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André Simões

André Simões
Web Developer

October 31, 2015

Things To Avoid When Writing CSS — Medium

Saturday, October 31, 2015 Teklinks

Disclaimer: You may disagree with some of the things I’ve written in the ensuing article. That is okay. I do not claim to represent you, your company or your ideology so there’s really no reason to get upset. Just go ahead and disagree.

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A matemática por trás da forma do DNA

Saturday, October 31, 2015 Teklinks

O DNA (ADN) é o programa responsável por construir as mais complexas máquinas biológicas que conhecemos (nós). Mas, porque motivo adopta o curioso formato de uma espiral dupla? Em matéria de eficiência, nada chega aos milhares de milhões de anos de evolução, em que a Natureza teve tempo para experimentar todo o tipo de possibilidades e variações, e onde só as melhores soluções foram resistindo ao teste do tempo.

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Angular Connect 2015: The “REAL” Angular 2 Keynote

Saturday, October 31, 2015 Teklinks

I really truly love the Angular community. I am talking about a group that continually pushes me to try new things and get out of my comfort zone. I am still amazed that I can get in front of such a passionate group of folks and share my ideas while doing some pretty zany things in the process. I had the amazing privilege of presenting with the infamous Shai Reznik at AngularConnect 2015, and it was such a fun experience!

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October 30, 2015

Twitch’s latest insane adventure: Installing Linux

Friday, October 30, 2015 Teklinks

Twitch playing Pokémon was easy mode. Tomorrow, Twitch viewers will be invited to do something altogether more challenging: install Arch Linux. Using the same Twitch chat-driven concept as the collaborative Pokémon playthrough, anyone will be able to enter commands and control the installation process.

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Please, don’t commit commented out code — Medium

Friday, October 30, 2015 Teklinks

You might be thinking: “But Kent! What if that ‘good reason’ is no longer true, and we need to do it the old way again later?” The answer, my dear reader, is git diff: There’s the precious code. We can grab those changes and boom! We’re back in business!

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Alive para Visual Studio deixa-te programar "ao vivo"

Friday, October 30, 2015 Teklinks

Programar implica saber como é que o código que se está a escrever se vai comportar ao ser executado, coisa que por vezes não coincide com o que se espera. O Alive é um plugin para Visual Studio que permite ver aquilo que o código faz, ao vivo, enquanto se programa.

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Manipulating git repositories with Node.js

Friday, October 30, 2015 Teklinks

What do linting, building and testing have in common? They all work best when automated. With services like GitHub’s webhooks, it’s easy to subscribe to certain events on your repository and be notified by a HTTP request.

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October 29, 2015

Managing Programmers by Douglas Crockford at Silicon Valley Code Camp

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

Programmers are not like the other kids. They cannot and should not be managed like normal people if your intent is to produce high quality software. The things you would do to make the process go faster will actually make things go slower. This session will give you insight on the care and feeding of programmers, computer scientists, software engineers, developers, coders, and hackers.

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Purdy

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

Pretty print objects in real purdy colors. Allows clearer visualization of objects than you get from most pretty printers due to colors. It will also print out the complete path to an object, something that's extremly useful for debugging.

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Android 6 Vs. iOS 9: The Showdown

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

It wasn’t too long ago that we put the major mobile operating systems head to head, but with big updates from both Google and Apple in the meantime, we think it’s worth another look at where they both stand. Is there a clear winner? Or are they barely distinguishable any more?

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SAP makes strong commitment to Node.js

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

I had the privilege of being invited to join the Bloggers Program and SAP Mentor Program at SAP TechEd 2015 in Las Vegas this week. I also got to spend a little time with Thomas Jung. Tom is always willing to help me understand just what SAP is doing in either the ABAP or HANA world.

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Start Dictation on a Mac with a Keyword Phrase

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

Dictation may still have a little ways to go before it’s perfect, but it’s still useful in a lot of cases. If you’re a fan, OS X Daily points out that El Capitan added the ability to initiate dictation with a voice command.

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Learn the Bootstrap Grid in 15 Minutes

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

Bootstrap is the most widely used frontend framework right now. When it comes to building responsive websites and apps, it’s the first choice of both professionals and hobbyists because of how simple it is to work with.

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Hands-on with the smaller, cheaper OnePlus X

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

From the moment you pick up the OnePlus X, it's hard not to think about the iPhones of yesteryear. There's no denying it: there's a whiff of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 to this new handset. But that's not necessarily a criticism.

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30 GIF Examples Of UI Mobile App Animations

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

When presenting an app concept, storyboards and screenshots alone just lack life and cannot fully drive the message across. If you want to catch your potential clients’ attention, showcasing your mobile app concept in GIF animation will make it more realistic, dynamic, and engaging.

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CSS Animated Intro Section

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

Animations in web design are often used to drive the user’s focus to a specific section. One section  you want to make sure to highlight is the main tagline, with the action buttons. A good use of typography and a wise choice of colors should do the trick.

