Articles by TutsPlus - Code from January 2013

This just in: after six months of silence, the beta for the next version of the popular Sublime Text code editor is now available for testing to registered members. Join me as I show you the first fea...

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 Think ...

For a long time, the only way to write custom controls in jQuery was to extend the $.fn namespace. This works well for simple widgets, however, as you start building more stateful widgets, it quickly ...

For a long time, the only way to write custom controls in jQuery was to extend the $.fn namespace. This works well for simple widgets, however, as you start building more stateful widgets, it quickly ...

Developers are a picky bunch, almost to the point of superstition and voodoo magic, when it comes to their tools. If you take into account the countless number of things we use to build apps (Node, Gr...

If you love building for Mobile then youll love the Mobile Bundle! Weve filled it with 39 items across all of our marketplaces, and weve knocked down the price to $20 for 7 days only!The Mobile Bundle...

While Scrum’s primary goal is organization and project management, Lean is more about optimizing processes in order to quickly produce quality products. It can be your first step toward adopting...

Ruby on Rails – or simply, Rails – is an open source, rapid web development framework, with a continuous goal of maximizing developer happiness and productivity. Created nearly a decade ag...

Single page web applications – or SPAs, as they are commonly referred to – are quickly becoming the de facto standard for web app development. The fact that a major part of the app runs in...

In this video tutorial, we’ll again focus on workflow. Specifically, we’ll use Composer’s built-in autoloading capabilities, along with namespacing, to make for an elegant testing ex...

If you’re an avid PHP developer, it’s quite likely that you’ve come across the abbreviation, PSR, which stands for “PHP Standards Recommendation.” At the time of this wri...

In today’s modern workflow, the code that we author in our development environments is considerably different from the production code, after running it through compilation, minification, concat...

2012 was an excellent year for the PHP community, thanks to many badly needed features being added to version 5.4, as well as the countless projects, advancing PHP to the next level.In this article, I...

Switching to a modular approach to writing JavaScript is unfortunately a more difficult process than we might hope. Once you understand the concept of AMD, you then have to figure out the logistics: ...

Welcome to the next installment in our Twitter clone series! In this tutorial, we’ll build Ribbit from scratch, not using PHP, but with Ruby on Rails. Let’s get started! One quick service ...

Scrum is one of the most heavily used agile techniques. It’s not about coding; instead, it focuses on organization and project management. If you have a few moments, let me tell you about the te...

Those of you who help support the Tuts+ network by becoming Premium members will be well aware of the improvements that we’ve made in the last year, including a full redesign, in depth scre...

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the life of the web. It’s used every time you transfer a document, or make an AJAX request. But HTTP is surprisingly a relative unknown among some web devel...

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...

In late 2012, Microsoft introduced TypeScript, a typed superset for JavaScript that compiles into plain JavaScript. TypeScript focuses on providing useful tools for large scale applications by impleme...

It's hard to deny the fact that the PHP community is excited for Laravel 4. Among other things, the framework leverages the power of Composer, which means it's able to utilise any package or s...

In a recent discussion on Google+, a friend of mine commented, “Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is Ivory Tower BS.” This prompted me to think about...

In the initial entry in this series, we took care of the UI-aspect of our Twitter-clone, called Ribbit. Now, we’ll begin coding the application in a number of languages. This lesson will leverag...

Flask is a small and powerful web framework for Python. It’s easy to learn and simple to use, enabling you to build your web app in a short amount of time.In this article, I’ll show you ho...

2012 was a fantastic year for new technologies, products, and frameworks in our industry. That said, 2013 is looking to be even better! Recently, I asked our Nettuts+ writing staff to compile a ...

Well, 2012 has come to a close. A plethora of excellent tutorials and articles were published throughout the year, both here on Nettuts+ and elsewhere around the web. To document the year, I comp...

Well, 2012 has come to a close. A plethora of excellent tutorials and articles were published throughout the year, both here on Nettuts+ and elsewhere around the web. To document the year, I comp...