How to Create a Beautiful Icon with CSS3
Today, I’d like to show you a neat trick. We’ll create a document icon with pure CSS3. Even better, this effect will only require a single HTML element. The Game Plan Create a square box Round the...
View ArticleCentOS 5: File Server Essentials: New on Premium
What powers a file serving environment? In this tutorial, we’ll begin to learn the skills required to install an enterprise grade operating system and discover the power and simplicity that makes...
View ArticleThe Best Way to Learn JavaScript
Learning something new is scary. For me, the biggest issue with picking up a new skill is that I don’t know what I don’t know. Given that, it’s often useful to find a plan for learning whatever you’re...
View ArticleOpen Discussion: LinkedIn for Developers?
Over at FreelanceSwitch, we’ve had a few posts recently discussing the usefulness of networking sites like LinkedIn for freelance professionals: 5 Reasons to Use LinkedIn, Are You Getting Clients on...
View ArticleBuild Ajax Data Grids with CodeIgniter and jQuery
In this lesson, we will create a CodeIgniter library that allows us to generate data grids automatically for managing any database table. I’ll explain each step required to create this class; so you’ll...
View Article20 JavaScript Frameworks Worth Checking Out
The number of web applications being created and used has grown rapidly since the new millenium. And importantly, so has the sheer complexity of them — specially on the front end. No more static pages,...
View ArticleInto the Ring with Knockout.js: The Title Fight
In this final part in our knockout mini-series, we’ll add a couple more feature to the simple contacts app that we’ve built over the course of the last two tutorials. We’ve already covered the core...
View ArticleHow to Create an HTML5 Microdata Powered Resume
In May 2009, Google introduced Rich Snippets, a small block of information displayed in Google’s search engine results to make it easier for users to decide which pages are relevant to their search. In...
View ArticleThe Newbie’s Guide to Test-Driven Development
Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published in August, 2010. Testing your code is annoying, but the impact...
View ArticleRecently in Web Development (September Edition)
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 to...
View ArticleHow to Deploy your First Rails App: New on Premium
In this Premium video tutorial, we’ll teach you how to deploy your first Rails web application with Heroku. Particularly if you’re somewhat new to Rails, you may find that you’re met with a long...
View ArticleBest of Tuts+ in September
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 like to...
View ArticleHow to Use Omniauth to Authenticate your Users
I hate signing up for websites. I’ve already signed up for so many, using different usernames, that going back to one of them and trying to remember my credentials is sometimes impossible. These days,...
View ArticleGetting Real-Time with Pusher
Do you want to spice up your web applications by making them real-time — but don’t want to create new infrastructures for the sole purpose of getting web sockets to work? In this article, we’ll explore...
View ArticleWhat you Should be Excited About in jQuery UI 1.9
jQuery UI 1.8 has been around for a little while now. In fact, it’s currently on version 1.8.16. jQuery UI 1.9 is under active development and brings a number of new widgets to the table, along with...
View ArticleQuick Tip – jQuery Newbs: Stop Jumping in the Pool
As editor of Nettuts+, I get to review a lot of code from tutorial submissions. Despite the fact that jQuery has been available for years now, there is still one frequent mistake that I see more than...
View ArticleDesign and Code an Integrated Facebook App
Welcome to part three of “Design and Code an Integrated Facebook App.” At this point, I’m assuming that you have created the HTML and CSS for your app. If not, then refer to the first entry in this...
View ArticleAnnouncing Windows AppStorm!
We’re immensely pleased to announce that, after months of waiting, a new member of the AppStorm network has landed: Windows.AppStorm! Read on to find out more about what this fantastic new site has to...
View ArticleThe Intro to Rails Screencast I Wish I Had
Isn’t it funny how most “introduction to Ruby on Rails” screencasts are overly simplistic, and rely on generators like scaffolding? The teacher typically follows up the tutorial by stating that most...
View ArticleBuilding Static Sites with Jekyll
A full-blown CMS is rarely necessary. Sometimes, you only need to create a light, static website … but you have just enough pages to make the process of copying template files and making cross-site...
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