The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №121 (August 18 - 24, 2014)

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

Web development

• Where to learn to program: 6 popular online resources
• Integrating Git into Sublime Text (translation)
• Github - no command line
• Git & GitHub for Front-End Developers
• Duo is a tool for managing new generation packages.
• Look and Feel - Animations Guide from Google
• Adaptive components created using context queries
• Mozilla Introduces Rec Room
• Understanding the SVG property - fill-rule
• Everything you need to know about Favicons, Touch Icons, Tile Icons and other similar icons.
• Lime Text is a free editor in the style of Sublime Text
• How to test your site locally with Modern.IE
• Making Bootstrap a bit more accessible.
• Browserify and Gulp with React
• That 22 billion letters will tell us about the development of emails for mobile devices
• High Performance Interactive Map with HTML5 Canvas
• Camera and video control using HTML5
• 9 reasons why you should use CodePen
• Song using HTML / CSS
• Laconic HTML with humor

CSS

• LESS underutilized, but no less excellent.
• CSS3 Text Stroke Generator
• Blink refuses to implement Pointer Events in favor of Touch Events
• Sass 3.4 released
• What do you do when your design pattern starts to break?
• Five options for using vertical media expressions
• Start using LESS (for newbies)
• Running a CSS animation in the middle of a loop
• Font minimization
• Making SVG adaptive with CSS from Sara Soueidan
• Waiting for CSS Feature Queries
• Introducing BareKit: a minimalistic framework for responsive websites
• PowerToCSS is another static framework. Easy, simple and adaptive
• Introduction to SUIT CSS
• Kite is a CSS library with classes that help you comfortably take advantage of inline-block elements.
• Dynamic logos with CSS
• “Project Agnostic CSS Declaration Blocks” - an article about common declared styles (clearfix, IR, etc)
• Generator of volumetric animated cubes on pure CSS

Javascript

• We generate simple music in the browser with Web Audio API
• 3 new JavaScript API that you should know
• Simple jQuery editor to edit HTML5 text and save using ajax
• Javascript using static memory and object pools
• JavaScript insertAdjacentHTML and beforeend
• What you should know about regular expressions in javascript
• Time-elements - a web component and an extension to the standard <time> element
• Simple currying in javascript
• Framework:
  
  • Knockout 3.2.0 release
  • We saw our own framework
  • AngularJS vs. Backbone.js vs. Ember.js
  • The Complete Beginner's Guide to AngularJS
  • Debugging AngularJS applications using the console
  • Angular applications in production: what, how and when to test?
  • Getting started with Mobile Angular UI
  • JavaScript animation in AngularJS applications
  • Smart Table - module to AngularJS for displaying tabular data with filter, sorting, etc. pluggable in a declarative way
  • satellizer - authentication with tokens for applications on AngularJS
  • Screencast: debugging applications on Ember.js
  
  
• Simultaneous acquisition with ES6 Generators
• Check if the function is a native code
• Introduction to abbreviated methods for working with Ajax in jQuery
• Pusher Realtime Reddit API
• Polyphyl for localStorage
• flickerplate - another content slider on jQuery
• Ajax without jQuery
• Single Page Applications, PhantomJS and SEO
• Unorthodox performance
• Video of Axel Rauschmayer talk on JavaScript Coding Tips

Web tools

• rssheap - advanced reader for developers
• Adobe Extract: free code extraction from PSD files in the cloud
• Stress testing with Loader.io (free for 50 thousand connections)
• Makethumbnails.com - drop images into the browser, get a zip of thumbnails

news

• Steve Ballmer finally left Microsoft
• Android use 18.8 thousand different models of mobile devices, Samsung released 43% of all Android devices in the world
• Messages in Skype will now only come to the device that is currently being used.
• Project Windows 8.1 Update 2 officially canceled
• Lenovo has become the largest laptop maker
• Pavel Durov called the most promising leader in Northern Europe under 30 years old
• Media: Windows 9 will be presented on September 30
• What could be Windows 9 and whether it can become a new successful Microsoft OS
• Microsoft has released a trial version of Windows for household devices
• Microsoft and HP enter Chromebooks
• Quotes Mail.Ru Group collapsed after the publication of financial statements and forecast for 2014
• Revenue Opera Software exceeded $ 100 million
• Google offers not to worry about duplicate content in the web and mobile versions of sites
• comScore: the top 50 US websites for July 2014
• Google is developing a child safe version.

