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André Simões

André Simões
Web Developer

July 31, 2015

Free Course: Start Coding ES6 With Babel

Friday, July 31, 2015 Teklinks

JavaScript has evolved a lot over the years. The latest version of the language, ECMAScript 6 (ES6 for short) was recently finalized, and it brings a lot of improvements for developers. Of course, browser support is still spotty.

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If This Then Node.js

Friday, July 31, 2015 Teklinks

If you've ever used IFTTT as a developer and thought something like: "Gee, I wish I could write my own scripts as channels", you may just be in luck. When combined with their new 'Maker' Channel, enabling users to call external REST APIs, webtasks can be used to run arbitrary code, on request.

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July 30, 2015

Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to send other people updates

Thursday, July 30, 2015 Teklinks

Windows 10 launched on July 29 to much fanfare — it’s a free upgrade for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 users — but along with the privacy issues, there’s another small thing you should check: by default, Windows 10 uses your internet connection to share updates with others across the internet.

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Cards in Web Design: The Ultimate Guide

Thursday, July 30, 2015 Teklinks

Web design is very dynamic. You can always see the web design landscape re-constructed with the emergence of new technologies, techniques, trends, and styles. Now, the landscape is changing once more with the use of the new design framework called cards.

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The User Experience of Creative Sprints

Thursday, July 30, 2015 Teklinks

What are Creative Sprints? Creative sprints are typically multiple day processes that get a whole team together to define the challenge, come up with a lot of ideas, build the best ideas and test them out.

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Amazon beats Netflix to new car show from Top Gear presenters

Thursday, July 30, 2015 Teklinks

Amazon has signed a contract with Top Gear’s presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May to create a new car show exclusively for its streaming service. The new show will launch in 2016 according to the London Evening Standard and will be exclusively available online.

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JavaScript Debugging Using Cross-Browser Source Maps

Thursday, July 30, 2015 Teklinks

As a JavaScript developer, I’m sure you’ve already been falling into this scenario: something goes wrong with the production version of your code, and debugging it directly from the production server is a nightmare simply because it has been minified or has been compiled from another language s

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Download: Windows 10 SDK

Thursday, July 30, 2015 Teklinks

If you are a developer and have been waiting patiently for the Windows 10 SDK, Microsoft has released the bits and you can download it at the source link below. For those not familiar, an SDK is a software development kit that assists in the creation of software and in this case, apps for Windows 10.

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Exploring the Android M Developer Preview

Thursday, July 30, 2015 Teklinks

In May, Google announced the next version of the Android platform, Android M. While it’s still unknown what the "M" stands for (Marshmallow? Macaroon? Macadamia Nut Cookie?), you can already get your hands on the Android M developer preview. Developer preview 2 was released only a few days ago.

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Windows 10: The Gizmodo Review

Thursday, July 30, 2015 Teklinks

Windows 10 defies review. It’s not a finished product. It will never be a finished product, if you believe Microsoft. Like Apple with Mac OS X, Microsoft has decided that the tenth version of their operating system will be the final one—it’ll just get updated, year after year.

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July 29, 2015

Google Material Design Lite and Bootstrap Comparision

Wednesday, July 29, 2015 Teklinks

Tutorialzine has published an article “Comparing Bootstrap With Google’s New Material Design Lite“. Bootstrap was originally built by Twitter with the purpose of making it easy to build responsive websites. It gives you a lot of components and customization options for making web apps.

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Download: Windows 10 ISOs

Wednesday, July 29, 2015 Teklinks

Windows 10 is officially here, Microsoft has now released the OS to consumers around the world and if you have not done so yet, make sure to check out our review. While we know that most of you will download the OS through Windows Update to obtain your free version of Windows 10, if you need an ISO of the OS, Microsoft has you covered.

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Microsoft Releases Standalone Android Emulator

Wednesday, July 29, 2015 Teklinks

Microsoft surprised Android developers last year with the launch of a brand new emulator designed for performance and features that aren't available anywhere else. While the initial Preview release only included an image for KitKat, subsequent updates introduced an expanded set of emulator images and some valuable new features.

