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NETTUTS: The Fundamentals of Bash Scripting
Shell scripts are widely used in the UNIX world. They’re excellent for speeding up repetitive tasks and simplifying complex execution logic. They can be as simple as a set of commands, or they can...
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NETTUTS: Just Released: Laravel Testing Decoded
After months of effort, I’m proud to announce the release of my new book, Laravel Testing Decoded! It’s my hope that you won’t find a better, more approachable resource for learning the ins and outs of...
View ArticleCSS-Tricks: Grids with text-align: justify
Patrick Kunka demos how fluid grids can be created with percentage widths and justified text. I like it because you don't need to think about gutter calculations which is what really complicates grids....
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NETTUTS: From Zero to Hello World in Scala
Scala is one of the most attractive programming languages out right now. There is a lot of hype around it and programmers world-wide are publicly recognizing it as the possible next big thing in...
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NETTUTS: Creating a Multi-Page Site with Meteor
As with any web application, creating multi-page sites requires a specialized set of tools. In this article, we’ll take a look at developing a library that not only can differentiate between the...
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NETTUTS: Whoops! PHP Errors for Cool Kids
Whoops is a small library, available as a Composer package, that helps you handle errors and exceptions across your PHP projects.Out of the box, you get a sleek, intuitive and informative error page...
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CSS-Tricks: A Couple of Use Cases for Calc()
calc() is a native CSS way to do simple math right in CSS as a replacement for any length value (or pretty much any number value). It has four simple math operators: add (+), subtract (-), multiply...
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NETTUTS: Parallel Testing for PHPUnit with ParaTest
PHPUnit has hinted at parallelism since 2007, but, in the meantime, our tests continue to run slowly. Time is money, right? ParaTest is a tool that sits on top of PHPUnit and allows you to run tests in...
View ArticleCSS-Tricks: Using requestAnimationFrame
There used to be just one way to do a timed loop in JavaScript: setInterval(). If you needed to repeat something pretty fast (but not as-fast-as-absolutely-possible like a for loop), you'd use that....
View ArticleCSS-Tricks: Build a motion activated security camera, with WebRTC, canvas and...
John Allsop uses an old iMac and the browser to snap a picture through a web cam and then email it when it detects movement.Direct Link to Article— PermalinkNeed a new look for your portfolio? Check...
View ArticleCSS-Tricks: The “When Can I Use” Web Widget
A script from Andi Smith that injects a chart of browser support with live data from Can I Use... I really like the idea of using it on any web tech blog post - so the information about feature support...
View ArticleCSS-Tricks: Request Quest
Jake Archibald put together an interesting and informative quiz about when browsers actually make requests. I learned a bunch. Some of it might seem like quirky academic knowledge but we all know how...
View ArticleCSS-Tricks: picnicc
A new tool by Alex Duloz to help create custom builds of popular libraries and frameworks. Alex made builders for Twitter Bootstrap, underscore.js, HTML5BP and inuit.css - but it can be used to create...
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CSS-Tricks: Pizza Time Hovers
Hover MaesterJenn Lukas sent me a link to PizzaTime.com. We agreed that 1) those are some pretty neat hovers! and 2) it's pretty cool that there is a quality website at all at a domain like...
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NETTUTS: What Are You Using?
We spend a lot of time following the thought leaders in web development, in many cases using the tools and libraries they’ve built, reading the posts they’ve written, articulating cool techniques...
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CSS-Tricks: Crop Top
The following is a guest post by Parker Bennett where he explores some different ways to approach the behavior of fluid and responsive images.Sometimes you want an image to resize responsively but...
View ArticleCSS-Tricks: Hitch
It's kinda like a preprocessor (variables, prefixing...) but it can do much more because it's JavaScript that executes on your page. For instance, it can give you a has selector which can test if an...
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NETTUTS: Working With Data in Sails.js
Sails.js is an up and coming Node.js framework, with a focus on freedom and smart defaults. In this article we’ll take a look at some of the data features Sails provides out-of-the-box, for easily...
View ArticleCSS-Tricks: IE 10 Specific Styles
Conditional comments are gone in IE 10. That's good. IE 10 is a very good browser. Feature detection is a better way to go in nearly all cases. But what if you find some styling situation where you...
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NETTUTS: Intro to Flask: Signing In and Out
Many web applications require users to sign in and out in order to perform important tasks (like administration duties). In this article, we’ll create an authentication system for our application.In...
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