The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №103 (March 30 - April 5, 2014)

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

Web development

• WAI-ARIA 1.0 received the official status recommended by the W3C: what to expect in the future and where to run now?
• UIKit css / js framework review
• Automate tasks with npm run
• We study online: a review of open platforms of IT-topics
• Fresh videos from the FrontTalks section at the DUMP conference in Yekaterinburg and from prepati
• Resilient, responsive images in WordPress
• Configure and Install Polymer with Bower
• Creating interfaces with Backbone and jQuery UI
• Consider using the command line when working with Backbone applications.
• Paralyzed by the choice in front-end development
• About the new features of Canvas 2D
• Ludei offers HTML5 developers to stop using Adobe's Phonegap
• Responsive Email Patterns - responsive design letter templates
• SVG for everyone
• Minimalistic concept
• The State of Browser Detection
• The architectural model of the use of "cards" will carry more development than just the use of a card model in the design
• Web values sounded by Brad Frost
• HTML Elements Index
• Debugging asynchronous JS using Chrome DevTools
• Why site speed is important
• View status.modern.ie

CSS

• We control overflow of a cell of the table by means of max-width
• The effect of rain on glass with HTML and CSS
• Svg stacks
• Striped background, implemented using CSS
• Explaining the flexbox model in CSS in 5 minutes
• Dynamic SVG generation with SASS
• iHover - a set of ready-made CSS3 hover effects
• uncss: find unused CSS
• Forms: The Complete Guide
• SCSS city - city drawn with CSS
• Vertical Alignment by Paul Davis
• Srcset and sizes: What's wrong with Media Queries?
• The power of em units in CSS

Javascripts

• Extending JavaScript native objects - is it evil? SugarJS Manifesto
• COLT 2.0 released with support for Angular.js, node-webkit
• Do not make (in) equality in JavaScript look worse than they are.
• Saw the light of TypeScript 1.0 promoted by Microsoft as an alternative to JavaScript
• Very quick start from Ember.js
• Microsoft opened WinJS tulkit code for developing applications using web technologies
• Javascript running depending on the specified conditions using ConditionerJS
• sift.js - filtering and sorting arrays, made by analogy with MongoDB
• How to write more easy-to-maintain directives when using Angular.js
• Introduction to npm
• What browser support will be in jQuery 1.12 and later versions
• Six libraries for creating graphs
• List of Primary JavaScript Tools
• Theia Sticky Sidebar - plugin for creating sticky side speakers
• We create 3D in the browser with the help of Three.js
• Debug Google Analytics with ga_debug.js
• Create sound using Web Audio API & Oscillators
• Unofficial official testing guide for Ember applications (presentation)
• 10 mistakes novice in JS

news

• Microsoft Build 2014
  
  • Build 2014. Hot news for Windows and Windows Phone developers
  • Big Premiere Time: Nokia at the Build 2014 Conference
  • Internet Explorer 11 for Windows updates and IE11 announcement for Windows Phone 8.1
  • Skype for WP 8.1 easily switches from voice calls to video and works with Cortana
  
  
• Amazon introduced set-top box Amazon Fire TV
• Bing launches its version of Knowledge Count
• CEO Mozilla left the company because of the scandal with LGBT
• Microsoft announces 12 million Office installations for the first week
• Where to develop well: comparing Android, iOS and Windows Phone
• Crittercism Research: Android - the most reliable mobile OS
• WWDC 2014 will open on June 2
• Ubuntu One cloud service closes
• Yahoo plans to launch its Youtube
• John Carmack shared his thoughts on the Oculus and Facebook deal.
• Facebook Messenger Calls Appeared
• Created the world's first display of air
• Google Project Ara Modular Smartphone: Project News
• 20 years ago, Netscape Communications Corporation was founded.

Browsers

• Blink engine turns a year
• Mobile users almost never use browsers.
• OKCupid’s largest dating site has restricted Firefox users from entering it because Mozilla’s head has become homophobic.
• Updated IE11 on all devices
• Browser wars: Chrome bypassed Firefox, but Mozilla is already ready to answer - according to Net Applications statistics (corporate sector)
• Developer Improvements for IE11

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• Sites in orange tones
• Web design: top view
• / sport / allstar / historia - a powerful illustrated scrolling site on the history of basketball
• bacae.com - entertaining three-dimensional scroll animation
• nizuka.fr - non-standard effects when navigating the site
• iuvo.si - site with cool effects and transitions
• webdevelopmentgroup.com - a site with accurate timely animation of elements

Design

• Interview with designer Stepan Solodkov
• Create a zipper in Adobe Illustrator.
• About colors, marketing and blue Facebook
• How to choose the right color for the dress, site and everything else
• Interview with Khajag Apelian: “Typography Design is more than just character tracing”
• “Can you make the logo a bit bigger?”
• Lists beat the grid: linear flows are perceived better in two or even three times, compared to the multi-column grid
• About Spotify's major redesign
• Five things every class page about us needs
• Creating a seamless geometric background from circles in Photoshop
• Tips for creating an accessible and contrasting color palette
• A guide for web designers to display legal information
• The unconfortable project - a collection of items that are intentionally designed to be awkward.
• PNGHat plugin view: a new way to export design from Photoshop
• Two dozen impressive packaging designs that can be used as an example of an effective UX
• Five predictions for modern web design
• Great background images and emphasis on typography in web design.
• The origins of the menu icon design ("hamburger")
• namethatblue.com , "Name That Blue" - a game of color knowledge of companies
• Weather forecast right in your Photoshop-e (April 1st)

A selection of free designer cookies

• Three dozen PSD with navigation elements
• A Gallery of Handmade Non-Traditional Fonts
• Ten March Cookies: Patterns, Mockups, PSD and Theme Designs, Icons
• UI Kit in Toucan PSD format
• Six dozen flat icons on the subjects of objects around people, in formats PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD, AI
• Wrapping Hipster Icons in Flat Design with Long Shadows
• Set with medical icons
• Cool retro fonts
• Pinto NO_04 decorative font
• Modum Regular - serif font
• Iconic font Stroke 7 containing 140 icons
• Gist Rough Light Three - decorative serif font with a scuff effect

Demo

• DNA music - an experiment in the analysis and visualization of sound waves
• Drawing a human head in a browser using cinematic rendering on WebGL
• Beardswipe - unlock your smartphone with your own beard

Entertaining

• April 1
  
  • Traditional post to the First of April
  • Hero's Return: Nokia 3310
  • April 1 in the gaming industry: how it was
  • Top 10 April Fool's News from IT Companies
  • April Fool's Jokes 2014
  • Level 80 troll: Durov left the post of general director of VKontakte , and then withdrew his resignation letter
  • A few reasons to smile
  
  
• Samsung Electronics History: From Dried Fish to High Tech
• Twitter data will be able to predict events
• Google Project Loon: around the world in 22 days
• Google+ shows total views of user posted content.
• Google improves BigQuery and makes analytic service more accessible
• Introduced the world's first 3D printer to "print" ceramic dishes
• 10 founders retired from their projects
• Paradise for geeks: five projects on Kickstarter (video)
• Real stupid job openings for web developers

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