The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №141 (December 29, 2014 - January 4, 2015)

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

Web development

• Cloud IDE for web programmers
• "Long-term web semantics" Translation of the article by Alex Russell Long Term Web Semantics
• Already 2015 Update your site's footer to keep up with the times
• W3C vs WHATWG HTML5 specifications - documented differences
• Analytics-driven responsive web design planning
• So you decided to write a technical book.
• Aaron Gustafson’s Adaptive Web Design is available online for free.
• In 2014, the average page weight increased by 15%
• Most liked the work on CodePen in 2014
• The best articles of the popular magazine Codrops in 2014
• npm - 2014 year in numbers
• A retrospective of ten web predictions for 2014: results
• 2015 will be crucial for HTML5
• HTML as custom elements
• Good front-end architecture (sample structure is offered)
• A brief introduction to SVG
• Git Interactive Tutorials
• cURL - cURL syntax converter to NodeJS or Python requests
• Input Type Sandbox - testing various types of input fields with specified parameters
• Website Performance Testing Tools
• titon.io - a collection of UI components for creating responsive pages and applications

CSS

• CSS: just try and do your job well
• Best Practices for Creating Style Guides
• CSS hardware acceleration: pros and cons
• Introduction to CSS selectors for beginners
• Separate the Sass code that renders something from the rest.
• Approaches to working with Media Queries in Sass
• Creative animation for closing modal windows

Javascript

• DOM is enough for everyone, or how to reconcile ReactJS with the fact that third-party libraries change its DOM
• jQuery for mobile devices, all the pros and cons
• JavaScript Trends for 2015
• Current Javascript Status
• Javascript Generation
• Creating objects without prototypes
• Symbols in ECMAScript 6
• JavaScript Equality Table
• React Templates - templates for React
• React-Grid-Layout - React-grid with the ability to drag and drop items and resize
• New year, new UI: why we chose Angular.js
• Angular-RPI - indicator of the current position of reading the page
• angular-websocket - a module that was previously missed by AngularJS 1.x Websocket for client-server communication
• angular-debug-bar - a panel for measuring application performance
• ngKookies - $ cookieStore replacement for a more complete work with cookies
• Bitcore - a library for working with bitcoins
• Unite Gallery - plugin on jQuery to create an adaptive gallery with a wide range of features
• PleaseWait.js - an application splash page that indicates that the necessary files are being downloaded.
• aja.js - asynchronous JS and JS / JSON (P)
• snabbt.js - minimalistic animated JS-library
• preCode.js - auto format for pre, code and textarea
• sheetsee.js - JS-library for connecting Google Spreadsheets on the site and visualizing various data
• Particles.js is a library that creates animated particles (canvas) for spectacular backgrounds.

Design

• The most memorable redesigns of IT projects in 2014.
• 10 trends of web design 2015
• Interview with illustrator Lola Landekic
• Better published in 2014 for design and illustration
• Eight best ideas of this year in UI design
• 2014 year visualized using Washington Post graphics
• The best infographics of 2014
• A comprehensive look at the year in web design
• Ten trends of web design that can be expected in 2015
• Web design predictions worth reading
• Trends and predictions regarding web design in 2015
• Slowly, flexibly and cheaply - the story of a six-year creation of the design of a volumetric rubber hexagon
• History of Harvard Law Review website redesign
• Prototype design of payment module using Pixate and Framer
• How to become a successful web designer?
• Ten things on which graphic designers can hang, and ten books that can help them cope with these problems.
• Designer Blindness
• Design with your customers
• Authorization Form Design Examples
• Creating the effect of shining glamorous New Year text in Photoshop
• Creative Arabic Collegraphy: Proportions and Distance
• Nine games for graphic designers

A selection of free designer cookies

• Mockup files for design prints
• Free New Year cards
• Almost four dozen mock-ups to demonstrate the design of books, magazines and brochures
• Three dozen WebUI patterns for designers in Photoshop, Sketch, Axure, and Omnigraffle formats
• Six and a half dozen UI sets in PSD format
• UI set with flat design and bright colors
• Snowflakes UI Snow UI PSD Set
• PSD: with the design of iOS 8 applications for iPhone To-Do List
• A hundred of the best fonts of 2014: from BORN with serif, to decorative ABC
• Decorative font family Againts imitating paint

news

• In Windows 10 will be a new browser from Microsoft - Spartan
• Asynchronous initialization of plugins in Firefox: fewer hangs and delays when loading sites
• After attracting investments in the amount of 1.1 billion US dollars, Xiaomi has become the world's largest startup.
• Windows XP is still the second most popular desktop OS.
• Samsung for the first time overtook Apple in the smartphone user satisfaction rating
• Samsung showed a candy bar with a curved display
• LG has announced a 34-inch curved monitor for gamers
• Kim Dotcom will launch MegaChat service for secure communication
• MozJPEG 3.0, a high-quality JPEG encoder from the Mozilla project, is available.
• Alcatel will return the Palm brand to the smartphone market
• CES 2015: All Samsung 2015 Smart TVs Will Be Based on Tizen
• The Indian government blocked 32 sites, including Github, Pastebin and Vimeo

Entertaining

• Trends of 2014 from Google
• The loudest information leaks in 2014
• Report from Instagram: New Year in the offices of Russian Internet companies
• Zuckerberg invited Facebook users to throw him a personal challenge for 2015
• Satya Nadella. What can you learn from the head of Microsoft
• Top US IT-employers based on employee feedback
• 8 notable startups closed in 2014
• What does Apple, Google, Yandex and other IT companies present to their employees for the New Year?
• The most interesting SMM campaigns of 2014
• 10 technical forecasts for 2015
• Memes 2014
• Quake on the oscilloscope
• The most important scientific achievements of 2014
• How do wearable gadgets work
• Breaking canvas-candy
• WebGL Music Fireworks

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Digest from last week .
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