The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week No. 89 (December 22 - 28, 2013)

We bring to your attention the latest this year's collection with links to useful resources, interesting materials and IT-news

Web development

• Creating a two-dimensional browser game based on PhysicsJS
• Grunt for those who think things like him are strange and complicated.
• Pointer Lock API. Why is it needed and how to work with it?
• Latest issue of monthly Yeoman Digest
• Opening open-source project. Now what?
• Impressions of interviewing the Front-End Engineer position in San Francisco
• Interviewing Front-End Engineers by Nicolas Zakas
• Fullscreen API
• Creating a more exciting effect - FullScreen API
• How to use File Reader API
• Several image optimization techniques
• Creating multi-touch web applications

CSS

• Autoprefixer 1.0 released
• Animation of Holiday SVG Icons with CSS
• Optimizing style sheets with RECESS
• Make sure your speakers don't fold horizontally.
• The trick to working with Sass: double ampersand selectors
• Santa on CSS3
• CSS fractal tree

Javascripts

• Portable Network Javascript
• Sort using HTML5 Drag'n'Drop API
• The best jQuery plug-ins of 2013 according to Web Design Ledger
• Learning advanced javascript with Backbone.js source code
• Simple State Manager 2.1.0 - state management in JS for responsive sites
• Unison.js - load data management based on the points at which the responsive site is rebuilt
• Creating the Read-Only property for objects in JS
• jQuery Lazy Load XT - plugin for loading images, videos and other media files as you scroll the page
• Covering Bad - a small library for adding an overlay effect on an image.

Web tools

• How to get rid of all email subscriptions in two minutes
• UINames - simple name generator
• BlackTie - Free Professional- Looking Bootstrap Themes
• beenpod - a service for sharing reference collections
• Vline - simple and free video chat.

news

• RuTracker.org blocked
• IT books at a free price
• Internet Archive laid out the classic games of the 70s and 80s for free
• How to get 1 terabyte of space in the “Mail.Ru Cloud” for free and forever
• Internet Archive provides access to a library of retro games directly in your browser.
• Microsoft: Top 10 Events of the Year
• Yandex is the largest media of the country this year.
• CyanogenMod overcame the mark of 10 million units. Start of sales of the first smartphone with CyanogenMod
• Google-owned robot won the DARPA tournament
• LG will teach home appliances to communicate with the person in the chat
• Smartphone sales growth in China has slowed due to a deal between Apple and China Mobile
• In Russia, sales began YotaPhone
• GitHub crossed the 10 million repository mark

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• Product Promotion Sites
• Monochrome sites
• aleeforoughi.com - multi-parallax and interesting effect when displaying navigation
• rsq.com is an elegant website with interesting animation effects.
• 30 Best Creative Websites of 2013
• 40 sites with creative typography

Design

• Looking at popular trends in web design in 2013
• Christmas typography
• We draw Christmas balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6
• Mobile app design for your inspiration.
• The effect of depth in web design using images
• Interview with Sarah Silver (photo, retouching)
• Ten principles of good design
• Understand and analyze web typography
• Science and fonts (secrets of their influence on perception)
• Ten typography tools that you may not use in Photoshop
• Creating an interface design for a mobile application that displays weather in Photoshop
• Quiz: Are you a trendy designer?
• What conclusions can designers make for themselves considering AK-47
• Geometry in UI Design
• Hi. Welcome to DT tv. - video channel for designers
• Collis Ta'eed Web Design Predictions for 2014
• Year for Designmodo: best articles, free resources and products

A selection of free designer cookies

• Free Christmas Layer Styles for Photoshop
• Script for Photoshop: export vector layers from PS to SVG with one click! (Illustrator is also required)
• SVG Primitive Vector Image Collection
• PSD mockup for demonstration of responsive website designs
• LAYRS CONTROL - free extension for Photoshop
• Brushlovers Brush Pack Collection
• A collection of resources for web designers for December 2013
• Set of vector icons in .AI format - Flat Holiday Icons
• A small set of blue vector icons for web
• Coucou - a set of strange and funny icons
• Infinity Space Icons Set
• Set with the image of credit cards in a flat design
• More than two dozen sets of Christmas icons
• Merry Scriptmas Serif Font , Kari - Decorative Retro Serif Font, Hallo Sans - Similar to Classic Sans Serif Font

Demo

• Christmas tree using three.js
• Add the effect of falling snow to your site using HTML5 Canvas
• Merry christmallax
• Santa Drop - Santa's browser game
• Spiral Christmas tree in canvas
• Lapka - a modern gadget to determine the level of alcohol in the body

Entertaining

• How to make yourself work?
• Game Designer offered a girl's hand and heart by creating a mini-platformer with a proposal in the final
• Keep it forever, but ... Is it possible to keep old computers?
• Cyber ​​threats of the outgoing and coming year. Are banks ready for them?
• Cambridge Online Dictionary chose the TOP 10 words of 2013
• Cube of the year: oub summed up
• 25 memes of the year: Internet users laughed at in 2013
• Review of the most resonant events of the year in the social network "VKontakte"
• New and outgoing words in search (Yandex)
• Why IT people can’t allow politicians to use a gun shot
• Chromebook in Russia: is it worth taking?
• Why kill WinAmp
• Bitcoin wallets virus has earned millions of dollars
• Best Easter eggs for Google
• The American managed to assemble the world's largest collection of video games.
• The history and future of everything

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