The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №108 (May 4 - 10, 2014)

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

Web development

• The complex and controversial world of micromarking syntax. Why are there so many standards? Yandex experience
• Caching all HTML and connecting JS “on the go”
• Firefox Developer Tools Update
• GitHub opens the source code for the Atom editing environment.
• Net Awards 2014 results
• There was a video with Front End Ops Conference 2014
• HTML5 games performance test: 2014 edition
• A decent selection of resources for working on adaptive letters
• Web addresses are almost dead
• Unicode for the wide world of devices
• SVG inside links, leave the event on the desired item
• Slush - a tool for generating web application templates.
• Customize your Gulp workflow
• Private bower
• Automate repetitive tasks with Grunt
• Have 15 minutes to learn Git?
• How to make a simple extension for Google Chrome
• How to use Bootstrap Tour
• Create custom icon font with IcoMoon and Less
• Tips for creating an affordable SVG
• Should I use the HTML5 header and footer?
• Synth - backend framework for creating (Angular, Ember, Backbone) JS web applications
• How to speed up your site
• ARIA examples
• Bootstrap 3 - tips and tricks you might not know about
• Another collection of all sorts of items for Bootstrap
• Slides of Jason Grigsby's “Adaptive Input” talk with WebVisions Portland 2014
• Interview with Brad Frost about workflow, adaptive frameworks and the future of the web
• Interview with Thomas Palef, who decided to write an HTML5 game every week: what do you charge when you do it

CSS

• 8 simple CSS3 animations that may surprise the site user
• 7 pieces that you didn’t know that can be done with CSS
• Moving forward with CSS Shapes
• The definition of accessibility CSS Shapes available in production builds Modernizr
• hologram - a simple system for creating style guides (Ruby gem)
• Kindling Grid - simple grid for responsive designs
• Typography with responsive design with chains of media queries - an interesting approach that allows reducing the number of Sass-code
• Creating a flip map effect when hovering over an item
• beautons - a set of buttons with the semantic designation of css-classes
• Pure CSS Panorama (SCSS + Haml)
• How can Flexbox, color variables and EMs be used inside components for quick prototyping in a browser

Javascripts

• Light controllers with AngularJS
• Swipe gestures in Internet Explorer and other browsers
• AniJS is a library for declarative description of CSS animations.
• New array methods in ECMAScript 6
• What you need to know about JavaScript prototypes, scopes, and performance
• Replacing jQuery with Vanilla JavaScript
• Do not forget about the client side! (about testing client-side web applications)
• WebGL D3 using the PathGL library
• Let's create a map with circles (TopoJSON and D3)
• Epoxy.js - Elegant Data Binding for Backbone
• React Forms - a library with tools for drawing and validating forms
• Ember.js - a web framework for the future
• We write simple applications using Ionic - a framework for creating hybrid mobile applications
• Quill.js - a simple editor for the modern web.
• email.js - a tool for writing applications for letters on JS
• 4 jQuery plugin to determine the background color
• An introduction to Node.js for absolute beginners
• Adaptive fixed one-page navigation on vanilla javascript
• How to make a sticky animated header on CSS3 and jQuery

Web tools

• waypoints.io is a tool for storing the entire project development history.
• Import.io - a service for extracting and structuring data from websites
• conjure.io - a service for displaying a design, updating it by comments and subsequent approval
• Five tools for creating wireless frames that you might not know
• Prose is a web-based tool for easy editing of files on GitHub.
• Scripts and plugins to analyze traffic on the site

news

• New scanning business cards in Evernote with LinkedIn
• US Court of Appeals ruled that API is intellectual property
• Windows Phone is named the fastest growing OS (while the share of Windows Phone in the global mobile market rose slightly from 2% to 3%)
• ITU: the number of Internet users by the end of 2014 will reach 3 billion
• Apple buys Beats for $ 3.2 billion
• A button for Amazon appeared on Twitter
• Adobe launched Voice - an iPad presentation application.
• Microsoft has released a critical update for Windows XP, despite the end of support
• By the end of 2014, there will be 3 billion users on the Internet.
• Jelly Bean remains the most common version of Android.
• Instagram has surpassed marketers
• Microsoft continues to lose money on Surface tablets
• IDC: tablet market grew by less than 4 percent over the year
• Sony has issued a deal to sell VAIO
• Facebook launches advanced video statistics for public pages.
• Apple is catching up with Amazon on retail sales
• Alibaba has applied for a billionth IPO

Design

• May 17-18 in Odessa, a design conference "DESIGN LAB"
• 10 useful email newsletters for designers
• Los Angeles Times publication presented a site redesign.
• Interview with the illustrator Oscar Ramos
• The history of graphic design in one infographic from Pop Chart Lab
• Eleven excellent examples of using photo images in web design
• We write the text with the jelly in Photoshop
• How to do color correction and white balance in Photoshop
• Six problems with the UX development process, as well as six solutions to these problems.
• Effective navigation simplification. part 2: navigation systems
• Google Search Page Redesign Concept
• Responsive navigation design
• Images vs. background video in web design
• Top errors when redesigning sites
• 12 principles of animation
• Option translations of customer responses regarding design

A selection of free designer cookies

• Geometric backgrounds
• Multicolored backgrounds with polygons
• UI set in PSD format for mobile and web applications with flat design UI Kit ™
• Eighteen packs with UI and wireframes
• Simple ui kit
• Plugin for Photoshop to determine the font used in the bitmap
• Three PSD with registration form
• Icon Web Font Payment
• Paul has hundreds of fonts for designers in 2014: from Intro Condensed to Vintage Affliction
• One hundred and one fonts for web designers: from Bemio to Signika
• Cyrillic stylized font family Tsarevich
• Farewell Regular - Decorative Serif Font
• DUAL - a family of sans serif geometric fonts
• TOTEM - a decorative sans-serif font with a science fiction theme.

Entertaining

• 30th anniversary of Mario Bros. is dedicated to. HTML5 Virtual Game Museum
• Programming is a career dead end?
• Epic stories, or as IT giants from each other, top managers lured away
• Pinterest knows users better than Google.
• 10 failure projects Apple
• 30 iconic IT entrepreneurs under the age of 30
• Stephen Hawking: artificial intelligence can be the greatest mistake in history
• The Norwegian army is testing the Oculus Rift as a review system for combat vehicle mechanics.
• NASA showed a prototype spacesuit for a flight to Mars
• Birdly and Oculus Rift give the user the opportunity to feel like a bird
• The weirdest things Alibaba sells
• iPistol: “smart” weapons are gaining popularity in the USA
• 10 newest military gadgets and technologies
• NASA plans to grow plants on Mars
• How phones and social networks change privacy
• Sixteen "gifs" that will teach you to understand the mechanics
• Cool experiments and demos on WebGL

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Digest from last week .
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