After years of speculation and anticipation, Panic is ready to unveil and release version two of their flagship product: Coda. Though the Nettuts+ team hasn’t yet dug into the editor, based upon the outline on the home page, Panic seems to have come through with the most requested additions by the community, including: Proper code folding New UI Improved CSS support (along with an integrated, real-time CSS editor) Built-in MySQL editor Auto-completion for custom classes and methods Portable Coda Air Preview (use your iPad as a dedicated live preview while coding) Improved clippings with multiple stop points, and keyboard shortcuts Refer to the tour video on the Panic homepage...
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Read MoreThere are dozens of JavaScript testing frameworks, but most of them function in, more or less, the same way. However, Douglas Crockford’s JSCheck is considerably different from most. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how it’s different and why you should consider using it! Crockford describes JSCheck as a “specification-driven testing tool. Crockford describes JSCheck as a “specification-driven testing tool.” When using the frameworks you’re used to, you would write a test for a given piece of functionality, and, if that test passes, declare that the given functionality is working correctly. However, it’s possible that you might miss some of edge cases...
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Read MoreAs Tuts+ Premium continues to sky-rocket, our ability to post better, more frequent, content has improved dramatically as well. This week, we have a variety of fun new things available to members! Course – How To Be A Terminal Pro In this fifteen-episode course, you’ll learn how to take advantage of that scary app you never touch: Terminal! We’ll begin with the obligatory “hello world” command, and work our way up to advanced usage. Course – JavaScript Testing With Jasmine Admit it: you say that you test your JavaScript, but, in reality, you…don’t. That’s okay; the idea of testing JavaScript is a relatively...
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