Articles by TutsPlus - Code from July 2016

From static images to animated GIFs, from “best viewed on Netscape 4.0” to being viewed on any and every device imaginable, the Internet has always pushed itself to new limits.So it's no surprise ...

If you dream of creating the next big thing in Android apps, then I'm not going to lie: you’ve got your work cut out for you! You only need to take a quick peek at the Google Play store to see that ...

Alternatives to Amazon's Web ServicesAmazon's AWS continues to innovate and dominate the cloud services market. It's grown so much that it's become a key component of Amazon's Wall Street mechani...

Embedding HTML in your PHP is one of the worst decisions you can make. Not only is it a pain to write, it's also a pain to maintain. If you use a fully-fledged framework like Laravel, then you don't h...

Not long ago, we finished a series on How to Get Started With WordPress and then began this short, two-part series as a follow-up. In the previous article, we took an in-depth look at what WordPr...

As a developer, it's always exciting to build custom stuff in any framework, and the same is true for OpenCart plugins as well. In this two-part series, I'll explain custom plugin development in Open...

SimpleDB is a remote database offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The world of data stores is usually divided into SQL and NoSQL, based on the use (or non-use) of the SQL language. NoSQL data stores...

Loopj is an Android library for making asynchronous HTTP requests. I like it for its ease of use and simplicity. Created by James Smith, it's also known as "Android Asynchronous HTTP Client", and it...

OverviewPython packages are the building blocks of Python applications. They encapsulate some coherent functionality that can be imported and used by many applications and systems. But first, develope...

As a module developer, more often than not you’ll need to create a custom schema in your day-to-day OpenCart custom module development. It’s already provisioned, as with the other frameworks, in t...

Aside from the most basic of Android applications, everything you build will require at least some use of background threading to perform an operation. This is because Android has something known as a...

OverviewPython is a wonderful programming language and much more. One of its weakest points is packaging. This is a well-known fact in the community. Installing, importing, using and creating packages...

What You'll Be CreatingWhat Is Pure.css?While Bootstrap's taken over a huge swath of the web, it can put a bit of a performance burden on sites that might not be necessary for your next project. Pure....

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces that has taken the web development world by storm. However, in a community that favours choice and flexibility, it can be hard to know where ...

IntroductionAlthough the term "enterprise apps" sounds as if these applications must be used exclusively by large corporations, in actuality small businesses can benefit from developing such apps as w...

In this article, I will take a look at the new features of Laravel 5.2 and describe them one by one. The new features are listed below: implicit route model binding form array validation API rate-limi...

When it comes to persisting application data locally, Android developers are definitely spoiled for choice. In addition to direct access to both the internal and external storage areas of an Android d...

This final article looks at FileList, Pathmap, CLEAN, CLOBBER, and passing arguments. These are not super important for beginners right away, but they will certainly come in very handy at a later poin...

Let’s take a look at Sympli; a collaboration platform for designers and developers. It works with Xcode, Android Studio, Sketch and Photoshop–in this tutorial we’ll cover the designer’s perspe...

Python is a powerful language that is easy to learn and excels at many different types of computing. It is used to run large, well-known websites. It is used to process log files and make sense of the...

Do you want to develop apps for iOS devices?If so, these four courses will give you the solid foundation you need. With expert guidance from Envato Tuts+ instructor Derek Jensen, you'll learn all the ...

WooCommerce is the most popular and “most customizable eCommerce platform for building your online business.” You can download WooCommerce for free, but you really begin to see its power when you ...

For those of you who have read any of my tutorials on Envato Tuts+, you know that I spend the majority of time working with WordPress. If I'm not building custom solutions for others, then I'm often w...

If you're running an online store, chances are you're using WooCommerce. It happens to be the world's favorite ecommerce solution—and best of all, you can start using it for free.Because it has beco...

In this article, we're going to take a look at NativeScript, an open-source framework for building mobile apps with JavaScript. At the end of the article, you should have a pretty good idea of what Na...

