The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №102 (March 23 - 29, 2014)

We offer you a selection with links to useful resources, interesting materials and IT-news

Web development

• Glossary of frontend terms
• How to quickly create your project on BEM
• What is a DOM?
• What should I look for when buying a WordPress theme?
• Raising money for the introduction of picture in Blink
• 15 link building rules for people with disabilities
• Gremlins.js - monkey testing library for web applications
• nodegh.io - GitHub command line tools
• Best PHP IDE in 2014
• SVG & Custom Fields in WordPress
• How to start working with SVG
• When and how to use the NoFollow Tag correctly
• Scrolling Animations: Examples, Tutorials and jQuery Plugins
• SVG Load Indicators
• Slush is another generator that uses Gulp as a replacement for Yeoman
• WTF, HTML and CSS?
• Mobile Angular UI - mobile UI framework based on Angular.js and Twitter Bootstrap in the style of Sencha Touch or jQuery Mobile
• Use the Data URI to speed up the loading of your website.
• Interview with Thomas Palef on creating HTML5 games
• Game programming: CSS Shooter
• Creating an HTML5 context menu
• What devices should I support when creating HTML5 games - user market statistics

CSS

• The colors and the difference between them in LESS (SASS)
• SVG icons
• PESTICIDE - a tool for quick debugging of the css-layout
• Name of UI components in OOCSS
• CSS Performance Test: Flexbox vs CSS Table
• 3D Grid Effect
• Sidebar animation on CSS3
• The Magic of CSS - a great interactive CSS tutorial
• Spring Cleaning - Clear the CSS with Grunt, Gulp, Broccoli, or Brunch
• Eight mobile devices (iPhone, Android, Lumia, iPad) drawn in pure CSS

Javascripts

• How strict "use strict" in JavaScript can save you a couple of hours
• Manage kerning in letter combinations with KerningPairs.js
• Isometric graphics with Obelisk.js
• ES7 async functions
• AngularJS: Retrospective
• About Flipboard and the Duplo engine from its creators
• Duplo engine used for Flipboard magazine and sorting 2000 layouts when choosing the right screen size
• Vega is a declarative format that describes interactive views in JSON for creating, storing and distributing visualizations.
• Using media expressions in javascript
• Do not consider equality in JavaScript to be implemented worse than it actually is.
• Appearance of simd in javascript
• From Backbone views to React views
• Thirteen steps to modularization in AngularJS
• Creating data upload functionality on jQuery
• JSCritic - service for checking javascript code
• reD3 [Reusable Charts for D3.js] - a collection of graphs and components built on D3.js
• EpicEditor - Embedded JavaScript editor with Markdown syntax support.
• Molecule - a framework for creating HTML5 games
• Mithril - JS framework for creating super-fast applications
• Isometric graphics drawn with Obelisk.js
• gator.js - a library without dependencies for delegating events
• matchHeight - the same height for all blocks using jQuery
• Holder.js - SVG stub image generator
• Btapp.js - a library for using torrent technologies in the browser
• Tetris implemented using WebSockets
• slick - the last carousel you always needed
• MicIO.js - sending data from the microcontroller to any smartphone / computer

Web tools

• ThemeCheck.org: Free WordPress Theme Service
• webdesignrepo - a collection of resources for web design, web development and web tools
• Dribbbox - Your Dribbble Portfolio

news

• Facebook + Oculus Rift:
  
  • Facebook buys Oculus VR for 2 instagram
  • Facebook bought Oculus Rift
  • Why Facebook bought Oculus, and what will happen now
  • After the acquisition of Oculus Rift by Facebook by Kickstarter users who donated to the project, they demand money back
  • Facebook may change the name of the virtual reality glasses Oculus Rift
  • Sony, Facebook and the virtual reality technology race
  
