Do You Exclusively Use <code>webkit</code> Prefixes?

Do You Exclusively Use webkit Prefixes?

Jeffrey Way on Feb 10th 2012 with 60 comments

You’ve undoubtedly read about the vendor prefix web development drama of the week. If not, the W3C mailing lists have been on fire ever since it was discussed (and essentially announced) that Microsoft, Opera, and Firefox will begin to adopt and style webkit-prefixed properties. One of the reasons behind this decision is that we developers aren’t being responsible when coding our stylesheets; we’re applying too many webkit-specific properties, without considering other browsers.

Upon hearing this, I was left thinking to myself: is this really true?

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Using JavaScript’s Prototype with MVC

Using JavaScript’s Prototype with MVC

James Baker on Feb 9th 2012 with 19 comments

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).

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Easy Script Loading with yepnope.js

Easy Script Loading with yepnope.js

Nikola Malich on Feb 8th 2012 with 28 comments

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.

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Turbocharge Your Website With Memcached

Turbocharge Your Website With Memcached

Nicolas Sebban on Feb 6th 2012 with 24 comments

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.

In this tutorial, we will see how you can greatly improve your website’s responsiveness, and help it scale to handle many simultaneous visitors, by implementing a cache layer between your code and your database. The good news is it is fairly easy, and can be done in a few minutes!

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JavaScript Testing From Scratch: New on Premium
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JavaScript Testing From Scratch: New on Premium

Andrew Burgess on Feb 5th 2012 with 4 comments

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 beginning: what is testing and why should you do it? Then, we’ll talk briefly about writing testable code, before actually, you know, doing some testing! Let’s get to it.

Become a Premium member to read this tutorial/screencast, as well as hundreds of other advanced tutorials and screencasts from the Tuts+ network.

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Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

David Appleyard on Feb 2nd 2012 with 3 comments

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!

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Learn jQuery in 30 Days

Learn jQuery in 30 Days

Jeffrey Way on Jan 31st 2012 with 117 comments

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 help you become a jQuery pro – and it’s free!

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Recently in Web Development (January ’12 Edition)

Recently in Web Development (January ’12 Edition)

Siddharth on Jan 30th 2012 with 20 comments

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 industry in a concise package. Join me after the jump for an extra dose of community content this month!

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Writing an API Wrapper in Ruby with TDD

Writing an API Wrapper in Ruby with TDD

Claudio Ortolina on Jan 28th 2012 with 14 comments

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 experience network issues and data inconsistencies (the API results may change). Let’s review how we can avoid all of this effort with Ruby.

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24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development

24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development

Siddharth on Jan 26th 2012 with 17 comments

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 others that handle issues at a much lower level. Start using these and watch your productivity shoot through the roof!

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