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Introducing Nettuts+ Builder – Version 2
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Introducing Nettuts+ Builder – Version 2

We’re pleased to announce the release of Version 2 of Nettuts+ Builder, a Mac app that handles the process of concatenating and compressing your assets, optimizing your CSS by running it through Prefixr.com, and uploading to your FTP server.

How to Create an Alfred Extension
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How to Create an Alfred Extension

Today, I’m going to teach you how to build a plugin for the popular Mac productivity application, Alfred, with PHP. As you’ll find, it’s a lot easier than you might expect! Even better, this allows us to extend Alfred to provide any additional functionality that we require.

New Initiative: Nettuts+ Apps

New Initiative: Nettuts+ Apps

Have you ever been working on a coding project, and thought to yourself, “There must be an easy way to automate this repetitive task.”? I know I have! That’s why, here at Nettuts+, we’ve begun an initiative to release desktop apps that are tailor-made for web developers.

“Structurer Pro” for Premium Members
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“Structurer Pro” for Premium Members

Today, exclusive to our Premium members, we’re pleased to released the best version yet of Structurer: Structurer Pro. Not only have we implemented commonly requested features, such as export and import options, but we’ve also added a new “menu” option, which will allow you to create your directory and file structures with maximum speed and efficiency.

Free Mac Utility App: Structurer

Free Mac Utility App: Structurer

At the end of 2010, we released an exclusive Mac utility app, called Structurer. This app allows you to rapidly create file/folder structures for your new projects. Less than a month later, the developer, Cesar Tessarin, is back with a much improved version which now provides support for template creation, as well as assigning custom content automatically to newly created files. It’s fantastic, and, even better, 100% free to all of our readers!

Speed up your Workflow in the Terminal: New Premium Tutorial
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Speed up your Workflow in the Terminal: New Premium Tutorial

The terminal is great, especially for web development, but typing out long, obscure commands and directories deep in the filesystem can get tedious. Aliases and functions allow you to create short, memorable names for commands you type all the time. In this Premium video tutorial, we will learn how to create and use both of these to speed up your command line workflow.

Sign up for Tuts+ Premium to view this tutorial, as well as hundreds of other advanced tutorials and screencasts.

Quick Tip: First Look at the “Git Tower” GUI
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Quick Tip: First Look at the “Git Tower” GUI

Newly available in Public Beta (currently), Git Tower is a Mac app, built in Cocoa, that provides a GUI for working with the Git version control system. One of the most frequently asked questions on Nettuts+ is, “What’s the best GUI for working with Git?” It’s no wonder: Git can be incredibly confusing at first. In today’s video quick tip, we’ll take a first look at this new app.

20 Excellent Coda Tips

20 Excellent Coda Tips

I’ve been using Coda for a while now, and it’s become my web development application of choice. There are quite a few great web development applications out there (read “18 Wonderful IDEs for Windows, Mac, and Linux“) but if you’re a Mac user, Coda is easily one of the best.

Here are 20 excellent Coda tips to increase productivity that I’ve gathered during my use of Coda so far.

Quick Tip: A Fast Overview of Querious (MySQL Manager)
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Quick Tip: A Fast Overview of Querious (MySQL Manager)

In today’s video quick tip, we’ll have a quick (not sponsored) overview of a Mac database manager for MySQL that I came across yesterday, called Querious. As I mention in the screencast, I particularly like this one, because it just works — without being too complicated or overwhelming in the way that PHPMyAdmin might be for some.

One Developer’s Switch from PC to Mac

One Developer’s Switch from PC to Mac

If you’ve watched/read my latest tutorial and screencast, you may have noticed a change: I’ve switched from Windows to Mac. If you’re curious about this change, wonder no more. I’ll tell you why I made the change and give you some reasons you might consider switching, as well as what trip-ups you might run into in the process.

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