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The Whens and Whys for PHP Design Patterns

By Patkos Csaba There are plenty of articles that explain what design patterns are, and how to implement them; the web doesn’t need yet another one of those articles! Instead, in this article, we will more discuss the when and why, rather than the which and how. I’ll present different situations and use-cases for patterns, […]

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Windows Apps for Web Developers

By Rey Bango When the editor of Nettuts+ requested an article to show Windows developers love by listing popular web development apps, I was all over it. OSX devs get a lot of attention, so it’s good to mix things up a bit. What I want to do is list the development tools that I […]

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Streamline your Process with Volo

By Gabriel Manricks Front-end developers face a variety of challenges when creating sites that have repetitive solutions. All sites use a similar DOM skeleton, as well as many common features and attributes. Volo aims to remove some of the effort out of the process, allowing developers to focus on the new aspects of a project, […]

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Check Out the New Recommended Resources on Nettuts+

By Sean Hodge We’ve added a new page to the site, which will help coders grab top quality software, tools and gear. It’s filled with our favorite resources that we recommend for developers. You can jump straight over to our Recommended Resources page here on Nettuts+ or read on for further information.   Hand Picked […]

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Headless Functional Testing with Selenium and PhantomJS

By Denis Sokolov Let’s build a system for performing functional tests on web applications, using Selenium and PhantomJS. The resulting system will allow us to write easy test scenarios in JavaScript, and test those scenarios both in real browsers and a headless simulator.   Choosing Components The obvious downside to Selenium is that it requires […]

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The Command Line is Your Best Friend

By Patkos Csaba The command line can either be your best friend, or your worst enemy. It simply depends on how you use it, and what you use it for. If you’re one of the many people who cringe at the mere thought of using the command line, then you’ve come to the right place! […]

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Best of Tuts+ in February 2013

By Joel Bankhead 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 […]

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Active Record: The Rails Database Bridge

By Andrew Burgess In the past, to build a web application, you required the skills to code in your business logic language and your database language. More recently, however, back-end frameworks are leaning toward using Object-Relational Mapping (ORM); this is a technique that lets you manage your database in the business logic language that you’re […]

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Team Collaboration with Github

By Sayanee Basu Github has become the corner stone for all things open source software. Developers love it, collaborate on it and are constantly building awesome projects through it. Apart from hosting our code, Github’s main attraction is using it as a collaborative tool. In this tutorial, let’s explore some of the most useful Github […]

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Your One-Stop Guide to Laravel Commands

By Jason Lewis In this day and age, it’s quite normal for a developer to have an understanding of consoles, and how to issue basic commands. But what if you could code your own custom commands to improve your workflow? If we look back to Laravel 3, you might remember that it offered tasks. Tasks […]