The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week No. 25 (September 29 - October 5, 2012)

We offer to your attention another selection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.

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Yandex news

October 1 was held Yet Another Conference, where Yandex presented its own browser and an Android application store . In addition, Yandex.Probki learned short-term forecasting .

Microsoft's typeScript

Large companies often offer new languages ​​with developed tools. Microsoft at first glance offers the most convenient way to extend JavaScript, but how effective will it be in practice?

Apple executives

After tons of negative reviews about new maps in iOS6, Apple CEO Tim Cook made the right decision by writing an official letter explaining the situation. Meanwhile, today is the anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs, with whose name many products of the company continue to be associated. Also, today in Odessa , the monument was opened, "Thank you, Steve"

Mark Zuckerberg went to Moscow

The founder of Facebook went to Moscow , reviving interest both to his own person and the network from the side of Runet and the media, and the interest of Western companies to programmers on this side of the ocean. After this trip on the Internet you can find a lot of videos with him as an entertaining character, and a little more serious performances at the Hackathon and at Moscow State University.

Microsoft.com radical redesign

The company from Redmond is taking consecutive steps towards a radical change of image and revolution of interfaces. The company's redesigned tiled style and responsive design is the best announcement for the upcoming release of Windows 8.

Draw with box-shadow

As it often happens in the layout, the next css-property was used a little for the wrong purpose. Several services appeared ( picssel-art and Any Image to CSS converter ) that allow you to convert the image into css-code based on the box-shadow property. As an example, you can look at Mona Lisa .

Modern Front End Developer Toolkit

There are a lot of tools that modern Front End developers use. Some companies have recommendations on the use of external services and a whole package of solutions developed in-house. Therefore, the published collection, available for all tools and solutions, is undoubtedly of great interest!

Development

• Google has updated the Webmaster Guide
• Official site TypeScript and explanation of the new language from Microsoft . Views about TypeScript by: Douglas Crockford , Scott Hanselman
• Top Validation Errors
• CSS3 vs jQuery Animations
• Adobe® Edge Web Fonts Documentation
• New tutsplus tutorial: Chrome Dev Tools: Markup and Style
• Tips Chrome DevTools
• JQuery Mobile 1.2.0 Final Announcement
• A large collection of themes for PhpStorm
• BootMetro - another metro-style framework
• Weather component on site using CSS, jQuery and PHP
• pythontutor - Python tutor
• Joomla version 3 released with Bootstrap
• On the problems of loading large images and responsive design
• Brackets Presentation
• A bundle of positive about the development of the web by Christian Heilmann
• Presentation of “Responsive web design from the future”
• The current state of remote debugging of web applications in mobile devices from Addy Osmani
• Excellent collection of useful tools and resources for Front End Developer

CSS

• Monumental work from the creators of css-live.ru - Inline formatting context
• CSScomb: Sorting CSS Properties, The Better Way
• CSS Filter Effects
• Getting started with custom CSS filters
• Any Image to CSS converter . Convert css code to image using box-shadow
• Mona Lisa on pure CSS
• Get acquainted with new CSS properties for building layouts.
• Twitter Bootstrap in the style of Windows 8
• Debugging Sass in Webkit Browsers

Javascripts

• jQuery has updated its documentation: stage.api.jquery.com/ , stage.learn.jquery.com/ajax/
• ReView.js - js library for defining a dynamic viewport under adaptive design
• Tiny Circleslider - a small plugin to create a circular merry-go-round on jQuery

Browsers

• Presentation Yandeks.Brouser
• Yandex Browser
• A few more detailed reviews of Yandex. Browser - one and two
• We are waiting for the new Firefox interface in the 19th version
• The web installer appeared in Firefox
• How to download the Firefox browser in Windows without launching Internet Explorer
• How Qihoo 360 won the browser war in China
• html5-benchmark - another benchmark for browsers

news

• How Zuckerberg came to Moscow , plus a selection of videos
• Android Developers: ICS and Jelly Bean hit a quarter of Android devices
• Mozilla Persona has moved to beta testing.
• Microsoft introduced TypeScript, a new open source JavaScript alternative.
• Bootstrap is separated from Twitter
• Yandex launches Android app store , as well as an interview on what, why and why
• Yandex.Maps have learned how to predict traffic jams , how it works
• From January 1, Ukraine will begin to introduce electronic passports
• Google will pay for the Ukrainian startup more than $ 30 million , Motorola Mobility confirmed
• 30 years old cd
• The next cleaning services from Google
• Apple's Ping social network is officially closed
• 25% of Americans own tablets
• Microsoft will launch news service based on MSN
• Facebook introduced the service of real gifts

Demo

• Animated CSS3 image shapes
• Microservice for drawing using CSS3 box-shadow pixel images
• Convert any image to CSS code
• Crazy 3D car configurator on Three.js

Services

• tinypng.org will compress the PNG to the desired limits.
• RetinaCapture smarter screenshot capturing on Retina Macs

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• alessandrabalzani.it - themed portfolio website with animations
• serialcut.com/extrabold/#/the-book/home - a site that demonstrates how to advertise books on the Internet
• hipstamatic.com - advanced site Hipstamatika
• creative9.com - nice design in the style of space shooter and JS-animation
• conspiracy.it - collection of women's shoes with a nice model configurator
• tunisianawebawards.com - custom geometry and challenging JS-animation
• consumerbarometer.com - CONSUMER BAROMETER + Google = interactive statistics on consumer behavior in countries around the world using SVG

Design

• Back to the Future. Windows 8 logo history
• The history of creating a new Microsoft.com
• Logo concept for the developed system Persona from Mozilla
• Popular typography trends in web design
• Designing for Mobile, Part 1: Information Architecture
• About how Abelardo Gonzalez designer with his free font OpenDyslexic helps people who are dyslexic
• More than a hundred retro beer posters
• Infographics about anatomy of infographics
• Parodies of the most famous logos
• Six dozen logos with good work with forms and flowers

A selection of free designer cookies

• Some wood textures
• Funny food page template of a culinary site.
• Five dozen UI components for mobile and web applications in PSD format
• Set of 120 monochrome icons in png, psd, csh formats
• A bag of vector icons with a hunting-themed theme
• A dozen useful fonts, from Infinity to CARTON
• Pictonic - an icon font with a free version including 230 pieces, subject: browsers, programming, social networks, OS and databases
• A huge package of icons for android in vector photoshop format
• 20 photos of young people with a cut out background in PNG format
• Ten brushes for Halloween per tweet
• A small selection of fresh decorative fonts: 400ml Type , Alt Matey v2 , Beams , Pathway , and Civita Light serif font

Entertaining

• Android imperfections: what's not clear to Jelly Bean
• Paul Allen on Windows 8: elegant, innovative and perplexing
• Comics, which will be especially liked by layout designers.
• Tim Cook apologizes for new maps in iOS
• Problems with maps in iOS 6 did not affect the sales of iPhone 5
• Mars rover Curiosity "check in" on Mars on Foursquare
• Mark Zuckerberg visiting Ivan Urgant (video)
• Glavred Hopes & Fears wrote a book about Pavel Durov and VKontakte
• Video of the day: Nokia collapsed in advertising the Lumia 920 on the boring colors of the iPhone 5
• KittyDar - the service that defines catface on the photo

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