1. CSS
  2. Flash
  3. HTML
  4. Illustrator
  5. Java
  6. JavaScript
  7. Maya
  8. Photography
  9. Photoshop
  10. PHP
  11. Ruby
  12. Ruby on Rails
  13. 3ds Max

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You've stumbled on the little blog for Good-Tutorials. These posts are penned by Zach Holman. This blog is a good way to stay current on newest features on Good-Tutorials. If you want to hear some of the inside scoop behind development or catch some sneak peeks at new features, you might be interested in following @holman on Twitter.


Maya Tutorials + Moving Forward

Posted by Zach Holman about 1 year ago — 5 comments

Today we welcome Maya tutorials to the site. Requests for support of Autodesk's Maya have always seemed to flow in more than some others, and I think it will be a pretty good complement to topics like Photoshop and 3ds Max.

It's becoming increasingly less of a secret over the last few weeks and months that I'm hard at work with gtv6. It'll be the second version of Good-Tutorials built with Ruby on Rails, and let's just say there's plenty to clean up, refine, and add. New layout, new code (for the most part), lots of new features.

If you're interested in hearing more about development, I occasionally drop hints and requests for feedback over Twitter... you can find me at twitter.com/holman. Feel free to follow me if you have an account. If you have any comments or suggestions in the meantime and you're too lazy to create a Twitter account, feel free to post a comment on this blog or shoot me an email.


Regarding JavaScript alerts

Posted by Zach Holman about 1 year ago — 1 comment

Some of you might have been hit with a JavaScript alert box on every page load at Good-Tutorials for about twenty minutes this afternoon or so. It had a really stupid message in it.

Long story short, it wasn't my doing, but it was my responsibility. The alerts came from Snaptalent, a startup that was running the job ads on the sidebar the last day or two. They tossed the code into their JavaScript include, but it's still my responsibility that such mind-boggling annoyance isn't on the site. As such, I've removed their ads from Good-Tutorials and you won't see this problem again.

In other news, there'll likely be a few additions and announcements this week—new topics added, vague talk about the next version, and so on. Stay tuned. :)


Multiple machine logins

Posted by Zach Holman about 1 year ago — 1 comment

Just to keep you up to date on new developments at Good-Tutorials... if any of you were having problems staying logged-in to your account, you'll probably see that working as intended now. Previously logins were effectively tied to machines, so if you hit "remember me" on your laptop and logged in on your desktop, your desktop would log out the laptop. This won't be the case from now on, so if you have multiple machines (or phones or other devices) you should be able to stay logged in as intended.

I'll be back with more updates in a bit. :)


Promoting Photography

Posted by Zach Holman about 1 year ago — 4 comments

"Photography" was a relative newcomer to the Photoshop section on Good-Tutorials. It's a good chance that if you're a Photographer, you probably use Photoshop too, after all.

Since then, we've expanded from just Photoshop to a number of different topics. Photography has always been a bit neglected by being cordoned off under Photoshop. That's no longer the case; we've just moved those tutorials into their very own Photography section. Right now everything is filed away under the category of "basics", so bear with us while we go in and reevaluate each Photography tutorial and move them into their proper new categories.

In the meantime... if you have any suggestions for what you'd like to see next, sound off in the comments. Have a good one!


Good-Tutorials goes Java

Posted by Zach Holman about 1 year ago — 5 comments

As sunjester mentioned in a previous post a few days ago, it's been awhile since we've added new sections to Good-Tutorials. It's true; we've been vamping on the same basic topics for awhile, so we're adding a new topic today: Java Tutorials.

For those of you who have been around for awhile, you might recall that Good-Tutorials ran on Java for a good year and a half or two, so we're happy to have the language on Good-Tutorials now. More sections will be on the way; post a comment or shoot me an email (zach@) if you have any specific suggestions on what you'd like to see next on Good-Tutorials.