The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №60 (June 1 - 8, 2013)

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

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Computex 2013

June 4, the annual IT exhibition Computex, held in Taipei, opened. Here you can read about the first and second days, and here about seven thoughts about the exhibition. Interesting news from Acer , Intel , TP-Link , Inhon , Dell , Toshiba , Gigabyte , Sony , as well as about the pieces from ASUS

Making WebGL Dance

We invite you to get acquainted with a cool presentation on WebGL, three-dimensional transformations and why you need to know linear algebra. In addition, in the presentation some terms from the 3d area are well visualized.

Git

Git is a flexible and powerful version control system. However, many complain about its complexity and relatively high threshold of entry. This Selection of resources to learn Git will help newcomers to quickly get used to the new system, and professionals can help to understand the nuances. In addition, you can read an article comparing Git and SVN

CSS: reset or normalize?

Typically, web designers begin the layout of a new project with zeroing styles. Someone is using a universal selector to reset all tags, someone is resetting from Eric Meyer , and someone is a relatively new technique Normalize.css . The comparison of the last two will be discussed in this article ; the history of origin, the obvious and non-obvious problems of the techniques and their philosophy are also touched upon.

Immersion in the dark waters of loading scripts

And how do you connect scripts - in the head, at the end of the body, combined, asynchronously, or something else? We suggest you read this article , which immerses the reader in the subtleties of loading js and in the nuances associated with the zoo of browsers.

Guinness Book of Records: computers, software and the Internet

For half a century of its existence, the Guinness Book of Records has recorded a lot of both outstanding and strange achievements of mankind. Among them are records related to computers and information technology.

May 2013: the birth of new concepts and trends

The month of May was rich in various events: new product launches, presentations of innovative technologies and solutions, professional seminars, forums and conferences. In this article, the authors tried to list all the major industry news of the last spring month - moreover, both Russian and foreign.

Sites with interesting design and functionality

riotindustries.com - spectacular CSS3 2D and 3D effects, along with custom navigation
athenos.com is a fun site with mini-games, modern effects and an expressive character: Grandma Yaya
rijksmuseum.nl - a site with a non-standard approach to navigation
lacoste.com/polo/#!/1933 - nice timeline on the Lacoste website
Renault website presentation
atdrupalcon.com - a spectacular site header
peppermintsoda.co.uk - a site with a nice design and lots of animation
quechua.com is a cool one-page site with parallax effects and animation.
rezo-zero.com/interactive-studio - non-standard layout and navigation
dreamsdoodler.com - completely non-standard layout and navigation
mmi.mc - and once again a non-standard layout and navigation