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July 28, 2015

This year's Moto G feels like another cheap champion

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Teklinks

It's a little hard not to look at the Moto G as one of the less interesting devices we saw today -- after all, it got unveiled in India while plenty of us were sleeping and it was quickly overshadowed by the unlocked beauty of the Moto X Style. Motorola clearly doesn't see it the same way.

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ProtractorJS: A better way to implement page objects.

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Teklinks

Page objects, recommended in the Protractor docs, are a popular pattern for writing end-to-end tests for Angular but they quickly become lists of ugly, boilerplate selectors that break when you decide to change your DOM. They do an excellent job of separating view logic from test logic, but they are mangled with references to models, css, and bindings that are none of their business.

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Understanding Fluent APIs in JavaScript

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Teklinks

While designing Babylon.js v2.0 (a library for building 3D on the web), I recently found myself wishing that more APIs were fluent—that is, I wish the community could more easily read, understand, and build upon the work while spending less time in the tech docs.

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Windows 10 review: Microsoft goes back to the future

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Teklinks

When Windows 8 was launched back in 2012, I called it the 'hybrid OS' because Microsoft built essentially two operating systems packaged into one bundle. The OS was a complete failure on nearly all fronts for the company and resulted in a change of leadership that has now completed the first release of their vision of the future operating system.

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The Moto X Style Pure Edition hands-on

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Teklinks

So if you've ever wished you could get a Nexus 6, but with all the Moto Maker customizations, you're in luck, cause that's pretty much what the Moto X Style Pure Edition is. It's got the same basic shape and design as the Moto X you love, just super-sized to 5.7-inches.

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CanIUse Command Line

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Teklinks

Every front-end developer should be well acquainted with CanIUse, the website that lets you view browser support for browser features. When people criticize my blog posts for not detailing browser support for features within the post, I tell them to check CanIUse: always up to date, unlike posts on any blog.

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Mockaroo - Random Data Generator | CSV / JSON / SQL / Excel

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Teklinks

If you're developing an application, you'll want to make sure you're testing it under conditions that closely simulate a production environment. In production, you'll have an army of users banging away at your app and filling your database with data, which puts stress on your code.

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getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Teklinks

This is a series of books diving deep into the core mechanisms of the JavaScript language. Please feel free to contribute to the quality of this content by submitting PR's for improvements to code snippets, explanations, etc.

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Top 10 websites to learn coding

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Teklinks

In today’s digital world, coding has become so popular that it can change one’s life. We have composed 10 of the best trustworthy sites to learn coding. You can take an example of coders who have sold their code to multi-nationals and became millionaires in months.

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July 27, 2015

Dmail deixa enviar emails com prazo de validade

Monday, July 27, 2015 Teklinks

Ao longo dos anos, muitos têm sido os sistemas que tentam lidar com a questão do controlo de emails - incluindo a muita desejada capacidade de cancelar emails já enviados. E agora temos mais um, que poderá ser um dos mais fáceis de utilizar: o Dmail.

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New OnePlus 2 Leak Offers Best Look Yet At The Hardware

Monday, July 27, 2015 Teklinks

The OnePlus 2 is set to be announced in just a few hours, but a last-minute leak confirms many of the details that have already leaked. A poster on XDA claims to be a beta tester in China and comes bearing gifts—a bunch of new photos that confirm the previously leaked TENAA images and some thoughts on the device.

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Creating a Login Screen Using TextInputLayout

Monday, July 27, 2015 Teklinks

In this tutorial, I will talk again about Material Design. Google I/O 2015 was an important event for every Android developer and design was of course part of the discussion. Google has realized that backward compatibility is the trickiest part of the material design implementation.

