The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week No. 52 (April 6 - 12, 2013)

We offer to your attention another selection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.
By the way, today marks exactly one year since the post of our first digest on Habré. Thank you so far for reading us, thank you for still continuing this business :)

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"Mars-3" found!

Thanks to the efforts of enthusiasts from the group VKontakte Curiosity_live , parts of the old Soviet station Mars-3, launched in 1971, were found on the surface of Mars on photos of Mars. A large portion of the details in the author's article "How we searched for Mars-3"

Google glass is coming

Google has begun to form a third-party support fund for the Glass platform, Google Glass XXX : the “18+” industry is looking at a new device, which is not surprising, since everyone can do the Google Glass program . By the way, now you will not be put in prison if you come to Ukraine with this device . But five places in which Google Glass is already banned.

Github 5 years

Congratulations to github on the fifth anniversary . Of the achievements during this time - 3.5 million users, 6 million repositories . At the same time we offer to familiarize with Resources for studying Git and GitHub

We improve search and indexing in search engines

Here are some important tips in the helpful article "How to use rel = canonical for successful indexing in Google search." In addition, there is a new way to use the rel = alternate hreflang = x attribute for the main pages of such sites, which is supported by both Google and Yandex . By the way, they write here that Google is much more secure than alternative search engines.

Best Open Source Projects of the Year

We offer you a list of winners according to .netmagazine.com , which combined projects such as Firefox OS, Bootstrap, Conditionizr and others most likely familiar to you.

CSS preprocessors

Some fresh materials on sabzh: Statistics on the use of preprocessors on CodePen, Why does Sass scare you? , 8 Compass Extensions You Could Not Know About , as well as a fresh presentation on "Defensive Sass - Modular styles for the modern web"

Parallax

Refreshing knowledge about trend technology: Using parallax to visually interest and surprise a site visitor , 10 tips for creating a site with parallax effects . And those who are too lazy to read articles, but I want to look at an animated creative, may look at the appropriate section of awwwards.com .

Development

• Video recording from the conference Forum Technologies from mail.ru, held this week
• Video recordings of reports from WebCamp 2012 and WebCamp 2013 announcement
• Aggregation of all best practices applicable to the development of forms on the web based on native technologies
• Details on changes in Bootstrap 3
• How to use rel = "canonical" for successful indexing in Google search
• A new way to use the attribute rel = ”alternate” hreflang = ”x” for the main pages of such sites, which is supported by both Google and Yandex .
• Resources for learning Git and GitHub
• .net Awards 2013: Best Open Source Projects of the Year
• Daily Open Web Platform Digest
• How to automatically reduce the size of images using WebP
• Terrific - an interesting approach to the modular organization of the project structure
• Improved mobile support with responsive design on the server side
• WYSIWYG and WYSIWYM Editors
• Developer Tools Update in Firefox 22
• URLs for people, not computers
• How to post a bug in the Bugzilla system
• Introduction to Model-driven Views (MDV) - Dynamic HTML to HTML
• Using simple HTML5 field types

CSS

• Tips and tricks for preparing styles for printing
• CSS transformation and animation lesson
• CSS FRONTEND FRAMEWORKS - a collection of the best static frameworks with a description and comparison
• bluePen - a powerful visual online style editor
• CodePen preprocessor usage statistics
• Can we get rid of gradient prefixes?
• csscss - style redundancy analyzer
• autoprefixer - presets only for properties based on the Can I use knowledge base, or with additional filtering by browser version and its market share.
• FESS - anti-style minifiers
• Body Border, Rounded Inside
• Advanced cross browser flexbox
• How to benefit from CSS Generated Content and Counters
• Media Queries Within SVG
• Responsive Web App UI with CSS Regions
• CSS Regions and Exclusions in Mobile Browsers
• Improving the efficiency of Sass & Compass
• Fresh presentation on "Defensive Sass - Modular styles for the modern web"
• Why are you scared of Sass?
• 8 extensions for Compass, which you might not know
• Em baseline generator
• Implementing nth-child for rogue browsers
• We work with an adaptive framework Gumby
• Why it’s not possible to create an alternate <select> element on CSS
• Logo on the site as a symbol of your own iconic web font

Javascripts

• The javaScript classList API is the perfect way to add, remove, switch, and test element classes
• JavaScript hyperspace
• Responsive Nav - stand-alone library for creating adaptive navigation
• jswiki - This wiki indexes libraries and resources available for javascript
• Javascript refresh
• Detecting touch : it's the 'why', not the 'how'
• Events related to ambient lighting and their definition using JS
• Horwheel Component - horizontal scrolling with mouse wheel
• Resemble.js - analyze and compare images using canvas
• jQuery plugins to support placeholders in text fields of forms
• A selection of jQuery plugins to create graphical guides on the page
• Sieve jQuery Plugin - search by any html elements
• Materials on Angular.js
• Karma - Spectacular Test Runner for JavaScript
• SourceMaps library support
• Short interview with Dmitry Baranovsky in .net magazine

