Articles by TutsPlus - Code from December 2011

Planning to start working on a new web application? In this tutorial, we’ll discuss how to create an API-centric web application, and explain why this is essential in today’s multi-platfor...

In the last part of this series, we looked at the life-cycle methods, automatic methods and the custom methods that our widget requires or can make use of. In this part, we’re going to finish de...

In less than a week, we’ll be in 2012. I know it’s a clich, but where has the year gone? Naturally, we’re now at the time of year when folks set goals for the new year. While you mig...

In less than a week, we’ll be in 2012. I know it’s a clich, but where has the year gone? Naturally, we’re now at the time of year when folks set goals for the new year. While you mig...

Web development is an industry that’s in a state of constant flux with technologies and jargon changing and mutating in an endless cycle. Not to mention the sheer deluge of information one has t...

The holidays are upon us, and we’re feeling festive at Tuts+ this weekend! We’d like to take this opportunity to say a huge Christmas thank you to all our readers, and wish you a very...

Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers favorite posts from through out the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published in July, 2010.For many PHP programmers, object-oriented pr...

Earlier this month, a new specification, Filter Effects 1.0, was released. It presents some exciting new Photoshop-like effects that we can use in the browser! Even better, Webkit has already landed s...

Retracing the steps you’ve taken is a helpful way to understand how well you’ve executed your vision – whatever that might be. What could you have done better? What should have been ...

In part one of this series, we reviewed some of the necessary constructs to use when creating a widget with YUI3. We looked at the static properties we needed to set, the class constructor and namespa...

I needn’t remind you that Christmas is almost upon us. If you still haven’t bought gifts for your loved ones, this is the perfect time to start panicking. If your loved one is a developer ...

We’re pleased to announce the release of Version 2 of Nettuts+ Builder, a Mac app that handles the process of concatenating and compressing your assets, optimizing your CSS by running it th...

Maybe you saw that tweet: “jQuery is a gateway drug. It leads to full-on JavaScript usage.” Part of that addiction, I contend, is learning other JavaScript frameworks. And that’s wha...

I’d imagine that I represent a large portion of the web development community. I’m very intrigued by CoffeeScript; I’ve even learned the syntax and used it in a few demos. However, I...

In this tutorial, we’re going to look at how easy it is to create scalable, robust and portable widgets using the latest version of the Yahoo User Interface library. YUI3 provides a Widget clas...

In the first part of this series, we took a look at the basics of the FuelPHP framework. In this second-part, we’ll be stepping it up a gear and move onto some more advanced topics! We’ll ...

Sometimes, you don’t require a high-quality templating solution, but still need to keep from mixing lots of nasty HTML into your JavaScript. In these cases, a simple, makeshift templating system...

Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers favorite posts from through out the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published in August, 2010.In this tutorial, you’ll learn how t...

Abbreviations are an inevitable part of being a web developer. HTML, CSS, HTTP, XML… the list goes on and on.This Darth Sidious edition should be a fairly advanced test of your web development f...

So youve wrapped your mind around the process of creating WordPress themes, and now you want to take things to the next level? In that case, its time to begin learning how to create plugins for WordPr...

This is that article you generally skip over. Its the one where I dont detail an ounce of code, but instead describe the important events that lead to what you now recognize as HTML5. Some of us find ...

Have you ever wanted to create an interactive user interface for your application, but didn’t know how to? In this tutorial, we’ll create a Windows-like interface quickly and easily, by ge...

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would...

Maybe you saw that tweet: ”jQuery is a gateway drug. It leads to full-on JavaScript usage.” Part of that addiction, I contend, is learning other JavaScript frameworks. And that’s wha...

Have you ever wanted to learn how to make your applications more social with Facebook? It’s much easier than you think! In this tutorial, we’ll be building an application that reads and pu...

Web development is an industry that’s in a state of constant flux with technologies and jargon changing and mutating in an endless cycle. Not to mention the sheer deluge of information one has t...

Hey, guys! For the last several months, I’ve had the pleasure of helping out, top-secret, on the relaunch of Tuts+ Premium. After months of work, it’s out in the wild! If you have a s...