The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of IT and web development for the last week No. 55 (May 27 - 5, 2013)

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

Hot seven

UFO: case history

In the geek community, the topic of aliens has always occupied a far from last place, and words such as Zone 51 and Roswell even now spark a special light in the eyes of those who are trying to find out the truth, “which is somewhere nearby.” The reasons and roots of this faith can be found in this article.

Try this

All your friends are already actively using Git, and you still have little idea what it is? Code School will help solve this problem in 15 minutes by offering a free course on Git. If you are not interested in this topic, but you want to learn one of the most popular static frameworks, TryFoundation can offer you a tutorial with interactive lessons and projects on the ZURB Foundation.

Bootstrap

The most popular framework does not lose popularity. Just look at the number of resources, tools, editors, and other good in this collection , as well as a few hundred resources in this structured collection.

Webp

If you see this word for the first time, then it 's time to familiarize yourself with this project , which has every chance of becoming the main graphic formats on the web in the near future. And Facebook has already started to try it on the sly.

And again Google Glass

with Google Glass on your head, you can take a shower, a new application for Google Glass allows you to send photos in the form of tweets, future glasses work on the 2011 chip , a photo gallery with pictures of lucky owners of miracle glasses, details on the Google Glass user interface (video) , a two-week review Google Glass : everything will depend on the price. And yes - Eric Schmidt is right to use Google Glass creepy

iForum 2013

Last week, the largest-scale conference of Ukrainian Internet leaders took place. This year the conference was attended by more than 7,000 people, more than 50 of the largest Internet companies placed their stands, and a large number of domestic startups were also represented. One could listen to such figures as Igor Ashmanov , Alexander Olshansky , Eldar Murtazin , Grigory Bakunov , Anton Nosik and many others. Plus, a short event report.

Joke of the month

Game Dev Tycoon game developers made fun of the pirates by putting them in their place through gameplay. The situation is original, instructive, but extremely rare in the industry.

Web development

• Mobile web development: gestures, frameworks, numbers
• Customization of scrollbars in the browser : a compromise between html, css, js technologies and usability
• Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 Released
• Webmaster video from Yandex
• Easily create diagrams with jQuery and HTML5
• Native audio and video support in WordPress 3.6
• Hot in web standards march / april 2013
• How to use HTML5 audio (part 2)
• Editr - HTML, CSS, JS playground
• HTML differences from HTML4
• Bootstrap: Toolbox for Bootstrap (components, utilities, plugins, generators), as well as another huge collection of resources
• How to typeset headings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines
• Image Sprites VS Web Icon Fonts
• lite.launchlist.net - another checklist to check if everything is OK before launching the site
• noBackend - a new approach to building small web applications
• TryFoundation - tutorial with interactive lessons and projects on the ZURB Foundation
• tryGit - start learning Git from a free course
• Turning a web application into the Firefox OS App in 5 minutes
• Nine ways to optimize the front end
• In Chrome, DevTools added a touch cursor when emulating touch events
• Turbulenz engine (HTML5, WebGL) made Open Source
• Mix HTML pages inside your WebGL
• 3D Inset Parallax Effect
• Fixed Background Scrolling Layout
• Adaptive vertical timeline
• Structure - the minimum set of Sass / Compass to start a project with an adaptive design
• The best fonts that can be used in the editor for programming

CSS

• Rotated text
• Basic presentation on CSS selectors (Select This! CSS Selectors)
• CSS properties that can be animated with their browser support
• Defensive HTML and CSS
• Star Wars Intro on pure CSS3 thanks to 3D Transform & Animations
• Two dozen exceptional CSS frameworks
• The CSS: empty Selector
• SASS mixin for drawing CSS triangles
• Semicircle balloon.
• Simplify Media Queries in SASSS
• Pure CSS Slider Gallery
• Automatic numbering of figure tags using counters in CSS
• Geometric masks
• Lessons to create responsive design
• Animation of swinging objects with keyframe
• Let's look at cubic Bezier curves in transitions of CSS3 animation (transition)
• A blog dedicated to CSS3 geometry
• Typographic Video Effects on CSS3

Javascripts

• I know jQuery. What's next?
• JQuery source code with explanations
• JavaScript Patterns Collection
• Sweet.js - use macros
• MixItUp - jQuery-plugin with CSS3 effects with the ability to filter and sort
• iio - a framework for creating HTML5 functionality in JavaScript and Canvas
• redactor - Fantastic WYSIWYG editor on jQuery
• kartograph - a framework for creating interactive maps on SVG
• Multiplayer in real time on HTML5
• jquery.transit - Super-smooth CSS transitions & transformations for jQuery
• Better browser layouts on Node.js
• Your first application on Backbone.js
• SCO.js - additional plugins for Bootstrap
• Adaptive lightbox (for jQuery and Zepto.js)
• WATable - jquery plugin that will make your tables magic

Browsers

• Mozilla organization demanded to stop masking spyware under Firefox
• Opera sues for illegal technology transfer to Mozilla
• IE10 doubled market presence
• The new build of Windows 8.1 updated the blocking window and the developer tools in IE 11
• Blink and the end of vendor prefixes
• Browser status in 2013
• Browser Usage / Feature Statistics

news

• Facebook buys a startup with Ukrainian roots Parse for $ 85 million, despite the fact that it is losing ground in terms of the number of users , and at the same time Facebook's net profit in Q1 grew by 58% ; advertising revenue was $ 1.25 billion
• Android: JB broke second place in April , Microsoft will earn good royalties from Android devices, During the Google I / O version, Android 4.3 will be presented , but not Android 5.0
• Microsoft: Microsoft introduced Skype support to Outlook.com, Windows 8 increased its market share to 3.84%, Windows Phone strengthens third place in the OS market for smartphones in the US
• Apple: The next gadget from Apple will not be a gadget, Apple plans to release a budget iPhone in limited quantities. First details about the completely new interface of iOS 7
• Google: Google recognized Palestine , Google Now came to iOS
• Tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 officially presented
• In the wake of iForum:
  