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42 mobile landing page optimization tips

Monday, July 27, 2015 Teklinks

We’ve all heard the phrase “you only have one chance to make a first impression”, this is even more true when it comes to mobile landing pages. At the most basic level a landing page is the first interaction a customer will have with your website.

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Generating Alternative Stylesheets for Browsers Without @media

Monday, July 27, 2015 Teklinks

If your CSS code is built with a mobile-first approach, it probably contains all the rules that make up the "desktop" view inside @media statements. That's great, but browsers that don't support media queries (IE 8 and below) will simply ignore them, ending up getting the mobile view — not good.

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iShows 2 Tracks Your Favorite TV Shows

Monday, July 27, 2015 Teklinks

iPhone: We enjoyed the original version of iShows when it launched because it made keeping track of all those TV shows you’ve been dying to watch easy. Now, an updated version makes it even better. On a basic level, iShows 2 tracks your favorite TV shows and alerts you to new episodes.

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Widget do Chrome no iOS dá acesso aos Beacons

Monday, July 27, 2015 Teklinks

A mais recente versão do Chrome para iOS veio com uma alteração que já está a dividir os utilizadores, mas a maior novidade será algo que poderá passar despercebida a quem não usar o seu widget: a integração com os beacons geolocalizados.

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July 26, 2015

The ultimate guide to designing landing pages that convert

Sunday, July 26, 2015 Teklinks

Landing pages are pages that are designed specifically to accomplish conversion goals. Occasionally, a home page functions as a landing page (though some would argue that a home page can never truly be a landing page), but in many other cases, special pages are created for specific marketing campaigns.

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July 25, 2015

Simula circuitos electrónicos no browser

Saturday, July 25, 2015 Teklinks

Brincar com circuitos electrónicos é algo que normalmente está associado a caixinhas repletas com uma enorme variedade de componentes, placas breadboard e o indispensável ferro de soldar.

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Recommended Reading: The Jeep hack that led to a massive recall

Saturday, July 25, 2015 Teklinks

Recommended Reading highlights the best long-form writing on technology and more in print and on the web. Some weeks, you'll also find short reviews of books that we think are worth your time. We hope you enjoy the read. This piece from Wired actually sparked a recall that affects 1.

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July 24, 2015

Improve JavaScript Performance Analysis Results With User Marks

Friday, July 24, 2015 Teklinks

When working on advanced JavaScript code, like a 3D engine, you may ask yourself what you can do to optimize, and how much time you should spend in some specific pieces of code. In this tutorial, I will share several tools that provide insight into how your code is performing, and show you how to make the most of user marks in the memory graph to analyze your performance.

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Bonsai.js – An Intuitive Graphics API and SVG Renderer

Friday, July 24, 2015 Teklinks

Bonsai is a lightweight graphics library with an intuitive graphics API and an SVG renderer. Bonsai’s main features include: Architecturally separated runner and renderer, iFrame, Worker and Node running contexts, Shapes, Paths, Assets (Videos, Images, Fonts, SubMovies), Keyframe and regular animation (easing functions too), Shape/path morphing and much more…

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Taxas de importação de câmaras, SSD, GPS e consolas vão acabar

Friday, July 24, 2015 Teklinks

A Organização Mundial de Comércio (OMC) vai avançar com a eliminação de taxas de importação cobradas em 200 produtos tecnológicos. A lista de produtos abrangidos pelo Information Technology Agreement (ITA) já está definida e, em dezembro, deverão ser anunciadas as datas e os moldes em que esta isenção de taxas será aplicada.

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It's the Data, Stupid!

Friday, July 24, 2015 Teklinks

I would like to take a moment to discuss databases. Most people use Shodan to find devices that have web servers, but for a few years now I've also been crawling the Internet for various database software.

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s-a/iron-node

Friday, July 24, 2015 Teklinks

I always hate attaching processes, watching files, restart processes and so on to debug Node.js code. For this reason I wrote this software to make those things easier. With ironNode you have the full power of JavaScript debugging within Google Chrome' s Developer Tools.

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