Articles by TutsPlus - Code from January 2014

In the last post, we introduced the idea of spriting, an easy way to animate in JavaScript that works in all browsers. We also walked through how to set up the sprite as a background image for a div ...

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Installing all your PHP libraries with Composer is a great way to save time. But larger projects automatically tested and run at each commit to your software version control (SVC) system will take a l...

Today we’re going to look at New Relic custom dashboards. Specifically, I will show you three ways that I tend to use custom dashboards:creating an overview dashboard from existing chartscreatin...

The Single Responsibility (SRP), Open/Closed (OCP), Liskov Substitution, Interface Segregation, and Dependency Inversion. Five agile principles that should guide you every time you write code.Because ...

Sooner or later in your programming career you will be faced with the dilemma of validation and exception handling. This was the case with me and my team also. A couple or so years ago we reached a po...

This is a complete tutorial to using LESS with Chrome’s DevTools. If you’ve already used Sass with Chrome’s DevTools, you’ll most likely already be familiar with the concepts i...

Single Responsibility (SRP), Open/Closed (OCP), Liskov’s Substitution, Interface Segregation, and Dependency Inversion. Five agile principles that should guide you every time you need to write c...

This article will introduce you to <picture>, a new proposed element created to try and solve the problem of serving the version of content images which better suits the device currently visitin...

This article will introduce you to <picture>, a new proposed element created to try and solve the problem of serving the version of content images which better suits the device currently visitin...

When I started playing around with Ember.js almost a year ago, the testability story left something to be desired. You could unit test an object without any trouble, but a unit test is only one way to...

HTML is the language the web is built in, and it is kind of a strange beast. Although it was originally intended as a way to easily share academic information across the Internet, it has been slowly t...

After the massive success of PSDTUTS, it seemed like a good idea to branch out into tutorials on other subjects. Since one of the most requested types of tutorials has always been for web development...

After the massive success of PSDTUTS, it seemed like a good idea to branch out into tutorials on other subjects. Since one of the most requested types of tutorials has always been for web development...

After the massive success of PSDTUTS, it seemed like a good idea to branch out into tutorials on other subjects. Since one of the most requested types of tutorials has always been for web development...

I’ve written quite a bit about browser testing solutions trying to help identify techniques and tools that make cross-browser development easier. My last article on the subject covered how to us...

When creating a single-page app we should use some kind of framework to do some of the job for us, so we can focus on the actual functionality. AngularJS fits here perfectly, because features like dyn...

Twilio’s recently announced Picture Messaging has vastly opened up what we can do with text messaging, now we can attach photos to our text messages and have them get used in different ways.In o...

Ember.js is a JavaScript MVC framework that allows developers to create ambitious web applications. Although pure MVC allows a developer to separate concerns, it does not provide you with all the tool...

As developers, we want the applications we build to be resilient when it comes to failure, but how do you achieve this goal? If you believe the hype, micro-services and a clever communication protocol...

A test driven development cycle simplifies the thought process of writing code, makes it easier, and quicker in the long run. But just writing tests is not enough by itself, knowing the kinds of tests...

Typically new features for web applications are tested by visiting the appropriate page in a browser, maybe filling out some form data, submitting the form, and then developers or testers hope to see...

Using Node.js, we can create web applications easily. Now, thanks to the node-webkit we can also create desktop apps with it, using a unique combination of HTML5 and Node.IntroductionThe library combi...