Articles by TutsPlus - Code from September 2015

Foundation for Apps connects a responsive front-end design framework to the power and flexibility of AngularJS. In our new course, Integrate Rich Media APIs With Foundation for Apps, you'll&...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you've been working through this series, you've now completed your first Scratch project. The project is a simple game making use of a variety of techniques in Scratch.Once y...

It's an undisputed fact that women are underrepresented in the tech industry. According to Girls Who Code, in the US:In middle school, 74% of girls express interest in Science, Technology, E...

Introduction QR codes have become ubiquitous in recent years. I am sure you’ve seen one in a newspaper advertisement or on a billboard. In layman’s terms, QR codes, like all other barcodes, are i...

Search engines exist so that humans can better look for content that they desire.Search engine optimization is about making your website easier to understand for the crawler bots! It is about making ...

Welcome to the “PostCSS Deep Dive: QuickStart Guide”. Throughout these first posts of our series, we’re going to look at getting you started with PostCSS in the quickest, most efficient ways pos...

What You'll Be CreatingHave you every used GoToWebinar from Citrix? No? Don't worry, you aren't alone. However, have you ever tried tying any service into WordPress? MailChimp, Mad Mimi, PayPal, Twitt...

So far in this series, you've learned how WP_Query is structured and what its properties and methods are. Now we're looking at the various arguments you can use with WP_Query and how you code them.W...

In the previous article of this WooCommerce beginners guide, you learnt how to read the reports in the first sub-section of Order reports, i.e. Sale by Date. This section as we know is further divided...

I run a few sites which include notices and important information in a banner on their home page. I tend to use a custom post type for this, adding my banners and displaying them where I need to in my...

I love high-performance JavaScript, and I love sharing what I believe is its true potential. In this tutorial, I want to focus on Famo.us, which can allow you to maintain a silky-smooth 60 frames per ...

IntroductionAt their annual September event for 2015, in addition to new iPhone and iPad models, Apple announced their long-awaited update to the Apple TV set-top box. This new, fourth generation Appl...

What You'll Be CreatingYou're now most of the way through this beginner's series on Scratch. You've created a game in which the user chases a cat with a crab, the cat says 'Ouch!' when the crab nips i...

In my previous article I gave an introduction to reports section in WooCommerce with which online store owners can monitor their store's performance. These reports keep you well informed and aligned w...

What You'll Be CreatingPython is well known as a programming language that is easy to learn. With a simple, expressive syntax, Python is refreshingly free of the gotchas and edge-cases that plague lea...

What You'll Be CreatingYou're now most of the way through this beginner's series on Scratch. You've created a game in which the user chases a cat with a crab, the cat says 'Ouch!' when the crab nips i...

What You'll Be CreatingTrees are one of the most commonly used data structures in web development. This statement holds true for both developers and users. Every web developer who has written HTML and...

If there’s one thing you really need to know about PostCSS, it’s that you should learn what it is and how to use it ASAP.In this series, we’re going to take a deep dive into PostCSS and take you...

IntroductionWithout a doubt, maps are one of the most useful tools for users when included in an app. This tutorial is the first in a series going over Google Maps v2 for Android. It will cover setti...

No one likes to wait, and according to research—unfortunately for web developers—we're only getting more impatient.Numbers shared in content delivery network company Akamai's latest consumer repor...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the previous tutorial, you continued working on a project to make a crab chase a cat around the screen, adding a time limit and keeping score.In this part we'll continue work...

In the earlier parts of this series, you've learned how WP_Query is structured and what its properties and methods are. The next stage is to understand the various arguments you can use with it and ho...

While designing Babylon.js v2.0 (a library for building 3D on the web), I recently found myself wishing that more APIs were fluent—that is, I wish the community could more easily read, understand, a...

Developer relations is an integral part of many software companies that hope to win the hearts and minds of developers. You may refer to it as developer evangelism or community outreach but ultimately...

What You'll Be CreatingSubscription boxes are an increasingly popular business these days. You can find them for everything from grooming products to healthy snacks, kids games and even ice cream. In...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the previous tutorial, you continued working on a project to make a crab chase a cat around the screen, and added some interactions.In this part we'll continue working on tha...

Whenever a person enters into any sort of online business, one of the biggest concerns which haunts one the most is how will he keep a record of all the activities which are underway.  Record kee...

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the FontAwesome icon pack in an Android project. FontAwesome is a great timesaver for several reasons.First, you don't have to worry about different scre...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the previous tutorial, you worked on a project to make a crab chase a cat around the screen, and added motion, looks and sound effects.In this part we'll continue working on ...

