Learn how to AJAXify your Comment Forms

Learn how to AJAXify Comment Forms

Nov 6th in Screencasts by Jeffrey Way
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In this week’s video tutorial, I’ll teach you how to take a simple, boring contact form and add some animations and an AJAX post request to submit the form to your MySQL database asynchronously.

In addition, we’ll also implement a bit of server and client-side validation to better secure our data. When submitting to the database, we’ll also review the most secure methods, including the use of prepared statements, which will bind the necessary values to each query, rather than embed them.

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Book Review: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development

Book Review: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development

Nov 6th in Reviews by Fred Wu
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If you are looking into buying a book to learn about Zend Framework, chances are you are already set on using Zend Framework to build your next project. Today, we will be looking at Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development by Keith Pope, published by Packt Publishing.

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Inside the Mind of ThemeForest's Top Selling Author

Inside the Mind of ThemeForest’s Top Selling Author

Nov 5th in Interviews by Jeffrey Way
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Kriesi is ThemeForest’s top selling author; he, last month, broke the record of most sales in a single month, across all of the Envato marketplaces! It’s even more shocking when we consider the fact that he’s only 27 years old!

In this interview, we’ll dive into his work process, and hopefully steal some tips and inspiration!

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Create a Contact Manager

Create a Contact Manager – New Plus Tutorial

Nov 5th in Plus by Connor Zwick
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In this three-part series – in depth tutorials + two hour screencast – we’ll be creating a contact manager using jQuery and CodeIgniter. As more and more applications are moving towards the hive, web developers & designers alike are required to learn more and more about how to design “desktopesque” projects.

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Build a Simple Password Strength Checker

Build a Simple Password Strength Checker

Nov 4th in JavaScript & AJAX by Siddharth
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Providing instant feedback is the in-thing right now. Why limit yourself to checking usernames and email addresses? Why not extend this to provide quick visual feedback about the strength of the password the user has input? Today, we’ll take a look at how to create a simple password strength checker using the jQuery library, regular expressions and a simple algorithm.

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ASP.NET from Scratch : Lesson 1

ASP.NET from Scratch: Lesson 1

Nov 3rd in Screencasts by Jeremy McPeak
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Nettuts+ is primarily a PHP haven; however, I’m sure we can all agree that there are many fantastic, and technically more powerful languages and frameworks at our disposal. Jeremy McPeak, author of Professional AJAX, and Beginning JavaScript: 4th Edition, will teach you how to build ASP.NET applications from scratch over the course of the next several video tutorials. Enjoy!

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Google Releases Chrome 4 Beta

Google Releases Chrome 4 Beta

Nov 3rd in News by Jeffrey Way
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It’s amazing to see version four of a browser which has only been available for a little over a year. Compare that to Firefox, which took over six years to reach 3.6. Perhaps it’s just super smart marketing, or perhaps Chrome is putting an enormous amount of energy into the browser wars.

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Building your First ExpressionEngine Plugin

Building your First ExpressionEngine Plugin

Nov 2nd in CMSs by Erik Reagan
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No matter how awesome a CMS is, there will be times when you are required to meet a specific need that simply doesn’t work out of the box. Here we will explore creating Plugins for ExpressionEngine to meet such needs.

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Win the New Apple Magic Mouse

Win the New Apple Magic Mouse

Oct 31st in News by Jeffrey Way
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Across all of the TUTS sites, we’re starting a new weekly giveaway! This means that you should check Nettuts+ every Friday to potentially win a prize related to web development: anything from a new book, to a code editor, to Apple’s new magic mouse – which we’re giving away today!

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How to Build a Content Slider jQuery Plugin

How to Build a Simple Content Slider jQuery Plugin

Oct 30th in Screencasts by Jeffrey Way
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I was recently asked by a reader to recommend a helpful content slider plugin. No doubt, there are a bunch of excellent options available — some which are, perhaps, too excellent! With so much flexibility comes extra weight; especially when sometimes you only need a simple slide or fade transition.

So I figured, why not build a simple custom plugin that will get the job done?

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