The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №116 (June 29 - July 6, 2014)

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

Web development

• From community to community - open hub articles
• How to impose a theme for WordPress
• About the friendship of peoples in the frontend community
• HTML5 context menus
• Why ContentEditable is Terrible
• Video from the recent Google I / O 2014 conference
• Element `time`
• HTMLHint - a tool for analyzing static HTML code
• 5 libraries and APIs for manipulating HTML5 Audio
• Responsive images using picture and srcset / sizes
• Using the stroke attribute in SVG
• What every front-end developer should know about page rendering
• Scroll IFRAMEs in iOS
• Web Components and concepts, ShadowDOM, imports, templates and custom elements
• GapDebug - a new tool for debugging code on mobile devices
• Putting order into the SVG structure : structuring, grouping and links in the SVG - elements <g>, <use>, <defs>, <symbol>
• Super Web Mobile - Ambient Light API
• lollytin - block online site builder based on Bootstrap 3

CSS

• How to use clipping and CSS masking
• Clip Path (Mask) Generator
• Responsive fullscreen background image using CSS
• Another collection of tools and applications for working with Less
• About the content-width value of width
• Random numbers in preprocessors
• Pixels are expensive
• Pure CSS 3d text

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Javascript

• Metaprogramming (with JavaScript examples)
• Universal web GUI for arbitrary RESTful services
• Features of using SailsJS for beginners (Part 1)
• Ribs.js - nested attributes, computed fields and binding for Backbone.js
• Astrobench: JavaScript code performance testing
• Deb.js: the tiniest debugger in the world
• Do not be afraid of functional programming.
• Identifying devices on the server side using JavaScript
• Browser detection with javascript
• Do not use jquery-latest.js
• Minicart.js - library to improve PayPal integration for your shopping cart.
• Epoch is a pretty powerful library for creating real-time graphs of various types.
• Wavepot : making music with javascript
• jLayout - JavaScript Layout Algorithms
• Select or Die - Another plugin for customizing the standard view select
• Intense Image Viewer - plugin for full-screen viewing of large images
• fartscroll.js. there are such scrolling effects ...

news

• Linux Foundation introduced the first release of the automotive platform Automotive Grade Linux
• The development of tools to support virtual reality helmets in Firefox has begun
• Google Cube is a new interactive storytelling platform.
• Announced by Kallithea, a free system for organizing collaborative development in the style of GitHub
• "Yandex" offered photo banks to earn on the "Pictures"
• Facebook put the experience to control emotions on 689,000 users
• Yandex starts testing interactive answers in a large search
• During the summer sale Steam jumped the bar to 8 million users online
• The prohibition of data storage Russians on foreign servers: what will happen after September 1, 2016?
• What does the market think about the ban on storing data from Russians abroad?
• The Associated Press will trust the automated system to write news reporting on various companies.
• Oculus announced the launch of deliveries of the second version of the helmet Rift
• Oculus has stopped deliveries of Rift to China due to active resale
• The global economy in 2013 lost $ 80 billion due to charging smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices

Browsers

• Chrome browser will be able to launch Hangouts video chats without third-party plug-ins.
• Secrets of offline browsing in Chrome
• 20 useful Google Chrome extensions for web developers

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• overthetinyhills.com - an advanced thematic site with three-dimensional interactive
• spintank.fr - site with cute animation and creative transitions between pages
• Interior Design by Decade - an unusual scroll effect
• rokkan.com - a site with non-standard menu implementations and nice animation

Design

• Adobe Photoshop CC 2014: what's new?
• Product design digest, June 2014
• Effective or effective? Master class on creating a site design. Part I
• The best tutorials for learning the Pen tool in Photoshop
• Responsive design vs mobile sites
• 5 cool GIMP plug-ins for designers
• Design Basics - Color Theory
• 60+ examples of creative typography
• The history and evolution of program design at Wimildon

Entertaining

• Happy birthday, Julian Assange
• 8 things that are not worth living in Silicon Valley
• 10 free online courses from Coursera, which you can take in July
• Wave D D superposition: does a quantum computer work?
• How platforms die and cloud services are born
• Knot theory: why are headphone wires always tangled?
• Where to find good music for work
• Achievements of 3D printing: from an artificial beak to a model of a cancerous tumor
• 11 superpowers that a person will receive tomorrow, thanks to technology
• Why does Mark Zuckerberg always wear one shirt?
• How do solar cells work?

In connection with the release of one of the authors of this digest, the current issue was released in a slightly truncated version.
In addition, the second author also flies away to rest, so the digests take a two-week break.

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Digest from last week .
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