  • Internet report on the main IT event of the country
  • Igor Ashmanov: “Today information domination is all the same as air superiority”
  • 17 Ways to Destroy an Online Store: Report by Vladislav Flax on iForum-2013
  • iForum-2013: Alexander Olshansky - about the future of the Internet , 3D printing, Bitcoin system and Google Glass glasses (video)
  • Eldar Murtazin on iForum-2013 : "There is nothing more to do on the market of smartphones and tablets"
  • Grigory Bakunov, Yandex : How big corporations kill startups
  • Anton Nosik iForum-2013 - about trends that negatively affect the Internet
  
  

Services

• slid.es - a powerful online tool for creating beautiful presentations
• spiffygif.com - generator of customizable preloaders in .GIF or .PNG sprite
• typeform.com - beta service for creating questionnaires
• colorhexa - Color encyclopedia: Information and conversion
• svg-edit - editor svg online
• diagnosticss - a bookmarklet for analyzing styles for potential problems

Demo

• Hyperspace from one image and CSS3
• LD26: Cube, Cube, Cube - an entertaining mini-game
• Fox mini and shotguns
• Epic Games made the Epic Citadel HTML5 demo available online
• Cool text effects
• Yet another CSS / JS animation test
• Good old itch a skitch is now in the canvas

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• hereistoday.com is a dynamic timeline showing the most significant periods of the Earth’s life
• fanta.com/playfanta/graphicnovel/1/ - scroll effects with sound on the comic website
• svc.by - an interesting portfolio of the Belarusian studio
• adamhartwig.co.uk - fullscreen slider with animated typography
• welovenoise.com - non-standard navigation and portfolio design
• holler.co.uk - another version of the implementation of non-standard site navigation
• handsome.is - parallaxes, animation, transformations, everything is in trend
• dspg.sg is an example of how static graphics can turn into dynamics
• smartphood.it - and again parallax and animation
• for the first time?

Design

• Easter 2013: postcards, illustrations, source
• Microsoft at the presentation spoke about plans to rebrand Xbox, Bing and Skype
• LivIcons - pack with animated vector icons, with a foldback for old browsers
• SkyFonts - synchronize fonts with Google Fonts on your computer
• Hyundai Motor - an example of design and guide
• Example of Insect Definder application design
• Hexels - a program for drawing forms
• About iOS7 New Design
• How to radically simplify the user interface
• Preview updated Reuters.com
• Retinize.it - actions for Photoshop to create graphics for Retina screens
• Infinite scrolling: let's get this straight.
• Free extension for Adobe Fireworks that allows you to add grids for iOS devices
• We draw in Illustrator 8-bit Elvis
• Creative business cards
• Interview with designer Fred Nerby
• The perfect combination of colors in trend and flat design
• Examples of logos for chats , as well as logos created using the effect of negative space , motorcycles

A selection of free designer cookies

• freetypography.com - Free Font Blog
• Textures: fiery , bokeh , marble , stained , a hundred blurry backgrounds
• Icons: set for Google Maps in PSD / PNG formats
• Brushes: for photoshop with grass and trees , with twists and curls
• Fonts: Verb Cond Extralight , a selection of elegant decorative fonts: from Pacifico to Tertre Extra Bold
• Sources: PSD business cards , two dozen sites

Entertaining

• Google Glass: you can take a shower with Google Glass on your head , a new application for Google Glass allows you to send photos in the form of tweets, future glasses work on the 2011 chip , a photo gallery with pictures of lucky owners of wonder glasses, details on the Google Glass user interface (video) , Two-week review of Google Glass : everything will depend on the price. And yes - Eric Schmidt is right to use Google Glass creepy
• How do Google's robots "see" the world?
• The first site in the world returned to its original address
• UFO: case history
• SkyNet on Secret Service : On one invisible, but extremely significant market for the IT industry
• Atom-created animation from IBM (video)
• Alexander Patsay, Parallels: “Android has 70% of the market, but Apple has billions in payments to developers”
• War of Words: Destroying Search Engine Optimization Myths
• Jeepeg, move over! Veppi as the only graphic format required.
• Liberator: the world's first firearm, fully printed on a 3D printer
• Game Dev Tycoon game developers made fun of pirates
• I'm still here: return to the Network a year later without the Internet
• Samsung engineers talk about the design of the smartphone Galaxy S4 (video)
• We squeeze maximum opportunities from YouTube
• Nokia is investing in the development of a plenoptic camera for smartphones.
• Evolutionary explosion : why the rapid development of smartphones and tablets begins after the initial filling of ecological niches
• Funny ad for Nokia Lumia , in which Microsoft laughed at iOS and Android users (video)
• In a new advertisement for the Galaxy S IV, Samsung pushed the owners of iPhone 5
• Microsoft is looking for a specialist in holographic communication
• "Syrian e-army" hacked twitter The Guardian

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Digest from last week .
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin