Random Interesting Facts on HTML/SVG usage

Last time, we saw how the average web page looks like using data from about 8 million websites. That's a lot of data, and we've been continuing to sift through it. We're back again this time to showcase some random and hopefully interesting facts on markup usage.

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Make Your Own IoT with Android NFC + the IFTTT Maker Channel

I geeked out recently over the Android task automation app,  Automate. The reason I got so excited was that it provided a very elegant solution for creating a custom NFC sensor for a project I’ve been working on.

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Why I’m Thankful for JS Fatigue. I know you’re sick of those words, but this is different.

Learning JS can be overwhelming. I know it can feel like there is an ocean of stuff you don’t know. Trying to soak it all up is like trying to soak up the real ocean with a beach towel. It’s never going to happen.

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Hollywood transforma o Ubuntu num Linux digno dos filmes

A ideia do que um hacker faz no computador está profundamente deturpada por décadas de filmes de Hollywood; mas agora podemos vingar-nos com uma ferramenta simples que deixará qualquer pessoa impressionada, transformando qualquer Ubuntu num terminal "à filme".

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GPS spoofing and dangers of GPS data hacking

Imagine you are relying on Google Maps and suddenly it leads you to an unwanted/dangerous place. Up to now this would be considered a Google Maps glitch but hackers can actually hack your smartphone GPS and make it send you to a location of their choice. Welcome to the reality of GPS spoofing.

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Netflix Adds Offline Viewing for Phones and Tablets

Starting today, Netflix will let you download select shows so that you can watch offline. That means you can queue up your favorite shows to watch while you’re traveling or don’t want to use up your data plan.

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Build A Media Library With React, Redux, and Redux-saga – Part 2

In the first part of this tutorial, we had a running app. We covered basic React setup, project workflow; defined basic components and configured our application's routes.

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Getting Started with SLIM 3, A PHP Microframework

Just like the world of Javascript, in the world of PHP, we have a fairly large amount of frameworks and libraries. We could go on all day listing PHP libraries and still not finish in time for Christmas.

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Should You Sleep, Shut Down, Or Hibernate Your Laptop?

Sleep, hibernate, or shutdown? Which is the best option for your laptop? Do we need to turn off the computer when we are done using it? Or is it fine to just close the lid of the laptop overnight while we sleep? There are many ways to shut down your computer or laptop: you can turn the machine off

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The Irrational User – Startup Grind

The human mind is a wonderfully complex thinking machine. We’ve developed written language, built skyscrapers, and discovered quantum physics through our collective ability to plan and reason.

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Top 8 Free Web Statistics Tools

A web analytics tool is mandatory for every website to keep track of traffic and create strategies according to it. Thankfully, there are many web statistics tools available that you can use on your website to track traffic count, type and behavior, etc.

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Daylight Saving Time – Whys And Why Nots

We recently went through our twice yearly period of communal venting called adjusting for daylight saving time (DST), or British Summer Time (BST) as it’s called in the UK. But why are we changing the time? Seriously, who caused all this? Does it do any good? Do we still need it? And what can we do about it? As it turns out, most of us want it, as you’ll see below.

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Httpster – A Curated Showcase of Really Hot Web Designs

Httpster is a showcase of damn fine website design, lovingly curated and categorised so we can perv on it at our whim. They love good typography, and effective, unpretentious design; in short, simple ideas executed perfectly.

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What Are Denial of Service and DDoS Attacks?

DoS (Denial of Service) and DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks are becoming increasingly common and potent. Denial of Service attacks come in many forms, but share a common purpose: stopping users from accessing a resource, whether it’s a web page, email, the phone network, or something else entirely. Let’s look at the most common types of attacks against web targets, and how DoS can become DDoS.

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CSS Animation for Beginners

The human brain is hardwired to pay attention to moving objects. Because of this natural reflex to notice movement, adding animation to your website or app is a powerful way to draw users attention to important areas of your product and add interest to your interface.

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MP3 foi criado há 25 anos

Poderá custar a imaginar que em tempos a ideia de ter música guardada no computador parecia uma tarefa impossível - quanto mais a ideia a ideia de a partilhar com outras pessoas via internet. Mas há 25 anos, com a criação do MP3... tudo mudou.

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Malware uses Facebook and LinkedIn images to hijack your PC

Malware doesn't always have to attack your computer through browser- or OS-based exploits. Sometimes, it's the social networks themselves that can be the problem.

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The 100% correct way to do CSS breakpoints

For the next minute or so, I want you to forget about CSS. Forget about web development. Forget about digital user interfaces. And as you forget these things, I want you to allow your mind to wander. To wander back in time. Back to your youth. Back to your first day of school.

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Why Will Angular 2 Rock?

This article has been update in January 30th. Now it is using TypeScript and angular 2.0.0-beta.2 Note: If the “foo” alerts from the plunkers starts popping out without reason, please leave a comment and I will look for a different solution.

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O abuso das notificações e o fim do seu propósito

Lembram-se de quando as notificações eram uma novidade útil? Desde então as mesmas tornaram-se tão comuns e recorrentes que se arriscam a perder o seu propósito inicial, e os culpados são os developers que parecem não ter qualquer noção daquilo para que deviam ser utilizadas.

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Highlights from Chrome Dev Summit 2016

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Chrome Dev Summit in San Francisco. It was a really great experience to be able to see, in person, a lot of the people working on the APIs I use everyday, as well as to see how other developers are creating complex modern web applications.

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Delete yourself from the internet by pressing this button

The internet can be a beautiful and horrible place at the same time, and it isn’t weird to sometimes feel like you want to leave — there’s wasn’t an easy way out, until now. Swedish developers Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unnebäck created Deseat.

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Raspberry Pi Swarm

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine reminded me about Docker. Docker is a containerisation platform which allows you to deploy different systems very quickly and efficiently on the same host machine. Not only that, you can put several Docker hosts together in order to create a swarm.

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HTTP in Angular 2

Highlighting the HTTP features in AngularJS 2 for asynchronous web development. In many modern websites, you would find the search functionality which allows you to search whatever keyword you have written in the whole website.

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Docker Datacenter news: orchestration, security and usability

There’s a lot to be excited about in November here in the happy land of containers. Even though the year is winding down and we’re all getting ready for the holidays, the container ecosystem continues to pick up steam with new features and functionality coming out from all of the major ecosystem players.

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Google reabre Google Sites para facilitar a criação de sites web

Lembram-se de quando fazer uma página web implicava abrir um editor de texto e escrever HTML à mão? Provavelmente não, mas agora também não será preciso pois o Google Sites volta a dar uma ajuda.

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Boost your site's performance and save money with NGinx

NGinx is an extensible open-source HTTP server which is best known for its strong performance serving static content, acting as a reverse proxy and for its built-in caching capabilities. It's often used in combination with Docker and is available for most platforms.

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Introduction to Docker

This guide will explain you how to use Docker in everyday work and move on with continuous development. The contents of this guide requires basic Git knowledge — you can learn Git here.

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Walkthrough to upgrade an Angular 1.x component to Angular 2

In this article we’re going to look at upgrading your first Angular 1.x component, a simple todo app, across to Angular 2 code. We’ll compare the API differences, templating syntaxes and hopefully it’ll shed some light on upgrading to Angular 2, and well as making it appear less daunting.

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Angular 2 HTTP Requests with Observables

Angular 2 is the shiny new framework that comes with a lot of new concepts. Learn all the great new features. Making HTTP requests is a vital operation in the life of most front-end applications. Angular 2, which is the hottest thing right now has a really cool way of doing that.

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Common React Native App Layouts: Login Page

In this series, you'll learn how to use React Native to create page layouts commonly used in mobile apps. The layouts you'll be creating won't be functional—instead, the main focus of this series is to get your hands dirty in laying out content in your React Native apps. 

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Building Your Startup: The Dashboard Foundation

This tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my Meeting Planner app as a real-life example.

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Prevent Errors from Crashing Gulp Watch

Developers are a lazy bunch. Or at least I assume we are. Because of this reason we tend to build tools that make our work faster. From highly customizable editors to task runners. Today's article is on gulp.

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A.I. da Google já é capaz de ler os lábios melhor que os humanos

Os avanços feitos nos sistemas de inteligência artificial têm sido notáveis, e agora temos mais um exemplo que demonstra a sua superioridade face ao humanos, no que diz respeito a ler os lábios em clips de vídeo.

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Tilt Hover Effects

Today we’d like to share some experimental hover effects with you. The idea is inspired by the hover effect seen on the grid of the Kikk 2015. We want to animate an image (which could be a link or simply a normal grid item) with a tilt effect on its parts.

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Vídeo crasha iPhones e obriga a fazer hard reset

Se têm um iPhone, cuidado com os links em que clicam, mesmo que pareçam ser um normalíssimo vídeo MP4. Há um vídeo que quando visto no Safari num iPhone ou iPad os encrava ao ponto de ser necessário um hard reset.

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7 More npm Tricks to Knock Your Wombat Socks Off

There are definitely some tricks when it comes to using npm’s CLI. There’s a ton of small features that you’d never know about unless someone told you or you inspect the docs insanely thoroughly.

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Open Design Standards for Chat UX

For instance, Kip Café is a service shopping experience, where users can purchase a type of service — in this case, it’s a food delivery and food ordering service for a team.

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Get Angular 1 Features in Angular 2

Angular 2 is the shiny new framework that comes with a lot of new concepts. Learn all the great new features. If you have solid experience with AngularJS 1.x, you're well aware of the framework's features and intricacies. Many of us have plenty of Angular 1 projects in development and production.

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Make Your Own Light Switch With Java and a Raspberry Pi

In this article, you'll learn the simple steps to control a light using a Raspberry Pi and Java. Raspberry Pi (I have chosen the Raspberry Pi 3 model B, which has a built-in Wi-Fi dongle, ethernet cable support, 4 USB ports, and 2 GB of RAM) — $35 on Amazon.

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Six More Tiny But Awesome ES6 Features

ES6 has brought JavaScript developers a huge new set of features and syntax updates to be excited about. Some of those language updates are quite large but some of them are small updates you would miss if you weren't careful -- that's why I wrote about Six Tiny But Awesome ES6 Features, a list of the little things that can make a big difference when you code for today's browsers.

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Some of The Best Black Friday Deals Are Already Here

Black Friday is a super time to take advantage of bargains in household items and consumer electronics. But what about bargains for web designers? As it turns out, web designers haven’t been left out of the picture.

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Sprite Spirit

Generator and SCSS Mixin that Brings Image Sprite to life. Try Example Save Image Sprite to your computer and drag it to the generator, or see a Demo on codepen.

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New battery tech lasts for days, charges in seconds

Scientists from the University of Central Florida (UCF) have created a supercapacitor battery prototype that works like new even after being recharged 30,000 times.

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The New Generation of Prototyping Tools (Part 2/2)

This is part of a two-part series on prototyping tools. Part 1 explored tools that were well suited for responsive projects and ones that require transitions and animations. If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, please read it here.

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Angular 2 and Observables: Data Sharing in a Multi-View Application

Recently, I started on a project to migrate JavaScript to TypeScript in one of Lucidchart’s Angular 2 applications. This application has several components, each with its unique view.

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Firebase for Android: File Storage

During the 2016 Google I/O conference, Firebase was reintroduced to the developer community as a major tool for providing quick back-end support for web pages and mobile applications. This tutorial will introduce you to the file storage and retrieval functionality available for your Android apps.

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Spotify Playlists To Fuel Your Coding And Design Sessions – Smashing Magazine

Some like it loud, others need some steady beats to stay focused, others calm tunes. A while ago we asked on Twitter1 and Facebook2 what music the web community is listening to when coding and designing.

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Exposing Node.js process metrics using PM2 and PMX.

Over the course of the last few months I have been in charge of developing a sustainable and observable project structure for Node micro services. While I have done many things like this before, each environment and ecosystem that you develop in provides different challenges.

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Building Your Startup: Sending Reminders

This tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my Meeting Planner app as a real-life example.

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