Articles by TutsPlus - Code from March 2016

When we are developing a complex application, we generally come across challenges that were probably tackled before and that already have some pretty great solutions. Such solutions are often referred...

The AMP project is an open source initiative backed by Google, with the goal of making websites faster. Here’s what it is, in sixty seconds! Useful ResourcesAMP Project: Will it Make Your Sites F...

If you were given a piece of paper with a list of 1,000 names, and you were asked to find some name, but this list was not in any order (e.g. alphabetical order), it would be very frustrating, wouldn'...

Image credits: RubyonRails.orgA Web Development Framework for PuristsBack in 1995, Yukihiro Matsumoto released Ruby 0.95 as a pure, object-oriented (OO), general-purpose programming language:As a la...

In a recent series, we talked all about how we could work with metadata for several of the major classes in WordPress. This included:Post metadataUser metadataComment metadataThroughout the serie...

I hope you are doing well with the Python smooth refreshers series. Let me quickly remind you that the aim of this series is to teach you in a smooth manner the main concepts you need to grasp in orde...

What You'll Be CreatingAfter taking a look at the current state of Android development and how to set up your development environment, in this lesson, you are going to learn how to build and launch yo...

One really useful aspect of GitHub repos is that they allow us to host static websites thanks to GitHub Pages. But did you know that you can dynamically display all your GitHub repos on your websi...

Creating an inline editor requires effort. You begin by switching the element to be edited with an input or textarea field. For a seamless user experience, you might also have to use some CSS in or...

We recently wrapped up a series that covered How to Get Started With WordPress. Though it's not a pre-requisite for reading the following article, I recommend reading through the four posts, espe...

What You'll Be CreatingIf this is the first time you are designing for a wearable device, you will notice that there are some key differences compared to designing a product for a smartphone or a desk...

This introductory article for Magento is aimed at providing essential information to newbie webmasters and web developers. It is part of a series of Envato Tuts+ introduction articles on dif...

Python is a fantastic programming language. It is also known for being pretty slow, due mostly to its enormous flexibility and dynamic features. For many applications and domains it is not a problem d...

One of the most significant changes to Android design was introduced during the 2014 Google I/O conference, material design. Even though Google had introduced a set of guidelines for their new desig...

Fastlane is a tool that every serious iOS developer should know. It was created out of the pain that came from interacting with iTunes Connect in its early days. Although the iTunes Connect interface ...

Throughout this series, we've looked at a number of the metadata APIs that are offered by WordPress. This includes the Post Meta API and the User Meta API. Today, we're going to be rounding out the se...

Themes let you customize every aspect of the design and functionality of a WordPress site. But what if you want to let your client customize some aspect of the theme? Perhaps you want to sell a theme ...

Say you have a binary image file you wanted to transfer across a network. You’re amazed that the file wasn’t received properly on the other side—the file just contained strange characters! Well...

So you've decided to take your first steps into learning about Android app development. Great choice. Android is currently the most widely used smartphone platform in the world and it is a fun operati...

If you're dealing with an e-commerce business, you know that sometimes you'll have to deal with unwanted interruptions or suspicious information, such as spamming or fraudulent information submission....

Apple Watch offers a new medium to communicate with users. Using an app on a wearable device is vastly different than using it on your smartphone. To guide app creators in their journey to build ...

I'm a big fan of WordPress Multisite: I use it to manage a small network of client sites, hold all of my demo sites in one place, and also run a network allowing people to create their own custom site...

If you're working on a project that's built on WordPress, then you may find yourself in a situation where displaying the most recently executed query is useful. This is especially true if you're worki...

Want to work in Ruby? Consider switching to Linux.After all, the Ruby ecosystem grew up on Unix and Linux operating systems like Mac OS X or Ubuntu. For this reason, Ruby native packages and build too...

If you have not been living under a rock for the past year, you’ll have heard about Slack or are most probably using it in your company. For those who did actually live under one, Slack is a team co...

What You'll Be CreatingCredit: Topic Simple - What is HTML5? They do cool animated videos.Introduction to HTML5Welcome to Envato Tuts+! This tutorial provides an introductory overview of HTML5. If yo...

Google Fit is a platform that allows developers to build applications that are focused on user fitness data. One of the tools Google has provided is Google Fit for Android, which is available as a pac...

If you're new to the WordPress ecosystem, you might find it a little bit hard to grasp how flexible WordPress can be. Sure, there are literally tens of thousands of themes and plugins that you can mak...

The first thing I think of when I hear "WordPress" and "calendar" is the default calendar widget that displays WordPress Posts by date.But WordPress calendar plugins encompass a far greater—not to m...

Large-scale distributed systems made of multiple cooperating services are becoming increasingly important. These systems run on clusters of hundreds, thousands or more servers. Developing, deploying a...

I believe that you may be a newcomer to Python, or looking around for the best programming language to learn. Let me tell you that you are in the right place, and Python is surely a good decision to ...

