Wern's articles
Wern Ancheta walks through building an SMS appointment reminder app with Node.js, using the Google Calendar and Twilio APIs.
Wern Ancheta covers the WordPress MVC plugin that adds MVC support to WordPress, enabling you to write your plugins using an MVC architecture.
Wern Ancheta looks at using LokiJS with Cordova based apps for fast and light data storage.
Wern Ancheta shows us how to use React Native to create an Android app based on the Pokemon Pokodex that even reads results to you!
Wern Ancheta looks at creating a real time chat app based on Cordova, Ionic and Socket.IO
Wern Ancheta shows us how to use the Facebook API in a Cordova app for authenticating and posting content to a Facebook app
Wern continues where he left off in the last part, and implements liking, watchlisting and uploading of videos into his Slim application!
Wern goes through the process of building a sample video search application consuming Vimeo's API, using the Slim framework. Don't change the channel!
Wern Ancheta demonstrates how to hook in to the Instagram API to receive real-time photo updates for a specific hashtag, using Node, Express and Socket.io.
Wern Ancheta shows you how easy it is to build a JavaScript + PHP chat app with Ratchet and some JS libraries. Just two files of PHP! Start messaging now!
Wern Ancheta takes a look at the Instagram API, and uses both Guzzle and a PHP client to access it - tune in and build your own Instagram app!
Wern Ancheta shows us how to create a video calling app for Android with Crosswalk and PeerJS.
Wern Ancheta shows us how to create a Cordova app based on Android that integrates with the Google Cloud Messaging push notification service
Wern introduces API.ai, a service which allows you to tie voice control to your apps by recognizing natural language and applying callbacks to phrases
In the final part of this short series, Wern Ancheta adds a server side component to our PhoneRTC calling app to handle client connections.
Wern Ancheta starts a two part article on creating an app for audio calling between users with Ionic, Cordova and PhoneRTC
Wern Ancheta goes through a bare-bones introduction to Elasticsearch, the amazingly fast search engine you can populate with custom data and use with PHP.
Wern Ancheta goes through another set of common caching techniques in PHP: Varnish, Memcached and libraries like Doctrine Cache and Stash
Wern Ancheta covers three common approaches to caching in PHP: Zend Opcache, Query Caching and Expires Headers.
Wern Ancheta shows you how to implement product adding functionality into your eBay client app with Guzzle and the Trading API from eBay
Wern Ancheta shows you how you can develop an eBay client app used for configuring your store's settings.
Wern Ancheta introduces you to the world of eBay's APIs - setting up an application, configuring a database, and preparing for building an eBay app!
Wern Ancheta introduces Medoo, a small database abstraction library that aims to make your database related codebase lighter.
Wern Ancheta introduces you to Prediction.io, an open source machine learning server you can use to smarten up your web apps - build the full app now!
Wern Ancheta introduces you to Prediction.io, an open source machine learning server you can use to smarten up your web apps - learn how to install it.
Wern Ancheta goes through some real world examples of using Phake to execute common tasks we may not be willing to deal with manually.
Wern Ancheta explains the role of Phake - an automation tool for PHP based on Ruby's Rake which lets you automate mundane tasks you don't want to deal with
Wern Ancheta explains what DBV is and how one can use it to version control a database