Archive for September, 2010
X base
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
It can take a number represented in a numeric base and convert it to the representation in a different base.
Currently it supports numeric bases between 2 and 72.
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Introducing our Top Selling Author on the Tuts+ Marketplace: Jeffrey Way
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
As many of you know, Tuts+ recently launched a marketplace where people can buy and sell tutorials. One of the main purposes of the Tuts+ Marketplace is to open up a platform for independent authors to sell their tutorials. To our great delight, one of the first people to make the most of this opportunity is Jeffrey Way, your editor here at Nettuts+. Jeffrey is selling 16 tutorials on the Tuts+ Marketplace, and has 774 sales as of this writing. Pretty impressive!
In his spare time – something we didn’t know he had any of! – Jeffrey has created a hugely popular 11-part video series on Object-Oriented Programming in PHP. This series is available exclusively on the Tuts+ Marketplace. It has a perfect 5 star rating after 50 ratings, and has been purchased 433 times.
Exclusive 11-part Video Series by Jeffrey Way:
Object-Oriented Programming in PHP
Click here to learn more about what you will learn in the series.
Remember that this content is exclusive to the Tuts+ Marketplace – it will not be released as part of the Premium subscription program.
Also Exclusive to the Tuts+ Marketplace:
How to Code a Custom HTML5 Video Player
Other Tutorials by Jeffrey Way:
CSS: Noob to Ninja
Your First Client Project
Tumblr Theme Design, Start to Finish
Integrating PHP and jQuery: Video Tutorial
How to Create a Slider to Zoom Photos
Combining Modern CSS3 and HTML5 Techniques
CRUD With Prepared Statements
Working With Advanced 3D CSS
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Read arguments
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

It can parse the values of arguments passed to a PHP script started from a command line shell to validate them according to rules defined by the current script.
It supports mandatory arguments, optional arguments, switch arguments, multiple alternatives to an option switches, and a special argument that makes show a nicely formatted help usage message.
The class extract the argument values into an array if the argument rules are validated.
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[Free] New Free CD/DVD Burning Software: Create or Copy a CD or DVD
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Do you want to save data to a CD or DVD, create your own audio CD, or even copy a CD or DVD? Check out the latest addition to the Free CD and DVD Burners and Copying Software page. This new computer program can also record an ISO file to a CD or DVD. Even if you don't fancy this particular program, there are now 13 free DVD / CD mastering software listed on that page that you can choose from, some with a huge plethora of features.
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WordPress for iPhone/iPad v2.6 Released
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Attention Apple-gadget-owning WordPress users! Have you been using the WordPress iOS app for iPhone and iPad? Or maybe you tried it a while back and thought it wasn’t for you? Either way, the new release — v2.6 — will knock your socks off. Why? A bunch of reasons:
- Video. Record, upload, attach, and play videos within the app. Yay for being able to catch your friends’ and co-workers’ most
embarrassing shenaniganscreative moments with iPhone video and publish them immediately for all the world to see on your WordPress site. - A total rewrite of the way local drafts are handled, to prevent the unintentional loss of your pending posts.
- Autosave/post revisions. Bam! One of the “oh, thank goodness” features of the web app makes it into the iOS version.
- Easier setup. Faster and easier process for adding your sites to the app.
- Media Library. We’re gradually getting closer to the media management you’re used to in the web app.
There are also numerous bugfixes and performance enhancements in this release, so if you haven’t been using the app lately, you should consider giving it another try. I’m personally pretty excited to start using the iPhone version more often now that there are all these fixes and new features. Especially the video upload. You know, for those creative moments that make life fun.
You can read the full 2.6 release post on the WordPress for iOS blog, and can download v2.6 from iTunes/the app store. Happy mobile blogging!
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Not an iPhone user? We’ve still got your on-the-go back! Check out the WordPress apps for Android, Blackberry, and Nokia (beta). They’re all 100% GPL, of course, and we’re always looking for contributors to the development projects, so check the blogs if you have mobile dev skills and want to get involved.
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Writing Modular JavaScript: New Premium Tutorial
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
When writing an entire web application in JavaScript, it’s very important to have well-organized code; maintaining a spaghetti-coded project will only cause you headaches and nightmares. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to modularize your code to make it easier to manage large JavaScript projects.
