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Typecast Becomes a Free Web Design Tool
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André Simões
Web Developer
December 31, 2014
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How DDoS Attacks Work, And Why They're So Hard To Stop
Last week, eager Christmas celebrators across the world hooked up their brand new Xboxes and PlayStations only to find that both online networks were down, leaving countless new games totally unplayable.
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December 30, 2014
Chromebooks Can Now Run Linux in Its Own Window
Chrome: You've been able to install and run Linux on Chromebooks for a while, but a new Chrome extension allows you to run it inside a window, without switching back and forth.
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Mais de 800 modelos gratuitos em HTML5
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LearnBoost/kue
Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js. PROTIP This is the latest Kue documentation, make sure to read the changelist for compatibility.
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The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Building a Hackintosh (OS X 10.10)
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Windows 10 will reportedly come with a new, lighter web browser
Internet Explorer has been a cornerstone of Windows ever since 1995, but it looks like Microsoft is ready to leave its venerable (if sometimes infamous) web browser by the wayside.
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December 29, 2014
What's New in Android Lollipop
After months of speculation, hype and teasing, Google officially released Android 5.0 to the world on 12 November 2014. The SDK was made available on 3 November. We already knew a lot about the features, due to the L preview SDK that was released on 25 June 2014.
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10 Habits of a Happy Node Hacker
For most of the nearly twenty years since its inception, JavaScript lacked many of the niceties that made other programming languages like Python and Ruby so attractive: command-line interfaces, a REPL, a package manager, and an organized open-source community. Thanks in part to Node.
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Build and deploy a Node.js website to Azure
This tutorial shows you how to create a Node application and deploy it to an Azure Website using Git. The instructions in this tutorial can be followed on any operating system that is capable of running Node.
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Flat Shadow Generator
Your one-stop icon warehouse. You'll find thousands of icons, all of them free. Drag, Click, Edit, Play-around with the icon. Click below to view dashboard where you can change Shadow angle, Shadow depth and even the position of the Icon. Go..!! Create an awesome Flat Shadow Icon now.
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Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security
US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication. The cloud, it seems, is full of holes. The good news: New Snowden documents show that some forms of encryption still cause problems for the NSA.
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The Best Command Line Replacements for Bloated Desktop Apps
Command line utilities are often reserved for only the geekiest amongst us, but many of them are actually a lot better than desktop alternatives. In fact, many are easier to use, waste less resources, and often have more keyboard shortcuts. Let's take a look at a few of the best.
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December 28, 2014
Identifica pilhas alcalinas gastas deixando-as cair
As pilhas são uma das melhores invenções de todos os tempos, permitindo-nos ter equipamentos eléctricos que podem funcionar sem um cabo ligado à electricidade... até ao momento que se gastam e é necessário substitui-las.
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URL Parameters and Routing in Express.js
TL;DR: This post is about URL parameters and routing in Express.js, and it’s an excerpt (Chapter 6) from my new book Pro Express.js: Master Express.js—The Node.js Framework For Your Web Development.
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Data Visualization App Using GAE Python, D3.js and Google BigQuery: Part 4
In the previous part of this tutorial, we saw how to plot data fetched from Google BigQuery into our D3.js chart. But there are a few issues, like the fact that the scale doesn't change dynamically, and the circles plotted don't get removed on subsequent searches.
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Michelin já fabrica pneus sem ar que nunca furam
Os pneus são um dos componentes críticos de todos os veículos com rodas, mas que pouco têm evoluído na sua concepção ao longo das décadas. Agora a Michelin prepara-se para o fazer... retirando-lhes o ar.
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December 27, 2014
My keyboard has no volume control keys; how do I assign shortcuts to control the global sound volume?
Run AutoHotkey from your Start Menu to create a sample file called "AutoHotkey.ahk" in your "Documents" folder. Open "AutoHotkey.ahk" from your "Documents" folder in a text editor. You can comment out all the sample commands by putting a ";" at the beginning of each line.
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Git for Windows tip: setting an editor
The first time I tried to do git commit on msysgit with no commit message (no –m switch), it opened up Vim so that I could write my commit message. Luckily for me I’d read enough Vim jokes on Twitter to know that :q or :q! would get me out.
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Data Visualization App Using GAE Python, D3.js and Google BigQuery: Part 3
In the previous part of this tutorial, we saw how to get started with D3.js, and created dynamic scales and axes for our visualization graph using a sample dataset. In this part of the tutorial, we'll plot the graph using the sample dataset.
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December 26, 2014
Building multiplayer games with Angular
Ari Lerner spoke about the content of this post at ngEurope. The video can be viewed here The entire source code for this post is available at the end of the tutorial. The slides for the talk are available here.
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Asynchronous Web-Worker Model Using RabbitMQ in Node
Web servers should focus on serving users as quickly as possible. Any non-trivial work that could slow down your user’s experience should be done asynchronously outside of the web process. Worker queues are commonly used to accomplish this goal.
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The 25 Hottest Skills That Got People Hired in 2014
Believe it or not, 2014 is almost over and 2015 is right around the corner. With a new year comes new opportunities, and around this time we at LinkedIn are typically asked the following question: “Who’s getting hired and what are they doing?”
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December 25, 2014
localtunnel
Localtunnel allows you to easily share a web service on your local development machine without messing with DNS and firewall settings. Localtunnel will assign you a unique publicly accessible url that will proxy all requests to your locally running webserver.
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Fifty Actions of WordPress – Series Finale
Welcome to the series finale of "Fifty Actions of WordPress!" Over the last few weeks, we've been looking at WordPress actions - what they are, how to use them, and 50 of those that exist along with examples of how to put them to work for us.
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Phusion Passenger: Node.js tutorial
Phusion Passenger™ is an open source, polyglot (multi-language) application server. It takes a lot of complexity out of deploying Node.js, and adds powerful enterprise-grade features that are useful in production. It also makes it administering Node.js apps much easier.
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December 24, 2014
XBMC (Now Kodi) Gets Speed Improvements and a Ton of Bug Fixes
XBMC, one of our favorite media center suites, has officially been renamed Kodi with the release of version 14 (codenamed "Helix"). The new version contains a ton of long-awaited bug fixes and speed improvements, as well as a few small feature improvements for add-ons and keyboards.
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Watch torrent movies instantly
This PopcornTime service will never be taken down. Download and enjoy. Our user's safety comes first!! Therefore we added a free Built-in VPN so you can use Popcorn Time ANONYMOUSLY!
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cmder : Console Emulator
Portable console emulator for Windows Cmder is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout. Looking sexy from the start.
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Creating a Web App From Scratch Using AngularJS and Firebase
In this series, we'll be using AngularJS and Firebase to create a simple web application from scratch. It will be a simple blogging application where the user can sign in or sign up and publish a blog post.
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Learning JavaScript Design Patterns
Design patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. They are both exciting and a fascinating topic to explore in any programming language.
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December 23, 2014
Turn a Windows 8.1 PC Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot with the Command Prompt
Windows: Previously mentioned Virtual Router is the easiest way to create a Wi-Fi hotspot on Windows, but 7Tutorials showcases a method that requires no extra tools—just the Command Prompt.
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Can a Long Range Wi-Fi Connection Work if One End is Not Using a High-Gain Antenna?
When you are setting up a long range Wi-Fi connection, you want to make sure that your connection is as solid as possible, but can you use a mixture of antenna types or should you go with high-gain only? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a confused reader’s question.
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Web Animation Infographics: A Map of the Best Animation Libraries for JavaScript and CSS3 plus Performance Tips
Today we have decided to showcase a 'map' of the current state of web animation by compiling highly regarded libraries, frameworks and plugins based on their versatility and performance.
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Create a YouTube Client on Android
There are a lot of popular third party YouTube clients on Google Play, such as Viral Popup and PlayTube, that manage to offer some unique and additional functionality that the official YouTube app doesn't. If you want to build one such app yourself, this tutorial is for you.
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Análise Xiaomi Mi Band
A evolução da tecnologia está a virar-se para os wearables, os tais dispositivos electrónicos que servem de acessório ao corpo.
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This Start-to-Finish Tutorial Helps You Build Your First iPhone App
When you're learning to code, it's best to start with small projects. This tutorial, for example, will get you started with a simple to-do list app, and it walks you through the whole process, from start to finish.
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Google unveils the first complete version of its self-driving car
Google had a (not very well-kept) secret when it unveiled its experimental self-driving car: that first example you saw was just a mockup that lacked many of the basics.
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December 22, 2014
65 of the Best iOS Apps From 2014
Another year, another great set of new apps that hit the iOS store. As you unwrap your new iPhone or iPad, get these apps installed on your new device! Hot off the presses, Workflow is a new app that makes it easy to automate processes on iOS.
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Remove Apache2 - Install NGINX
So you want to remove Apache2 in favor of NGINX? You’ve come to the right place. This is a quick and to the point guide that should get you up and running with NGINX in no time. I am using Ubuntu 11.10 on a VPS, but this should work for most installations of Ubuntu.
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Solution Specific Icon Overlay Extension
Today's Visual Studio extension from Andrey Shchekin is, as I like to find and share, something different and one that I've not seen before. At first glimpse it looks simple, but there's some interesting things in the code. And it's just kind of cool...
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Using Firebase Simple Login with Ionic and PhoneGap
On the surface PhoneGap looks like the holy grail of app development. Write the app’s code once, and deploy to multiple platforms. Unfortunately, it’s not always that straightforward. Developing with PhoneGap can be tricky at times.
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How to Automate FTP Uploads from the Windows Command Line
Windows has included batch files since before it existed… batch files are really old! Old or not, I still find myself frequently creating batch files to help me automate common tasks. One common task is uploading files to a remote FTP server. Here’s the way that I got around it.
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Types of Programmers
This programmer type looks like a short-list candidate to play Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings. He (or even she!) has a beard halfway to his knees, a goofy looking hat, and may wear a cape or a cloak in the winter. Luckily for the team, this person is just as adept at working magic as Gandalf.
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JavaScript Application Architecture On The Road To 2015
In my new write-up on Medium, I look at the state of application architecture in the JavaScript community as we ebb our way towards 2015. In it, I talk about composition, functional boundaries, modularity, immutable data structures, CSP channels and a few other related topics.
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Andromium quer transformar smartphones em computadores "desktop"
Já todos sabemos que os smartphones actuais são autênticos computadores de bolso, mais potentes que os computadores de secretária que tínhamos há meia-dúzia de anos atrás.
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Swift from Scratch: Collections and Tuples
In the previous article, you learned about variables, constants, and some of the common data types, such as integers, floats, and strings. In this article, we zoom in on collections. Swift's standard library defines two collection types, arrays and dictionaries. Let's start with arrays.
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December 21, 2014
Data Visualization App Using GAE Python, D3.js and Google BigQuery: Part 2
In the first part of this series, we created a Python application and deployed it to Google App Engine (GAE). From the application we connected it to a Google BigQuery dataset and fetched the data into our application.
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