32C3: Dieselgate — Inside the VW’s ECU

[Daniel Lange] and [Felix Domke] gave a great talk about the Volkswagen emissions scandal at this year’s Chaos Communication Congress (32C3).

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Create Polished Resumes and CVs with HackMyResume

You can create polished résumés and CVs in multiple formats from your command line or shell with HackMyResume. Author in clean Markdown and JSON, export to Word, HTML, PDF, LaTeX, plain text, and other arbitrary formats. Fight the power, save trees. Compatible with FRESH and JRS resumes.

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Completing the Angular 2 Quick Start in VS Code

The Angular 2 quick start walks you through setting up and running a very simple Angular 2 application. If you are trying to complete the quick start in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), there are a few extra steps to complete before you can build and run the application.

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Redesign concepts for popular websites #1

Redesign concepts for popular websites #1via Muzli design inspirationGoogle Translator — Redesign concept — Material Designby Renan de SouzaAlways been a user of google translator, once they release material design I took a shot in order to come up with my own concept.

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How To Play Local Audio Files Over Chromecast [Android]

Android 6.0 has built-in support for the Chromecast making it easy to play videos and show photos from your device on your TV or monitor. The built-in support even lets you cast your Android screen to your TV without needing to install any additional apps, and without you having to purchase a smart TV to do it.

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Build Your UI Toolkit with Fabricator

You can build your UI Toolkit with Fabricator. Fabricator is built on Node.js, a platform for building fast, scalable network applications. There are pre-built installers for each platform. You can also install with Homebrew via brew install node.

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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Where To Go Next

You have learned a lot over the past weeks, grasshopper, and you might even feel a bit overwhelmed at this point. I'd like to leave you with some advice and a bunch of resources to keep you on track to become a proficient iOS developer.

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Google will strip Oracle's Java code out of Android

The epic dispute started when Oracle sued Google for copyright back in 2010, claiming that Google improperly used its Java APIs. Google argued that the APIs in question were essential for to software innovation, and therefore couldn't be copyrighted.

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Tablets para o Natal 2015

Depois das sugestões para smartphones neste Natal, é agora vez de nos debruçarmos sobre os tablets. Para quem não aderiu à moda dos phablets, um tablet será o companheiro ideal para utilizar após chegar a casa e pousar o smartphone. E tal como nos smartphones...

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Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42

Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution project, has died at the age of 42. His death, announced in a blog post by Docker CEO Ben Golub, came after an apparent encounter with police and a statement posted on Murdock's Twitter feed that he was going to commit suicide, though no cause of his death has been given.

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Docker Provisioning Tips from the Experts

Follow these approaches to enhance deployment and management of your data resources – whether or not you use Docker. What? You haven’t converted all your data to Docker yet? Are you crazy? Get with the container program, son.

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Revisiting Firefox’s DevTools – Smashing Magazine

If you do any kind of development for the web, then you know how important tools are, and you like finding tools that make your life easier. Developing and testing new browser features, however, takes time.

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Smartphones para o Natal 2015

Uma das perguntas mais frequentes e que nos chega diariamente é a pergunta sobre "qual smartphone deverei comprar?" Hoje, vamos deixar-nos as nossas recomendações para este Natal, com os smartphones que sugerimos para as diferentes gamas de preços - e daqui a pouco será a vez dos tablets.

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5 AWS Mistakes You Should Avoid

For the last several months, I have been working as an AWS Cloud Consultant where I see a lot of small to medium sized AWS deployments. Most of them are typical web applications. I want to share with you the 5 most common mistakes that you better avoid:

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Os melhores jogos, apps e extensões de Chrome de 2015

Já está disponível a coleção “Melhores de 2015” na Chrome Web Store, um conjunto de aplicativos, jogos e extensões destacadas. A quantidade de downloads e as altas qualificações de seus usuários parecem ser as variáveis primordiais para gerar tal recopilação que inclui 49 itens até o momento.

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Download Thousands of Free Technical and Research Books from Springer

We’re always happy to find a large collection of free educational books, and it looks like Springer has recently made available over 50,000 books covering STEM subjects. The academic and research books are available as PDF downloads. You can search and filter the list by discipline and topics.

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How to protect a Folder with password in Windows PC/laptop

This article will be helpful for those who want a better level of privacy than the level offered by basic OS functionalities. And also do not want to struggle with various software available as free or paid.