  
• New CEO Mozilla has become the creator of JavaScript Brendan Ike
• Gays are boycotting Mozilla in protest of appointment as Brendan Ike's boss
• Telegram: 35 million active users, 8 billion messages per month
• Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk invest in the development of artificial intelligence
• Facebook Connectivity Lab: Internet access using drones and satellites , Zuckerberg will make Internet accessible with drones and lasers
• All courses on Coursera translate into Russian
• Facebook has published its own programming language Hack
• Samsung launched the service Milk Music
• Microsoft has published the source code of the first versions of MS DOS and Word for Windows
• Microsoft introduced the iPad version of Office : for presentations and reading - for free, Office for iPad - all the pros and cons
• Amazon will launch a free streaming video service , and Apple may, in conjunction with Comcast, launch a streaming television service.
• Yandex has become the default search in the entire range of Nokia X smartphones.
• Twitter has tags on photos
• The number of Instagram users has reached 200 million and apparently this is not the limit.
• Nokia wearable devices may appear this year.
• Google Play and YouTube are switching to WebP

Browsers

• What the Firefox 30 prepares for us
• Google Now officially came to Chrome browser
• Mozilla prefers the abbreviation “Fx” for Firefox, not “FF”
• Rumors: Microsoft Internet Explorer will come to Android?

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• Nautical theme in web design
• Illustrator portfolio examples
• zulfeekar.com - very coolly implemented portfolio designer ZULU
• LondonUI / Web Designer and Front-end Developer Latest Projects
• gladeye.com - nice scroll site with video background
• FOURDAYSinPARIS
• world-of-swiss.com/en - an aviation themed website of a Swiss company with wonderful scroll and video effects.
• zulfeekar.com - a portfolio with a lot of CSS3 3D transformations, SVG animations and concise design

Design

• The real reason for Facebook redesign is it was too good.
• Web Design Cards
• 8 Tips for Creating the Right Logo
• 10 rules for placing text on a photo in web design
• A short lesson on creating a woven vector pattern in Adobe Illustrator
• Interview with artist and illustrator Marcelo Schultz
• Design principles: visual perception and principles of gestalt theory
• IxD Checklist
• Why don't designers take Android seriously?
• Flat + 1 Design - Not Just Flat Dies
• DESIGN LAB - a collection of experimental interface animation
• How to get the animation that came to your mind
• Two dozen lessons on creating text effects in Photoshop
• How to design a sophisticated vintage poster in Photoshop
• Creating an address book icon using Photoshop
• Five dozen inspirational fresh logo designs for inspiration
• Overview of UI in Android Wear
• ReallyGoodEmails.com - examples of great email designs
• "A Pocket Guide to Every Day's Typographic Adventures"
• Guess the website for the wireframes from Dedesign the web

A selection of free designer cookies

• Cyrillic fonts in your collection
• Glass Layer Styles for Photoshop
• Free vector sources for retro logos
• Velositey - Photoshop plugin allows you to make a prototype of your website design in seconds!
• A dozen modern UI sets for web and mobile applications
• Set of vector stylized flat avatars with the ability to select the mood of each of the characters
• Set of animal characters in vector form.
• Series of flat animated preloaders
• Falling is a sans-serif decorative font based on science fiction and games, suitable for headlines and posters.
• Damn dozen of fresh fonts for March 2014

Demo

• Globe cyber threats from Kaspersky
• Urban Jungle Street View
• SWOOP - Aviation HTML5-game
• Whatpx - a game to improve the accuracy of the eye at estimating the size in pixels
• OneHumanHeartBeat.com - a site that displays the heartbeat of a scientist Jen Lowe with a 24-hour delay
• Wonderful 404th page of the Swedish service

Entertaining

• Girl put a new skull, printed on a 3D-printer
• Larry Page shared future plans
• Google does not want to cooperate with the military in the development of robots
• Help NASA choose the design of the new spacesuit Z-2
• Glitter and misery of Silicon Valley
• 10 of the loudest scandals of the IT industry
• Yandex has studied the musical preferences of Russians
• Only 11% of Twitter users are active.
• Sony does not plan to use the Android Wear OS in its "smart" watches
• Google Glass - in search of style and applications

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Digest from last week .
Material prepared dersmoll and alekskorovin .