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In light of the upcoming Hacktoberfest, John Braun shares some tips for beginners who might want to make their first contribution specifically to a PHP package.

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I hear more and more people talking about JAMstack. Here's a good post that explains what it is.

JAMstack is am excellent way to build fast, secure and static websites. (keep in mind, not every JAMstack website has every element of the JAM - the core feature that they all have in common is that they are serverless)

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... information architecture is the creation of a structure for a website, application, or other project, that allows us to understand where we are as users, and where the information we want is in relation to our position. Information architecture results in the creation of site maps, hierarchies, categorizations, navigation, and metadata.

Information architecture is a task often shared by designers, developers, and content strategists. But regardless of who takes on the task, IA is a field of its own, with influences, tools, and resources that are worth investigation. In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture really is, and why it’s a valuable aspect of the user experience process.

http://www.uxbooth.com/articles/complete-beginners-guide-to-information-architecture/

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Last year I made myself a bit acquainted with Vim. I'm by no means an expert and am not (yet :-)) advocating to replace your favourite IDE with Vim. I use it for small things:

• it's much easier/faster to to edit files on a server using Vim as opposed to opening and editing the files in a tool like Transmit. There's a big chance that vim is already installed on your server.
• editing your hostfile is breeze with vim.
• if you need a small change, like deleting a line, in a file and you're IDE isn't open, Vim can help you.
• there's a big change that you already use Vim when Git promts you to specify a commit message

Unlike most pieces of software, Vim has absolutely no respect for the beginner. Even quitting it proves quite difficult. There's really nobody that can use Vim without some training. But with same quick pointers everybody can do the tasks mentioned above.

Watch this video clearly explains the basic commands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nim4_f5QUxA

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You've successfully created a PR and it's in the queue to be merged. A maintainer looks at the code and asks you to rebase your PR so that they can merge it.

Say what?

The maintainer means that there have been other code changes on the project since you branched which means that your branch cannot be merged without conflicts and they would like to you to sort this out.

These are the steps you should take.

http://akrabat.com/the-beginners-guide-to-rebasing-your-pr/

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