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WebGL With Three.js: Textures & Particles
Since its introduction, 3D graphics in the browser has been a popular topic. But if you were to create your apps using plain old WebGL it would take a very long. But now we have some pretty useful...
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Interview With Jonathan Snook
I've met many web developers over the years and the common theme is that they tend to specialize in a specific aspect of web development. They're either designers, JavaScript coders, server-side...
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Recently in Web Development Nov 2013
We used to have an awesome series called "Recently in Web Development" which listed out cool happenings around the web development industry. It touched on interesting frameworks, tools, articles and...
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Using Node’s Event Module
When I first heard about Node.js, I thought it was just a JavaScript implementation for the server. But it’s actually much more: it comes with a host of built-in functions that you don’t get in the...
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New Development Courses Available on Tuts+ Premium
Tuts+ Premium courses teach you a single skill from top to bottom, inside out.Currently, more than 15,000 members are sharpening their skills in web design, web development, Photoshop, vector design,...
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Kickstarting Your Rails Education
It's been a long time since I last coded on the server-side. In fact, if you've read some of my tutorials, you may have noticed that I use ColdFusion as my application server. While ColdFusion still...
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WebGL With Three.js: Models and Animation
3D graphics in the browser has been a hot topic since it was introduced. But if you were to create your apps using plain old WebGL it would take ages. That’s why some really useful libraries have came...
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AbsurdJS or Why I Wrote My Own CSS Preprocessor
As a front-end developer, I’m writing a lot of CSS and using pure CSS is not the most efficient way nowadays. CSS preprocessors are something which have helped me a lot. My first impression was that I...
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Statamic 101
Statamic is a modern PHP CMS which really makes an effort to be easy and intuitive to use. From its flat-file design to its use of technologies, like markdown and Yaml, you can accomplish an...
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WebGL With Three.js: Shaders
3D graphics in the browser have been a topic of interest since its introduction. But if you were to create your apps using plain old WebGL, it would take ages. Recently, some really useful libraries...
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SOLID: Part 1 – The Single Responsibility Principle
Single Responsibility (SRP), Open/Close, Liskov’s Substitution, Interface Segregation, and Dependency Inversion. Five agile principles that should guide you every time you write code.The DefinitionA...
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Easy Ways to Contribute to Open-source Projects
When the jQuery project first started, I remember how passionate the team was about helping developers use the jQuery JavaScript library. It was a labor of love with all of us putting in countless...
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Sending Emails With Laravel 4 & Gmail
Sending emails is crucial for any web application. Usually, an email is sent to notify the user of some kind of activity that has taken place on the site, for example, such as when updates have been...
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Coding in the Cloud
The Internet has allowed us to work anywhere we want, giving us tremendous flexibility in choosing where we’d like to plant ourselves to build the next great app. Not being tied to an office desk has...
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Intro to Shadow DOM
Take any modern web page and you will notice that it invariably contains content stitched together from a variety of different sources; it may include the social sharing widgets from Twitter or...
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BDD With Behat
The BDD PHP framework Behat, allows you to test your PHP applications using human-readable sentences to write features and scenarios about how your applications should behave in order to test out its...
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Managing the Asynchronous Nature of Node.js
Node.js allows you to create apps fast and easily. But due to its asynchronous nature, it may be hard to write readable and manageable code. In this article I’ll show you a few tips on how to achieve...
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Working With IndexedDB – Part 3
Welcome to the final part of my IndexedDB series. When I began this series my intent was to explain a technology that is not always the most… friendly one to work with. In fact, when I first tried...
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Coding With Koding
Cloud IDEs have been around for a little while now, and they have been pretty good for things like pair programming, or cases where you want to code consistently no matter where you are. Koding just...
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Using New Relic Custom Metrics to Monitor All the Things
When you first get introduced to New Relic, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by all the features. But like with most tools, as you slowly climb the learning curve and get familiar with the features provided...
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