IntroductionAs of early 2016, there are well over a billion people actively using Android, a Unix-like mobile operating system that runs on phones, tablets, smart TVs, smart watches, and a slew of oth...

In this article, we’re going to create a custom order totals extension in OpenCart. The order totals extensions allow you to manipulate the order amount during the checkout. It’s a really useful w...

When Apple launched the Apple Watch, there was a lot of excitement. Wearables are a new category to design experiences for. The caveat? Translating your app to a smartwatch experience is different fro...

In the previous article, we discussed working with post metadata in WordPress using the provided APIs. We also covered a variety of tools, the ideas of security, and what would be required in order to...

Despite the rumored death of "above the fold", the need for finding the right kind of slider is still alive and well.And let's be honest for a minute—sliders are fun. Besides, nothing makes a client...

Laravel is known for its powerful and developer-friendly router. The router allows you to configure all the URL endpoints of your app with a concise syntax and all in one place. If you want ...

Ionic is a popular mobile app framework that helps you build hybrid mobile apps quickly, using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this series, you learn how to set up and build your own mobile apps with Io...

Magento 2.0 was officially announced back in 2010, when Yoav Kutner, Magento’s co-founder and CTO, said that ‘finally, the [Magento] platform is mature enough where it is requiring a new version�...

Code smells and their refactorings can be very daunting and intimidating to newbies. So in this series, I’ve tried to make them easy to understand, both for slightly experienced Ruby developers ...

Today is International Women's Day. Even though there shouldn't be a special day to celebrate women, I'd like to take the opportunity to put ten women in the spotlight that have a significant imp...

This month it's International Women's Day, a worldwide event designed to raise the under-representation of women in many walks of life and encourage us all to open up more opportunities to women and g...

The repository pattern was introduced for the first time by Eric Evans in his Domain-Driven Design book. The repository is, in fact, the entry point for the application to access the domain layer. T...

In the previous parts of the series, we have been looking at what the WP REST API is and how it can help us build better applications using the WordPress back end. Then we looked at two ways to set u...

Today, we’re going to discuss one of the important and useful features of OpenCart called “Order Totals”. I’m sure that you’re already using it to some extent, but you may not be aware of th...

Today, we’re going to discuss one of the important and useful features of OpenCart called “Order Totals”. I’m sure that you’re already using it to some extent, but you may not be aware of th...

Until 18 March, you'll receive a free year subscription to Envato Tuts+ when you purchase a hosting plan from SiteGround.With up to 50% off, SiteGround offers three plans to get you on the w...

Ionic is a popular framework for creating modern, hybrid, mobile applications, using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Ionic is powered by AngularJS and Apache Cordova. Because developers can use t...

The web is built on the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). When we go to a web page, our browser makes requests to a web server. The web server processes our request and ultimately sends a response.&...

What You'll Be CreatingPreview image mashup credit: Email Self Defense - the Free Software Foundation.This is a continuing episode in my tutorial series on email privacy and security. Earlier epi...

In this quick video, we'll see how we can take advantage of a third-party application in order to debug WordPress applications using IDEs that don't have built-in debuggers. For more information about...

There are times in which we inherit a WordPress project that's already been in use for some time. This means that we're likely dealing with some form of legacy code, be it at the theme level or t...

You have successfully created a flat filesystem Content Management System (CMS) using Go. The next step is to take the same ideal and make a web server using Node.js. I will show you how to load the l...

In the first part of this series, you learned how to set up React Native on your machine, create and use custom components, and use third party libraries, such as moment.js. In this tutorial, you lea...

Drupal is a popular open-source content management system written in PHP. Having been created in the early 2000s by a Belgian student, it now powers some of the most prominent websites on the web (Whi...

Do you want to learn more about AngularJS? It has become the go-to framework for many web developers, who find it an all-in-one solution for quickly building front-end single-page web application...

This newbie-friendly article covers another round of smells and refactorings you should familiarize yourself with early in your career. We cover case statements, polymorphism, null objects and dat...

If you know your way around the Ionic mobile app framework, it might be your lucky day. Envato is running a contest for the Best Ionic App Templates on CodeCanyon.All you have to do is ...

In the first post in this series, I gave an overview of all of the various types of metadata offered by WordPress, where it's kept, and what we're going to be covering throughout this series. Further...

If you've come across module development in OpenCart, you may have faced the situation in which you've declared a couple of common elements in each and every controller. Don't you think that it would ...

JavaScript ES6 (also known as ECMAScript 2015) has brought a bounty of new syntax intended to improve developer experience and ergonomics.Take this quiz to test your knowledge of JavaScript ES6.JavaSc...

In this tutorial, we'll be creating a news reader app with React Native. In this two-part series, I'm going to assume that this isn't your first React Native app and I won't go too much into detail ...

As of February 24th, Google search results have started including links to versions of mobile pages created using Accelerated Mobile Pages, aka “AMP”, an open source project it has backed. AMP has...

This is part 2 of a small series about code smells and possible refactorings. The target audience I had in mind are newbies who heard about this topic and who maybe wanted to wait a bit before ent...