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Bluboo Xtouch assume-se como "OnePlus 2 killer"

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

Depois da OnePlus se ter estreado no mercado anunciando um flasgship killer, é agora vez dos papéis se inverterem, e ser ela o alvo de outros fabricantes que estão a fazer aquilo que ela fez: trazer-nos smartphones topo de gama a preços verdadeiramente inacreditáveis, como o Bluboo Xtouch.

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Meet the $249 OnePlus X

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

With its first two phones, OnePlus proved that it could deliver flagship-level devices at a cheaper price-point than most of its rivals. Neither were exactly design duds, but for its third handset -- and the second to be unwrapped in 2015 -- OnePlus is focusing on style in particular.

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How to design a better product in 5 days

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

Product design processes are meant to be cyclical. But what if you could speed up each phase for better results and more frequent feedback? This is the thinking behind design sprints, a fast process for yielding more iterations in less time.

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CSSgram – Instagram Filters with CSS and Blend Modes

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Teklinks

Simply put, CSSgram is a library for editing your images with Instagram-like filters directly in CSS. What we’re doing here is adding filters to the images as well as applying color and/or gradient overlays via various blending techniques to mimic these effects.

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October 28, 2015

Sit? Stand? Nifty new workstation lets you lie down on the job

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Teklinks

The debate over the health impact of working at a computer continues to rage. Standing desk fans insist that being on their feet is the way to go for health and productivity, but for many of the rest of us, standing up for hours on end looks like an awful lot of hard work.

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Effect Ideas for Card Stacks

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Teklinks

Today we’d like to share some inspiration for card effects with you. The idea is to animate the top element of a stack by clicking on an accept or reject button. We’ve used this Tinder-like example to show some symmetric and complementing pairs of effects, but these kind of animations can fit into many scenarios involving all kinds of card stacks that don’t necessarily have a dual logic.

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MIT uses wireless signals to identify people through walls

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Teklinks

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is developing a device that uses wireless signals to identify human figures through walls. Called RF-Capture, the technology “can trace a person’s hand as he writes in the air and even distinguish between 15 different people through a wall with nearly 90 percent accuracy,” MIT said in an announcement today.

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Google anuncia novo router OnHub da Asus

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Teklinks

Quando o Google revelou o seu router multi-funcional OnHub, disse que era apenas o primeiro de uma família de novos produtos. E agora, aqui está a confirmação, com a apresentação de um novo router OnHub feito pela Asus.

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How to Create an Untraceable Messaging Device With an Old Phone

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Teklinks

Secret, anonymous messages aren’t just for the dastardly. Luckily, a little privacy and anonymity aren’t difficult to come by. With some effort and a spare phone, you’ll be whistleblowing, protecting your privacy from harassers, and staying anonymous when you sell your stuff on Craigslist or look for dates on Match. Here’s how.

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Nexus 6P review: Google tempts away this iPhone owner

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Teklinks

I gave up on Android some time ago, after a six month stint with the Nexus 5. I was a long time user of Google’s devices, but Apple was consistently beating even the best flagship Nexus phones on performance, camera and phone build every year.

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Catching Fatal Errors with Node.js child_process

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Teklinks

I'm relatively new to hardcore Node.js hacking so I'm seeing all sorts of lovely new errors that I have no clue how to solve when I initially see them.  To this point I've managed to keep a smile on my face while trying to fix these errors, a quality I quite enjoy about myself.

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October 27, 2015

Create a Real-Time Shoutbox with Laravel Events

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Teklinks

Laravel is undoubtedly a very powerful framework with a lot of batteries included. One of the reasons I love laravel is the fact that it is built on events. An event is an action or occurrence recognized by a program that may be handled by the program.

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Análise ao OnePlus 2

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Teklinks

Depois do sucesso do OnePlus One, que nos trouxe um smartphone topo de gama a preço bastante mais acessível, a marca tenta repetir o sucesso com o seu novo e actualizado OnePlus 2.

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Angular 2 in Plain JS – Angularity

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Teklinks

You’ve already invested time – lots of time learning Angular 1. Controllers, services, directives, filters… All those terms finally make sense – it’s been quite a long road to get here. And now, along comes Angular 2!

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Europa aprova lei da neutralidade polémica e fim das taxas de roaming

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Teklinks

Nem mesmo as pressões dos gigantes tecnológicos foram capazes de garantir o desaparecimento das excepções e a polémica lei que deveria garantir a neutralidade da internet na Europa foi aprovada, adocicada por coisas de mais fácil "digestão" como o fim das taxas de roaming (que na verdade p

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Multilingual Support for AngularJS

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Teklinks

There are some cases in which providing a multilingual support is required. Sometimes it could be a good idea to provide support for different languages into the application you’re building and offer your users the possibility to view the content in different idioms.

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