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Matt Vickers is a coder at heart and a designer by necessity. If it involves coding, he'd probably be into it! He's currently employed at Vantage Studios Inc. in Winnipeg, MB as a Media Developer. You can also check out his personal site, Envex Labs, where he usually has something interesting to say!
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WordPress as a CMS: New Premium Tutorial

Matt Vickers on Oct 28th 2009 with 60 comments

When most people think about WordPress, they think about blogs. If you look at the front page of WordPress.org, they talk a lot about blogging as well. What they don’t tell you is that WordPress can also double as a very powerful CMS; you just have to set it up properly. It can be a bit tricky to get setup and working the way that you want; but this is where I come in.

In this 3-part tutorial + screencast series, I’m going to take you through the three steps of using WordPress as a CMS. Become a Premium member.

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The Ultimate Guide for Learning Mootools

The Ultimate Guide for Learning Mootools: New Premium Tutorial

Matt Vickers on Oct 14th 2009 with 16 comments

Getting started with any type of framework can be an intimidating experience. To help, this week we have an in depth tutorial and long screencast to provide a crash-course for this popular JavaScript library. With so much focus on jQuery, it’s easy to forget that Mootools is an equally powerful library with a huge following. Join today!

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Checking User Name availability using Mootools and Request.JSON

Checking Username Availability with Mootools and Request.JSON

Matt Vickers on Sep 18th 2009 with 51 comments

This tutorial will teach you how to check username availability with Mootools’ Request.JSON and PHP/MySQL

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