The Ins and Outs of Gradle
As the first IDE (Integrated Development Environment) dedicated entirely to Android, the Google-backed Android Studio is an exciting prospect for Android developers. But it also means getting to grips...
View ArticleCreate a Custom Payment Method in OpenCart: Part 2
There are many payment methods available in the OpenCart core itself and plenty of others are available at the OpenCart store in the form of third party extensions. Although sometimes you'll find...
View ArticleEver Heard of Must-Use Plugins?
WordPress has loads of functions, tools and utilities in its core, many of which are what contribute to making WordPress the number one content management system in the world.Most of these WordPress...
View ArticleHow to Back Up a WordPress Site with CodeGuard
What You'll Be CreatingWhat Is CodeGuard?CodeGuard is an automated, cloud-based backup service for websites and databases, and it's well suited to securely backing up your WordPress sites in real...
View ArticleCreate a Space Invaders Game in Corona: Finishing Gameplay
What You'll Be CreatingIn the previous part of this series, we got the player's ship moving, got the invaders moving, and detected when a player bullet had hit an invader. In this final part of the...
View ArticleTuts+ Survey Prize Winners
An overwhelming response to our 2014 survey created a small backlog in selecting the lucky prize winners. We've spent the past few weeks slowly making our way through each survey response, and we're...
View ArticleNew Course: The Swift Programming Language
At Apple's annual WWDC in 2014, it announced the creation and release of a brand new programming language: Swift. The idea is to use this language going forward when creating apps that target both iOS...
View ArticleIntroduction to New Relic Synthetics
What You'll Be CreatingWhat Is New Relic Synthetics?New Relic Synthetics is like a crash test dummy for your software. Synthetics allows you to configure a myriad of tests to run against your website...
View ArticleCreating Your WordPress Knowledge Base's Structure
By this stage you should already have a plan for your knowledge base's structure and any post types and taxonomies you'll need to use to store your data.The next step is to create the structure for...
View ArticleBuilding Your Startup With PHP: Feature Requirements and Database Design
What You'll Be CreatingThis is the second part in the Building Your Startup with PHP series, in which I lead you through development from concept to launch of my startup, Meeting Planner. In this part,...
View ArticleEnvato in 2014
The beginning of a new year is a good time to step back and look at the bigger picture. Tuts+'s parent company Envato just put together a roundup of what happened in 2014, and here are some of the...
View ArticleMore Essential Plugins for WordPress Theme Development
In the previous part of the series, we did set up a WordPress development environment and installed all the necessary plugins required to help us with our theme development efforts. Additionally, we...
View ArticleSwift from Scratch: Function Parameters, Types, and Nesting
In the previous article, we explored the basics of functions in Swift. Functions, however, have a lot more to offer. In this article, we will continue our exploration of functions and look into...
View ArticleCombining Underscores With Bootstrap to Create a Theme Framework: Introduction
What You'll Be CreatingIf you have been developing WordPress themes for a considerable amount of time, you will realize that you tend to reuse some—or most—of your code across projects. If you are like...
View ArticleBuilding With the Twitter API: Repeating Tweets From a Group
What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial is part of a series related to the Twitter API. You can find the original Birdcage Twitter tutorial here or follow my author page to keep up with the latest...
View ArticleA Look at WooCommerce Products Settings
Products hold a key position for an online store. In the previous article, we learned how to configure the General settings in WooCommerce; today we will look into the various settings for...
View ArticleWorking With Local Databases on Windows Phone 8
In the previous article, you learned how to store data in your app's isolated storage. In this article, we focus on working with local databases that live in your app's isolated storage. You'll learn...
View ArticleCreating Your Own Widgets Using Various WordPress APIs: Introduction
What You'll Be CreatingWidgets are a neat way of giving site owners some control over the look (and sometimes functionality) of their WordPress sites. In this series, we are going to be creating a...
View ArticleEven More Essential Plugins for WordPress Theme Development
In the previous parts of this series, we've reviewed many of the debugging plugins that are available in the WordPress Plugin Repository. The base plugin that we've seen is Debug Bar, for which...
View ArticleCreate a Custom Payment Method in OpenCart: Part 3
If you've been following along with this series, you should be familiar with the kind of file structure we set up for our custom payment method in the back-end. If you haven't gone through the earlier...
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