Articles by TutsPlus - Code from October 2016

Slim PHP is an excellent framework for building micro applications in PHP. You know, the kind of app that does one thing, and does it well.In our new Coffee Break Course, First Look at Slim PHP, you'l...

Ask any developer to name the biggest challenge of developing for Android, and chances are they’re going to say fragmentation. Creating an app that’s flexible enough to run across the huge range o...

What You'll Be CreatingWith Firebase, creating real-time social applications is a walk in the park. And the best thing about it: you don't have to write a single line of server-side code.In this tutor...

Having the ability to connect your Twitter account to your WordPress-powered website is both useful for your visitors and you.Your visitors will be able to get a little bit of information about you, y...

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to lay out React Native apps and how to implement layouts commonly used in apps. This includes the Stack Layout, Grid Layout, and Absolute Layout. I'll be assuming t...

So far in this series, I have covered projects and items, paths and geometry, and user interaction in Paper.js. The library also allows you to animate various items in your projects. If you combine i...

When we first start programming, we learn that a block of code executes from the top to the bottom. This is synchronous programming: each operation is completed before the next begins. This is great w...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using ...

In this tutorial I will give a basic introduction to pandas. Oh, I don't mean the animal panda, but a Python library!As mentioned on the pandas website:pandas is an open source, BSD-licensed library ...

The Material Design language was created to address issues with flat design on smaller screens by providing visual cues to interactive elements. In this article you will learn about some of the fundam...

Lumen is Laravel's little brother: a fast, lightweight micro-framework for writing RESTful APIs. With just a little bit of code, you can use Lumen to build a secure and extremely fast RESTful API.In t...

This tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my Meeting Planner ap...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you want to tweak or customize a WordPress theme—whether a built-in theme or theme downloaded from elsewhere—a child theme is the way to go. Otherwise, if you customize t...

Namespaces and autoloading are not topics that are usually discussed when it comes to working with WordPress plugins.Some of this has to do with the community that's around it, some of this has to do ...

One of Jekyll’s noteworthy new features is the ability create official themes in the form of Ruby gems. These themes can be installed by a Jekyll user to style their static blog or website with ea...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using ...

In the first part of this three-part tutorial series, we saw how to write RESTful APIs all by ourselves using Flask as the web framework. In the second part, we created a RESTful API using Flask-R...

IntroductionThis year at WWDC, Apple officially unveiled watchOS 3, their latest update to the Apple Watch's core software. While there were only a few "headline" user features shown off, watchOS 3 op...

If you're a student, you're in luck. For a limited time, you can save 50% on a yearly Envato Tuts+ subscription. That means you pay just $45 for a whole year of learning. Details of the Student Disco...

After reading the first two tutorials, you should be able to create paths and some basic predefined shapes. You should also be able to simplify or flatten your paths as well as draw them on different ...

In this tutorial I will teach you all the basics of idiomatic testing in Go using the best practices developed by the language designers and the community. The main weapon will be the standard testin...

Facebook has over 1.71 billion active users worldwide who spend an average of 20 minutes per visit. That explains why, “on average, the Like and Share Buttons are viewed across almost 10 million web...

IntroductionWith iOS 10, Apple now allows app developers to create custom interfaces for notifications delivered to their users. The possibilities of this framework are shown in the Messages app, wher...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using ...

In this tutorial we’ll explore the Service component and its superclass, the IntentService. You'll learn when and how to use this component to create great concurrency solutions for long-running ...

Throughout this series, we've covered exactly what you need to do to internationalize your WordPress projects. If you've not read any of the previous posts, I recommend checking them out.Though there ...

What You'll Be CreatingAuthentication is extremely important, and as a result, it's extremely difficult to get right. But Laravel's built-in authentication system makes it easier to protect the portio...

In the first part of this three-part tutorial series, we saw how to write RESTful APIs all by ourselves using Flask as the web framework. The previous approach provided a whole lot of flexibility but ...

What You'll Be CreatingAbout Parse SDK and back{4}appYou may have read that Facebook is shutting down Parse, but don't worry that the Parse SDK will die. Facebook will retire the parse.com hosting se...

In my previous tutorial, I covered the installation process and project hierarchy in Paper.js. This time I will teach you about paths, segments, and their manipulation. This will enable you to create ...

In this tutorial, I am going to create a small Rails app. I will show you how to create a rake task to import some venues from Foursquare to our database. Then we will index them on Elasticsearch. Als...

Do you think you know how to secure WordPress? Take this quiz to test your knowledge of WordPress security.WordPress Secure Setup GuideWordPress is, generally speaking, a relatively easy system to ins...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this final installment in the Getting Started with Ionic series, you'll learn how to leverage Cordova to add device hardware capabilities to your app. We'll look at how to ...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my...

Android app templates from CodeCanyon can jump start your app development. This video will show you how to get started with your own app in only 60 seconds! Universal Android WebView App Template The...

As a developer, you’ll often have to face a scenario that forces you to alter the core behaviour of a framework. If that’s something that is already provided by the admin UI or something similar,...

As we begin the final article in the series on creating custom WordPress administration pages in WordPress, I think it's important to reiterate that this is not meant to say we should be circumventing...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the last post of this series, we learned how to set up Vuforia and start developing an AR game from scratch, adopting a logic similar to the one used on Pokémon GO! Create a...

What You'll Be CreatingDo you want to learn how to create a real-time app in Rails 5? If so, our new short course, Real-Time Apps With Rails 5 Action Cable, is for you.What You’ll LearnUsers have c...

The WordPress Customizer has been actively developed since its inception. The APIs are continually evolving, including the JavaScript API. However, it is one of the least documented APIs in the WordP...

REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is a web development architecture design style which refers to logically separating your API resources so as to enable easy access, manipulation and scaling. Re...

You may or may not have heard of Paper.js. So, let's begin with the question: what is Paper.js? It is a library that allows you to create and work with vector graphics. The official website describes ...

I feel that debugging is as crucial a part of the development cycle as any other. So it's always good practice to demystify the job of debugging, making it easier and less time-consuming, so that w...

Animation is an important part of user experience design. It serves as feedback on user actions, informs users of system status, and guides them on how to interact with the interface. One of the to...

You might be wondering about the term Zipf distribution. To understand what we mean by this term, we need to define Zipf's law first. Don't worry, I'll keep everything simple. Zipf's LawZipf's law s...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my...

Google's "Accelerated Mobile Pages" (AMP) project has, of late, helped influence websites to become faster. With good technique and a powerful content distrobution network, Google has directly made AM...

Mobile applications need a back-end server in order to perform tasks such as authenticating users and synchronizing user data across multiple devices. Creating such a server, however, requires a skill...