The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №137 (December 1 - 7, 2014)

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

Web development

• Ten Typical Questions at HTML Interviews
• Go beyond the edge of the browser
• Grunt quick setup for comfortable development
• Revised Grunt Beginner's Guide
• Video of the meeting of Web Standards Days , held in Kiev on December 6th. Program of the meeting, speakers and topics
• The creator of QEMU and FFmpeg proposed a new image format BPG , BPG Image format
• Pocket Guide to Writing SVG. Chapter 6 : Advanced Functions: Gradients, Patterns, Trim Contours
• Online courses for learning programming
• ZURB Launches Foundation for Applications
• Terms defined in the W3C HTML5 recommendations
• Basics of development for mobile devices
• A thousand pages of the most popular websites weighs an average of 1795 Kb
• How to master the budget allocated to a productive site
• What will happen next with the project X-Tag
• Using video and letter templates together
• Improved user interface capabilities using the Web Speech API
• Generate dynamic custom video from HTML5 animation using PhantomJS and FFmpeg
• Simple mobile app with React and Cordova
• A look at HTML6 - what it is and what it can offer us
• Another introduction to Grunt, now in screencast video
• Long descriptions for images (in the context of content availability questions)
• 10 relatively fresh front-end frameworks to pay attention to

CSS

• On http://htmlacademy.ru a new course “Getting to know LESS” has been released. The course is free and accessible to all.
• Optimizing web page performance: CSS
• Can I Use for fonts
• CSS Regression Testing Automation
• Understand the best way to use CSS statistics
• Creating a linear gradient mixin in Sass
• Native Modernizr for browser: use @supports in CSS
• CSS animation for beginners
• CSS sprites with Sass and Compass
• CSS trimming and masking
• CSS Stats - style statistics
• 61 CSS form, ready to use
• Funny thread on the redit: CSS-puns

Javascript

• Javascript birthday
• Split nodejs , io.js - compatible fork Node.js
• Thinking out loud about developing javascript applications on the example of a small Line Of Business framework
• AngularJS - translation course from CoodSchool
• Date and Time Issues in JS
• AngularJS framework not for sites
• Introduction to pixi.js
• JavaScript status in 2015, opinion of Jimmy Breck-McKye
• Introduction to Service Worker
• Anatomy of a simple template engine
• JavaScript modules in ES6
• Getting started with Yosemite automation with Javascript
• Iterators gonna iterate
• CSS vs JavaScript: destroying myths
• Ten of the most common mistakes that NodeJS developers make
• Client Status Management in AngularJS
• 2 years with Angular. Verdict: good enough (actually not)
• Preparing for the future of AngularJS
• Backbone Pain Relief with Flux and React
• Creating large, scalable real-time applications with Meteor
• PhotoSwipe 4.0β - the popular JS-library for creating galleries has been updated. Now it is focused not only on mobile devices. The author tried to make it so convenient to use the gallery on any device.
• Tweeny - a JavaScript interlayer for animations
• Material Design Preloader
• Dynamic shadow depending on the position and transparency of the element relative to the light source

Browsers

• Firefox 34 release
• Firefox 35-beta and Firefox Developer Edition 36 Exit
• Firefox loses market share
• Firefox will be released for iOS
• Browser Opera 26 released with support for Linux

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• Sites with a look "down"
• Sites with excellent typography
• Christmas history calendar site
• Top sites with excellent typography in November 2014
• DNA is a website built on canvas, with cool animation and sound effects.
• globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com is a full-screen scrolling site with interesting effects and design.
• studiokraftwerk.com - conceptual site with an interactive background and non-standard design elements
• toga.com.au - an interesting implementation of the slider and other interface elements
• flavinsky.com/ - unusual design and site navigation

Design

• Cinema in web design
• Vintage Matte Photoshop Effect
• Product Design Digest November 2014
• Brief history of web design
• Detailed designer guide for DPI
• A golden age of design
• Designers "Yandex Browser" on how not to interfere with people
• Designers have fun: 10 fun projects
• Web design trends that will prevail in 2015
• Learning to study cool design: Avis Car Hire
• Trends in Chinese Mobile Application UI
• Design Explosions: A Comparison of Google Maps and Apple Maps Application Design
• Graphic Design Alphabet: A Dictionary of Basic Terms
• Illustrated History of Mac OS X
• Web designs with cool landscape background photos
• Lessons on creating poster design in Photoshop
• A word of advice: how to use the Adobe Creative Cloud libraries
• Evolution of the logo idea for io.js
• Analysis of typography design in the movie "Alien"
• uxbullshit.com - Wacky UX Quotes

A selection of free designer cookies

• Free knitted textures for warm design
• Free winter icons
• Texture Pack Collection
• Photos of vintage cameras
• Mockups for the presentation of design in the browser
• Mockups to demonstrate the design of posters / flyers
• This week's UI kits
• Set with UI elements of Snow Flakes in PSD format
• Vector Christmas Cards
• Set of a whole hundred christmas icons
• PaymentFont - SVG font icon dedicated to the subject of payment transactions
• Wrapping Christmas Icons with Flat Design
• Packaging icons with a flat design KAMELEON TASTER
• Marske - a decorative sans-serif header font consisting of capital letters
• Delicate - decorative “vanishing” serif font
• Fresh fonts for every taste: from strict Smidswater to soft Hanken Round
• Fonts imitating the inscription in chalk on a blackboard: from DK Crayon Crumble to FFF TUSJ
• 757 color icons in the Material Design style in PSD and SVG formats . There is a paid version for 1439 icons, which also includes icons in AI format.

Entertaining

• News:
  
  • Google announced No-CAPTCHA - a new system of protection against spammers
  • Orion spacecraft successfully went into orbit (and successfully returned to Earth)
  • In Berlin, will introduce a program to predict crimes
  • Yandex.Search by pictures learned to look for similar images
  • Inventor YotaPhone is preparing a mechanical watch with a programmable NFC chip
  • Google doesn’t boost responsive design sites.
  • Microsoft is preparing to show three new smartphones under its brand
  • EBay launched smart stores in the US
  • The official opening of the energy efficient city of the future took place in Japan
  • Princeton has developed bioelectronic 3D printing.
  
  
• Demo:
  
  • Steep "Christmas" experiments of this year.
  • Experiments with animation in interfaces
  • Typography animation
  
  
• Steve Wozniak dispelled Apple’s “birth” myth in the garage
• 10 free online courses from Coursera, which you can take in December
• A camera that captures 100 billion frames per second shows how the light moves
• "Your smartphone is more powerful": The Philae team about unexpected discoveries on a comet - Open interview of a group of scientists
• WhatsApp: The history of the growth of the messenger without marketing
• The leaders of the Asian IT giants are not easy to find successors
• The most profitable programming languages: how to earn a programmer
• VIDEO: 30-year history of the future
• Stephen Hawking: the development of AI can lead to the death of mankind
• Neutral Network: Wikipedia paradox
• The Game Awards 2014: nominees, winners and video of the awards ceremony
• Demonstration of the work of Cortana voice assistant in Windows 10

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Digest from last week .
Material prepared dersmoll and alekskorovin .