I know lots of freelance developers: heck, I am one! And if there's one thing they have in common it's that they didn't realise how much time and energy they'd have to devote to themselves as a busine...

In this part of this series on WP_Query, you'll learn how to use WP_Query to query for posts, pages and custom post types. You can query for specific posts and pages or you can run a query to return p...

Earlier this year, the Microsoft team launched a new tool to make it easier to test sites in IE regardless of which platform you’re on; seriously! It’s part of their work on Microsoft Edge and its...

Building tools, themes, plugins, and applications in WordPress requires a variety of different things if we want to make sure that we're armed with the best possible tools necessary.If you were to ask...

In my previous articles I explained in detail how to add coupons in WooCommerce and how one can configure coupons usage restrictions. After the two tabs/sections of General and Usage Restrictions, tod...

Do a Google search for 'WordPress Theme with Bootstrap' and you'll get hundreds of results. These include guides telling you how to use Bootstrap to build your theme as well as commercially and freely...

Introduction RoboGuice, also called Google Guice on Android, is an easy-to-use dependency injection framework, which can make Android development more intuitive and convenient. Using this framework, ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the previous tutorial, you created your first simple script to make the starfish move across the screen.In this part we'll take that further and work with more Moti...

In the previous article I covered the settings of the Products and Exclude products options, which online store owners find at the time of creating a coupon in WooCommerce. These settings reside ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn earlier tutorials in this series, you learned about assets in Scratch and about the different types of block available to you. In this tutorial we'll combine assets and block...

What You'll Be CreatingWebSockets make it possible to have interactive, two-way communication sessions between the user's browser and a server. With this API, you can receive event-driven messages wit...

What You'll Be CreatingTwo of the most commonly taught data structures in computer science are the singly-linked list and doubly-linked list. When I was taught these data structures, I asked my peers...

In the first part of this tutorial, I introduced you to the HealthKit framework. Based on my own experience of integrating HealthKit in one of my apps, I've pointed out a few things that are important...

In the last part of this series, we looked at assets in Scratch—backdrops, sprites, costumes and audio. Having created some assets, you need to get them to do something, which is where blocks come i...

Welcome to yet another part of our "Mastering WP_Query" series. How are we doing so far? I hope you're enjoying these tutorials as much as we're enjoying writing them. In this tutorial, you're going ...

In this tutoral, we will use Spring Boot for the web development environment, Websockets for real-time communication, Tomcat for the Java application container, Gradle for building and managing the de...

In my previous article I discussed the configuration of the first three options in the section of Usage Restriction for coupons in WooCommerce, i.e. "Minimum spend", "Individual use only" and "Exclude...

The HealthKit framework was introduced last year at WWDC 2014 as a single place where apps can store, share, and read health-related data. The new Health app, which is the user's view into that data, ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the previous part of this series, I gave an introduction to Scratch and the main components it uses. In this part we'll start creating a project by adding backdrops and some ...

Welcome to third part of our series called "Mastering WP_Query". In the previous part, we went through 13 WordPress functions that are related to the WP_Query class. In this part, we will be reviewing...

Recently we've been running a series of sponsored tutorials by Microsoft technical evangelists, designed to help you solve the problem of building things that work well across all platforms. In c...

In my previous two articles I discussed what coupons are, the different discount types for coupons that are offered in WooCommerce, and how online store owners can configure the General settings at th...

In the previous part of this series, we learned about bundling a WordPress installation with plugins and themes, and tweaking the wp-config-sample.php file. Granted, bundling themes and plugins isn't...

IntroductionOver the past months, Material Design has grown in a large design movement. Different components of Material Design, such as content cards and improved use of animation, can be found in ma...

With version 0.3.0 of manifoldJS, you can now choose to build your Android apps with Crosswalk instead of the traditional Android webview. It's quite simple to implement as well.If you're not familiar...

There seem to be endless choices regarding how to accomplish the same task: to develop a website that works in today's modern web. Web developers have to choose a web hosting platform and underly...

In my previous article I started off with the procedure to add new coupons in WooCommerce. There I explained the coupon title and description along with the various Discount types in the section of Ge...

What You'll Be CreatingToday I’d like to experiment with the Media Capture and Streams API, developed jointly at the W3C by the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group and the Device APIs Wor...

The Android Wear API brings the Android platform to the newest generation of wearable devices and smartwatches. With Android Wear, you can create a user experience designed specifically for wearables....

One of the highlights of my week is the Code Club I run at my local school. Every Thursday, I spend an hour with some budding coders helping them learn the fundamentals of code.Along with other code c...

What You'll Be CreatingTwo of the most commonly used data structures in web development are stacks and queues. Many users of the Internet, including web developers, are unaware of this amazing fact. I...

