By Pavan Podila In today’s world of Javascript Application frameworks, design philosophy is the key differentiating factor. If you compare the popular JS frameworks, such as EmberJS, AngularJS, Backbone, Knockout, etc. you are sure to find differences in their abstractions, thinking models, and of course the terminology. This is a direct consequence of the underlying […]
By Rey Bango While most of us have built really cool websites, realistically speaking, few developers have had to worry about the complexities of managing and scaling incredibly large websites. One thing is putting up a site for a small company to ensure they have a great presence and another is trying to figure out […]
By Andrew Perkins Authentication is required for virtually any type of web application. In this tutorial, I’d like to show you how you can go about creating a small authentication application using Laravel 4. We’ll start from the very beginning by creating our Laravel app using composer, creating the database, loading in the Twitter Bootstrap, […]
By Raymond Camden Brackets Turns 30 (Ditches the Minivan and Goes for the Jet Pack!) Nearly one year ago, Jeffrey Way reviewed the open source Brackets project. In the time since that review Brackets has come quite far, recently celebrating it’s 33rd Sprint release. In this article I’ll talk about many of the updates as […]
By Patkos Csaba The Money Pattern, defined by Martin Fowler and published in Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, is a great way to represent value-unit pairs. It is called Money Pattern because it emerged in a financial context and we will illustrate its use mainly in this context using PHP. A PayPal Like Account I […]
By Rey Bango If you’ve been reading this site for awhile, then you know who Jeffrey Way is. He’s the man, the myth and the legend behind the stellar growth of Nettuts+ and an influential voice in the web development community. And now he’s tackling online education full steam via Tuts+. We wanted to catchup […]
By Rey Bango Browser testing is the bane of our existence. Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. Multiple browser versions and browser fragmentation can make it difficult to get good test coverage for your sites especially when you factor in the different operating systems developers use to build with. Over […]
By Gabriel Cirtea Sails is a Javascript framework designed to resemble the MVC architecture from frameworks like Ruby on Rails. It makes the process of building Node.js apps easier, especially APIs, single page apps and realtime features, like chat. Installation To install Sails, it is quite simple. The prerequisites are to have Node.js installed […]
By Rey Bango Mobile web development is tough especially when you’re trying to offer native-like experiences to users. Several years ago, a small company called Nitobi took on the effort of simplifying building native mobile apps using traditional web development skills. Ambitious and sometimes controversial, the effort known as PhoneGap grew out of this need […]
By Simon Owen Setting up a new machine can often be an exciting prospect. However, as developers, there are a lot of tools we need that don’t come as standard. In this post, I’d like to go through some of the techniques I use to help set up my machine quickly, efficiently and with added […]