Browsers

• Opera Mini will be the default browser on Microsoft phones
• Once again about the device emulation mode in the latest version of Chrome canary
• Improve your life when debugging JavaScript using source map browsers support IE11, Chrome, Opera & Firefox
• WebIDE is embedded in Nightly

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• followbubble.com - site book with off-canvas navigation and interesting transition effects
• Beautiful Open - a collection of beautiful sites dedicated to open source projects
• bellroy.com - a quality implemented background video, changing after page refresh

Design

• Several reasons why the popularity of minimalism is constantly growing (translation)
• 7 basic usability principles for online stores (translation)
• Redesign concept vk.com
• Sly Lamb Company Experience: Adapting an iOS App Design for Windows Phone
• The results of the competition for the redesign of "VKontakte"
• Interface tips: difficulty adapting to different types of devices
• Typographic 3D effect in Photoshop CC 2014
• Casual Design: Reinventing the Line
• No, silly, UI and UX are not the same
• Typography Guide for Creating Balanced Website Templates
• Example of a community project: creative selfie designers - part three
• Examples of stylish websites with a hamburger icon, which hides the menu
• Responsive Web Design - podcast with Ethan Marcotte and Karen McGrane
• Design details: Foursquare for iOS
• Busuu redesign history
• The New Yorker redesigned the redesign, but the unfinished details remained.
• The importance of using emotions in web design
• Stop speculating on the concept of the "golden section"
• Beautiful posters with visualization of basic design principles.
• Design with an emphasis on letter subscription forms
• Design an attractive voucher in Photoshop
• Creating a color palette using adjustment layers in Photoshop
• WhoUsesSket.ch? - who already uses Sketch?
• Seven Tips for Sketch Users
• How to draw a vintage flower arrangement in Adobe Illustrator
• Understanding of automatic, optical and metric kerning in Adobe Illustrator
• 404 pages that don't upset
• A series of illustrations explaining Internet terms.

A selection of free designer cookies

• THE STOCKS - fresh photos every 7 days
• designerspics.com - a large collection of high-quality professional photos
• Cool grunge textures
• White wall textures
• Mockups in vector format
• Mockups with images of mobile devices in the morning
• Mokap flyer
• Veridant - UI set in salad colors
• Ui video player
• Red Carpet UI Kit
• Verdant UI Kit in greenish colors
• Set of vector icons on home subjects
• Three dozen vector icons devoted to food and its preparation
• flat.icns set of flat icons for OS X
• Set with vintage logos
• Vector multicolor low-polygonal illustrations of athletes (AI, EPS)
• Icon Font Icon Works
• Martell Serif Font Family
• Meticulous Ariel - a serif font family inspired by the fashion world
• Hans Kendrick sans-serif grotesque font family
• Hanken Round - round sans serif font
• AVENTURA - sans serif font
• JAAPOKKI - chopped header font

Demo

• Monocle - the list is scrollable through the "magnifying" glass, concept from Hakim
• ColorRun - skill game to quickly determine the brightness of color
• VisualGo - visualization of data structures and algorithms using animation
• Rubik's Cube on CSS / JS

Entertaining

• IBM Simon: the world's first smartphone turned 20 years old
• Apple: "value monopolist" in the smartphone market
• 10 tech companies with the most satisfied employees: Twitter overtook Google
• Glassdoor: How much do Apple employees earn?
• Amazon will begin testing its courier drones from India
• Tesla cars will be available from iPhone
• The largest solar power plant is the cause of the death of birds
• Remedy Beam will make Google Glass a familiar doctor attribute.
• Google received permission to make their smart glasses indistinguishable from normal
• Who better understands technology: Gates, Zuckerberg or Bryn
• LG G Watch and Android Wear Review: Google Watch
• Small stories of great design: from shavers to tablets
• Japanese Nobumichi Asai, a professional in the field of projecting light to three-dimensional objects, created a video in which a living model, sitting on a chair, changes several times in the face.
• Samsung doused the Galaxy S5 with ice water as part of the Ice Bucket Challenge and challenged the iPhone 5s

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