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Audacity is one of the best audio editors, or digital audio workstations available. If you’re a regular user, are you using it as efficiently as you can to edit your online courses and podcasts as quickly as you can? In this article, I step you through what I do to edit quickly and efficiently.

If you need to adjust the volume of a specific section of a track in Audacity, the most powerful and flexible way to do so is by using the Envelope Tool. In this post, I show you exactly how to do so.

Screenflow is one of the best video editors I’ve used for creating online video and courses. In this post, I step you through three of its essential features that I use on a regular basis to quickly and efficiently create video content.

Ensuring that documentation is both free from errors and follows your style guide, among other considerations, is essential to producing modern, professional technical documentation. In this post, I’ll show you how to use Vale, the open source syntax-aware linter to do all this and more.

I've been reviewing the AsciiDoc plugin for IntelliJ over the last four weeks. In this post, I share everything that I learned.

If you want to build applications in PHP — from one-page apps to enterprise-grade applications — PHP’s Mezzio framework is a excellent framework to choose. In this tutorial, which is an excerpt from my new book, Mezzio Essentials, I’ll show you how to manually build an application in Mezzio.

Last week, my most recent Pluralsight course launched! In this post, as well as shamelessly promoting it, I step through what it took to create it, including my online course creation process.

It’s with some sadness, that earlier this week, I wished a fond farewell to the biggest blog I ever created, Master Zend Framework. Given that, it only feels right — and responsible — to talk about what motivated the decision to close the blog, and what the future holds for the blog’s content.

The Asciidoctor.js Live Preview extension allows custom AsciiDoc attributes to be set using file query strings. In this post, I show you how to do so, along with how to use it in tandem with the extension's configuration UI.

In this post, I step through how to set custom AsciiDoc attributes in the Asciidoctor.js Live Preview Extension for Firefox (and Chromium/Chrome). By doing so, you can preview your content properly and avoid setting attributes directly in your AsciiDoc content and other hacks.