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Uploading Files with AJAX

Uploading Files with AJAX

I can’t seem to reach the end of the fun stuff you can do with emerging web technologies. Today, I’m going to show you how to do something that—until the last while—has been almost unprecedented: uploading files via AJAX.

Oh, sure, there have been hacks; but if you’re like me, and feel dirty every time you type iframe, you’re going to like this a lot. Join me after the jump!

How to Build a Social News Feed with PHP: New on Premium
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How to Build a Social News Feed with PHP: New on Premium

There are numerous ways to display Twitter and Facebook posts on your website, but many of them lack the ability to customize the look and feel of that information. This Premium tutorial screencast will demonstrate how to retrieve the raw data from both social media giants and combine them into one feed to use on your website.

Become a Premium member to read this tutorial, as well as hundreds of other advanced tutorials and screencasts.

Python from Scratch – Functions and Modules

Python from Scratch – Functions and Modules

Welcome back to the Python from Scratch series. In the previous lesson, we learned how to use variables and control structures to store and manipulate data. Be sure to review it if you need a refresher!


This entry is part 3 of 5 in the Python from Scratch Session
How to Create a jQuery Image Cropping Plugin from Scratch – Part I

How to Create a jQuery Image Cropping Plugin from Scratch – Part I

Web applications need to provide easy-to-use solutions for uploading and manipulating rich content. This process can create difficulties for some users who have minimal photo editing skills. Cropping is one of the most used photo manipulation techniques, and this step-by-step tutorial will cover the entire development process of an image cropping plug-in for the jQuery JavaScript library.

How to Build a Shortlink App with Ruby and Redis

How to Build a Shortlink App with Ruby and Redis

In this tutorial, we’ll be building a quick shortlink web app with Ruby, the Sinatra web framework, and the Redis database. By the conclusion of this tutorial, you’ll end up with a dead simple, high performance shortlink webapp that’s super easy to scale.

Build Communication Apps with Twilio: New Premium Tutorial
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Build Communication Apps with Twilio: New Premium Tutorial

In this two-part Premium tutorial, we’re going to cover Twilio, a web service that allows you to integrate web applications with telecommunications. This is neat because you can use a phone to access your web app, or even your web app to access phones!

Become a Premium member to read this tutorial, as well as hundreds of other advanced tutorials and screencasts.

How to Submit a Form with Control + Enter
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How to Submit a Form with Control + Enter

You’ve probably seen it on Twitter, Google+, or Facebook. You’ve got a text box, where you write your status/message and then click a button to submit it. But, if you’re lazy like me, you don’t like to switch to the mouse to click the button. These services help us out by allowing us to press control + enter to submit. Let’s recreate this scenario for our own projects.

28 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know
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28 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know

Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published in August, 2010.

This industry moves fast — really fast! If you’re not careful, you’ll be left in its dust. So, if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed with the coming changes/updates in HTML5, use this as a primer of the things you must know.


This entry is part 2 of 14 in the HTML5 and You Session
Generating Traditional URLs with ASP.NET MVC3

Generating Traditional URLs with ASP.NET MVC3

There are certain truths in the world: we’re born, we die, and URLs should end with a slash if it doesn’t point to a file. The ASP.NET MVC framework bucks tradition and convention, and the built-in methods that generate URLs do so by omitting the trailing slash. It may seem like a non-issue (and to many people it’s not one), but many developers, this author included, are bugged by them.

Ruby for Newbies: Missing Methods
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Ruby for Newbies: Missing Methods

Ruby is a one of the most popular languages used on the web. We’re running a Session here on Nettuts+ that will introduce you to Ruby, as well as the great frameworks and tools that go along with Ruby development. In this episode, we’re going to look at the too-cool-to-be-true way that Ruby objects deal with methods that don’t exist.


This entry is part 12 of 13 in the Ruby for Newbies Session
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