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André Simões

André Simões
Web Developer

November 30, 2015

Ver TV sem box na Vodafone obriga a ter box

Monday, November 30, 2015 Teklinks

Numa altura em que também os portugueses se vão rendendo aos conteúdos televisivos distribuídos pela internet, a Vodafone opta por um sistema que não deixa de ser curioso (e frustrante para os seus clientes).

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'Top Gear' returns in May 2016 without Clarkson

Monday, November 30, 2015 Teklinks

While Clarkson, May and Hammond develop a new motoring show for Amazon, the BBC is working on its biggest Top Gear reboot in years. Presenter Chris Evans (no, not Captain America) is taking over Clarkson's role and revealed last weekend exactly when the first episode will be airing. Well, sort of.

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Swatch's payments watch is coming to the US

Monday, November 30, 2015 Teklinks

Swatch has announced that the mobile payments watch that it's sending to China will also make its way over here. The watchmaker has teamed up with Visa in order to offer the Swatch Bellamy in the US, Brazil and Switzerland.

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Scientists show that gene editing can 'turn off' human diseases

Monday, November 30, 2015 Teklinks

Scientists show that gene editing can 'turn off' human diseases Gene editing has already been used to fight diseases, but there's now hope that it might eliminate the diseases altgether. Researchers have shown that it's possible to eliminate facial muscular dystrophy using a newer editing technique, CRISPR (Clusters of Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) to replace the offending gene and 'turn off' the condition.

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Forgo JS packaging? Not so fast

Monday, November 30, 2015 Teklinks

The traditional advice for web developers is to bundle the JavaScript files used by their webpages into one or (at most) a few "packages." Multiple tools have been developed to do this, such as Browserify and Webpack. They tend to work like this: for a given HTML page, you write a single JavaScript source file that provides all the JS logic needed for that page.

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10 Raspberry Pi Projects for Beginners

Monday, November 30, 2015 Teklinks

The Raspberry Pi is a great little machine—it’s very affordable, highly portable, and user-friendly. But when you first get one, it can be a challenge to figure out which projects you should take on first.

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bucaran/clor

Monday, November 30, 2015 Teklinks

Clor is a 30 some LOC lightweight alternative to colors.js or Chalk. Inside the logger wrapper this is bound to the string.

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4K content of Netflix and Amazon can easily be ripped by pirates

Monday, November 30, 2015 Teklinks

A lot of consumers who pay to use content streaming services are unable to stream 4K content because of its high cost as well as the fact that they are going to have to pay more to increase their internet bandwidth since buffering 4K content is a very tasking thing to do.

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November 29, 2015

Understanding module.exports and exports in Node.js

Sunday, November 29, 2015 Teklinks

As developers, we often face situations where we need to use unfamiliar code. A question will arise during these moments. How much time should I invest in understanding the code that I’m about to use? A typical answer is learn enough to start coding; then explore that topic further when time permits. Well, the time has come to gain a better understanding of module.exports and exports in Node.js. Here’s what I have learned.

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"Sem Bilhete" volta a demonstrar que política de bloqueio a sites de partilha não tem efeito

Sunday, November 29, 2015 Teklinks

Enquanto uns vão cantando vitória pela facilidade com que agora se pode bloquear o acesso a sites indesejados (esquecendo-se que esse bloqueio é meramente cosmético), outros relembram que por cada site que se tente bloquear, outros surgem em resposta, como é o caso deste novo "Sem Bilhete".

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So how does the browser actually render a website

Sunday, November 29, 2015 Teklinks

September 2015 I had the privelage of giving a talk at JSConfEU 2015 in Berlin. My topic was about what the browser actually does to construct your website and show it on the screen. This is a topic I’ve been digging into for a few years now and it was really fun trying to distill it into a ~25 minute talk.

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Designing for Various UI States — Medium

Sunday, November 29, 2015 Teklinks

This post will be part of a series of posts that will go over mistakes and lessons learned working as a designer. My goal is to keep them short and concise and hopefully provide value so other designers don’t make the same mistakes.

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Who cares about the design language — Medium

Sunday, November 29, 2015 Teklinks

So here’s the thing. Google updated its Google+ app, and it comes with a huge redesign exercise on it. In case you don’t know him, Luke Wroblewski is a designer at Google. He’s been around for a while, commenting stuff about user experience and visual design.

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BedJet aquece e arrefece a cama

Sunday, November 29, 2015 Teklinks

Todos sabem a importância de ter um colchão de qualidade para se poder dormir descansadamente, mas isso não evita o choque de entrar numa cama gelada numa noite de Inverno - algo que o BedJet pode resolver, garantindo que a cama está à temperatura desejada.

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November 28, 2015

Don't lose user and app state, use Page Visibility

Saturday, November 28, 2015 Teklinks

Great applications do not lose user's progress and app state. They automatically save the necessary data without interrupting the user and transparently restore themselves as and when necessary - e.g. after coming back from a background state or an unexpected shutdown.

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Profiling Node.js apps

Saturday, November 28, 2015 Teklinks

At Atlassian, we have add-ons we develop and use to enable more powerful workflows within our products. Using Atlassian Connect, we can write those add-ons in any language. We often write those add-ons using Node.js. But once in a while we run into a performance problem with an add-on.

