The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №186 (November 15 - 22, 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

• The Chrome Dev Summit 2015: Day One , Day Two , Many videos
• Release Foundation 6 by ZURB . A quick review of new features , What I like most about Foundation 6 , and another review from tutsplus
• Microsoft has opened the source code editor Visual Studio Code
• Tips for creating and exporting the best SVG for the web (Tips for Creating and Exporting Better SVGs for the Web)
• The importance of development experience in modern frontend (Importance of the developer experience in the modern front-end)
• What if stack overflow doesn't work? What to do? (Stack Overflow is down. What now?)
• Learn command line commands to become dangerous , from Michael Hartl (Learn Command Line to Be Dangerous)
• Software Versions are Broken.
• Polyfills - polyfiles as services
• Instant loading of web applications with Shell-based application architecture (Instant Loading Web Apps With An Application Shell Architecture)
• Downloading Web Fonts from Web Font Loader (Loading Web Fonts with the Web Font Loader)
• GraphQL new king. Long live the king! (Rest in REST world) (GraphQL is the King. Long Live the King! (RIP REST))
• Why HTML5 hurts the advertising industry (Why HTML5 is causing the ad industry pain)
• React Virtual DOM vs Incremental DOM vs Ember's Glimmer: Fight
• Run CPU-consuming tasks in Gulp with separate processes to achieve faster build (Run CPU-consuming tasks).
• A bird's eye view of API development
• SVG Text Alignment and Alignment (SVG Text Layout And Alignment)
• We make human names for downloadable files using the HTML5 attribute download. Create a Human-Readable Files with the HTML5 download Attribute
• On Google+, I received a redesign, responsiveness and optimization of my pages.
• Spectacular web:
  
  • Weekly selection of beautiful effects on CSS / SVG / JS # 13
  • SVG Balloon Slider
  • Creative ideas on the design of price tables (Some Inspiration for Pricing Tables)
  • Animation Tip: Lerp Effect
  • Multi-level menu with a nice effect (Multi-Level Menu)
  
  

CSS

• Quiz of 15 questions: do you know CSS well
• Flexbox for interfaces in all its glory: Implementing Tracks Part 1 , Part 2
• Up the waterfall: a puzzle for a CSS superhero
• Using system interface fonts in web design
• Using PostCSS for cross-browser compatibility
• Sass:
  
  • Add Bitters to Bourbon and Sass
  • Semantic grids with Sass, Bourbon and Neat
  • Bourbon Refills - ready-made components to speed development
  • Mix colors on the web with Sass (Mixing Color for the Web with Sass)
  • Classy CSS: a programmatic approach to styles in Sass (Classy CSS: a Programmatic Approach to Sass Stylesheets)
  
  
• Visual Regression Testing with PhantomCSS (Visual Regression Testing with PhantomCSS)
• The most important techniques for responsive design (Must-Know Techniques for HTML5 Responsive Design)
• Creating an animated menu indicator using CSS selectors (Creating an Animated Menu Indicator with CSS Selectors)
• Using the Flexbox to create a responsive Comment Section (Using the Flexbox to Create a Responsive Comment Section)
• CSS clip-path maker
• CSS 3D Radial Menu
• documentcss - creating live styled guides using interactive examples

Javascript

• Angular and RequireJS project builder and some build thoughts
• ES6:
  
  • JavaScript destructuring (ES6) from the inside
  • ES6: object literal capabilities from the inside
  • Tastes ES6: operator extensions in detail
  • Finite Iterating Infinite Data With ES6 Generators
  • Run the ES6 code in the browser (Running ES6 code in the browser)
  
  
• Meet the JavaScript Air - live video podcast about JS and the web
• New releases: Ember.js 2.2 and 2.3 , React v0.14.3
• Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) - a modular toolkit for developers based on JS
• Let's learn to use JS responsibly. (Let's learn how to use JavaScript responsibly and stay up-to-date.)
• JS frameworks and mobile performance (JavaScript Frameworks and Mobile Performance)
• How do promises work? (How do Promises Work?)
• Closures are not magic (Closures are not magic)
• I turned off JavaScript for a whole week and it was beautiful (I Turned Off JavaScript for a Glorious)
• DOM Tips and Techniques: Parents, Subsidiaries, and Neighboring Elements (DOM Tips and Techniques: Parent, Child, and Siblings)
• Price frameworks . About saving time for developers (The Cost of Frameworks)
• Writing your own functionality to copy to the buffer in 20 lines of JavaScript (Roll Your Own Copy to Clipboard Feature in 20 Lines of JavaScript)
• Getting Started with Service Workers (Getting Started with Service Workers)
• Offline Recipes for Service Workers
• Using the Gamepad API in Web Games (Using The Gamepad API In Web Games)
• Hidden performance implications of using Object.defineProperty () (Hidden performance implications of Object.defineProperty ())
• Research of various CMS built on Node.js (Exploring Different CMS Solutions Built on Node.js)
• Creating WebGL Components with Angular (Creating WebGL components with Angular - Aysegul Yonet)
• ReactJS tutorial: call monitoring with React, Express and Socket.io (ReactJS Tutorial: Call monitoring with React, Express and Socket.io)
• Mapping the Windows of New York
• Creating an application with Vue.js: from authentication to an API call (Build an App with Vue.js: From Authentication to Calling an API)
• plotly.js - a library for drawing scientific interactive charts and graphs
• mojs - a modern tool for creating animation on the web

Browsers

• Mobile audience of Google Chrome exceeded 800 million people
• In Chrome, they want to add rating sites to better distribute computer resources.
• Google Chrome will personalize the settings for downloading sites
• Along with the autumn update, Microsoft Edge received a new version of the EdgeHTML engine.
• EdgeHTML 13: initial and unset without all
• Presentation of EdgeHTML 13, the first platform update for Microsoft Edge
• Chrome Screensavers

Design

• As ICQ face changed: the visual evolution of the interface ICQ
• Joni Ive justified the existence of the Apple Pencil
• 40 designers chose their favorite fonts
• Graphic editor:
  
  • Adaptive layouts in Sketch using the Sketch Flex Layout plugin
  • Fluid for Sketch - creating responsive design
  • Adaptive design in Sketch (detailed analysis)
  • Visualize Sketch 3.4 New Features
  • Sketch: Ten Improvements That Turn Your Head Around (Sketch App: 10 New Enhancements That Will Make You Giddy)
  • Shortcuts in Sketch (Keyboard Shortcuts)
  • PSD showing adjustment curves (This PSD Reveals What each Photoshop Adjustment Layer is via Curves)
  
  
• UX / UI:
  
  • Will the floating button become a new hamburger menu? (Is the Floating Action Button the new Hamburger Menu?)
  • Last UX Challenge: The latest UX challenge: designing for personalization
  • UI designs following the latest trends (25 UI Designs Which Follow The Latest Design Trends)
  • How to Write an Inspiring Job Description for UX (How To Write Inspiring Job Descriptions For UX)
  • What the Avengers can teach us about UX (What the Avengers can teach us about UX)
  • Create a design inspired by beautiful UI-style guides (Designing with Great UI Style Guidelines in Mind)
  
