As the web platform has matured, the tools for managing our projects, too, have matured. In this tutorial, I’ll introduce you to one of these tools that makes managing the dependencies of your project considerably easier: Bower. When I first looked into Bower, I wasn’t exactly sure how it fit in: it wasn’t just a JavaScript package manager, like Jam, and it wasn’t a module loader, like RequireJS.

We've raved about the brilliance of Heroku before, mostly around the fact that it makes launching a Rails or Node app rather simple without having to configure your own server. But what if you want the same kind of freedom and speed of deployment with PHP? Fortunately, Heroku has quietly offered support for PHP for quite some time. Make Sure You Have the Heroku Toolbelt For Heroku deployment, you

I'm pleased to announce that my newest course on Tuts+ Premium is out...and free to everyone! I have a confession: I'm a code editor addict, and have tried them all! I was an early adopter of Coda, a TextMate advocate, even a Vim convert. But all of that changed when I discovered Sublime Text 2, the best code editor available today. I'll demonstrate what I consider to be the perfect workflow. In t

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In this article, we will learn how to create a flat file blog engine in PHP using the Slim framework. If you don't understand the jargon, don't worry. We're simply going to create a spartan blogging application, which utilizes text files instead of a database to store data. If you're a beginner, fret not! We will start with the basics of using Slim. Let's get started after the jump! Introduction S

Laravel is a clean and classy framework for PHP web development. Freeing you from spaghetti code, it helps you create wonderful applications, using simple, expressive syntax. Development should be a creative experience that you enjoy, not something that is painful. Enjoy the fresh air! Laravel is a web application framework that describes itself as “A Framework For Web Artisans”. According to its

When you define a function within JavaScript, it comes with a few pre-defined properties; one of these is the illusive prototype. In this article, I'll detail what it is, and why you should use it in your projects. What is Prototype? The prototype property is initially an empty object, and can have members added to it - as you would any other object.

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 and interesting discussions within the web development indus

In addition to producing various helpful apps for web developers, in 2012, we'll also be commissioning and releasing smaller plugins and extensions. Today, I'd like to announce the first entry in this initiative: "Nettuts+ Fetch" - a Sublime Text plugin. The 20 Second Example The Dilemma Let's say that you're a fan of Normalize.css. Perhaps, you download it and save it to a snippet, or store the s

Do you want to spice up your web applications by making them real-time — but don't want to create new infrastructures for the sole purpose of getting web sockets to work? In this article, we'll explore how to use and implement Pusher, an HTML5 WebSocket-powered real-time messaging service for your applications. Introduction What Are WebSockets? According to the WebSocket Wikipedia page, WebSocket

As JavaScript developers, we have quite crazy requirements. The playing field is in a state of constant flux and one of the best ways to keep up is interacting with other developers and reading their code. Blogs, such as the one you're reading, are a perfect amalgamation of these two activities. Today, I'd like to bring your attention to a number of blogs written by pretty well versed developers,

Until you've spent at least a month working every day with the editor, you'll undoubtedly hate it! This is specifically why the majority of newcomers will play around with Vim for a day, become disgusted, and never touch it again. What's unfortunate is that, if these developers could get beyond the pitfalls, they'd be introduced to incredible speed and flexibility. 1. There's Too Many Modes It's t

As English speakers, our minds are geared toward interpreting data and text from left-to-right. However, as it turns out, many of the modern JavaScript selector engines (jQuery, YUI 3, NWMatcher), and the native querySelectorAll, parse selector strings from right to left. It's important to note that, more often than not, you don't need to worry about selector performance too much -- as long as you