Articles by TutsPlus - Code from April 2011

Advertise hereUmbraco is a super-friendly, ultra-configurable and uber-powerful .Net-based CMS, and you need it in your life! It is so powerful that you can literally do whatever you want with your si...

Advertise hereToday, we’re going to learn how to set up a website that can be easily edited via your iPhone and the Pagelime mobile app. If you’re unfamiliar with Pagelime, it’s an i...

Advertise hereUnlike its web development peers, JavaScript doesn’t really have much in the way of frameworks to provide structure to its code. Thankfully, in recent years, that’s beginning...

Advertise hereTwice a month, we revisit some of our readers' favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published last September.When people think of .htacces...

Advertise hereNearly two years ago, we published a round-up of the greatest Ruby and Rails learning resources available. Since then, big things have happended in the glorious world of Ruby. Rails 3 br...

Advertise hereRob Hawkes, author of our popular Canvas from Scratch session recently released his fantastic new book, Foundation HTML5 Canvas. This book is unique in that it introduces the HTML5 canva...

Advertise hereUmbraco is a super-friendly, ultra-configurable and uber-powerful .Net-based CMS, and you need it in your life! It is so powerful that you can literally do whatever you want with your si...

Advertise hereUmbraco is a super-friendly, ultra-configurable and uber-powerful .Net-based CMS, and you need it in your life! It is so powerful that you can literally do whatever you want with your si...

Familiarity with your users and their needs is the most important aspect of any successful site or web campaign. Google Analytics is the perfect tool to gather this sort of information. But thereR...

In this episode of Vim Essential Plugins, we’ll review the fantastic NERDTree plugin, which is a much improved replacement for the traditional file explorer. Subscribe to our YouTube and Blip.tv...

In today’s tutorial, we will learn how to painlessly protect your CodeIgniter application against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. The library we’ll be creating today will automate a...

In this article, I’m going to walk you through transformations in the canvas, as well as shadows and gradients. Transformations are an extremely valuable set of methods that allow you to start b...

Hi everyone,I’m sure you would have noticed the $0.99 membership promotion we ran yesterday.Tuts+ has never tried Promotion of a membership in this way before. Ever. We are not internet mar...

Ruby is a one of the most popular languages used on the web. We’ve started a new Session here on Nettuts+ that will introduce you to Ruby, as well as the great frameworks and tools that go ...

Want to join Tuts+ Premium for just $0.99!?Tuts+ is providing a discount code so you can sign up to Premium at half the regular price.There are an extremely limited number of these avail...

In this lesson, we’ll focus on workflow. More specifically, we’ll use the helpful GitHub service hooks to automatically update a project on our personal server whenever we push updates to...

Umbraco is a super-friendly, ultra-configurable and uber-powerful .Net-based CMS, and you need it in your life! It is so powerful that you can literally do whatever you want with your site, but itR...

As JavaScript usage has skyrocketed over the last few years, so has the sheer number of scripts that are being loaded in an average web page. With these script tags, comes a lot of baggage, such as bl...

HTML5 Boilerplate is widely recognized as a rock-solid foundation for building new web-based sites and applications. That said, few are aware that the tool offers more than simply setting up your deve...

ASP.NET MVC3 is now available, and it includes a new View engine called Razor. In this lesson (dubbed 9.5), we download the MVC3 bits and look at Razor and rebuild the application from the previous le...

Once you’re addicted to Ruby development, you’re going to want to experiment with different versions of Ruby. At first blush, you might think that it’s somewhat difficult. RVM makes ...

In the last year, there’s been a wave of helpful placeholder services. What’s a placeholder? Well, when you’re working on a new website, isn’t it a waste of time to use sto...

In the last year, there’s been a wave of helpful placeholder services. What’s a placeholder? Well, when you’re working on a new website, isn’t it a waste of time to use sto...

Node.js is an amazing new technology, but, unless you’re specifically a JavaScript developer, the process of becoming acquainted with it can quickly become a bit overwhelming. But that’s w...

Today, exclusive to our Premium members, we’re pleased to released the best version yet of Structurer: Structurer Pro. Not only have we implemented commonly requested features, such as export an...

We’ve just launched a free newsletter you can use to keep up to date with new tutorials and articles on Nettuts+. At the end of each week you’ll get a digest of all the tutorials and ...

The cronTab, or “Cron Table”, is a Linux system process / daemon which facilitates the scheduling of repetitive tasks thereby easing up our day to day routine. In this tutorial, we’...

MySQL 5 introduced a plethora of new features – stored procedures being one of the most significant. In this tutorial, we will focus on what they are, and how they can make your life easier.Intr...

The Envato marketplaces grow from strength to strength, month after month, due to loyal buyers like you. And to really show you how appreciative we are of your loyalty, we offer a free item from each ...

We’re cheating a bit in this episode. Rather than installing an actual plugin, we’ll be using a couple tools to allow us to write and convert Markdown to HTML. It’s really a simple p...

Welcome back to Singing with Sinatra! In this third and final part we’ll be extending the “Recall” app we built in the previous lesson. We’re going to add an RSS feed to the ap...

When planning events and competitions, we have a rule that we don’t allow sponsors who offer services that we personally wouldn’t use. That’s misleading, and can often times do more ...

After months of planning, I’m pleased to introduce our $41,000 web developer competition on Nettuts+ and CodeCanyon. Officially launching today, we want you to…build something! Do a k...

In this final lesson in our Sass mini-series, we’re going to review the excellent Compass stylesheet framework, why you should be using it, and how it connects to Sass. Subscribe to our YouTube ...

Right on the heels of Internet Explorer 9 arrives the much vaunted, latest iteration of Firefox 4. The release has been a success so far, with over 7 million downloads in the first 24 hours and over ...

The first Tuts+ bundle is finally here! An exclusive bundle of eleven fabulous items for an astonishingly low price! Get a load of all the Solid Gold Bundle has to offer. Vectors, PS Brushes, Sto...