Become a Premium member to read this tutorial, as well as hundreds of other advanced tutorials and screencasts.
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For those unfamiliar, the family of Tuts+ sites runs a premium membership service. For $9 per month, you gain access to exclusive premium tutorials, screencasts, and freebies from Nettuts+, Psdtuts+, Aetuts+, Audiotuts+, Vectortuts+, and CgTuts+ For the price of a pizza, you’ll learn from some of the best minds in the business. Become a Premium member to read this tutorial, as well as hundreds of other advanced tutorials and screencasts.
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ASP.NET from Scratch: Routing in MVC
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
In today’s episode of ASP.NET from Scratch, we’ll look into URL routing in the MVC framework, and examine how a request can be routed to a controller and action method. You’ll learn how to use constraints to gain better control over your routers, and also discuss best practices in adding routes to the route table.
The Complete Series
- Lesson 1: Getting Started
- Lesson 2: Improving an Email Form
- Lesson 3: Class Inheritance
- Lesson 4: SQL Server
- Lesson 5: Master Pages
- Lesson 6: MVC
- Lesson 7: Routing in MVC
Sell ASP.NET Components on CodeCanyon
Did you know that you can sell your ASP.NET scripts and components on CodeCanyon? Simply sign-up for a free author account, and start selling!
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Updated: Who Needs University? The Best Nettuts+ Screencast Training Courses
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Education is expensive…very expensive! But, luckily, 95% of the tutorials and courses on Nettuts+ are free! And, should you require more training, a Tuts+ premium subscription is extremely cheap, at only $9 per month. Alternatively, you can purchase a wide selection of screencasts, eBooks, and tutorials on the Tuts+ marketplace. Whether you’re hoping to learn jQuery, WordPress, CSS, Tumblr, ASP.NET, PHP, CodeIgniter, or JavaScript, we’ve got you covered!
1. Diving Into PHP
Just as with the “jQuery for Absolute Beginners” series, you’ll start from scratch and slowly work your way up to some more advanced PHP topics; this is another incredible series that first aired on the ThemeForest Blog.
The Complete Series
- Diving into PHP: Day 1: Installation
- Diving into PHP: Day 2: Variables
- Diving into PHP: Day 3: Passing Values From Page to Page
- Diving into PHP: Day 4: Multiple Variables and the “foreach” Statement
- Diving into PHP: Day 5: Refactoring, Arrays, and Functions – Oh My!
- Diving into PHP: Day 6: Including Files
- Diving into PHP: Day 7: Regular Expressions
- Diving into PHP: Day 8: Strings
- Diving into PHP: Day 9: First-Time Visitors
- Diving into PHP: Day 10: Getting Started With MySql
- Diving into PHP: Day 11: SQL Insert Statements
- Diving into PHP: Day 12: The File System
- Diving into PHP: Day 13: Uploading Files
- Diving into PHP: Day 14: OOP
- Diving into PHP: Day 15: Calculator Class
- Diving into PHP: Day 16: Database Abstraction Class
2. Magento for Designers
Magento is a stunningly powerful e-commerce platform. In celebration of ThemeForest’s new Magento category, this mini-series will you teach how to get started with the platform: you’ll get to know the terminologies and learn how to set up a store and all related aspects of it; finally you’ll learn how to customize it to make it your very own.
The Complete Series
- Magento for Designers: Part 1: Installation and Setup
- Magento for Designers: Part 2: Products, Taxes, Categories, Payment Gateways, etc.
- Magento for Designers: Part 3: Theming
- Magento for Designers: Part 4: Building the Theme
- Magento for Designers: Part 5: Building the Product Information Page
- Magento for Designers: Part 6: Building the Home Page, with a Content Slider
- Part 7: The Fabled Multi-Store Functionality
3. JavaScript from Null
Thanks to the wide adoption of libraries like jQuery and Mootools, JavaScript’s popularity has skyrocketed in the last few years. However, in the process, an interesting thing occurred: many newer developers are learning these libraries without taking the time to actually learn about raw JavaScript techniques. What percentage of jQuery users don’t know how to fade out an element with only raw JS? My guess is that it’s much higher than many would think.
