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Using JavaScript’s Prototype with MVC

James Baker — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:01:41 +0000

In this article, we will review the process of using JavaScript, from an MVC-based perspective, to manipulate the DOM. More specifically, we’ll engineer our JavaScript objects, their properties and methods, and their instantiations parallel to the intended behavior of our Views (what the user sees). Consider Your Views As Objects, Not As Pages At any [...]

Easy Script Loading with yepnope.js

Nikola Malich — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:00:34 +0000

Officially released by Alex Sexton and Ralph Holzmann in late February of 2011, the yepnope.js resource loader features asynchronous, conditional loading and preloading of both JavaScript and CSS resources. This makes managing dependant, conditional code a breeze. This nifty resource loader, which is only 1.6KB minified and gzipped, is now bundled with Modernizer and is [...]

Turbocharge Your Website With Memcached

Nicolas Sebban — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:49:19 +0000

Your latest PHP/MySQL website is finally online. And it’s awesome. But it’s not as fast as you want it to be, because of the many SQL queries running every time a page is generated. And above that, you have the feeling it will not scale well under heavy loads. And you are most likely right. [...]

JavaScript Testing From Scratch: New on Premium

Andrew Burgess — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:30:53 +0000

This likely isn’t the first tutorial on testing that you’ve ever seen. But perhaps you’ve had your doubts about testing, and never took the time to read them. After all, it can seem like extra work for no reason. This tutorial (with screencasts) intends to change your views. We’re going to start at the very [...]

Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

David Appleyard — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:37:09 +0000

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 [...]

Learn jQuery in 30 Days

Jeffrey Way — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:47:14 +0000

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 [...]

Recently in Web Development (January ’12 Edition)

Siddharth — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:37:02 +0000

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 [...]

Writing an API Wrapper in Ruby with TDD

Claudio Ortolina — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:18:32 +0000

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 [...]

24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development

Siddharth — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:38:56 +0000

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 [...]

Why you Should be using PHP’s PDO for Database Access

Erik Wurzer — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:04:40 +0000

Many PHP programmers learned how to access databases by using either the MySQL or MySQLi extensions. As of PHP 5.1, there’s a better way. PHP Data Objects (PDO) provide methods for prepared statements and working with objects that will make you far more productive! PDO Introduction “PDO – PHP Data Objects – is a database [...]