Daniel Pataki

Daniel is a writer for Hongkiat.com. When not coding or writing, you'll find him playing board games or running with his dog. You can drop him a line on Twitter or visit his personal website.

Latest posts

20 Awesome Gift Ideas for Paperphiles

These days, many people think of fancy, high-end and expensive smart gadgets when it comes to the perfect gift. It’s not wrong but if you prefer som…

Cool and Minimal iOS Games to Kill Boredom

I have to confess, I love minimal iOS games. I enjoy the cleverness needed to create something engaging, yet so simple. While I like elaborate games l…

A Simple And Easy Guide to Understand Sass

A while ago Thoriq Firdaus wrote a great article about getting started with Sass which showed you how to install and use this highly useful CSS prepro…

10 Cool and Unique Playing Cards for Collectors

According to Wikipedia playing cards gave been around for over 1,100 years now. They have changed considerably since then. Different variations of dec…

Getting Started With Gulp.js

Gulp is a tool which allows you to automate bits of your workflow which can literally save you hours a day. Whether you’re a developer or a designer…

Creating A Local Server Accessible From A Public Address

I’ve been developing websites for the better part of 10 years and one of my biggest issues was always local development and syncing local sites to l…

How to Install WordPress Locally With Vagrant

Developing locally is one of the best things that can happen to you. Not only does it let you dispense with upload/download times, but you can also cr…

WordPress Attachment Pages: A Beginner’s Guide

Attachment pages are not very well known or understood in WordPress. Each item you upload through WordPress – be it an image, audio, video, or any o…

How to Increase Your Productivity With Mailbox App

Mailbox was in beta in early 2013 and rose to huge success almost overnight. Its waiting list had hundreds of thousands of people, watching the countd…

Gulp vs. Grunt – The Battle Of Build Scripts

I’ve already written about how to get started with Gulp as well as how to get started with Grunt. They both automate our tasks, they both use Node, …

Coding Standards For WordPress [Guide]

The reason that we have coding standards at all (not just for WordPress) is to create a familiar environment for programmers working on a project. Wor…

How To Use Grunt To Automate Your Workflow [Tutorials]

I’m a huge advocate of automation because it makes life that much simpler. Why spend time on menial, monotonous tasks that suck your life-force righ…