Articles by TutsPlus - Code from May 2016

No matter what persistence framework an application uses, the developer decides what is stored in the application's persistent store. This also means that the developer is in charge of validating the ...

What You'll Be CreatingBuild a Personal, Securely Backed CloudWelcome to the second part of a series on leveraging the power of BitTorrent Sync, the company's first foray into the commercial file...

If you are an Angular developer, you must be aware that Angular 2 is coming soon.Since the frameworks are so different, using Angular 2 will require a total rewrite of apps to make them work with the ...

A successful game needs to be beautifully designed and immersive. Most game developers aren't good designers, though. And it doesn't stop with design. Sound and music are just as important to captivat...

In this tutorial we will look at setting up a simple theme in ProcessWire, we’ll investigate delayed output (now the default theme strategy within ProcessWire), and setup our site to request new con...

If you’re a budding web designer and you’re ready to learn CSS, then start here!Our new course, Start Here: Learn CSS Typography, is designed to teach you how to use CSS for the typograp...

Here’s a situation which may be familiar to you: you’re a developer and you build a prototype to demonstrate something. It works just as you mean it to, but the looks of horror on your users’ fa...

In this article you will learn the basics of Active Record queries and learn a few fundamentals about SQL along the way. It is targeted at beginners who want to start learning more about database quer...

Testing is the foundation of solid software development. There are many types of testing, but the most important type is unit testing. Unit testing gives you a lot of confidence that you can use well-...

If you look at the background of your desktop, what do you notice? Files spread everywhere, right? I know we regularly fall into this bad habit of having a cluttered desktop, but the point here is tha...

What's Let's Encrypt?For years, purchasing, renewing, installing and managing SSL certificates overwhelmed me with expense and complexity. Now, Let's Encrypt makes it fairly simple and free.Let’s E...

And that’s a wrap. Google have just finished hosting their annual developer conference, Google I/O, where the tech giant unveiled several exciting new products and made some big announcements.Let’...

In the information age we are living in, we can see how much data the world is exchanging. We are basically creating, storing, and retrieving data, extensively! There should be a way to handle all tha...

In the course of this tutorial, we'll go through the details of custom SEO-friendly URLs. It's an important aspect you should look at while developing custom modules, and it affects the overall searc...

IntroductionIn this tutorial, the fifth and final installment of the SpriteKit From Scratch series, we look at some advanced techniques you can use to optimize your SpriteKit-based games to improve pe...

What You'll Be CreatingWordPress is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for creating websites, but for beginners it can still be a little hard to know where to get started. What's the best way to fit your...

In the second and last part of this mini series, we’ll finish this introduction with sections about outputting Ruby code, interpolation, plain text and how to customize Slim to your needs. After tha...

As of iOS 9, third party applications are no longer able to query arbitrary URL schemes. Several third party applications, most notably Twitter, misused the canOpenURL(_:) method of the UIApplicatio...

WooCommerce is a free plugin that transforms WordPress into a powerful eCommerce solution.This WordPress eCommerce plugin now powers over 37% of all online stores and offers a wide variety of plugins ...

As I am sure you know by now, dependency injection (DI) and the Symfony service container are important new development features of Drupal 8. However, even though they are starting to be better unders...

Today, WordPress powers 25% of all of the world's websites, so it's safe to say that what started as blogging software has grown into something much bigger than its humble origins, and is ready t...

For those who are just getting started with programming, be it server-side or client-side, it's inevitable that you're going to come across the programming languages Java and JavaScript.If you've any ...

Security is a key aspect of software development. Almost every mobile application deals with user information or communicates with a remote server. Even though security has improved dramatically over ...

If you have ever used jQuery, there is a pretty good chance that you also have used at least one of its countless plugins. Just think about something useful that you would like to do in jQuery, and I ...

As a programmer, it’s important that you understand the flow of the system you’re working with—not just for the sake of being able to alter something when needed, but also because it’ll give ...

IntroductionIn this tutorial, the fourth installment of the SpriteKit From Scratch series, we look at the various visual and audio features SpriteKit provides to add some more detail and variety to y...

Have you ever wondered what the key is to finding some text in a document, or making sure that a text conforms to some format, like an email address for instance, and other similar operations?The key ...

A lot of things that we do depend upon the knowledge that we possess. If we are aware of what can be done, only then we can make smarter and more effective decisions. That is why it is always good to ...