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How To Cast Your Desktop Audio To Chromecast

Windows 10 has native support for the Chromecast and it’s terrible. More often than not, the OS simply fails to find the Chromecast device even though apps and browser extensions installed on the system can find it just fine.

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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Building a Shopping List Application 2

In the previous lessen, we laid the foundation for the shopping list application. In the first part of this lesson, we further refine the application by enabling the user to edit and delete items from the list. Later on, we add the ability to select items from the list to create the shopping list.

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Turn a Raspberry Pi Zero Into Just About Any USB Device You Can Imagine

The Raspberry Pi Zero is a pretty low key little device, but the folks over at Adafruit figured out that it’s possible to turn the Zero into a USB device, which means it can be used to make a number of electronics, ranging from an ethernet device to a camera.

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Angular 2 Dependencies Overview – Angularity

Now that Angular 2 is in beta, you’re probably itching to try it out (if you haven’t already!). But what are all these new libraries and tools? SystemJS? RxJS? eh? Some people say to just ignore them until after you get your feet wet, but there’s that nagging feeling – you’ll need to learn it eventually, and it just doesn’t feel right not knowing what all the pieces do.

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How to Start Programming in Swift on Ubuntu

Apple recently released their newest programming language, Swift, as open source. That means that anyone can now use this trending programming language, on any system. Apple has made it easy to get Swift going on Ubuntu, so we’ll show you how!

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Samsung Bio-Processor é um CPU dedicado aos wearables

Os dispositivos wearables vão aumentar em número e em funcionalidades nos próximos anos, e a Samsung quer garantir que no interior de cada um deles está um chip seu. É esse o objectivo do seu novo Bio-Processor.

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AutoMate Leaves Beta, Brings Android Auto-Style Dashboard to Your Phone

Android: Car dashboard apps are easy to come by, but hard to do well. AutoMate manages to pull it off, with an easy-to-use dashboard of handy features that help make driving easier.

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Colofilter.css

This technic is called "DuoTone", and today, with the power of CSS we can play around with some blend-modes properties, to get some cool visual results. Then to use the filters, use the proper classes on your elements, and that's it!

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Angular 2.0: Opinions, Commentary, and a Migration Case Study

Angular is a framework designed to make it easier to build client applications (that is, apps written with JavaScript and HTML that run on various devices, including mobile devices and browsers).

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Creating an Angular 2 build with Gulp, TSLint and DefinitelyTyped

From my perspective Angular 2 is a great improvement over Angular 1. The framework is simpler, and as a result your code is more concise, making use of modern JavaScript concepts. However, this does come at a cost; with Angular 2 the required tooling is really quite complicated.

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Generating SVG With React – Smashing Magazine

React is one of today’s most popular ways to create a component-based UI. It helps to organize an application into small, human-digestible chunks. With its “re-render the whole world” approach, you can avoid any complex internal interactions between small components, while your application continues to be blazingly fast due to the DOM-diffing that React does under the hood (i.e. updating only the parts of the DOM that need to be updated).

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New Google Glass model hits the FCC website, images included

Google Glass is not dead. A brand new model of Google's face computer has popped up on the FCC website (first spotted by 9to5Google), complete with rather high-res images of the device. The pictures show a Google Glass unit with the FCCID "A4R­-GG1" that looks a lot like the existing Glass design.

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12 startups that made an impact in 2015

When it came to tech news, 2015 was dominated by the activities of tech giants like Apple, Facebook and Google, and mega-unicorns like Uber and Airbnb. It hasn’t been a big year for hyped-up startups, but these 12 names managed to make an impact.

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How to Setup Your New Chromecast

When we first reviewed the Chromecast back in 2013 we showed you how to set it up, but the Chromecast now comes in a sleeker, more powerful, and better designed package so we’re back with updated instructions. The most obvious change with the Chromecast is the form factor.

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iOS From Scratch With Swift: Building a Shopping List Application 1

In the next two lessons, we'll put what we learned in this series into practice by creating a shopping list application. Along the way, you'll also learn a number of new concepts and patterns, such as creating a custom model class and implementing a custom delegate pattern.

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Typewrite, ferramenta para escrever em equipe

Hoje o que não faltam são opções de ferramentas para facilitar o trabalho em equipe, independente de onde se encontrem os diferentes membros da mesma. Agora, mostraremos mais uma bem interessante, Typewrite, uma plataforma online para facilitar a redação de documentos nestas situações.

