Standard Library: Part 1
  • Ruby Core
  • Store Inventory Using Modules
  • Include and Extend
  • Ruby Core Modules
  • Ruby Module Basics
  • Input and Output
  • Search
  • Ruby Class Design
  • Blocks Practice
  • Working With Blocks
  • Ruby Blocks
  • Build a Simple Todo List Program
  • Ruby Booleans
  • Build a Bank Account Class
  • Ruby Variables and Methods
  • Ruby Objects and Classes
  • Build a Simple Contact List
  • Ruby Iteration
  • Ruby Loops
  • Build a Grocery List Program
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Ruby Logical Operators
  • Ruby Control Structures
  • Ruby Operators
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Test Doubles
  • Acceptance Tests
  • Organizing your Tests
  • Creating Your Tests
  • Getting Started with Android
  • Solving an Important Problem
  • JavaScript Loops
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • The Internet
  • Setting Your Course
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Error Handling
  • Autoloading and Composer
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Self-Assessment
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • What is Agile?
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Website Basics
  • DNS Basics
  • Graphic Basics
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Databases and International Concerns
  • Starting Right with PHP Best Practices
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Limiting Results in Queries
  • Using Relationship Tables
  • Filtering Input for Queries
  • Querying the Database
  • Connecting to MySQL
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Database Security
  • Queries & Results
  • Getting Started with PDO
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • Securing and Maintaining a MySQL Database
  • SQL Calculating, Aggregating and Other Functions
  • Joining Relational Data Between Tables in SQL
  • Manipulating Schema with SQL
  • Creating Tables and Manipulating Data with SQL
  • Reading Data from Databases with SQL
  • Contact Forms & Mailers
  • Slim and Templates
  • Dependency Management
  • Installing MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench
  • Introduction to Data, Databases and SQL
  • Paginating a List: Model and View
  • Paginating a List: Controller
  • Adding Search: Model
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Adding Search: Controller & View
  • Refactoring the Codebase
  • Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules
  • Cleaning URLs with Subfolders
  • Integrating Validation Errors
  • Simple PHP Application: Wrapping Up The Project
  • Things That Count
  • Ins & Outs
  • Working with PHP Functions
  • Say Hello to Python
  • Integrating With Paypal
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Datatypes
  • Tools for Testers
  • How To Test Our Code
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Newbie