We’re planning our next few Tuts+ sites, and would love your opinion and advice on which topics you think we should cover next! We’d be really grateful if you could take a minute to answer our quick poll and share your thoughts… Have Your Say Nettuts+ Readers: Which Tuts+ Site Should We Launch Next? We’ve been considering lots of different ideas for our next Tuts+ sites over the past few weeks, and wanted to also ask the opinion of our awesome community! A selection of different concepts are included in the poll to the right, along with the option for you to submit your...
Read MoreOver the course of these last two weeks, I had the pleasure of attending an Envato meetup/conference in Malaysia. As you might expect, Envato is composed of ridiculously smart and talented folks…folks so smart that it quickly becomes intimidating! But I’m not here to talk about the conference specifically; instead, I’d prefer to ramble a bit on one of my largest takeaways from the event. The Old-Fashioned “Path” One day during the conference, I had a chat with Envato’s current (temporary) lead development manager, Pete, about the traditional concept of advancement in a company. In many ways, we’re designed/brainwashed from...
Read MoreWeb 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! News and Releases All of the important news in a single place: releases, announcements, companies bickering, security issues and all related hoopla. The Infamous Semi-Colon Debate Ahh, JavaScript. I think it has caused...
Read MoreWeb 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! News and Releases All of the important news in a single place: releases, announcements, companies bickering, security issues and all related hoopla. The Infamous Semi-Colon Debate Ahh, JavaScript. I think it has caused...
Read MoreModern JavaScript libraries are quite the behemoths — just take a look at jQuery. When you’re creating a mobile app, or even just targeting modern browsers, a library that’s much more svelte and nimble becomes a tastier proposition. Today, we’re going to look at one such library, named Zepto. The Issue With Mixing Desktop Libraries and Mobile Devices One thing that has snuck past most radars has been the rise of mobile devices. See, the internet, and the technology that powers it, has grown in leaps and bounds over the past years. We moved from static sites to web applications to dynamic web applications...
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