Articles by TutsPlus - Code from March 2012

We’re excited to let you know about our all-new Facebook page designs, and we’re kicking off a big promotion to offer lots of awesome content for our Facebook fans! Read on to find out how...

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...

In this three part tutorial, we’ll be diving deep into creating a to do list management app in Node.js and Geddy. This is the second part in the series, where we’ll be creating a simple to...

Learn how to use CodeIgniter and the jQuery library to create a slick, AJAX-utilizing management page for a typical Users table, and discover some of the awesome features of jQuery UI. This Tuts&pl...

In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to create vintage (just like Instagram does) photos with PHP and ImageMagick. Wait? What? Yes, you can do this very thing with PHP and ImageMagick, and tha...

In part three of this series, we saw how easy it is to add and remove models from our collection, and keep the page updated in sync with the changes. In this part, we’re going to look at editing...

Twitter Anywhere is a “one-script-include” solution from Twitter to bring the power of their communication platform to your website. We’ll be building a small jQuery script that util...

In this three part tutorial series, we’ll be diving deep into the process of creating a to-do list management app in Node.js and Geddy from scratch. In this introductory article, we’ll rev...

In 2012, we plan to take our quizzes to a whole new level with ones aimed at all languages and catering to all competencies and tastes. This month, we’re covering a little SQL.With more framewor...

ActiveRecord models in Rails already do a lot of heavy lifting in terms of database access and model relationships, but with a bit of work they can do more things automatically. Let’s find out h...

Welcome to part three of our series that focuses on building applications using Backbone. If you haven’t read parts one and two, I strongly recommend that you do — just so you know where w...

Thanks to FuelPHP’s fieldset class, working with forms couldn’t be easier. With a few lines of code, you can easily generate and validate a form. Today, we’re going to learn how to d...

Ever find yourself doing boring, repetitive tasks as a web developer? Today, I’m going to show you how you can cut those meta-tasks out of your development cycle with a little bit of automation....

Wielding the true power of a CSS preprocessor is an adventure. There are countless languages, syntaxes, and features, all ready for use right now. In this article, we will be covering the various fea...

Wielding the true power of a CSS preprocessor is an adventure. There are countless languages, syntaxes, and features, all ready for use right now. In this article, we will be covering the various fea...

Welcome back to part two of this tutorial; in part one we looked at some of the model, collection and view basics for when working with Backbone and saw how to render individual contact views using a ...

Hey guys! I have a few fun things to announce. After months of work, my new book, Decoding HTML5, is finally available. Even better, though, I’ve managed to work out a special arrangement with R...

I’ve always struggled to find the perfect code snippet management tool…until now (and it’s free). I’ll show you my preferred workflow, using GitHub Gists and Sublime Text 2.Vie...

PHP 5.4 is here; the next major step forward since version 5.3 – keeping PHP 6 (full Unicode support) on hold for now. The latest enhancements significantly improve its elegance, while removing ...

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...

We’re pleased to announce our latest Tuts+ Premium course: “30 Days to Learn C#.” My aim is to introduce you to the C# language (and a tiny bit of the .NET Framework), and give ...

In this tutorial, we’re going to look at building a fully functional contacts manager using Backbone.js, Underscore.js, and jQuery. We’ll take a look at the basic components that make Back...

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...

We all have our bad habits. In this article, we’ll go over a list of bad practices that are worth examining, reevaluating, and correcting immediately.February of 2011Who the Hell Do You T...