By Jonathan Sampson and Ralph Whitbeck With the release of Windows 8, Microsoft introduced Windows Store applications, which can be authored using traditional web languages that leverage the underlying engines powering Internet Explorer 10. This means that jQuery 2.0, engineered to work best in modern browsers, is right at home in a Windows Store application! […]
By Jeffrey Way A common argument against using preprocessors, like Sass, is that they introduce too much complexity, and are difficult to get started with. Especially today, though, this couldn’t be further from the truth. In this episode, I’ll demonstrate my file monitoring tool of choice, Guard. I’ll think you’ll love it! Screencast Download […]
By Jeffrey Way I’m pleased to release our first ever round table, where we place a group of developers in a locked room (not really), and ask them to debate one another on a single topic. In this first entry, we discuss exceptions and flow control. Round Table? Have you gone out to dinner […]
By Tom Coleman Meteor is far more than a quick prototyping tool, but it sure is great for prototyping. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the process of turning a simple HTML wireframe into a functional application in a surprisingly simple number of steps. We’ll be creating a simple wireframe of a chatroom application. […]
By Jeffrey Way The career of a web developer is an interesting one with many slopes. Considering a learning curve this steep, you can fully expect to live through periods of frustration, enlightenment, self-righteousness, and every mindset in between. In this article, we’ll have some fun, by reviewing each of these phases through the lens […]
By Lalith Polepeddi In the previous article in this mini-series, we leveraged Flask to build a simple website that contains “Home” and “About” pages using a generalized workflow that we can apply to other Flask-based web apps. In this lesson, I’ll demonstrate how to add a “Contact” page that allow users to send you messages. […]
By Christopher Roach In this lesson, we’ll continue on with my Node.js: Step by Step series, and dig into events! Download Video Source: Nettuts+
By Rey Bango Most of us are familiar with the jQuery JavaScript library, and likely use it in at least some of our projects. But how much do we know about the people who tirelessly give their time to maintaining the web’s most popular JavaScript library? I recently had the chance to interview jQuery Core […]
By Umar Hansa In this tutorial, we’ll review the process of better integrating Sass debugging into our workflow with Chrome Developer Tools. Introduction – Sass Sass stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets; think of it as an extension to vanilla CSS that provides such features as: Variables – For example, define a color upfront, and […]
By Joe Zimmerman Backbone is becoming wildly popular as a web application development framework. Along with this popularity has come countless extensions and plugins to enhance the power of Backbone and fill in holes that other felt needed filling. Let’s take a look at some of the best. Backbone.Marionette Developed by Derick Bailey, this […]