The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №170 (July 26 - August 2, 2015)

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

Web development

CSS

Javascript

Browsers

Design

news

Entertaining

Web development

• Choosing a plugin for caching WordPress: benchmarking 18 plugins
• Sites that block Googlebot access to CSS and JavaScript may fall in the list
• Browserify vs Webpack
• CSS vs. SVG: Graphic Text Effects
• Battle Royale: Atom vs. Sublime
• IDE battle: which one is better?
• 13 frameworks using Material Design Frameworks for Modern UI Development
• Audit page load performance with DevTools Filmstrip in Chrome (Pageload Perf Audits with DevTools Filmstrip in Chrome)
• Optimization for mobile users - 9 things you should know about (Optimizing for Mobile Users - 9 Things You Need to Know)
• 5 ways to optimize your site under Microsoft Edge
• Stop pushing the web forward © Peter-Paul Koch (Stop pushing the web forward)
• The ARIA Roles Model
• Difference between Minification and Gzipping
• Guide to speeding up your websites (The quick guide to speeding up your websites)
• Deep Linking in Apps for Improved Discoverability
• SVG (Animated SVG Pipes Effect) tube animation effect
• Preview and inspect websites on current devices (Preview and Inspect Websites on Actual Devices)
• Interactive Imagemaps - Video from SVG Meetup
• Using the Media Capture API in a browser
• Parallax on websites and SEO
• HTML and CSS constrain web development (HTML and CSS are holding the web back)
• Chris Koyer's favorite demos on CodePen

CSS

• Grid Layouts Tidbits, Part 1: Why and Why . The css-live.ru community is starting to translate a series of articles written by Emil Björklund about the grid layout.
• CSS3 Grid Layout Goldfish (Part 2)
• How-to: responsive emails in Gmail
• @ CSS Rules
• "What TheFlexBox ?!" - video course, the most revealing topic Flexbox
• Advanced CSS filters
• Generating alternative style sheets for browsers without using Media (Generating Alternative Stylesheets for Browsers Without 'media')
• PostCSS - Sass killer or preprocessor pretender? (PostCSS - Sass Killer or Preprocessing Pretender?)
• Vendor Prefixes and Market Reality (Vendor Prefixes And Market Reality)
• Developing flexible, supported pie charts using CSS and SVG
• Constructing CSS Quantity Queries on the Fly (Constructing CSS Quantity Queries On The Fly)
• CSS Fix for iOS vh-unit Bug
• A look at the units of length in CSS (A Look at Length Units in CSS)
• Fix scrolling performance with CSS will-change property (Fix scrolling performance with CSS will-change property)
• Three-dimensional portal of colored hexagons on the "pure CSS". Caution, loads the browser.

Javascripts

• JavaScript inheritance patterns
• 15 videos from Texas JavaScript Conference
• The basics of Backbone.js: breathing life into the app using Events (Backbone.js Basics: Bringing an App to Life with Events), your first Backbone.js model
• We start to deal with Ember and Ember CLI
• Making the future JS today using Babel (Making the most of JavaScript’s “future” today with Babel)
• Features of regular expressions in ECMAScript 6 (New regular expression features in ECMAScript 6)
• Detecting System Fonts Without Flash
• ES6 in detail: let and const
• Reverse a string in JS in three different ways (Reversing A String In Javascript 3 Different Ways)
• Spectacle - ReactJS library for creating presentations
• Code migration from ES3 → ES5 → ES6
• Understanding Fluent APIs in JavaScript
• Debugging JS using cross-browser source maps (JavaScript Debugging Using Cross-Browser Source Maps)
• jQuery 3.0 - the future of web development

Browsers

• The audio indicator and the option to mute the sound appear on the tabs in Firefox
• A stable 64-bit version of Firefox will appear in September, then Java support will be removed.
• Stripe UI Designer: “Google Chrome is the new Internet Explorer”
• The head of Mozilla accused Microsoft of "imposing" users of the new browser Edge.
• Edge extensions will be published in the Windows Store
• Microsoft Edge vs. Google Chrome: Which Browser Is Faster?

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• History of icons
• Who is mr Robot - themed site for the TV series Mr.Robot
• adwyse.de - a site with pleasant animation and stylish design
• josephaavoue.com - slide scrolling site with interesting effects
• hermestocchetti.com - a site with an unusual three-dimensional scroll effect
• ixedgroup.com - a site with an unusual effect when scrolling
• 200 Billion Galaxies
• Friday Cat

Design

• 7 sins in the design of mobile interfaces
• "The font determines how the user consumes content": Web designer on the role of text on the site
• 7 simple rules for creating attractive interfaces - part two
• 10 design myths that the founders believe
• Complete Landing Page Guidelines for Conversion (Part 1)
• History of animation (History of animation)
• 26 digital typography rules for beginners (26 digital typography rules for beginners)
• What is interactive design and what are its principles (What are its principles? )
• How to choose the right image for your site (How to Choose the Right Featured Image For Your Website)
• About developing a font for writing code (Designing a Coding Font)
• Material Design is different, not better (Material Design is Different, Not Better)
• The Importance of Storyteling in Design (The Importance of Storytelling in Design)
• Designing with Science
• Twitter's biggest problem? These are design flaws (Twitter's Biggest Problem? Its Flawed Design)

news

• Windows 10:
  
  • Windows 10 officially went on sale and became available for free update.
  • The first day with Windows 10: 14 million installations and some surprises
  • "Windows as a service": Why is Windows 10 important for Microsoft and what kind of future is waiting for the system
  • For soliter without ads in Windows 10, Microsoft wants $ 10 a year
  • Everything a player needs to know about Windows 10
  • Mozilla and the Foundation Foundation made statements regarding Windows 10
  • Officially released DirectX 12
  • ChinaJoy 2015: Ubitus and Microsoft showcased the world's first HTML5 Cloud Game Streaming on Windows 10 using the Edge browser
  
  
• “Divorce and maiden name”: Google separates Google+ from YouTube and its other services , Everything is in place
• Facebook has unveiled its solar-powered internet drone.
• Apple Music has received 10 million subscribers - Samsung responded with free Google Play Music for half a year
• Western Digital: SSD sales hit a record high amid falling HDD demand

Entertaining

• Google office in New York: a dream job
• Evernote Silicon Valley Office
• Life hack of the week: Exercise immersed in work
• Artificial intelligence against humanity: Mask, Hawking and Wozniak warn that it is time to stop
• What were the first search engines
• His value pirate
• Four Apple Watch owners talk about their first months with the clock.
• The world of sockets: how to charge gadgets in different countries of the world
• The Troll Revolution: How Reddit Users Overthrew CEO, But They Haven't Taken Nothing
• Dropbox through the eyes of its technical director: How a startup survives under the pressure of giants
• The death of a startup: An overview of the most notable startups that closed in 2015
• From Nurse Cat to Horror: 14 popular YouTube videos in 360 degree format
• Pronunciation of popular file extensions

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Digest from last week .
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