The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №124 (September 1 - 7, 2014)

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

Web development

• Toolkit for deployment in Ubuntu environments for different categories of developers
• Customize archives for headings, tags and other taxonomies in WordPress
• Scroll effects. Varieties, subtleties, problems, solutions. What is Scroolly?
• Testing Mobile: emulators, simulators and remote debugging
• uilang - pseudo-language with a focus on UI
• Internal developer training: we do it right
• Creating simple offline To-Do applications using IndexedDB and WebSQL
• HTML5 download attribute
• Creating a mini CSS preprocessor for controlling colors in a wordpress theme
• HTML5 Imports: insert HTML file inside another HTML file
• 8 useful extensions for brackets
• How to optimize the site for wearable devices
• How new HTML element will make the Internet faster (about picture)
• Efficiency of tabs and spaces in HTML
• Video of the Luke Wroblewski report on "How to Design Components for Mobile First"
• Jeffrey Zeldman Documentary
• Fabio Carneiro - Hard-Won Lessons in Responsive Email Design (video from SmashingConf NYC 2014)

CSS

• CSS Shapes for Chrome , CSS Shapes Editor for Chrome
• Pure CSS parallax
• GitHub's CSS
• CSS GuideLines, part 1. Syntax and formatting
• CSS GuideLines, part 2. Commenting code
• CSS preprocessors vs. postprocessors
• Centering CSS: The Complete Guide from Chris Coyier
• Symmetry, size, speed and CSS Shapes
• Stylie - sandbox for testing animations
• Two good techniques for changing the styles of form elements
• CSS names are really hard stuff
• AMCSS - Attribute Modules for CSS
• Introducing AM - Attribute Modules for Glen Maddern's CSS
• gridbyexample.com - simple examples of using CSS3 Grid Layout Module
• Flexbox bugs in IE11
• More advanced Sass mixins when using Null
• Five useful Sass mixins in Bootstrap
• kouto swiss - a useful set of mixins and snippets for Stylus
• Tab Effects Collection
• Creative Effects for Animation of CSS3 Borders
• CSS asynchronous loading
• CSS Cement - a static framework using LESS

Javascript

• Small utility for CoffeeScript developer
• Introduction to Gulp, Grunt, Bower, and npm support in Visual Studio
• Ractive.js - the diamond age of web development
• JavaScript method insertAdjacentHTML and beforeend
• Bold AngularJS for Team Development [1/2]
• Synchronous processing of tasks in Gulp.JS
• Animate without jQuery
• Memory management , master class from Addy Osmani
• ECMAScript 6: what's next in javascript? by Axel Rauschmayer
• Socket.IO 1.1.0
• jQuery UI + Web Components
• HTML5 Page Visibility API
• cross-storage - cross-domain LocalStorage
• Using NodeJS and Arduino to create a device that displays weather data
• postscribe - asynchronous javascript entry
• Simple and “perfect” image slider on vanilla JS
• jquery focuspoint - jQuery plugin for smart cropping images
• PIONEERJS - clear code for programmers and product owners
• Horizonal.js - a script for splitting a page into slides and subsequent animation of transitions between them.
• rollerblade.js - plugin for creating interactive images with the ability to rotate 360 ​​°
• Timesheet.js - data visualization using HTML5 and CSS3
• Animsition - a simple jQuery plugin to add page transition effects
• Blast.js - mozilla library for text manipulations
• Bumpkit - library for working with Web Audio API

Web tools

• FontFace Ninja: I want this font immediately!
• Fibonacci flexbox composer
• Chrome gradient-inspector extension
• Plain Pattern - a tool for creating vector patterns

news

• WordPress 4.0 Benny Release, WordPress 4.0 Web Content Management System Release
• The first successful demonstration of the transmission of thoughts at a distance
• Google has created a virtual museum of Chinese history and art.
• Pornhub, Redtube and Youporn join the general protest on the symbolic "slowing down" of the Internet
• OneDrive removes 2 GB file size limit
• Meizu announced the flagship smartphone MX4
• The DARPA ElectRx project aims to create a person’s self-healing ability.
• Google will be developing chips for quantum computing systems
• VKontakte, Yandex, Mail.ru and Rambler will transfer user data to the FSB

Browsers

• Older browsers - old version of google
• What is my browser? Staff telepath leaves vacation
• Project Raspberry Pi has released its own web browser
• Firefox 32 release
• And once again about Firefox 32 from the point of view of a web developer

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• Top sites with a focus on typography in August 2014
• jacksbarlondon.co.uk - full-screen single-page site with nice effects and parallax
• newjumoconcept.com - interactive scrolling site
• vangoghmuseum.nl - colorfully illustrated website with scroll animation
• leesferry.com - site with background video and nice animation
• johnjacob.ca/newyork - vertical scrolling site with parallax and unusual effects of transitions between blocks
• T-shirt site from ESPN

Design

• WebMoney updated interfaces
• How to create an order payment page for a project: 11 popular sites
• Tips in the interface: how to educate the user and convince him not to delete the application
• How to start learning UX and usability: 20 useful resources
• 10 useful and interesting tests for designers
• Concepts of redesigns of known resources
• Maslow's Pyramid in Design, or Emotional Design for Business
• Lebedev and the star: “Lebedev Studio” has developed the official logo of Moscow ; Opinion of Internet users ;
• Designer Mark Newson joins Apple's Johnny Ive team.
• Periodic table of processes in web design (controversial, but informative)
• New trend of web design: close-up portraits
• Annoying design
• Trends 2014: ghost button sunrise
• How to create a double exposure effect in Photoshop
• Three tips for creating a holistic print layout design
• Inspiring Business Cards
• Infographics: the ten commandments of logo design
• Illustrations and infographics with robots icons
• Facet sorting - a new method of sorting search results

A selection of free designer cookies

• Free icons and buttons for social media subscriptions
• TETHR - designer set for iOS applications
• Two dozen sets of UI with a flat design
• Black and white set with UI
• Three dozen UI sets in PSD format with elements of mobile applications (Summer 2014 edition)
• Mockups to show your design on devices: Mac, iPad, iPad mini, Samsung Galaxy 5 and HTC One
• Mocap business cards
• Musicons - music icons in PSD format
• Set with vector icons dedicated to the financial sphere
• Vector Sticker Icons with Flat Design on Business Theme
• Vector flat design education icons.
• Sets with the vector icons "The Regular Cut" and "The Light Cut"
• Bushcraft - decorative sans serif font
• Brela - concise serif font
• Four dozen futuristic fonts: from Neuropol X Font to Digit
• Noni &, dash; nice handwritten sans serif font

Entertaining

• Smartphone on the edge: Samsung Galaxy Edge with a new curved display
• Industry of eSports: from a box of beer to a million dollars
• Is it possible to "break" the Internet?
• Text for "blue screen of death" Windows wrote by Steve Ballmer
• The most expensive in the world "GIF" put on eBay
• 11 Predicted Predictions from 1993 AT & T Advertising
• What do parents think about the work of representatives of the IT industry
• How to protect yourself on the Internet
• What prompted success in the business of Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Larry Page
• The Great October Chinese Computer Revolution
• Ten most deafening failures of leading IT-companies
• Kill Grandpa: How scientists solve the most famous time travel paradox
• Are we really on the Internet of things? By no means!

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