Articles by TutsPlus - Code from February 2013

Single page apps are the new hotness; everyone’s trying to figure out the easiest way to build them. But it’s more than just finding a couple of controls to slap together and sprinkling Aj...

If you’ve ever been to a code-focused conference before, you can surely attest to the fact that the number of live-coding talks is incredibly low. The reason why is obvious: they’re super,...

PyroCMS is a content management system that, in recent months, has been growing in popularity, due to its intuitive back-end design and lightweight, modular architecture. Described as “a simple,...

Test-driven development (TDD) is a process that has been documented considerably over recent years. A process of baking your tests right into your everyday coding, as opposed to a nagging afterthough...

You might believe that web developers who use Windows as their primary OS have it easy, when testing Internet Explorer; simply click on the blue “E” and go to town. That might be true if t...

If you’re hoping to learn why tests are beneficial, this is not the article for you. Over the course of this tutorial, I will assume that you already understand the advantages, and are hoping to...

Today, we’re going to put on our computer science hats as we learn about some common design patterns. Design patterns offer developers ways to solve technical problems in a reusable and elegant ...

It’s common practice to work locally on a project and push revisions to a production server, but the step that people often skip is the staging server. A staging server is a mix between producti...

One of JavaScript’s strengths is how it handles asynchronous (async for short) code. Rather than blocking the thread, async code gets pushed to an event queue that fires after all other code exe...

One of JavaScript’s strengths is how it handles asynchronous (async for short) code. Rather than blocking the thread, async code gets pushed to an event queue that fires after all other code exe...

We all recognize that we should be writing semantic code. Maybe, you’re even using <section> or <em> correctly, and feel pretty good about yourself. But, are you also considering the...

After implementing our Twitter-clone, Ribbit, in plain PHP and Rails, it's time to introduce the next walk-through: Python! In this tutorial, we'll rebuild Ribbit using Django. Without further...

After implementing our Twitter-clone, Ribbit, in plain PHP and Rails, it's time to introduce the next walk-through: Python! In this tutorial, we'll rebuild Ribbit using Django. Without further...

Ruby is a language with a set of powerful features – the most powerful arguably being Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas. In short, these features allow you to pass code to a method and execute that cod...

My previous two articles focused on debugging tools, so it’s only fitting that I continue with this theme. When debugging front-end code, you tend to spend a lot of time reviewing how CSS and Ja...

You're already using source control for managing your code, right? You might even be using your SCM as the central piece of your workflow, like we do at New Relic.In this article, we're not go...

RESTful API's are hard! There are a lot of aspects to designing and writing a successful one. For instance, some of the topics that you may find yourself handling include authentication, hypermedi...

In this third part of our Chrome Developer Tools series, we’ll review how to modify and debug JavaScript. Optimization is an important part of the development process, especially for performance...

Writing code, which is easy to change is the Holy Grail of programming. Welcome to programming nirvana! But things are much more difficult in reality: source code is difficult to understand, dependenc...

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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...

I hate debugging, and have never met any developer who argued otherwise. It's a drag to have to go through your code and figure out why it's broken. And most importantly, it's an admission...