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In my previous article, we covered some of HTTP’s basics, such as the URL scheme, status codes and request/response headers. With that as our foundation, we will look at the finer aspects of HTTP, like connection handling, authentication and HT...
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Writing shell scripts is very much like programming. Some scripts require little time investment; whereas, other complex scripts may require thought, planning and a larger commitment. From this perspective, it makes sense to take a test-driven approa...
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Writing shell scripts can be rather daunting, primarily because the shell isn't the most friendly of languages to use. However, I hope to show you in this tutorial that shell scripting is actually not as tough or as scary as you might expect.For ...
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How of many of you remember Compuserve? What about Prodigy? I'm asking because, back in the good ‘ole days, they were popular services that allowed you to communicate with other people from all over the world. In many cases, they offered co...
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In a previous lesson here on Nettuts+, you learn about PSR; however, that article didn’t detail the process of integrating that coding style into your projects. Let’s fix that!Note: this article assumes that you’ve read PSR-Huh?, an...
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HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It’s a stateless, application-layer protocol for communicating between distributed systems, and is the foundation of the modern web. As a web developer, we all must have a strong understanding of thi...
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A common argument against using preprocessors, like Sass, is that they introduce too much complexity, and are difficult to get started with. Especially today, though, this couldn’t be further from the truth. In this episode, I’ll demonst...
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In this tutorial, we’ll review the process of better integrating Sass debugging into our workflow with Chrome Developer Tools.Introduction – SassSass stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets; think of it as an extension to vanilla CSS...
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Not too long ago, I built a handful of generators for Laravel, which ease the process of various tasks. Today, thanks to help from Gaurav Narula, we’re turning things up a notch with the release of a new Sublime Text plugin that leverages the p...
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Web apps can be split into two major components: a front-end that displays and collects information, and a back-end for storing the information. In this article, I’ll demonstrate what a relational database is, and how to properly design your da...
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