The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №98 (February 23 - March 1, 2014)

Despite everything , we bring to your attention a selection with links to useful resources, interesting materials and IT-news.

Web development

• GitHub introduced Atom, a Chromium-based code editor.
• Statistics on technology from Chromium
• The release of the programming language Dart 1.2, developed by Google to replace JavaScript
• Adaptive images without shamanism
• AB mobile menu testing
• Responsive Strategy
• Using blending modes in HTML Canvas
• Understanding the layout in Masonry
• How to create horizontal scrolling using display: table-cell
• Do you use Grunt? Consider Fez
• Manage large scalable projects with Grunt
• Download files with Ajax (IE10 +)
• Introduction to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
• Mdo HTML / CSS Code Guide
• The Art of Semantic HTML Markup: Part 1
• Ratchet - a framework for creating mobile applications on HTML / CSS / JS
• DHTMLConf 2014!

CSS

• Temptation sass
• Using your own attributes and pseudo-elements
• We style placeholder with CSS. Syntax, tricks, supported styles.
• SASS is more for (EB) Modifiers
• Easy entry of BEM selectors in Sass 3.3
• Improving CSS performance elements with position: fixed
• Float Labels with CSS
• Grid style crib
• Introduction to Less
• enjoycss is a modern CSS property generator
• Good technique for cropped text.
• Crossbrowser web fonts: hyphens, text and font rendering
• Cool animation effects for boarders using SVG and CSS
• A little shake-up for your DOM with CSS
• Sass Star Rating Widget
• Clarifying @ font-face
• How nested elements work with 3D transformations
• Basics of color mixing modes in CSS
• We make the components inserted with the help of iframe adequately working with responsive design.
• We supplement our site with visual details: CSS3 text-align-last
• Cute Grids - simple mesh for responsive design.
• CSS animation with fish Franklin

Javascripts

• Advanced work with subscriptions in event-driven architecture in javascript
• We write the first REST API application on NodeJS (Express + Mongoose)
• Creating a pull-out side menu for a website
• JQuery future
• Handshake is a tactile effect using the HTML5 Vibrate API.
• You may need jQuery
• How to do javascript testing using QUnit
• Debugging JavaScript in a hostile environment
• Inheritance prototypes with stamps
• Rewriting the ToDo web application with ECMAScript 6
• React.js with Backbone router and local storage (with require.js)
• Angular selection model
• Anti-patterns when using Promise
• Counterpart - a library for creating translations and localizations for Node.js and browsers
• Matter.js is an HTML5 / JavaScript physics engine.
• imagesLoaded - plugin for tracking image uploads
• Durandal - a one-page application done correctly (jQuery, Knockout, RequireJS)

Web tools

• Screenshot editor appeared in Yandex.Disk
• Color Tools - color picker, which can be used in any editor (for example, in Sublime Text) by keyboard shortcuts, also able to capture screenshots of windows with alpha channel
• Dewey - Advanced Bookmarking in Chrome

news

• MWC 2014:
  
  • Samsung introduced a new flagship smartphone - GALAXY S5 , First look at the Galaxy S5 - the flagship with questions
  • Yota Devices introduced the second generation smartphone with two screens YotaPhone
  • New from Lenovo , Acer , HTC , Alcatel , Asus
  • MWC 2014. Nokia , Nokia has released a line of phones based on Android OS
  • Mozilla introduced new devices with Firefox OS , including tablets and a smartphone for $ 25.
  • New smart watches and bracelets from famous brands at MWC 2014
  • Boeing launches self-destructing smartphone
  • MWC 2014: Sony Xperia Z2, Xperia Z2 Tablet, Xperia M2 - a personal acquaintance
  • The second version of YotaPhone - error correction
  • MWC 2014: summing up , why do we need new smartphones
  
  
• Google Modular smartphone “Project Ara” will go on sale in 2015
• Skycoin - the second generation of cryptocurrency
• Facebook announced the closure of its own mail service
• Google launched Oppia, a free online learning service: anyone can become a teacher
• 10 largest Internet companies in Russia: Forbes rating
• Nearly two million WhatsApp users have switched to Telegram after a deal with Facebook
• MasterCard makes life easier for bank card holders
• IBM has launched job cuts
• Fortune once again called Apple "the most admirable" company

Browsers

• What drives the browser UC Browser
• Opera browser debuts on Nokia X software platform
• Video work IE 11 in Windows Phone 8.1
• Web Audio and scrset in Chromium beta, Google Chrome 34 first beta
• Updates in Developer tools in Chrome 33

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• Product catalogs in online stores
• hair-makeup.dk - a site with unusual navigation
• sfarts.org/ - interesting site layout and navigation
• Back to Black: Black Design Sites
• Mobile Application Websites
• trends.fjordnet.com - non-standard content appearance and nice animation

Design

• What should designer know about leading, margins, padding, pins, alignments and modular grids?
• Interview with illustrator Tatyana Prokofyeva
• We draw a retro badge in Adobe Illustrator
• 18 ways to talk about numbers
• Why do I do sketches every day
• Complete logo design guide with examples
• The evolution of illustrations in web design
• Typography in web design and why it is worthwhile
• About Off-Canvas: Explore the potential of the Off-Canvas pattern
• Creating a kaleidoscope effect in Photoshop
• Creating a text effect from radiant chewing gum in Photoshop
• How to design an email client application for iOS7 in Photoshop
• Three dozen great lessons on photo manipulation
• How to create kaleidoscopic patterns using your iPhone
• Three dozen beautiful illustrations with typography
• Beginner Lessons in Adobe Illustrator
• Creating Geometric Stars in Illustrator
• Draft Accessibility Symbol

A selection of free designer cookies

• Free sparkling textures
• Free Vector Stars
• Free flat icons
• Watercolor textures with smudges
• Five dozen resources for March 2014: textures, fonts, icons, PSD sets
• Flat ui kits
• UD PSD for use in Metro style web design or flat design
• Collection of the best GUI sets for 2013
• IPad Air Template (PSD)
• Three dozen PSD templates with cool print design
• TOFITO - PSD template for a one-page business portfolio
• Glow-Theme PSD Template
• Collection of the best sets with icons for 2013
• Set of hundreds of flat monochrome icons
• Set of sports vector icons from Icons8
• Icons of ice cream in vector and PSD formats
• A set of monochrome icons depicting the everyday life of an office worker
• Modum Regular + Italic - serif font
• Friday Fonts # 11: From Vintage One to Pointy

Demo

• Hypnotic CSS animation
• Tuning your guitar online
• Mathematical visualizations in canvas
• SVG Line Animation of Iron Man
• Comparison of pixel magnification techniques
• Cool 404 page

Entertaining

• Results of 2013 for Tesla Motors: $ 2 billion in revenue and plans to take over the world
• Startup Boosted - Tesla in the world of longboards
• Rather dead: too many dead souls among Facebook users
• What will happen to your account after death: the management of social networks from the underworld
• What is happening with the BlackBerry
• How 3D printing revolutionizes the development of combat drones
• 10 innovative technologies - 2014
• The largest exchange Bitcoin declared itself bankrupt
• How the collapse of MtGox will affect the future of bitcoins
• The history of Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon purchases over the past 15 years (infographics)
• 5 world famous games, actually created in Ukraine
• Google and Meka expect to make friends robots and people
• What does the WhatsApp purchase teach us?
• What happens when the temporary text is forgotten to be removed

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