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The LinkedIn API can be used with any programming language. This page provides links to examples from other people, libraries for using our API, and other helpful links If you have something to share (including comments on the libraries and links listed here), please send them along and we'll add them. - Kingsor

Let your users bring their professional networks with them to your site to increase productive engagement and your reach. In a few simple steps, you can start building LinkedIn into your site: - Kingsor

I created this website to provide WordPress themes of quality and integrity. I craft my skins with a goal of simplicity and professionalism and strive to inject each design with a dose of modest elegance. I believe that your website is not just a tool, it is an integral part of your identity. My job is to respect each customer by providing attractive and userfriendly WordPress templates that will help you achieve your online goals. - Kingsor

Is there any really lightweight RESTful frameworks around that assumes its users to be not newbies? - Kingsor

Tonic is an open source less is more, RESTful Web application development PHP library designed to do things "the right way", where resources are king and the library gets out of the way and leaves the developer to get on with it. - Kingsor

I talk a lot to people about REST, but with the acronym having become a commonplace among Web folk, I often find myself having to explain that what they have read about as REST or think of as REST is actually POX, HTTP-RPC or whatever you want to call it. - Kingsor

Firefly - a .NET HTTP server - Kingsor

With responsive layouts in mind, with this post we have taken a look at what responsive themes the WordPress community currently freely offers. You will be surprised at the quality of the themes we have found. And remember, all of these themes are free to download. - Kingsor

Behind almost every successful web application, there is an easy-to-use & feature-rich API as they simply help the main application to spread into others & reached by more users. Also, an API-enabled application can be easily developed further using the API itself. In order to create an API for your web application, here are 10 tutorials to get you started. - Kingsor

REST is not about CRUD data services. Yes you can use REST to do a CRUD like services but that's like saying Regular Expressions are for parsing email addresses. - Kingsor

Having a web API is an essential part of doing business online today. We wanted to help get you started. So we took some time to pull together a list of the RESTful or RESTish (however you choose to view it) API frameworks, that can help you deploy your API faster. Today we are going to take a look at seven RESTful API frameworks for PHP - Kingsor

Reverie Framework is an extremely versatile HTML5 WordPress framework based on ZURB's Foundation, a powerful tool for building prototypes on any kind of devices. Reverie follows HTML5 Boilerplate standard and is hNews microformat ready. It is optimized for Search Engine while at the same time improve readability. It is extremely easy to create your blog, CMS, brochure and any other kind of sites with Reverie. - Kingsor

As some of you may know, this tech blog and my personal blog are both powered by WordPress software. What follows is a complete list of WordPress plugins that work behind the scenes to add new functionality to these sites that’s otherwise not available in the vanilla version of WordPress.org. These are all free and open-source plugins and you can find them in the WordPress plugin repository. - Kingsor

As we approach the dawn of a new year, here are my picks for the 101 most useful websites of the year 2011. - Kingsor

This article is about developing WordPress Themes. If you wish to learn more about how to install and use Themes, review Using Themes. This topic differs from Using Themes because it discusses the technical aspects of writing code to build your own Themes rather than how to activate Themes or where to obtain new Themes. - Kingsor

Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother Komodo IDE) a try: it'll be worth your while. Windows, Mac, Linux? Yes. PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, XML, HTML 5, CSS 3? Yes, with (customizable) syntax coloring, folding, background syntax checking, and intelligent auto-complete and calltips. What else? Fast Open (no more slow poking around for files); remote file editing; Vi keybindings (good ones); and a Toolbox with shell command integration, macros and code snippets--all wrapped around a sweet editor and Firefox-style extensibility. - Kingsor

In this article, I’ll show you how to take an existing HTML and CSS site template and convert it into a theme for WordPress. Of course, WordPress theming is much too vast a topic to cover entirely in a single article, so I’ll provide you with some resources at the end to further your learning. It’s hoped, though, that this article will serve as a good introduction and give you a solid foundation to start learning about creating your own WordPress themes. - Kingsor