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Using GraphQL with MongoDB: graffiti-mongoose

Saturday, November 28, 2015 Teklinks

With the Mongoose adapter for Graffiti, you can use your existing Mongoose schema for developing a GraphQL application. If you need an introduction to GraphQL, our previous post helps you to get started with GraphQL. At RisingStack, we usually don't write boilerplate code.

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How to Program With Yii2: Google Authentication

Saturday, November 28, 2015 Teklinks

In this Programming With Yii2 series, I'm guiding readers in use of the Yii2 Framework for PHP. In this tutorial, I'll continue to guide you through integration of the built-in AuthClient, using the Google Accounts API and OAuth 2.0.

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Power Over WiFi Might Not Be A Unicorn After All

Saturday, November 28, 2015 Teklinks

There have been a few reports of power over WiFi (PoWiFi) on the intertubes lately. If this is a real thing it’s definitely going to blow all of the IoT fanboys skirts up (sorry to the rest of you *buzzword* fanboys, the IoT kids flash-mobbed the scene and they mean business).

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November 27, 2015

Write "Synchronous" Node.js Code with ES6 Generators

Friday, November 27, 2015 Teklinks

One of the most revolutionary things in ES6 (EcmaScript 2015) is the introduction of generator functions. These are special functions that may be paused at any time as they wait for an async operation to complete by utilizing the yield expression, and are resumed as soon as that operation completes.

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How to Run a Remote Desktop on Raspberry Pi with VNC

Friday, November 27, 2015 Teklinks

Your Raspberry Pi is an amazing little computer, but it can be a bit inconvenient. Under normal use, you need to plug in a keyboard and mouse and hook it up to a HDMI monitor (although other displays can be used) in order to view the command line or desktop. However, this isn’t always practical.

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Massive Memory Gains in Node.js 4.2

Friday, November 27, 2015 Teklinks

Still debating whether or not it's worth upgrading to the latest and greatest Node.js LTS, otherwise known as 4.2? If you are still running 0.12 or stuck even further in the dark ages on 0.10 and below, these numbers might make you think twice about being set in your ways. We've been running Node.

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Web Authentication Methods Explained

Friday, November 27, 2015 Teklinks

We are keen on security - recently we have published the Node.js Security Checklist. As a sequel, let's dive deep into the world of cookies, tokens and other web authentication methods.

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Raspberry, Arch Linux, NodeJS and the LED

Friday, November 27, 2015 Teklinks

Soo, this will be my first little project, made possible with the Raspberry Pi and a breadboard and prototyping kit I just got via mail. It has been a long time since I last used the Pi, so I decided to install a fresh operating system on it.

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LG's spending billions to make more OLED things

Friday, November 27, 2015 Teklinks

LG's OLED 4K TVs are jaw-droppingly gorgeous, but the price still isn't anywhere near the level it needs to be for mass consumer adoption. Hopefully the company's new manufacturing plant can help that a bit thanks to economies of scale.

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10 Things I Learned About UX By Being Drunk

Friday, November 27, 2015 Teklinks

Hi. Since this blog post won't be your usual blog post, I figured I would start by breaking the fourth wall immediately. I'm Richard: I am the brains and the stomach behind The User Is Drunk, a site I set up a few months ago to help people learn just how their site looks to a drunk person.

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Creating Fun and Immersive Audio Experiences with Web Audio

Friday, November 27, 2015 Teklinks

This article is part of a web development series from Microsoft. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Today, thanks to the power of the Web Audio API, you can create immersive audio experiences directly in the browser – there’s no need for any plug-ins here.

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November 26, 2015

Pi Zero: A full Raspberry Pi for just $5

Thursday, November 26, 2015 Teklinks

Have you ever wanted a Raspberry Pi but thought that £16/$25—roughly three packs of cigarettes—was a little exorbitant for a complete computer capable of running Linux? Well, I have good news: the Raspberry Pi Foundation has just released the Pi Zero, a single-board computer that costs just £4/$5. The Zero isn't just some add-on module or something like that, either—it's a full-fledged member of the Raspberry Pi family.

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Think You Know ES6? Prove it!

Thursday, November 26, 2015 Teklinks

Your favorite web scripting language just got even better! The 2015 edition of ECMAScript comes with a ton of cool new techniques and programming concepts, much anticipated by the JavaScript community. Most of the new features are already available out of the box with modern browsers and Node.

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The Light Clock - um relógio luminoso

Thursday, November 26, 2015 Teklinks

Se procuram um relógio de parede original, este The Light Clock poderá ser aquilo que procuram... para umas horas literalmente luminosas. Este The Light Clock é um projecto curioso pois não só está disponível no Instructables como projecto open-source, que todos poderão replicar e fazer em suas casas; como também se aventurou no Kickstarter, para aqueles que preferirem ficar com um relógio já feito e pronto a funcionar, sem terem trabalho.

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The Secret of UI Router Resolvers

Thursday, November 26, 2015 Teklinks

There is a little known secret in the Angular UI router called resolvers. It’s something that even veterans aren’t using, but it’s something that will revolutionize how you write your code. Let’s make a few assumptions here:

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Horizontal Timeline in CSS and jQuery

Thursday, November 26, 2015 Teklinks ,

Our vertical timeline is so far one of the most popular resources on CodyHouse. Many of you asked us to include a horizontal timeline as well. Here it is! Building a horizontal timeline was a bit tricky, because you can’t rely on the vertical (more intuitive) scrolling behaviour.

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