The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week No. 128 (September 29 - October 5, 2014)

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

Web development

• Hardware acceleration in the life of the coder. (Workshop in Yandex)
• Where to study programmer: 19 online courses
• Image placeholders. Convenient images to fill the space during layout of web pages.
• Awesome Shell - a list of command-line tools.
• Awesome SVG - a large number of materials on SVG
• Generators of guides on the style of the front-end of the project
• Seven easy ways to optimize your website
• The complete guide to Bootstrap, with a huge number of plug-ins and themes compatible with the framework
• Adaptive images: if you just change permissions, use srcset.
• Picture - a new item that is not
• "Design By Typing" - a new series of screencasts on the use of Vim, Git, Unix and OOCSS
• Create a native dialog box using HTML5
• Reflections on the theme of pagination by Chris Koyera
• Material Design Theme for Bootstrap 3
• Cheat Sheet by ARIA
• Creating an HTML5 Platform Game
• Detailed description of the frontend development process in a small German IT company
• Why is viewport a meta tag?

CSS

• Animating Flexbox with CSS Transition
• Guidelines for the introduction of CSS-columns in responsive design
  
• Rake on pure SVG
• Support for @extend in LibSass has ended with community money
• Size does matter: we balance between Line Length and Font Size in responsive design
  
  
• Conditional Expressions in CSS Preprocessors
• Wyrm - Sass / Bourbon Starter Kit
• Basscss - A set of modular CSS tools based on OOSS principles.
• Improving @ font-face with Font Load Events
• How to recreate jQuery-effects with CSS
• Writing CSS (and Sass) that won't suck
• Scalable CSS content
• Strange anti-pattern with 62.5%
• How to create CSS animations visually using Stylie
• CSS Regions: moving on with iOS8
• Proper use of em and rem
• The truth about CSS from David Walsh
  

Javascript

• Holy Grail on steroids: total synchronization and isomorphic JavaScript on Swarm.js
• Understanding Monads with Javascript
• Javascript Interview Questions
• FixMyJS fixes javascript writing style
  
• Research into the possibilities of auto-correcting errors in JavaScript using FixMyJS
• Dropcap.js - Adobe library for aligning letters with text ( online tool for visual customization )
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• Javascript Free Roadmap
• Pattern for using a single var declaration in javascript
• Date and time in javascript
• AngularJS Tutorial: 10,000 Word Detailed Guide
• Five array methods you should use now
• Using RequireJS in AngularJS Applications
• Using Angular Mobile UI when developing cross-platform applications
• AngularJS tutorial on creating Gmail clone
• Promises in the Google API Client Library
• gridscrolling.js - jQuery plugin for creating single-page slide navigation in vertical and horizontal directions
• pagePiling.js - another slide-scrolling plugin
• gifshot - JS-library for creating animated GIF from a media stream, video or images
• Video from Hakim El Hattab on "Visual JavaScript Experiments" (from Nordic.js 2014)

Web tools

• How to replace Helvetica on Windows? Zack Lezerman launched a service that will help to find folbek
• Read more about the Font Family Reunion service and the tasks it solves in Zack Leserman's blog.

news

• Windows 10
  
  • Return of the Start menu: Microsoft introduced Windows 10
  • 10 things you should know before installing Windows 10 TP
  • Windows 10 Technical Preview Review
  • Windows 10: the crown of 30 years of development
  • A step back and to the side: the views of developers and experts on the new Windows 10
  • Windows 10: innovation without innovation
  • The invention of the bicycle: What did Windows 10 borrow from OS X
  • Microsoft Windows 10: someday everything will be fine or not
  • How I stopped being afraid and loved Windows 10
  
  
• Modular smartphone “Project Ara”: new details from Google
• Google tried to buy Cyanogen Inc.
• PayPal will leave eBay and become an independent company.
• Project Ara modular smartphones will support hot swap units
• Google has closed its first social network Orkut
• In Russia, they bought about 100 thousand new iPhones for the first weekend
• Apple will participate in the development of standards for 5G networks
• Amazon has completed the purchase of Twitch
• SSD prices are falling fast

Browsers

• Microsoft is collecting suggestions for improving Internet Explorer
• Improved audio and video in mobile IE
• Privacy Button in Firefox
• Moving towards the integration of native Tor support in Firefox
• Internet Explorer 11 adds support for HTML5 video and audio in Windows Phone 8.1
• Yes! 64-bit Firefox for Windows on its way

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• violaineetjeremy.fr - a site with a non-standard implementation of navigation
• burnkit.com - custom layout site
• dangblast.com - nice transformation of the site header when scrolling
• thermodo.com - an example of successfully used background animation
• An interesting promo site from CocaCola
• guillaumebouvet.com - unusual site navigation
• Dagobert.com - smooth scroll animation and non-standard menu
• strandperle-hamburg.de - hover-parallax and fun design

Design

• Google and Adobe will transfer Photoshop to Chrome browser
• Portraits large frame in web design
• Create a menu written in chalk on a chalkboard in Adobe Illustrator.
• Icons Of Digital Design
• How to create a style guide for your site
• Design with a focus on the image: the more the better?
• Examples of the trend of web design: the revival of splash screens
• Around the World in Eighteen Designs
• Two and a half dozen sites with inspiring examples of the successful use of large background images
• Bezier curves - what's under the hood
• Oven - for baking layers from Photoshop
• Import an Excel spreadsheet into timetable design using Adobe InDesign
• Community project: demonstration of wireframes of complex vector images
• Infographics: color trends Shutterstock 2014
• Sketch Plugins That Will Improve Your Process

A selection of free designer cookies

• Flat design elements for UI
• Packing with photos from Death to The Stock Photo
• Coloro - UI Kit
• A dozen sets of UI in PSD format for the creators of mobile application designs
• Ten abstract high-resolution background photos with bokeh effect
• Apple Watch GUI PSD
• Packing with vector images dedicated to All Saints Day
• Vector iPhone and Apple Watch Mockups

Entertaining

• How Google is going to change the real world
• Cosplay in Russia: how was the first Comic Con Russia
  
  • The most memorable cosplay of the first days of Igromir 2014
  • Photo report from Igromir and Comic Con Russia, day 3
  • Igromir and Comic Con in Instagram photos
  • Igromir / Comic Con Russia 2014: Booth-babes and cosplay
  • 41 Awesome Cosplayers From Russia's First Comic-Con
  
  
• 10 most famous starships in the movies
• A foreigner's look at internship at Yandex
• Apple - nuclear power plant: Former top managers about sleepless nights and an endless stream of letters
• Bill Gates tops Forbes list again
• Video: Speech by the founder of the Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, to the staff in 1999
• Google celebrates its 16th anniversary with a festive logo and cake

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Digest from last week .
Material prepared dersmoll and alekskorovin .