While the title of this article may sound like a cliche, hatched in the bowels of PR hell, I’m serious when I say that NewRelic is your secret weapon. In this article, I’ll talk about the...
The last week was a bit of a whirl with many of our favorite tools receiving updates and tweaks. Usually, I’d save the announcement for our monthly “Recently in Web Development” pie...
You’ve undoubtedly read about the vendor prefix web development drama of the week. If not, the W3C mailing lists have been on fire ever since it was discussed (and essentially announced) that M...
In this article, we will review the process of using JavaScript, from an MVC-based perspective, to manipulate the DOM. More specifically, we’ll engineer our JavaScript objects, their properties...
Officially released by Alex Sexton and Ralph Holzmann in late February of 2011, the yepnope.js resource loader features asynchronous, conditional loading and preloading of both JavaScript and CSS res...
Your latest PHP/MySQL website is finally online. And it’s awesome. But it’s not as fast as you want it to be, because of the many SQL queries running every time a page is generated. And a...
This likely isn’t the first tutorial on testing that you’ve ever seen. But perhaps you’ve had your doubts about testing, and never took the time to read them. After all, it can seem...
Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would lik...
Sometimes, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by how much there is to learn in this industry. If jQuery happens to be on your personal “need to learn soon” list, then I’m happy t...
Web development is an industry that’s in a state of constant flux with technologies and jargon changing and mutating in an endless cycle. Not to mention the sheer deluge of information one has ...
Sooner or later, all developers are required to interact with an API. The most difficult part is always related to reliably testing the code we write, and, as we want to make sure that everything wor...
One of the nicer things about developing on the Ruby platform is the sheer amount of meticulously categorized, highly reusable code wrapped up in the form of aptly named ‘gems’. I’m...
Many PHP programmers learned how to access databases by using either the MySQL or MySQLi extensions. As of PHP 5.1, there’s a better way. PHP Data Objects (PDO) provide methods for prepared sta...
Recently, Douglas Crockford released a neat tool that makes the process of developing and testing your JavaScript a bit easier. Interested in learning more? Watch today’s quick tip to find out!...
.htaccess files are used to configure Apache, as well a range of other web servers. Despite the .htaccess file type extension, they are simply text files that can be edited using any text-editor. In ...
You know it; I know it. We should be testing our code more than we do. Part of the reason we don’t, I think, is that we don’t know exactly how. Well, I’m getting rid of that excuse ...
Web typography is accessible to everyone. If you’ve ever built or designed a web page, you’ve almost definitely turned your hand to web typography of some sort. As a discipline, typograph...
Whether we like it or not, more and more developers are being introduced to the world of JavaScript through jQuery first. In many ways, these newcomers are the lucky ones. They have access to a pleth...
If you prefer the written word, we have a fantastic session on working with Dojo Toolkit, created by Andrew Burgess. However, for the visual learners among us, I also asked him to prepare a series of...
Not too long ago, I wrote an article about “The Increasing Importance of APIs in Web Development.” As a follow-up, today, I’ll cover the basics of using Web APIs. Before we begin: t...
Are you looking to start your new year with a fresh set of prints to help promote your design business? Today, our friends at UPrinting are kicking off 2012 by giving away business cards, posters, or...
In 2012, we plan to take our quizzes to a whole new level with ones aimed at all languages and catering to all competencies and tastes. But what better language to start off the new year than PHP, th...
TDD is an iterative development process where each iteration starts by writing a test which forms a part of the specification we are implementing. The short iterations allow for more instant feedback...
Ready to take your PHP skills to the next level? In this new “From Scratch” series, we’ll focus exclusively on Zend Framework, a full-stack PHP framework created by Zend Technologie...
Ready to continue learning about MongoDB, one of the coolest technologies for web developers? In this second part of the series, we move on from the basics, on to advanced queries – with condit...
Regular expressions are easily one of the (initially) scariest aspects of programming. Particularly at the beginning, when you haven’t learned a single symbol, a large regular expression chunk ...
Maybe you saw that tweet: ”jQuery is a gateway drug. It leads to full-on JavaScript usage.” Part of that addiction, I contend, is learning other JavaScript frameworks. And that’s wh...
Sublime Text 2 is one of the fastest and most incredible code editors to be released in a long time! With a community and plugin ecosystem as passionate as this one, it just might be impossible for a...
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how HTML5 helps to provide you with several ways of presenting your media content to users. As a result, you’ll increase the availability of your media to users with di...
Welcome to the last part in the YUI3 widget tutorial; although we’ve actually finished building the widget, we’re going to look at how easy it is to add extra functionality to a widget without ...
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