The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week No. 116 (June 29 - July 6, 2014)

We bring to your attention a selection with links to useful resources, interesting materials and IT news

Web development

• From community to community - open article hub
• How to make up a theme for WordPress
• About the friendship of peoples in the frontend community
• HTML5 context menus
• Why is ContentEditable Terrible
• Video from the recent Google I / O 2014 Conference
• Time element
• HTMLHint - a tool for analyzing static HTML code
• 5 libraries and APIs for manipulating HTML5 Audio
• Responsive images with picture and srcset / sizes
• Using the stroke attribute in SVG
• What every front-end developer needs to know about page rendering
• Scroll IFRAMEs on iOS
• Web Components and Concepts, ShadowDOM, Imports, Templates, and Custom Elements
• GapDebug - a new tool for debugging code on mobile devices
• We bring order to the SVG structure : structuring, grouping and relationships in SVG elements, , ,
• Super Power Mobile Web - Ambient Light API
• lollytin - block-based online site builder based on Bootstrap 3

CSS

• How to use clipping and masking in CSS
• Clip Path (Mask) Generator
• Responsive Full Screen Background Image Using CSS
• Another selection of tools and applications for working with Less
• About the value of content-width of width
• Random numbers in preprocessors
• Pixels are expensive
• 3d text in pure CSS

Javascript

• Metaprogramming (with JavaScript examples)
• Universal web-GUI for arbitrary RESTful services
• Features of using SailsJS for beginners (Part 1)
• Ribs.js - nested attributes, calculated fields and bindings for Backbone.js
• Astrobench: JavaScript code performance testing
• Deb.js: the tiniest debugger in the world
• Do not be afraid of functional programming
• Defining devices on the server side using JavaScript
• Defining a browser using JavaScript
• Do not use jquery-latest.js
• Minicart.js - library to improve PayPal integration for your cart
• Epoch is a pretty powerful library for creating various types of graphs in real time.
• Wavepot : creating music using JavaScript
• jLayout - JavaScript Layout Algorithms
• Select or Die - Another plugin for customization of the standard type select
• Intense Image Viewer - plugin for full-screen viewing of large images
• fartscroll.js. there are such scroll effects ...

news

• Linux Foundation unveils first release of Automotive Grade Linux automotive platform
• The development of tools for supporting virtual reality helmets in Firefox has begun
• Google Cube - New Interactive Storytelling Platform
• Announced Kallithea, a free system for organizing collaborative development in the style of GitHub
• Yandex has offered photobanks to earn on “Pictures”
• Facebook has put experience in controlling emotions on 689,000 users
• Yandex begins testing interactive answers in a big search
• Steam jumped the bar of 8 million users online during summer sales
• The ban on storing Russian data on foreign servers: what will happen after September 1, 2016?
• What does the market think about the adopted ban on storing data of Russians abroad
• Associated Press entrusts automated reporting system for various companies reporting
• Oculus Announces Rift Helmet Release Two
• Oculus halts Rift shipments to China due to resale
• The global economy lost $ 80 billion in 2013 due to charging smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices

Browsers

• Chrome will be able to launch Hangouts video chats without third-party plugins
• Secrets of offline browsing in Chrome
• 20 useful Google Chrome extensions for web developers

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• overthetinyhills.com - an advanced thematic site with three-dimensional interactive
• spintank.fr - site with nice animation and creative page transitions
• Interior Design by Decade - unusual scroll effect
• rokkan.com - site with custom menu implementations and nice animation

Design

• Adobe Photoshop CC 2014: what's new?
• Food Design Digest, June 2014
• Effective or effective? Workshop on creating website design. Part I
• Best tutorials for learning the Pen tool in Photoshop
• Responsive design vs mobile sites
• 5 cool GIMP plugins for designers
• Design Basics - Color Theory
• 60+ creative typography examples
• История и эволюция дизайна программок на Уимбилдоне

Занимательное

• С днем рождения, Джулиан Ассанж
• 8 вещей, из-за которых не стоит жить в Силиконовой Долине
• 10 бесплатных онлайн-курсов от Coursera, которые вы сможете пройти в июле
• Суперпозиция «Волны D»: работает ли квантовый компьютер?
• Как умирают платформы и рождаются облачные сервисы
• Теория узлов: почему провода наушников всегда запутываются?
• Где найти хорошую музыку для работы
• Достижения 3D-печати: от искусственного клюва до макета раковой опухоли
• 11 суперспособностей, которые человек получит уже завтра, благодаря технологиям
• Почему Марк Цукерберг всегда ходит в одной футболке
• Как работают солнечные батареи?

In connection with the release of one of the authors of this digest, the current issue was released in a slightly truncated version.
In addition, the second author also flies away to rest, so digests take a two-week break.

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