Selectors are of vital importance. Most jQuery methods require some kind of element selection to be of any use. For instance, attaching a click event to a button requires you to select the button firs...

Why Slim? If you live and breathe in Ruby land and have given Haml a shot before, you’ll probably already know a couple of the arguments I’m going to make. I think it’s nevertheless a good idea...

Ionic is a cross-platform mobile framework that allows you to develop for Android and iOS using just HTML and JavaScript. Thanks to the inclusion of Cordova, Ionic developers have access to numerous p...

What You'll Be CreatingWe have covered quite a bit in this series already, including navigation. However, Ionic provides a few components that provide additional features for building more functional ...

In the previous tutorial we learned how to set up a Webpack project and how to use loaders to process our JavaScript. Where Webpack really shines, though, is in its ability to bundle other types of st...

A lot of things that we do depends upon the knowledge that we possess. If we are aware of what can be done, only then we can make smarter and effective decisions. That is why it is always good to have...

Angular is one of the most widely used JavaScript frameworks today. With its simple and flexible component-based approach, it has managed to revolutionize the way data-driven web apps are created. Ang...

Avid readers of Envato Tuts+ come from a wide variety of backgrounds in terms of experience, culture, and what they are looking to learn. When it comes to technology, it's easy to take for granted tho...

After creating a content management system (CMS) basic structure, and the actual server using Go and Node.js, you’re ready to try your hand at another language. This time, I'm using the Ruby langua...

What You'll Be CreatingThe Pebble smartwatch has been around since its very successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012 and is a popular choice amongst smartwatch users. This is due to its excellent batt...

No matter what business you're dealing with, it's always important to have tools which help you analyze the overall statistics of day-to-day happenings. Of course, it also helps you build further stra...

What You'll Be CreatingHow to Reach a PageSpeed of 100Welcome to part two of our series on Google PageSpeed. In the first episode, I optimized the PageSpeed of my site's then theme, MySiteMyWay's Cons...

IntroductionIn this tutorial, the third installment of the SpriteKit From Scratch series, we take a detailed look into the physics simulation functionality of SpriteKit and how this can be utilized in...

OverviewThis is part two of a two-part tutorial on Ansible. Part one is here. In this part, you will learn about roles (Ansible's building blocks), variables, loops, how to use roles in playbooks, and...

OverviewThis is part one of a two-part tutorial on Ansible. In this part you will learn what Ansible is, how to install and configure it, and how to install a local Vagrant cluster to test it. Then, y...

Do you want to know how to create your own JavaScript framework?In our new Coffee Break Course, Daily Mail developer Jason Green tells you about Milo: the Daily Mail's homegrown JavaScript framework t...

It's fairly standard practice these days when building a website to have some sort of build process in place to help carry out development tasks and prepare your files for a live environment. You ma...

To say that JavaScript is on the rise in web development would be an understatement. In fact, years ago, famed programmer Jeff Atwood coined Atwood's Law in which he stated:Any application that can be...

Aside from a handful of edge cases, every application that you build has some form of user interface. On Android, this is accomplished through the use of View and ViewGroup objects. In this article, y...

The inclusion of jQuery libraries in the core of OpenCart makes Ajax implementation a breeze and more than a pleasant experience. In fact, you'll find several snippets spread across the whole framewor...

There used to be a time when PHP developers had to use deployment tools that were aimed at general web applications. You can see this in Johannes Schickling's tutorial on deploying Laravel applicati...

What You'll Be CreatingWhy Developers Should Explore MailgunIf you're not yet familiar with Mailgun, it's the email automation engine trusted by over 10,000 website and application developer...

OverviewVagrant allows you to easily manage and control multiple virtual machines. It is built on top of VirtualBox and VMWare, and it provides many exciting capabilities. You can create isolated deve...

If you have lived on the “fat models, skinny controllers” diet, you have definitely been going in the right direction. Keeping controllers skinny, though, is not as easy as it sounds. In this arti...

In the iOS developer community, fastlane is a very popular tool nowadays. It takes a very tedious task, interacting with iTunes Connect, and makes it almost painless by automating most of it. We take ...

In the last article, we covered the basics of Backbone Views and how to enable jQuery to seamlessly manipulate the same DOM that Backbone manipulates. In this article, we will explore how we can ...

As an administrator of any system, you would always want a feature which allows you to delegate certain responsibilities to a group of trusted users. It also allows you to set up the workflows that he...