Cheatography is a cheat sheet generator and repository where you can build and share cheat sheets and quick reference material for your hobbies, home, holidays or work. - Kingsor

Users should be able to simply, quickly, and intuitively use any web app, like with any tool in life, be it a car, phone, or anything else. After all, a useful web app doesn’t do much good if it’s a pain in the butt to use – many users will eventually give up and go to an easier-to-use alternative. So how do you maximize usability in your web app? In this article we share 10 Web Application Usability Guidelines that we feel are essential. - Kingsor

Werther you are a CSS guru or a CSS novice you will always need some help, some resources, some tutorials, some references and, of course, some cheat sheets. In this article we have collected the best resources for answering all possible CSS questions as well as how to understand CSS and how to use it properly. There are also CSS property references, cheat sheets, not only typical cheat sheets, but also cheat sheets for CSS frameworks, conversion tables and CSS short hand. - Kingsor

The sample project for the xedotnet meeting (10/06/2011) by Emanuele DiBono - Kingsor

For World Usability Day (10th November 2011) I provided 8 tips (tweets) on Information Architecture (IA) “truisms” I’d want everyone on a team to know before starting a typical website project. Twitter is a little restrictive, so I thought it would be worth fleshing them out. - Kingsor

So we asked our friend Chris Hanscom from Veign.com (who created the HTML 5 cheat sheet) to create a quick reference card for CSS 3. We already encouraged you to experiment with CSS 3 in our last posts and now you can use this handy cheat sheet to use the new CSS 3 features in some modern browsers (Firefox 3.5, Opera 9.6, Safari 3+, Google Chrome and Co.). The result is a printable CSS 3 scrib sheet, created and released exclusively for the readers of Smashing Magazine. Thank you for your great work, Chris Hanscom! - Kingsor

Web typography is the most undervalued and misunderstood aspect of web design. There are many reasons for this, probably, the most common factor is it is ignored purely for simplicity. Why over complicate something that works fine as it is? Web typography is all theories and opinions, that is the point. The evolution of web design relies on opinions and theories, otherwise we would be stuck with the repulsive web designs we had 10 years. So, yes, web typography is very important and you cannot afford to ignore it any more. In this post we have collected great reources to help you understand and implement successfully web typography on your web pages. You will find tutorials, tips, guides, best practices, tools and inspirational showcases. - Kingsor

OpenXML SDK 2.0 for MS Office provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents. WorddocGenerator, an open source utility for generating template driven word files is one example of what can be done with this SDK. InfoQ got in touch with Atul Verma the developer of this utility to ask him a few questions about this project. - Kingsor

Are your fresh design ideas no longer fresh or are you a designer who continually re-uses the same old and trusted design patterns that have followed you for many a year? Or, you might just be a UI designer that is stuck in a rut? If you are looking to change all that, then this is the post for you. This article offers inspirational UI resources as well as showcasing the best in design pattern solutions. Whatever your need for all of the sites and resources below, they all offer one thing in common… they all strive for better User Experience one design pattern at a time. - Kingsor

ownCloud is online storage, but it's not a quick and easy drop in for Dropbox nor is it an exact analog to Box.net or Apple's iCloud. First off, ownCloud isn't just about syncing files. That is to say, it syncs not just files but contacts, calendars and bookmarks across devices. (Yes, those are files too, but it's doing more than just dropping files into a folder.) ownCloud even features streaming music features. - Kingsor

So we PHP people are good at failing early, fast and cheap. If you want enterprise grade fail, ask the java guys, if you want scalable fail, ask the c guys. If you want smart fail, ask the clojure guys. But early and cheap, ask us. - Kingsor

Many PHP programmers learned how to access databases by using either the MySQL or MySQLi extensions. As of PHP 5.1, there’s a better way. PHP Data Objects (PDO) provide methods for prepared statements and working with objects that will make you far more productive! - Kingsor

This overview features a hand-picked and organized selection of the most useful Smashing Magazine’s articles related to CSS3 and published here over all the years. - Kingsor