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Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

Posted on Feb2 2012

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 start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start! Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials Create a Pimped Out [...]

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Learn jQuery in 30 Days

Posted on Feb1 2012

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 to announce my new course: “Learn jQuery in 30 Days”. If you’ll give me fifteen minutes a day for the next month, I’ll [...]

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Recently in Web Development (January ’12 Edition)

Posted on Jan30 2012

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 process everyday. In this series, published monthly, we’ll seek to rectify this by bringing you all the important news, announcements, releases [...]

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Writing an API Wrapper in Ruby with TDD

Posted on Jan28 2012

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 works properly, we continuosly run code that queries the API itself. This process is slow and inefficient, as we can [...]

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24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development

Posted on Jan26 2012

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 sure you’ve heard of popular frameworks like Sinatra or the super popular Rails that ship as gems but you’re missing an entire spectrum of [...]

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Meet Crockford’s JSDev

Posted on Jan25 2012

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! Watch the Screencast Show Link Douglas Crockford’s Google+ Post JSDev | Github Labelled blocks, useful? Gist of test_code script I created in the screencast [...]

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.htaccess Files for the Rest of Us

Posted on Jan23 2012

.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 this article, we’ll review what they are, and how you can use them in your projects. Please note that .htaccess files [...]

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Testing your PHP Codebase with EnhancePHP

Posted on Jan21 2012

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 today: I’m teaching you to test your PHP with the EnhancePHP framework. Meet EnhancePHP I’m not going [...]

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New Course: Introduction to Web Typography

Posted on Jan19 2012

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, typography has been practiced for hundreds of years, and as a result there are many lessons and conventions we can learn from. Saying that, web [...]

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From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference

Posted on Jan19 2012

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 plethora of new JavaScript APIs, which make the process of DOM traversal (something that many folks depend on jQuery for) [...]

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