  
• Demarcated layouts in web design
• Cool vector illustration for inspiration.
• Restoration of old photos: before and after
• Designing Health Applications (Designing Healthcare Apps With Delight)
• Seven things I learned about working in an user-focused agency (7 things I learned working at a user-centered design agency)
• Exploring Meaningful Animations in Android (Exploring Meaningful Motion on Android)
• How Waze attracts new users (How Waze Onboards New Users)
• Introducing the new Google+ (Introducing the new Google+)
• Google+ undergoes global redesign (Google+ undergoes huge redesign)
• From concept to product launch: how I did the design for the Ugmonk 7th anniversary celebration (From Concept to Product Launch: How I Designed the Ugmonk 7th Anniversary Set)
• How designers supported Paris (Designers support Paris)
• Meet Jean Jullien, the artist who painted the symbol “Peace in Paris” (Meet Jean Jullien, The Artist Behind The “Peace for Paris” Symbol)
• The Ultimate Christmas Gift Guide for Designers
• How SwiftKey used Material Design to enhance user engagement (How SwiftKey is using Material engagement)
• How Cards Win Web Design (How Cards Are Taking Over Web Design)
• Introducing Silver: Easy Mobile Prototyping in Sketch 3 (Introducing Silver: Lightweight Mobile Prototyping in Sketch 3)
• Creating the Gyroscope Running application (The Making of Gyroscope Running)
• Simple Fundamentals of One-Page Site Design
• Save “Save for Web” (Save “Save For Web”)
• Quiz: How well do you know Material Design?
• Color for attention and depth in 60 seconds (Color for Attention and Depth in 60 Seconds)
• How to create a design for writing that will be converted (How to Create Newsletter Designs That Convert)
• What makes great design different from good design (What Separates Great Design From Good Design)
• Redesigning your website is always a difficult process (Redesigning Your Website - Never An Easy Process)
• Announcement of the winners of the competition for the creation of a retro poster of the film in the style of the 80s (Announcing the Winners of the Ultimate 80s Movie Poster Contest)

A selection of free designer cookies

• Free textures for your design
• Fresh Mockup Smartphone Files
• Mockups for demonstration of packaging design and product labels (55+ Free PSD Product Packaging Mock-up Templates)
• Mockups with covers of books, brochures and magazines (75+ Free PSD Magazine, Book, Cover & Brochure Mock-ups)
• More than a hundred mockups to showcase business card design (100+ High-Quality Free PSD Business Card Mock-ups)
• Kits UI to speed up your work (Free UI Kits to Speed ​​Up Your Workflow)
• Free promotional backgrounds and gradients (Free Download: Free Promo Backdrops and Gradients)
• Elegant hipster designer attributes set with vector images (Free download: Elegant Vector Kit)
• Vector Images of Geometric Shapes (Fluid Geometric Shapes)
• animaticons - animated gifs
• Weather Icon Set Font Icon Font
• FontBase - Font Manager for Windows (FontBase - Blazing Fast, Beautiful and Free Font Manager)
• Decorative handwritten font Ruffle Beauty (Ruffle Beauty Free Font)
• Bonie - an elegant decorative weak font (Bonie · Free Typeface)
• Six dozen quality fonts (60 Quality FREE Fonts You Probably Don't Own, But Should Should!)

news

• How to "roll back" from Windows 10 to Windows 8.1
• Google has opened the code for mail importing utilities in Gmail
• Microsoft closes the service Zune Music
• VKontakte launched messages for groups
• Artificial Intelligence has passed the entrance exam to a Japanese university.
• Technology has been developed for transmitting power over WiFi
• Yahoo! blocks access to mail for users who block ads
• The GIMP project celebrates its twentieth anniversary. GIMP 2.8.16 release
• The next Bluetooth version will bet on the Internet of Things
• Windows 10 is the third most popular OS in the world.
• Google Flights ticketing service launched in Russia
• Apple accounts for 94% of smartphone market profits
• Google introduced updated Google+
• Google search has learned to understand more complex issues.

Entertaining

• Retro: 30 years of Windows
• Facebook Shame Board: Weird Applications and Experiments That Have Been Wanted
• What I learned when a hacker stole my identity by capturing a Facebook account
• Visitors to offline stores Apple stealing Apple Pencil styluses
• 11 Microsoft projects that are ahead of their time and that have never become popular
• Gullible social networks: Fake tweet about the "mourning" Eiffel Tower retweeted 30,000 times and replicated in the media
• Gaming life-giving: lessons that the PC games industry can teach us
• BuzzFeed came up with 21 words to describe life situations
• It's like a general: work as a legal hacker
• On the release day of Fallout 4, PornHub traffic among gamers fell by 10%
• How business helps fight terrorism
• The Fast Company publication has published a lot of material on Facebook’s plans, the principles of Zuckerberg’s work and other company leaders, its innovative projects, goals and development strategies.
• "Group of geeks": The history of the creation of the Chinese manufacturer of smartphones Meizu

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Digest from last week .
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