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Win a Ticket to Our New Tuts+ Live Workshop

Joel Bankhead — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:30:15 +0000

We have 5 tickets to give away for our newest Tuts+ Live Workshop, all you have to do is subscribe to our newsletter. Be quick though, this giveaway ends on Monday! We have a superb new Workshop, Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development, starting in a week. This is your chance to win a free ticket! [...]

Cargo-Culting in JavaScript

James Padolsey — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:04:57 +0000

Cargo-cult programming is what a programmer does when he or she doesn't know a particular language or paradigm well enough, and so ends up writing redundant and possibly harmful code. It rears its head quite often in the land of JavaScript. In this article, I explore the concept of cargo-cult programming and places to watch [...]

Laravel 4: A Start at a RESTful API (Updated)

Chris Fidao — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:07 +0000

RESTful API's are hard! There are a lot of aspects to designing and writing a successful one. For instance, some of the topics that you may find yourself handling include authentication, hypermedia/HATEOS, versioning, rate limits, and content negotiation. Rather than tackling all of these concepts, however, let's instead focus on the basics of REST. We'll [...]

The Right Way to Retinafy Your Websites

Allan Berger — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:55:30 +0000

Making your website ready for Retina display doesn’t have to be a hassle. Whether you are building a new website or upgrading an existing one, this guide is designed to help you get the job done smoothly. Make it Retina First The easiest and most time-saving way to add Retina support is to create one [...]

How to Create a PyroCMS Theme

Zac Vineyard — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:33 +0000

Like most content management systems, PyroCMS uses front-end themes. Though PyroCMS themes are built a bit differently than what you might be used to from other systems, they’re still quite easy to create. They’re so easy, in fact, that very little PHP experience is required to assemble them! The Folder Structure PyroCMS themes consist of [...]

The Linux Firewall

Patkos Csaba — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:00:48 +0000

There are several firewall applications for Linux, but what you may not realize is that, at the heart of all these programs is a single all-mighty application that is built right into the Linux Kernel: iptables. This is the Linux firewall. No matter which program you use to configure your firewall under Linux, it ultimately [...]

Tuts+ Premium Cash Back Offer: 3 Days to Go

Joel Bankhead — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:00:56 +0000

This offer ends soon! Act now and don’t miss out on cash back when trying a monthly Tuts+ Premium subscription. At $19 a month, Tuts+ Premium is fantastic value. But it’s even better when we hand your first $19 right back to you! For a limited time, we’re offering $19 cash back to new Tuts+ [...]

How to Write Testable and Maintainable Code in PHP

Chris Fidao — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:08:11 +0000

Frameworks provide a tool for rapid application development, but often accrue technical debt as rapidly as they allow you to create functionality. Technical debt is created when maintainability isn't a purposeful focus of the developer. Future changes and debugging become costly, due to a lack of unit testing and structure. Here's how to begin structuring [...]

Real Time Chat With NodeJS, Socket.io and ExpressJS

Krasimir Tsonev — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:57:14 +0000

NodeJS gives me the ability to write back-end code in one of my favorite languages: JavaScript. It's the perfect technology for building real time applications. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to build a web chat application, using ExpressJS and Socket.io. Setup Environment Of course, the first thing to do is get NodeJS installed [...]

Mass Assignment, Rails, and You

Arun Srinivasan — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:00:20 +0000

Early in 2012, a developer, named Egor Homakov, took advantage of a security hole at Github (a Rails app) to gain commit access to the Rails project. His intent was mostly to point out a common security issue with many Rails apps that results from a feature, known as mass assignment (and did so rather [...]