If you want to truly understand the library you’re working with, and improve your skill-set, it’s vital that you learn the fundamentals of raw JavaScript. And this series will teach you what you need to know!
The Complete Series
- JavaScript from Null: Chapter 1: Hello World
- JavaScript from Null: Chapter 2: Data Types
- JavaScript from Null: Chapter 3: Conditional Statements
- JavaScript from Null: Chapter 4: Arrays, Functions, and your First Animation
- JavaScript from Null: Chapter 5: Events
- JavaScript from Null: Chapter 6: Cross-Browser Event Binding
4. Tumblr Theme Design – Start to Finish (Premium or Tuts+ Marketplace)
Tumblr’s popularity over the last year has increased exponentially. The reason why is quite simple: Tumblr is flexible, powerful, and, most importantly, a pleasure to work with. Unfortunately, there aren’t many training resources available for the platform yet. In this video series, we’ll go through the process of taking a Tumblr theme, designed in Photoshop, and converting it into a fully working theme – in just a few hours.
The Complete Series
If you’re not already a Nettuts+ Premium member, you’ll want to sign up to get this course. You can view an introduction to it here.
Alternatively, you can purchase this series on the Tuts+ marketplace.
- Chapter 1: Intro
- Chapter 2: Slicing the Design
- Chapter 3: Creating the Markup and Adding the Tumblr Template Tags
- Chapter 4: Adding the CSS
- Chapter 5: Configuration Options
- Chapter 6: @Font-Face and Custom Fonts
- Chapter 7: Slide-out Panel – HTML and CSS
- Chapter 8: Slide-out Panel – jQuery
5. CodeIgniter from Scratch
After numerous requests, we launched a new screencast series on Nettuts+ that will focus exclusively on the CodeIgniter PHP framework. Over the course of 15 videos (so far!), you’ll learn how to use this framework.
The Complete Series
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 1: Getting Started With the Framework
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 2: Database Selecting Methods
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 3: Sending Emails
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 4: Newsletter Signup
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 5: CRUD
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 6: Login
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 7: Pagination
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 8: AJAX
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 9: File Uploading and Image Manipulation
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 10: The Calendar Library
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 11: File and Directory Operations
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 12: Shopping Cart
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 13: Extending the Framework
- CodeIgniter from Scratch: Day 14: Security
- CodeIgniter for Scratch: Day 15: Profiling, Benchmarking & Hooks
- Day 16: Displaying & Sorting Tabular Data
6. Regular Expressions for Dummies
If there’s one topic that most people agree is difficult to get into, it’s regular expressions. But fear not: you’ll get comfortable using this sometimes-confusing technology with these five screencasts.
The Complete Series
You can see the whole series here, and this is what you’ll get:
- Lesson 1: Introduction
- Lesson 2: Matching
- Lesson 3: Validating Email Addresses
- Lesson 4: JavaScript and “Replace”
- Lesson 5: Preg_match_all and Scraping Data
7. CSS: Noob to Ninja (Premium or Tuts+ Marketplace)
This exclusive premium video series will take you from a state of absolute CSS “noobness,” all the way up to ninja-status, capable of taking advantage of the latest CSS3 techniques. The series begins with the basics: the syntax, properties, etc. However, each new video expands upon the previous, as you work your way up and improve your skills.
The Complete Series
This series is for Premium members, but if you aren’t familiar with CSS, there’s no better way to learn! Get it here!
Alternatively, you can purchase this series on the Tuts+ marketplace.
- Part 1: Preparation
- Part 2: CSS Properties
- Part 3: Typography
- Part 4: Floats
- Part 5: Positioning
- Part 6: Semantics, List Items, and Menus
- Part 7: CSS Organizational Techniques
- Part 8: Rounded Corners, Box Shadows, and Text Shadows
- Part 9: CSS3 Gradients
- Part 10: Custom Fonts with @font-face
- Part 11: Taking Advantage of CSS Frameworks
- Part 12: Extending CSS with LESS
8. jQuery for Absolute Beginners
So, everywhere you look, you see “jQuery this” and “jQuery that.” For the last year or so, this library has been the darling of the JavaScript world. But do you feel that you just can’t seem to learn the dang thing? Do you hate how the existing tutorials assume that you know WAY more than you actually do? If this rings true for you, I can help: check out the jQuery for absolute beginners series that first showed on the old ThemeForest Blog, and has since joined the Nettuts’ arsenal.
