The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №146 (February 2 - 8, 2015)

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

Web development

• How to create a website using YouTube videos as a background?
• Isomorphic BEM
• 55 free online February courses on IT, Entrepreneurship and Math
• Digest 4Front Meetup # 5: Chrome Extensions, documents in javascript and more
• Frontflip Podcast: Optimizing SVG. Kir Belevich
• HTML5 Boilerplate updated to version 5
• Node-firefox view
• Basics of working with SVG - creating segments using curve commands
• Video from Whistler: Marcy Sutton's SmashingConf on the Web for All (on the importance of content availability)
• W3C Recommendation - Server-Sent Events
• Seven Lessons I Learned from David Walsh in Mozilla
• You can use copy () in the console.
• Progressive data improvement and visualization
• Deploy the project to Heroku using Gulp, Node and Git
• Style Guide Generator Roundup

CSS

• The problem of diagonal boarders and Firefox
• Effect of drip transform in css as well Css-tricks gooey effect
• Standard CSS parsing API
• CSS features you'll love in 2015
• Presentation of the current Codrops CSS Reference
• Sass Vector Graphics
• Size units in CSS: angles, time, and frequency
• "Fave" animation from Twitter
• Using sprites with <img>
• Getting started with Less
• Simple Textures with CSS Masks
• Transition to SCSS
• What will save us from the dark side of CSS preprocessors?
• Create a spectacular CSS carousel
• CSS-only experiment with animated particles gathering into a sphere

Javascript

• Wallaby.js - a small beast with a great future
• Unconventional React Overview
• How to untangle noodles without getting depressed (article about those situations when you have a bunch of jQuery noodles)
• IO.js or old rake with new sauce
• Change CoffeeScript to ES6
• Unconventional review of AngularJS
• JavaScript bulletproof tests
• Getting rid of JavaScript in social buttons (Facebook, VK, Twitter, etc.)
• Getting rid of conditional statements
• jQuery and CoffeeScript
• Prototype properties and methods
• Launch of Node.js 0.12 server-side JavaScript platform.
• Stop writing JavaScript frameworks!
• Material Design with Angular.js. Basic principles and examples and uses.
• Vissense is a library for observing visual changes to DOM elements.
• Variables and scope in ECMAScript 6
• Training course "Expert ES6"
• Synchronous asynchronous JavaScript with ES6 generators
• Google SoundScript: Faster OOP for JavaScript
• Let's write a quick javascript
• What is flux?
• Conclusions after React.js Conf 2015
• First impressions of using React Native
• TouchstoneJS - UI framework for React.js hybrid apps
• FieldVal - generation of structured error messages
• is.js - type checking, regular expression, time and other
• lz-string: fast data compression with javascript
• Konva - 2D HTML5 canvas framework for applications for mobile and desktop devices

Browsers

• BroadcastChannel API in Firefox 38
• Chrome pace
• HTTP / 2 (h2-14, spdy4) in Google Chrome 40
• New images of Spartan browser from Windows 10 TP Build 10009

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• Shoe Sites
• Examples of interesting parallax and other scrolling effects in web design
• GUIBENTO.COM - a conceptual site with a non-standard layout and animation
• claudiocalautti.cc - creative portfolio of a creative front-end developer
• hellomonday.com - scrolling site of the day with cool effects
• heycubi.com - an unusual application of the scroll effect on the cubi promo site

Design

• Google Glass concepts from designers from around the world
• Telegram application concepts from designers from around the world
• The effect of overlap in web design
• Gradients in web design
• Typographic logo in Illustrator and Photoshop
• Flower typography
• Four trends in design that will continue in 2015
• What is it like to be a designer at Khan Academy
• uxrecipe - UX Ingredients for Your Designer Recipe
• Imitation is a truly sincere form of flattery.
• Starting to work with roughly designed wireframe sketches
• How to draw a Polish hussar on a horse in Adobe Photoshop
• How to draw rope knots with brushes in Illustrator
• Twenty-five handwritten logo designs from various countries
• A series of minimalist posters with famous quotes.
• Dash in web typography

A selection of free designer cookies

• Free Material Design UI Elements
• 20 free forms for your UI
• Two dozen packs with grunge textures
• Grunge style canvas background texture
• Over two dozen authentic vintage postcard textures from the 30s
• Backgrounds with geometric waves
• UI set in Material Design style
• Sports set UI Number One with the elements of the application or site with a flat design
• PSD templates for January 2015
• Over a hundred PSD templates for 2014 websites
• Two and a half dozen mokapov to demonstrate the logo in different conditions
• Vans is a fun vector set featuring a pair of skateboarders, their clothes and accessories.
• Icon template for iOS8 application for use in Photoshop CC
• Signia - seven hundred monochrome vector icons
• Packing with vector icons on SEO
• Two dozen custom fonts, Valentine's Day
• Signify - icon font for web projects
• Oldways - Retro Serif Font

news

• Two-factor authentication, which is convenient to use
• Microsoft: We continue to develop Windows RT
• Satya Nadella predicted a complete failure of the pen for ten years
• Apple's stock value hit record high
• Twitter remained unprofitable in 2014, but significantly increased profits
• Yandex has launched a beta version of two-factor authentication
• YouTube launches multi-angle videos
• W3C develops web standards for cars0
• YouTube is testing the ability to select a camera to view scenes from different angles.
• Google Earth Pro has become free

Entertaining

• Google Glass: reboot
• 26 amazing facts about google (infographics)
• Rotten apples. Apple's most unfortunate products
• Peek into space from Twitter and Instagram: where on social networks subscribe to astronauts
• “Destroyers of Legends” checked Doom and Fruit Ninja for realism
• Life after blocking: What happens to IT entrepreneurs in Crimea
• Video of the day: DARPA simulated launch of small missiles using jet aircraft
• WIRED interview with Pavel Durov: about Telegram development, politics and moving around the world
• Demo:
  
  • Shiny - volume animated shining text with effect settings.
  • Useful Wi-Fi Map application for accessing public access points
  • 30 impressive HTML5 games
  
  

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