An Introduction to MySQL 5: Views

Nettuts+ 2 July 2010 15:07
The MySQL 5 series introduced quite a few changes. Triggers and stored procedures were two of the big ticket items. One of the lesser known additions, at least from the amount of writing on the subject, is the introduction of views. While after a quick look at MySQL views, you might not see the obvious [...]

Profiling MySQL Queries with phpMyAdmin: New Premium Tutorial

Nettuts+ 1 July 2010 14:07
I’ve used phpMyAdmin for over a decade. In my early years with the tool, I simply needed something that could show me table structure and quickly give me the data inside. As my needs have grown, so have the tools included with phpMyAdmin which keeps me coming back as my primary MySQL tool, even with [...]

The Best of Tuts+ – June 2010

Nettuts+ 1 July 2010 13:07
June was a stellar month for Tuts+. Mobiletuts+ had recently launched and started off with some great iPhone and Andriod development tutorials. Creative Sessions focused on Digital Illustration this month and started gearing up for July’s Interface Design session. During June a survey was run across all of Tuts+ to give our readers the opportunity [...]

CodeIgniter from Scratch: Security

Nettuts+ 30 June 2010 15:06
In this fourteenth episode of the series, our subject is ‘Security.’ We will go over topics such as: password encryption, message encoding/decoding, XSS filtering, output filtering, sql injection, session security, private controller methods and more. Catch Up Day 1: Getting Started With the Framework Day 2: Database Selecting Methods Day 3: Sending Emails Day 4: [...]

Ask Nettuts #1: Callbacks, LESS, and Floats

Nettuts+ 29 June 2010 20:06
Today marks the first entry in a new “Ask Nettuts” series. I’m often emailed concerning various web development related questions. Though some are more specific than others, many of these, I’m sure, would appeal to all of our readers. As such, each week or so, we’ll post a new batch of question and answers from [...]

15 Wildly Convenient CSS Items from CodeCanyon

Nettuts+ 28 June 2010 21:06
In addition to Premium WordPress Plugin, we, over at CodeCanyon, also recently launched a CSS category, specifically made for high quality, and super convenient items, such as three-level menus, CSS tabs, pricing grids, frameworks, etc. I’d like to show you a quick sampling of the best of what we have so far, after a couple [...]

Flexible, Mobile-First Layouts with CSS3

Nettuts+ 28 June 2010 16:06
Some experts are projecting mobile devices to become the dominant medium for web browsing within five years, overtaking browsing on desktop computers. Regardless of how accurate this projection turns out to be, it is clear that formatting websites for mobile-friendly viewing needs to become a staple of web design and development. There are many ways [...]

How to Build a Beautiful Calendar Widget: New Premium Tutorial

Nettuts+ 25 June 2010 18:06
In today’s premium tutorial and screencast, I’m going to show you how to build a slick calendar widget. We’ll using CSS3 to give it a shiny look and feel, and then add some pretty neat functionality with JavaScript. Become a Premium member today to see this and many other tutorials!

How to Integrate an Options Page into your WordPress Theme

Nettuts+ 25 June 2010 17:06
Creating themes to give away or sell is great, but not everyone who uses your theme will have a solid understanding of HTML/CSS. Providing your theme with an options page makes it easier for non-technical users to make theme changes without getting their hands dirty with code. I’ll show you how to make one from [...]

Quick Tip: You Need to Check out LESS.js

Nettuts+ 24 June 2010 17:06
You might be familiar with such services as LESS and Sass. They allow for far more flexibility when creating your stylesheets, including the use of variables, operators, mix-ins, even nested selectors. However, because LESS was originally built with Ruby, a lot of PHP developers, despite the fact that there are PHP versions available, never used [...]