The Complete Series
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 1
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 2
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 3
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 4
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 5
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 6
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 7
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 8
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 9
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 10
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 11
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 12
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 13
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 14
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 15: Part 1
- jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 15: Part 2
9. WordPress for Designers
If you want to get into the WordPress community, we’ve got a great way to start: the WordPress for Designers series, from the old Themeforest Blog. You’ll learn everything from installing the platform to slicing a PSD file and turning it into a complete theme.
The Complete Series
- Day 1: Installation
- Day 2: The Admin Panel
- Day 3: Creating a Theme from Scratch
- Day 4: The WordPress Loop
- Day 5: The Sidebar
- Day 6: Single Pages
- Day 7: Widgetize!
- Day 8: Comments
- Day 9: Tweaking the Comments
- Day 10: Your First Plugin
- Day 11: PSD Slicking
- Day 12: PSD Slicing
- Day 13: Theme Coding
- Day 14: Home Page
- Day 15: jQuery Slider
- Day 16: Custom Fields
- Day 17: jQuery Slider
- Day 18: Creating an AJAX Contact Form
10. The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Design and Converting it to HTML and CSS

This was a multi-part series across the Tuts+ sites, which demonstrated how to build a beautiful home page for a fictional business. We learned how to create the wireframe on Vectortuts+; we added color, textures, and effects on Psdtuts+; and we took our completed PSD, and converted it into a nicely coded HTML and CSS website.
The Complete Series
- Part 1: Build a Promotional iPhone App Website Wireframe in Fireworks
- Part 2: Create a Promotional iPhone App Site in Photoshop
- Part 3: Converting Our Design to a Nicely Coded HTML and CSS Website
11. ASP.NET from Scratch

Nettuts+ is primarily a PHP haven; however, I’m sure we can all agree that there are many fantastic, and technically more powerful languages and frameworks at our disposal. Jeremy McPeak, author of Professional AJAX, and Beginning JavaScript: 4th Edition, will teach you how to build ASP.NET applications from scratch over the course of the next several video tutorials. Enjoy!
The Series Thus Far
- Lesson 1: Getting Started
- Lesson 2: Improving an Email Form
- Lesson 3: Class Inheritance
- Lesson 4: SQL Server
- Lesson 5: Master Pages
- Lesson 6: MVC
- Lesson 7: Routing in MVC
12. Become a Master of Object-Oriented Programming in PHP (Tuts+ Marketplace)
Though not free, this in depth video series, split into three parts ($3 per set), we’ll demonstrate exactly how to get up and running with OOP techniques. And more importantly, we’ll focus on a real world application, rather than confusing unrelated metaphors.
The Full Series
- Chapter 1 - Introduction and OOP First Steps
- Chapter 2 – What are Objects and Classes. What’s the relationship between the two.
- Chapter 3 – How to Perfectly Document your Code with DocBlocks
- Chapter 4 - What is Encapsulation
- Chapter 5 – The Static Keyword
- Chapter 6 – Inheritance / Creating Child Classes
- Chapter 7 – Building a MySQL Wrapper Class (Parts 1 and 2)
- Chapter 8, 9, 10, 11 – Building a MySQL DB Class from Scratch
13. Dissecting jQuery

Sporadically, over the course of each month, we’ll post a “Dissecting jQuery” video quick tip. The idea behind these is that we’ll take a single chunk of the jQuery source at a time, break it down, and determine exactly what’s going on under the hood, so to speak. Then, with that knowledge, we’ll learn how to better utilize the library in our coding. Today, we’ll review filters.
The Series Thus Far
You’ll be a Pro in No Time!
Well, now you’re well on your way to becoming a well-trained web developer. What’s your favorite tutorial here on Nettuts+? Let us know in the comments!
If you enjoyed these screencasts over the last year or so, and would like to give back to Nettuts+, please do consider signing up for a Premium Tuts+ subscription. In addition to helping us out, you’ll gain access to source files, extra advanced tutorials and video series, and freebies…from all of the Tuts+ sites!
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Chat Galactic
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
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