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11 Must-Have Apps on Ubuntu Right After a Fresh Install

Here’s the situation: it’s your first time using Ubuntu, you’ve gone through as many newbie Linux tricks as you could find, but you’re still wondering what kind of software is out there for you to install. Maybe you’re even starting to feel a bit overwhelmed. Don’t worry. Relax.

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V8 Javascript Fixes (Horrible!) Random Number Generator

According to this post on the official V8 Javascript blog, the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) that V8 Javascript uses in Math.random() is horribly flawed and getting replaced with something a lot better.

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Gizmo Microservice Toolkit by The New York Times

At The New York Times, their development teams have been adopting the Go programming language over the last three years to build better back-end services. They use Go for a wide variety of tasks, but the most common use throughout the company is for building JSON APIs.

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EUA sob ciber-ataque da China

Parece que os acordos de "não-agressão" entre China e EUA de pouco importam aos hackers e/ou outras entidades que estão por trás de uma mega-ataque que está a ser feito contra alguns data-centers norte-americanos.

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The Easiest Way to Add Search to Your Documentation

Algolia is a privately held company created by developers, veterans in the fields of algorithms, search engines and text mining. They develop DocSearch, which is a search-as-a-service API to help developers deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience in their applications and websites.

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The Perfect Storm in Digital Law

It has been a very strange year to be a digital law specialist. In a matter of months we have seen “experts,” courts, and politicians suggest that website administrators should get rid of comments, social sharing, analytics, links, and shopping carts, all as a means of coming into compliance with European legislation.

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Javascript Fatigue — Medium

More accurately, I meant React and the Javascript ecosystem that comes with it. At work this past quarter, we painstakingly started three new projects at work. I say “painstakingly” because every project required decisions to be made around tooling depending on the scope & needs.

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"Real" Mixins with JavaScript Classes

Mixins and Javascript: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Mixins and JavaScript are a like the classic Clint Eastwood movie. The good is that composing objects out of small pieces of implementation is even possible due to JavaScript's flexible nature, and that mixins are fairly popular in certain circles.

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Anonymous takes credit for cyberattacks crippling Turkey

Whether or not Anonymous is primarily responsible isn't certain. While a site address administrator says that the attacks stem from "organized sources" outside of Turkey, there is the concern that this may be Russian retaliation for Turkey shooting down one of its warplanes.

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Carregador wireless da XE promete carregar smartphones a 5m de distância

A XE é uma startup Ucraniana que diz ter conseguido fazer aquilo que os outros ainda estão a tentar fazer: criar uma forma de transmitir electricidade sem fios de forma eficiente e segura, a grandes distâncias.

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Muzli choices in the design world for 2015 — Muzli -Design Inspiration — Medium

Muzli choices in the design world for 2015via Muzli design inspiration10 Design Teams of 2015CreativedashProduct design and development studio.Dribbble | WebInVisionA prototyping, collaboration, and workflow platform.Dribbble | WebFocus Lab, LLCA boutique brand and interactive design agency.

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The Best Mac Apps of 2015 (And Our Favorite Updates)

It has been a good year for Mac users. There was the new MacBook, OS X got that smooth El Capitan update, and Apple Music hit iTunes. And while Apple was bringing all that to the table, developers were busy bees too.

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A Responsive Guide to Type Sizing Cloud Four Blog

When starting new projects, a CSS builder’s initial concerns tend to involve typography. Setting a typographic foundation with the right mixture of ingredients can form something solid enough to support many other building blocks of design. It’s an approach that makes structural sense.

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Complete Beginner's Guide to Information Architecture

Information architecture is a task often shared by designers, developers, and content strategists. But regardless of who takes on the task, IA is a field of its own, with influences, tools, and resources that are worth investigation.

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SkidNP fulfill their promise, Steam servers taken down

Remember our previous report that wannabe group of hacker called SkidNP had vowed that they would bring down the Steam servers through the Christmas day. Well, the new kids on the hacking block seemed to have fulfilled their promise.

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10 web design trends that ruled 2015

Larger images, longer scrolling, and a new kind of flat design. The forefront of web design is also expanding, but with 2015 winding down, we now have a clear idea of the year’s most influential trends.

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5 of the best interaction design trends of 2015

This year in digital design brought a wave of new techniques, styles, and trends, most of which emerged to meet the needs of the growing mobile browsing market. Technological advancements changed user expectations of the aesthetics and functionality for sites and apps.

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