IntroductionOne of the many APIs available in Google Play Services is the Nearby Connections API. Introduced in early 2015, this framework lets you set one device running your application as a host an...

The de facto standard in data portability across web applications and services, JSON has a concise yet powerful syntax for sharing data across platforms. In this short video tutorial fr...

OpenCart is an open-source, PHP-based online e-commerce solution that allows you to accept orders online. It allows customers to shop using vouchers, but only one at a time by default. If you want to ...

Hi, and welcome to the second part of the series called "Mastering WP_Query". In the first part, we started off with the series by simply introducing what the WP_Query class is. And in this second par...

Want to get started with Django? Take our quiz and find out if you're ready.Getting Started With DjangoIf you like the elegance of the Python programming language, Django is the web framework for you!...

First of all, let me show you the final look of the chat application that we will have at the end of this articleWe will implement the application with Flask, Gunicorn for standalone WSGI application...

In the previous article I gave an overview of how you can manage and track all of your coupons in WooCommerce. Today we will explore the process of adding a new coupon. I will explain how you will add...

This is the third part of An Introduction to GameplayKit. If you haven't yet gone through the first part and the second part, then I recommend reading those tutorials first before continuing with t...

As I outlined in the introduction to this series, the WP_Query class has four main elements: the arguments for the query, using parameters which will be covered in detail in this series the query its...

I reached the venue early at 8:45 and found out that the queue today was moving comparatively faster. We were being handed a brand new Nexus 9 on our way in. I had installed Android M preview the ...

Recently, we offered a free short course to help you Create an Image Gallery in Ruby. In just seven short videos, Tuts+ instructor José Mota showed you how to build your own image...

Ten years after the first release of WordPress, the installation process is still kind of... boring. Move the core WordPress files, install WordPress, then install plugins and themes, switch themes......

Improving and increasing the financial status of a business is the aim of every online store owner, and the volume of sales plays a vital role in achieving it. In this article we will explore one of t...

What You'll Be CreatingAV Foundation is a framework for working with audio and visual media on iOS and OSX. Using AV Foundation, you can play, capture, and encode media. It is quite an extensive frame...

What You'll Be CreatingIn Easy Node.js Development Environment With Vagrant, you'll learn everything you need in order to set up your own custom Node.js stack with Vagrant and share it ...

Managing and keeping a track of all the orders has now become quite easy with WooCommerce. I have explained in my previous articles how you can not only manage but also create a new order manually. In...

By default, WordPress will run a query on each page that your site displays, the nature of which will be determined by the type of page being viewed. So if a static page is being viewed, WordPress run...

What You'll Be CreatingWhat's a Data Structure?I’ve always considered the term “data structure” to be confusing. What the heck is it? Is it data with structure, which is an equally ambiguous ter...

Think you're ready to unleash the power of WooCommerce? Find out in our quiz.Go Further With WooCommerce ThemesWooCommerce provides a lot of power and flexibility for simple storefronts out of the box...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, I will be showing you how to take an SVG map and project it onto a globe, as a vector. To carry out the mathematical transforms needed to project the map onto ...

Introduction Our lives as Android developers would be a lot harder if not for all those third-party libraries out there that we love to include in our projects. In this tutorial, you will learn how t...

6:30 AM, 27th May 2015, Moscone Center, San Francisco I arrived early in the morning to find out that queue was already quite long. Most people, including me, had skipped their breakfast to get in...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the previous six sessions, you’ve built a blogging system from the ground up. Everything’s working, and that’s great! However, the code itself is quite messy—we’ve ...

In this tutorial, I will show you how to implement a real-time chat application with Laravel 5, PostgreSQL, and Pusher. Then we will deploy this application to Modulus together.We will use Laravel 5 f...

In my last article I discussed the first section of Order Details when we were adding an order manually through the Add Order (WooCommerce > Orders > Add Order) button. Today I will be taki...

Introduction ProcessWire is a free open source content management system (CMS) and content management framework (CMF). It comes with all the resources needed built in and helps in saving both time an...

This is the second part of An Introduction to GameplayKit. If you haven't yet gone through the first part, then I recommend reading that tutorial first before continuing with this one.IntroductionIn ...

What You'll Be CreatingThis is part two of our Twitter List API tutorial within our broader Twitter API series. In this tutorial, we'll walk through building List features with the API. Code samples...

If you're working as a web professional for an employer, chances are you occasionally daydream about going it alone. Maybe you do some freelance work in your spare time and would love to extend that t...

What You'll Be Creating 1. IntroductionIn this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to build a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) minimum viable product (MVP). To keep things simple, the software is going to...