Browsers

• Start of beta testing of Firefox 21 and creation of aurora-branch Firefox 22
• Mozilla project introduced WebPayment API for making payments on the Web
• In 10 weeks, the Chrome browser will be released based on the Blink engine.
• Google's Blink Q & A (Video)
• A brief translation from Bullshit to English Google's Blink Developer FAQ
• Blink vs. WebKit : Google’s new browser engine will not affect anything
• IE11 - what we know at the moment and what to expect
• Helm - browser concept
• Saw the light of WebKitGTK + 2.0.0, switched to WebKit2 technology

news

• Congratulations to github on the fifth anniversary ! Of the achievements during this time - " 3.5 million users, 6 million repositories "
• NASA: VKontakte users really found Mars-3!
• How we looked for Mars 3
• Google News:
  
  • Google launched a service that allows you to keep accounts after the death of the owner
  • Google wanted the search-free domain
  • Google play updated
  • The first photos of the Google Babel web interface have appeared
  • Google Web Fonts will show third-party fonts.
  
  
• Changes in Mozilla Corp's management team , removal of the blink tag from Firefox and Persona update
• As North Korea declared that because of Windows 8, they did not launch a rocket or April 1 all year round.
• Zuckerberg officially announced the creation of a political movement
• People stop buying PCs: the laptop and desktop market has experienced a record decline
• Yandex Tips have become trilingual
• Manufacturers and devices statistics on Windows Phone: Nokia in the lead
• Microsoft Surface RT came to Russia . In just 4 days, only 300 Microsoft Surface tablets were sold in Russia.
• 4K high resolution is coming:
  Intel announced a new-generation data interface called Thunderbolt,
  Sony announced a set-top box and video distribution service for working with 4K content,
  Introduced the Phantom Flex4K camera with support for 4K video recording at 1000 frames / s.
  
• Vine is already the most popular free app on the US App Store.
• Twitter launches its own music service

Services

• generatedpaper - generator of printed blanks
• Niice - search engine with good taste for designers

Demo

• Spirograph on canvas
• Skycons - animated weather icons
• Google Street View Hyperlapse
• Project Windstorm - a three-dimensional landscape created using WebGL technology
• Pure CSS Tunnel Effect

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• .net Awards 2013: Best Online Portfolio
• deletingborders.com - a site that allows you to create your mini-composition on the main page
• rleonardi.com - site portfolio, full of parallax effects
• coffeesurfing.illy.org - a site with a non-standard approach to navigation
• sputnikcreative.com is another navigation technology.
• boomset.com - scroll effect and animated character
• collectiwe.it - non-standard geometry in design, in a slider and in scroll effects

Design

• Down with responsive design
• THE MODERN RUSSIAN DESIGN official trailer
• Adaptive navigation for a mobile site - possible solutions
• Concept of animated interfaces , as well as their practical implementation
• Interview with illustrator Yustas
• Using parallax to visually interest and surprise a site visitor
• 10 tips on creating a site with parallax effects
• A Brief History of Graphic Design
• Sketches for responsive design
• Lively discussion of the redesign of the Save icon
• The concept of hierarchy in typography
• Everything I know about design I learned by playing Starcraft.
• Eight lessons on usability testing on mobile devices
• Patterns for Windows Phone
• The use of icons
• Setting universal hotkeys in Photoshop + Photoshop CS6 Cheat Sheet
• Converting Photoshop Layer Styles to CSS3 with the CSS Hat Plugin

A selection of free designer cookies

• Sets of free social icons
• Retro Vectors
• Textures: paper in watercolor
• Icons: Icon set Web Icon Mega Bundle 500, with AI and PNG icons in sizes 32, 64 and 128px , Metrize - a set of three hundred icons in the style of the metro or windows 8 , sets with social icons, mainly vector and single-color , wine glasses
• UI components: Web sources UI components from the depths of dribbble , Many sets of Web UI with PSD sources , Flat Braun UI
• Fonts: Two and a half dozen pixel fonts

Entertaining

• Interview with Vitaly Friedman , co-founder of Smashing Magazine (Runetology)
• Apple or pear?
• Android history in infographics
• Geek glasses:
  
  • Program for Google Glass can make everyone
  • The largest venture funds will invest in apps for Google Glass
  • Google Glass XXX : the industry "18+" looks at the new device
  • The SBU decided not to punish the purchase of Google Glass
  • Five places in which Google Glass is already banned
  
  
• The creators of "Tlenta" and "VTlena" about decay and hopelessness in new media
• Chromium developers write stories
• Funny shots from Google Street View
• What Will Be After 3D: Plenoptic Video
• Comparing e-commerce markets in Ukraine, Russia, USA and Europe
• Google declared the war "patent troll"
• How powerful are smartphones compared to PCs?
• Gorilla Glass - hard to break, hard to scratch
• Yandex is testing the application management interface using gestures
• Boston Dynamics showed a functioning robot Petman dressed in a protective suit
• NASA plans to catch asteroids and send astronauts to them

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Digest from last week .
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin