Design Patterns: Progressive Disclosure for Mobile Apps

Before we begin, let’s quickly define design patterns. Design patterns were first introduced by Christopher Alexander, an architect and design theorist who noticed that many things in our activities happen according to patterns: patterns describe a problem and then offer a solution.

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Intel lança Core i7 6950X com 10-cores

Os fãs dos PCs mais potentes possíveis têm um novo CPU a adicionar à sua lista de desejos: o Intel Core i7 6950X, que estreia no segmento desktop um processados com 10 cores (20 virtuais, graças ao Hyper-Threading.

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What UX designers can learn from 1990s Japanese video games

I’m writing this from a slightly saddened perspective, revisiting my favorite SNES RPGs and realizing something: I’ve been spoiled by modern UX design. The sentiment is pretty universal. Hugon on the Quarter to Three forum writes: “When I think ‘console RPG’ I think pages of fairly inscrutable character info and bad navigation. You cry tears of joy if you can just get a basic item comparison.”

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First Steps With Angular 2: Eight Cool Features

I've been doing some work the last couple of weeks with Angular 2. I really like it. Not just because it uses TypeScript, but also because it feels really natural and straightforward while working with it.

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Carta por pontos chega no dia 1 de Junho

Com este novo sistema, cada condutor começa com 12 pontos, que serão perdidos por cada contraordenação praticada. A quantidade de pontos retirada a cada condutor depende da gravidade da contraordenação, podendo variar, conforme a seguinte tabela:

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Blackview A5 vem com Android 6.0 e custa menos de €50

Depois do saudoso Sapo A5, eis que temos um novo A5 que promete conquistar o mercado: o Blackview A5 que não deixa que o seu preço ultra-reduzido o impeça de trazer a mais recente versão do Android.

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Google e Mozilla no Porto a 2 de Junho

O GDG Porto ainda mal acabou de chegar do Google I/O e já tem mais um evento que ninguém vai querer perder, já no próximo dia 2 de Junho, que traz a Google e a Mozilla até à capital do Norte. Este Google Roadshow vai preencher completamente o próximo dia 2 com três eventos.

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The Vanilla Javascript Repository

Coz' sometimes you feel guilty for using jQuery. Bideo.js allows you to set responsive background video to a container or the document body.

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How to Get Android N Features on Your Phone Now with N-Ify

Android N will bring a lot of new, innovative, and useful tools to Android, but if you don’t have a modern Nexus device, then it’s hard to say how long you’ll be waiting to get your hands on some of these new goodies.

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Timedropper – New jQuery UI TimePicker Plugin

Timedropper is a jQuery UI timepicker. Manage time input fields in a standard form. Focus on the input to open an small interactive timepicker. You can set time in 12-hour clock in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods. You can also enables time change using mousewheel.

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Microservices: The Spring Boot Way

Some Food for Thought When a Java developer thinks of developing a web application/services in Java and what it involves, the following list likely comes to mind: Servlet APIs Web Frameworks (Struts/SpringMVC/REST API frameworks etc) Application Logic Web Container (Tomcat/JBoss) Build Scripts (ANT

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427 million MySpace passwords leaked online in breach

MySpace, a popular social network in the music industry, is the latest subject in a growing list of user information leaks. This latest pool of data includes email addresses, one or more passwords and a username.

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Leak revela suposta câmara dupla do próximo iPhone e versão com 256GB

Com a aproximação da WWDC e sabendo-se que por esta altura já se estará na fase de preparativos finais para o início da produção dos próximos iPhones, multiplicam-se os rumores: e um deles diz apresentar o módulo de câmara dupla que veremos no próximo iPhone, e opções de memória at

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Minimal MQTT: Control and Clients

So you’ve built a central server and filled your house with WiFi-connected nodes all speaking to each other using the MQTT protocol. In short, you’ve got the machine-to-machine side of things entirely squared away.

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Cria uma mini estação meteorológica WiFi por menos de €15

Se já passaram pela tentação de investir numa estação meteorológica que vos permitisse ver o estado do tempo remotamente via internet, que tal se vos disser que isso é algo que podem fazer por menos de 15 euros? Muitas vezes temos falado de como, actualmente, se podem fazer coisas complexa

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Identify USB 3.0 & Charging Ports By Looking At The Symbols Next To Them

All USB ports are not created equal. USB might have become a universally accepted standard of connecting peripherals to your system but all USB ports found on your system aren’t the same.

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How to Write Effective Logs for Remote Logging

In my last blog post, I listed many of the reasons that you should be using log management. In this post I will explain methods to log effectively. Logging effectively is not a precursor to using remote logging. Having logs is always better than not having logs.

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Six nifty ES6 tricks

In this blog post, I show six tricks enabled by new ES6 features. At the end of each section, I point to related material in my book “Exploring ES6” (which is free to read online). ES6 parameter default values are only evaluated when they are actually used.

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72h de saldos na Gearbest

Depois das impressoras 3D a preço irresistível, a Gearbest expande a sua promoção para uns saldos durante 72h, onde não faltam gadgets que poderão querer apanhar a preço mais reduzido que nunca.

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Custom PDF Rendering in JavaScript with Mozilla’s PDF.Js

This article was peer reviewed by Jani Hartikainen, Florian Rappl, Jezen Thomas and Jeff Smith. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! When it comes to the Web, almost every modern browser supports viewing of PDF documents natively.

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OnePlus 2 gets permanent price cut to $299, OnePlus X falls to $199

In the next few weeks, OnePlus is expected to unveil its new flagship-class handset, details of which have continued to emerge in recent days. Ahead of that launch, the company has announced price cuts on its existing phones.

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The Good and the Bad of Programming Forms in Angular 2

Compared to Angular 1, Angular 2 offer more choices for working with forms and more control over the data flow between a form and a model. However, I feel that Angular 2 provides form-related APIs and directives that are quirky and confusing, while also increasing the amount of work required to manage simple forms. This article isn’t intended to be a tutorial for working with forms in Angular 2 and some of the code inside is not code you want in a real application. Some of the code only exists to demonstrate how forms work.

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Fullscreen Background Videos with Bideo.js

Fullscreen background videos that autoplay right when the webpage loads (above the fold) has become quite a popular trend these days. Rishabh has built Bideo.

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Sites recorrem a tácticas cada vez mais avançadas para identificarem visitantes

A questão do tracking feito nos sites da internet passou de algo obscuro para algo que já começa a ser conhecido de um número alargado de utilizadores, mas as técnicas utilizadas pelos sites também têm evoluído, fazendo com que seja cada vez mais complicado escapar a esse controlo.

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From JavaScript to TypeScript, Pt. IV: Generics & Algebraic Data Types

They don't get as much love as classes, but TypeScript's generics and fancier type features are some of its most powerful design features of the language. If you've got a background in Java, you'll be familiar with how much of a splash they made when they first came around.

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Android Auto vai poder correr no smartphone

Depois de muito tempo de espera, a Google prepara-se finalmente para fazer o que já devia ter feito há muito: permitir que o seu Android tenha um modo de funcionamento mais adequado para utilização enquanto se está a conduzir um automóvel.

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Working Remotely Around The World : Workspaces To Explore – Smashing Magazine

If you’re a footloose creative soul searching for a more affordable and friendly space than a typical rented or home office, coworking could work for you. Coworking spaces are popping up in cities all around the world.

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The 7 Cross-Browser Testing Tools You Need in 2016

Even with responsive design and ever-improving standards support, cross-browser issues are not a thing of the past.

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Why I Bought a Chromebook Instead of a Mac

Chromebooks have surpassed sales of Mac laptops in the United States for the first time ever. And that doesn’t surprise me. Because roughly a year ago I made the same switch. Formerly a lifelong Mac user, I bought my first PC ever in the form of a Chromebook. And I’m never looking back.

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Isometric and 3D Grids

Today we’d like to share some isometric grid styles with you. The inspiration comes from the Hotchkiss website where an isometric, scrollable grid is shown with some cool hover effects. In our first experiment we created a scrollable grid just like the one seen on that site, with some hover effects that involve random rotations.

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A Guide To Personal Side Projects – Smashing Magazine

Personal side projects are a cornerstone of creative growth and discovery. While they might not always result in financial gain, the long-term benefits are often much more useful.

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Xiaomi's Mi Drone is pretty affordable for what it does

We knew it was coming, so it's not a total surprise. But, the very fact that Xiaomi -- best known for its phones -- is getting into the drone business is a bit of an eyebrow raiser.

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Contributing to Open Source Software with Git

In the past decade or so, open source software has come a long way. Initially, when it came to developing enterprise level applications, engineers and developers would simply opt for proprietary software for a multitude of reasons.

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Apple prepara MacBook Pro com Touch ID e ecrã OLED no teclado

As vendas de PCs e portáteis tem estado em queda, e nos EUA os Chromebooks até já ultrapassaram as vendas dos MacBooks. É por isso necessário fazer mexer o mercado, e parece que a Apple tem grandes novidades para a nova linha de MacBooks Pro a lançar no final do ano.

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Building WordPress Theme With AngularJS and Jason API

WordPress is the most popular Content Management System at the present day. It provides you number of exceptional features to easily develop a site or a blog. It is more frequently used by the Developers as a CMS development platform.

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How to Sprinkle ReactJS into an Existing Web Application

Often times when diving into a new technology, whether it be a JavaScript framework or CSS methodology, we are faced with the challenge of How do I implement this cool new thing into my old busted site?.

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Here are the five must read books if you are a coder/programmer

Books, which was once considered as a great source of knowledge and wisdom are hardly been read by people these days. To add to that, it is an even fewer occurrence a programmer reading books, as they mostly depend on the internet search results to get their answers.

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Google Is Preparing To Add The Raspberry Pi 3 To AOSP

The Raspberry Pi 3 appears to be on track to receive official AOSP support from Google. At least, that is the most obvious conclusion based on the fact that Google has created a code repository for it within the same directory that also includes the Nexus devices and generic source code.

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GeoOrbital é uma roda eléctrica para bicicletas que evita pedalar

Querem uma ajuda que vos permita evitar suar ao andar de bicicleta, mas sem terem que investir numa bicicleta eléctrica? A GeoOrbital parece ser a solução que todos desejavam, permitindo transformar qualquer bicicleta numa bicicleta eléctrica instalando-lhe apenas uma roda especial.

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Stylelint: The Style Sheet Linter We’ve Always Wanted

Everyone wants a clean, consistent code base, no matter the language. Developers are accustomed to setting up linters in programming languages such as JavaScript and Python, but they rarely use a linter for style sheets. In this article, we’ll look at stylelint1, a linter for style sheets.

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Docker and Node.js Boilerplate

I recently shared a post on Dockerizing Ruby applications for TDD & Deployment. This post continues the theme by introducing a similar structure for Node.js applications. The general approach goes like this: The structure is available as a cloneable boilerplate repo.

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thomas4019/expressa

Expressa makes it easy to create basic APIs without custom code. It's easily extendable so you can add complex features as well. It includes a django-like admin interface for creating documents and managing permissions.

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My process of creating the Arriva web site

Just a while ago I wrote about a cool project I finished for a small start up company called Arriva. I shared the logo design process back then.

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Angular 2 NativeScript vs. React Native

Cross-platform apps face a crucial choice in their development planning phase—should the application be developed as a native app, or should it be developed as a hybrid or web-based application? This question used to impact the amount of work to be done—namely, until recently, choosing to purs

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Hackers steal 1.4 billion Yen from Japanese ATMs in 2 hours

Japanese police are working on a rather intriguing case in which hackers managed to steal 1.4 billion Yen ($12.7 million) from 1400 different ATMs situated at different convenience stores around the country.

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Learn The Difference Between Virtual, Augmented And Mixed Reality

Do You Know The Difference Between Virtual, Augmented And Mixed Reality? The way we tend to see our reality are apparently made to change by many technologies seek to change, whether it is entering a virtual world, or augmenting an existing one in a realistic and interactive way, or somewhere in-b

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Spotify mais barato para famílias numerosas

O Spotify torna o seu serviço premium de streaming de música ainda mais atractivo para as famílias, agora com um custo de apenas 10.99 euros por mês para até 6 pessoas.

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A Look at the New Firebase: A Powerful Google Platform

The new Firebase announcements made at Google I/O 2016 really make Firebase a first-class citizen in the Google ecosystem. Firebase is bringing together all of Google's best offerings and packaging it into a clean and easy-to-use package.

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Reason – Meta Language Toolchain to Build Systems Rapidly

Reason is a meta language toolchain to build systems rapidly. It is a new interface to OCaml – a highly expressive dialect of the ML language featuring type inference and static type checking.

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Android vai copiar sistema de actualização do Chrome OS

As influência do Android no Chrome OS são cada vez mais notórias, e agora parece que teremos uma influência em sentido contrário, com o sistema de actualizações dos futuros Android a copiar o sistema que é utilizado no Chrome OS. Com o Google I/O a decorrer é normal que surjam novidades.

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