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André Simões

André Simões
Web Developer

March 31, 2015

git-flow cheatsheet

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Teklinks

To start a release, use the git flow release command. It creates a release branch created from the 'develop' branch. You can optionally supply a [BASE] commit sha-1 hash to start the release from. The commit must be on the 'develop' branch.

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Angular Grid

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Teklinks

The Angular Grid engine uses AngularJS where required and native Javascript at all other times, giving the best performance. A grid written solely in AngularJS will be inherently slower.

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Cavaco chumba Taxa da Cópia Privada

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Teklinks

Se fosse amanhã ninguém acreditaria, mas mesmo tendo sido hoje ainda custa a acreditar que o nosso Presidente Cavaco Silva tenha optado por dar mais uma pequena réstea de esperança a todos os portugueses que continuam a achar inacreditável que se venha a pagar uma taxa por todos os megabytes

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Computing the optimal road trip across Europe

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Teklinks

As a follow-up to my post about computing optimal road trips across the U.S., I thought it’d be fun to make a road trip map for Europe as well. If you’d like to get into the nitty-gritty of how these road trips are created, check out the first post.

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How to Add More Than One Background Image with CSS

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Teklinks

Sometimes, you may want to use more than one background in your page. For example, you may want one background for one paragraph and another background for another paragraph. Follow the steps provided in this tutorial to add more than one background image with CSS. 1.

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My Recommended Brackets Extensions | John Papa

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Teklinks

You can learn a lot by trying new things. Over the past 18 months I have been switching IDEs and editors every few months going between Atom, Visual Studio, Brackets, WebStorm, and Sublime … and then back again.

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Responsible.js

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Teklinks

Still confused? View this page on your mobile device or watch the video Tested in the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, and Opera.

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How to Use Android Media Effects With OpenGL ES

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Teklinks

Android's Media Effects framework allows developers to easily apply lots of impressive visual effects to photos and videos. As the framework uses the GPU to perform all its image processing operations, it can only accept OpenGL textures as its input.

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A static type checker for JavaScript

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Teklinks

What is Flow? Flow is a static type checker, designed to find type errors in JavaScript programs: $> flow hello.js:5:5,19: string This type is incompatible with hello.js:3:10,15: number Flow also lets you gradually evolve JavaScript code into typed code: $> flow hello.

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March 30, 2015

Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities

Monday, March 30, 2015 Teklinks

Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools. Added AES-Rijndael encryption program.

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A Beginner’s Guide To Composer ♥ Scotch

Monday, March 30, 2015 Teklinks

Since its release on March 1st, 2012 Composer has gained widespread popularity for bringing something to PHP which was sorely needed: dependency management. Composer is essentially a way to pull in all the third party software such as CSS frameworks, jQuery plugins and others into your project.

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A Primer To Background Positioning In CSS

Monday, March 30, 2015 Teklinks

Applying background images to elements is probably one of the most used features in CSS, and many background properties exist that allow us to control different aspects of an element’s background. An element can have more than one background image.

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Industrial Designer Explains Production Methods Shown in Apple Watch Manufacturing Videos

Monday, March 30, 2015 Teklinks

When your average consumer watches any of Apple's "how it's made" videos, they likely have no idea what they're seeing. But even first-year ID students, when shown a cutting head pivoting precisely around material, understand that this machine is not controlled by a guy named Joe turning a bunch of handcranks. We all know a 5-axis CNC mill when we see one.

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Shortcuts for Waze ~ Apps do Android

Monday, March 30, 2015 Teklinks

Os utilizadores do Waze têm agora a sua utilização um pouco mais facilitada graças a este Shortcuts for Waze. Esta app é bastante simples, mas útil: permite criar widgets com a localização dos nossos destinos mais frequentes, bastando tocar num desses widgets para iniciar a navegação no Waze.

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March 29, 2015

​Manything Turns An iPhone into a Security Camera with IFTTT Recipes

Sunday, March 29, 2015 Teklinks

Like other apps, Manything lets you stream the camera's feed to another iOS device on the web. With ther Manything IFTTT recipes, you can set triggers based on motion, location or time. They have a list of examples, such as recording when you leave the house or sending you a clip every time the device detects motion Those triggers connect them with other IFTTT supported devices like a Nest, WeMo and Phillips Hue.

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Faster Font Loading with Font Events

Sunday, March 29, 2015 Teklinks

Web fonts are great and make the web a more beautiful space; however, loading them can be slow, which results in an unwanted side effect: FOIT (Flash of Invisible Text).