Python packages allow you to break down large systems and organize their modules in a consistent way that you and other people can use and reuse efficiently. Python's motto of "Batteries Included" me...

jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library, and one of the reasons for that popularity is jQuery's extensibility. Not only does jQuery give us a lot of goodies out of the box, but the community has...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you're asking, "What's Yii?" check out my earlier tutorial: Introduction to the Yii Framework, which reviews the benefits of Yii and includes an overview of what's new in Y...

When it comes to building a web app with WordPress, its powerful APIs provide a great deal of help. Adding or retrieving any data with the Options API is not a big deal. But sometimes we need to store...

In recent years, as a platform-independent language, JavaScript has found its way to a wide array of uses, ranging from mobile applications to HTML5-based games and Node.js servers. Long gone are the ...

File uploading is an important feature in web applications. Aside from enabling users to upload profile pictures, the use of file uploading features varies. I have shown you how to enable file uploadi...

In this second article about Rake, we dive a little deeper and cover slightly advanced topics like file tasks, rules, multitasks and more that will improve your Rake chops significantly.Topics Disclai...

IntroductionThis tutorial will demonstrate some of the integrated capabilities found in IBM Bluemix and IBM Bluemix DevOps Services (IDS).Bluemix now includes a new beta service to host Docker contain...

As an application, WordPress is in a unique position. For one thing, it powers roughly 25% of the web in that it serves as both as a blogging platform and content management system. But it's also...

What You'll Be CreatingIntroduction Xcode is the main IDE (Integrated Development Environment) used by thousands and thousands of developers every day. It is an awesome tool, but sometimes you want to...

What You'll Be CreatingOptimizing Your Google Advertising Revenue This is the eighth tutorial in our series about Google DoubleClick for Publishers. DFP is a service that can seem incredibly complica...

Right after you update WordPress, you are redirected to view a welcome page. This welcome page helps you better understand the new features and bug fixes in the current update. The same is the case wi...

You probably know that Swift 3 is coming later this year. It is the first release that incorporates the hard work of a fantastic community. Dozens of proposals were submitted since Apple open sourced ...

Stripe is a payment-processing service that comes with a suite of easy-to-use APIs and powers e-commerce for businesses of all sizes. Stripe makes it easy to implement secure credit-card transactions ...

Once you have your Web API developed, before exposing it to your clients, based upon your needs you may need to secure some or all parts of your API Service so that only verified users can access your...

This article explains the basics of Rake. It’s a super popular build tool that is written in Ruby. It offers a lot of flexibility and is used to manage all kinds of tasks. If you are using Rails, I ...

This quick tip gives a brief overview of what we mean by a metaclass in Python and shows some examples of the concept.Before delving into this article, I should point out an important point about clas...

In the first and second parts of this three-part tutorial series, we saw how to lay out the template structure in a Flask-based application using Jinja2 in a modular manner and how to create custom...

Want to know how to unit test React components? Our new short course, Unit Testing React Components, will show you how.What You’ll LearnReact is a very popular library, so you can find courses all o...

In this series, we're taking a look at how to internationalize our WordPress projects. For those who are just joining us, I highly recommend you review the first post in the series as we take a look a...

Android phones and tablets are generally a lot more open than their counterparts running operating systems such as iOS, Tizen, or Windows 10 Mobile. If you don't like the firmware the device manufactu...

"There's no reason to reinvent the wheel."Not only is reinventing something that already exists time ill spent, it's also usually ill-fated. The same can be said with web development. This is why usin...

In the previous article of this series, I gave an overview of the Magento migration process and discussed some of the pros and cons to consider while planning your migration. In this article, we’ll ...

During WWDC, Apple traditionally gives developers a sneak peek of the next major release of its IDE, Xcode. With every major release, the company improves its developer tools and adds a number of comp...

Ever wondered about a quick way to tell what some document is focusing on? What is its main topic? Let me give you this simple trick. List the unique words mentioned in the document, and then check ho...

In recent years, as a platform-independent language, JavaScript has found its way to a wide array of uses, ranging from mobile applications to HTML5-based games and Node.js servers. Long gone are the ...

Let me start directly by asking, do we really need Python to read large text files? Wouldn't our normal word processor or text editor suffice for that? When I mention large here, I mean extremely larg...