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Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio

Sunday, March 29, 2015 Teklinks

Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (NTVS) is now available for download! NTVS is a free, open source extension for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 that turns Visual Studio into a Node.js IDE. NTVS 1.

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March 28, 2015

NO DICKHEADS!

Saturday, March 28, 2015 Teklinks

There is a perpetuated myth within the design community, that a single visionary is required to build great products. Rubbish. Great teams build great products; moreover, in my experience, the greatest teams prioritize and nurture a healthy and positive internal culture because they understand it is critical to the design process itself.

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Faz o teu próprio teclado programável por menos de 8 euros

Saturday, March 28, 2015 Teklinks

Se costumam usar programas complicados que obrigam a memorizar muitas combinações de teclas, ou jogos onde desejassem ter maior facilidade de controlo, poderão gostar de saber que isso é algo que podem fazer com bastante simplicidade e a preço bastante acessível.

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The best cheap router (for most people)

Saturday, March 28, 2015 Teklinks

This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a list of the best technology to buy. Read the original full article below at TheWirecutter.com If I wanted the cheapest good WiFi router I could get, I would buy the TP-Link TL-WDR3600.

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pydio, para que sua empresa tenha seu próprio Dropbox

Saturday, March 28, 2015 Teklinks

Se sua empresa gerencia uma grande quantidade de arquivos e não confia muito em soluções como Google Drive ou Dropbox, pydio pode ser uma boa opção. Se trata de uma solução de código livre que transforma qualquer servidor em uma plataforma para compartilhar arquivos, com uma interface intuitiva e funcionalidades que garantem o controle correto dos acessos, assim como a sua privacidade.

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React Native

Saturday, March 28, 2015 Teklinks , ,

The developers at Facebook have been showing off React Native for a few months, but it’s finally been released on GitHub: facebook/react-native. I went to a Facebook tech talk about React Native earlier this month, and as someone who has experience developing iOS apps, I was extremely excited about it.

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March 27, 2015

Facebook desenvolve AI para interpretar vídeos e textos

Friday, March 27, 2015 Teklinks

O Facebook já pode saber praticamente tudo sobre os seus utilizadores, mas prepara-se para saber muito mais sobre os vídeos que colocamos e os textos que escrevemos. Graças aos avanços nas áreas da Inteligência Artificial, o Facebook começa a ter capacidade para reconhecer e interpretar tudo o que vir e ler.

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Controlling a LED with a Raspberry PI 2 using Mono and C#

Friday, March 27, 2015 Teklinks

My fellow MVP Peter Nowak from Germany pointed me to this awesome kit on Amazon.de that has this vast array of sensors in it. It comes with 37 sensors and peripherals that can be controlled with a Raspberry PI2. It’s originally made for the PI B+, but as this is pin compatible with the PI 2 this works fine. It comes with a mini CD with sample code, but unfortunately this is all C - you need to compile it using GCC.

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Amazon launches unlimited cloud storage for $60 a year

Friday, March 27, 2015 Teklinks

Amazon has announced a restructuring of its Cloud Drive storage service, with two new plans - both of which offer unlimited storage at a pretty affordable price. The difference between the two plans - aside from cost, of course - is what each one allows you to store in Amazon's cloud.

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DARPA is working on something way better than GPS

Friday, March 27, 2015 Teklinks

When your location marker on Google Maps is pinging all over the place, it's usually due to temperamental GPS signal. DARPA thinks this isn't cutting it anymore, and is developing a "radically" new tech that will offer real-time position tracking -- something that'll work despite blind spots or jamming efforts.

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Memórias 3D NAND vão permitir SSDs com 10TB

Friday, March 27, 2015 Teklinks

Quem usa um SSD já conhecerá as vantagens do acesso praticamente imediato e as elevadas velocidades que as memórias flash permitem face a um disco magnético convencional, mas poderá ter que gerir os seus conteúdos de forma a lidar com os seus tamanhos mais reduzidos.

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Hyperpolyglot Is a Side-by-Side Reference Sheet for Programming

Friday, March 27, 2015 Teklinks

Once you've learned one programming language or programming tool, it's pretty easy to get into another similar one. Sometimes, though, the fine differences are hard to remember. Hyperpolyglot is an awesome tool for looking up the differences and similarities between programming languages and tools.

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AngularJS Encryption and Three Way Binding Tutorial

Friday, March 27, 2015 Teklinks

Welcome back to our blog series about how to get started quickly with AngularJS using the PubNub AngularJS library. In a couple of recent episodes, we covered a tiny but powerful example of how to create a realtime Angular Chat application in less than 100 lines of code, as well as how to extend the example with multiplexing.

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March 26, 2015