Build a Music Player with Angular & Electron III : Bringing It All Together

Angular 2 is the shiny new framework that comes with a lot of new concepts. Learn all the great new features. This post is the last part of "Build a Music Player with Angular and Electron." In the [previous post]() we discussed presentation components which are also known as UI components.

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Build a RESTful JSON API With Rails 5 – Part One

Rails is popularly known for building web applications. Chances are if you're reading this you've built a traditional server-rendered web application with Rails before.

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What’s New in Laravel 5.4

If you've been following Scotch for a while, you heard a lot about Laravel. Some months ago, Laravel 5.3 was released. It introduced new features like Mailables. Yesterday, the 25th of January, Laravel 5.4 was released.

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Corre um ambiente Linux num smartphone ou tablet Android

Muito se tem falado da possibilidade de se usar um smartphone ou tablet como computador de secretária; quando na verdade nem é preciso esperar por isso... pois é possível correr um ambiente GNU/Linux em qualquer dispositivo Android.

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GSM Sniffing on a Budget with Multi-RTL

If you want to eavesdrop on GSM phone conversations or data, it pays to have deep pockets, because you’re going to need to listen to a wide frequency range. Or, you can just use two cheap RTL-SDR units and some clever syncing software.

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Using “Server-less” Architecture to Massively Parallelize DNA Sequence Alignment via StdLib and Node.js

There’s a new flavor of the day in software development, so-called “server-less”, or Function as a Service (FaaS) architecture — and for good reason. It represents the fantastic promise of indefinite scalability without having to manage servers.

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A Brief History of JavaScript (Part 1)

JavaScript is arguably one of the most important languages today. The rise of the web has taken JavaScript places it was never conceived it would go. Let's take a look at how JavaScript has evolved in its short history and where it is headed next. Read on!

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Using Docker Stack And Compose YAML Files To Deploy Swarm Services

Bells are ringing! Docker v1.13 is out! The most common question I receive during my Docker-related talks and workshops is usually related to Swarm and Compose. Someone: How can I use Docker Compose with Docker Swarm? Me: You can’t! You can convert your Compose files into a Bundle that does not support all Swarm features. If you want to use Swarm to its fullest, be prepared for docker service create commands that contain a never ending list of arguments.

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How to write a JavaScript package for both Node and the browser

This is an issue that I’ve seen a lot of confusion over, and even seasoned JavaScript developers might have missed some of its subtleties. So I thought it was worth a short tutorial. Let’s say you have a JavaScript module that you want to publish to npm, available both for Node and for the browser.

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The Next Version of Angular is Angular 4

Angular 2 is the shiny new framework that comes with a lot of new concepts. Learn all the great new features. Angular will be making another big number upgrade to Angular 4. Don't be afraid of the change though, Angular is still the Angular you're learning to love.

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25 Best iOS Apps And Tips Of 2016

iOS 10 was released in 2016. The new iOS update introduced dedicated apps for the Messages app. Since then, the App Store has been flooded with neat little stickers that can be sent over iMessages. The new update also made a lot of tiny annoying changes to iOS and not everyone was happy.

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Quitting Your Job Doesn't Mean You're Too Weak to Handle It

Some of the worst jobs you’ll ever work will try to tell you that “You’ve gotta be tough to work here!” They’ll make you think you’re too weak if you feel like you have to quit for your mental health. This is very rarely true. As business site Inc.

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The Modern Application Stack, Part I: Introducing the MEAN Stack

This is the first in a series of blog posts examining the technologies that are driving the development of modern web and mobile applications, notably the MERN and MEAN stacks. The series will go on to step through tutorials to build all layers of an application.

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Understanding Types in TypeScript

The summary – working with JavaScript involves knowing a lot more than JavaScript. Remember the old days where we imported jQuery through a CDN and used that to manipulate a few things in the DOM or run some AJAX requests? That’s changed.

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Building a PWA using React, Webpack, and other stuff

Let's get started with the buzzwords, shall we? Since we are using React to build the PWA, we'd also need Babel and Webpack. We can now get started. To add style to our app, we'd use Bootstrap

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10 Node.js Best Practices: Enlightenment from the Node Gurus

In my previous article 10 Tips to Become a Better Node Developer in 2017, I introduced 10 Node.js tips, tricks and techniques you could apply to your code today. This post continues in that vein with a further 10 best practices to help you take your Node skills to the next level.

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Microservice Series: Scraper

A scalable universal scraper. Scrape thousands of TechCrunch articles in seconds! This post is part of a series of open source projects that we’ll be releasing in the next while, as described previously here.
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Running Express, Koa and Hapi on HTTP/2

Since I've started to work on web apps, I am searching for ways to improve page speeds and create better user experience. We are minifying our code, bundling files and optimizing images. One thing that we don't think about is server protocol.

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The Google Font Improvement Project

Ever wondered what it would be like to collaborate with the team at Google by enhancing their existing font collection? Type designer Jacques Le Bailley takes us behind the scenes and offers us a glimpse at how this is done. TypeThursday is the meeting place for people who love letterforms.

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Scientists Create Human-Pig Hybrid In The LAb

This is nothing short of a red letter day for science.Scientists have announced that they have created the first successful human-animal hybrids. The international team of researchers led by the Salk Institute were able to produce successful human-big hybrids in a lab.

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The end of the clearfix hack?

A new value of the display property has landed in Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightlies. In the Editor’s Draft of the CSS Display Module Level 3, display: flow-root is defined as: “The element generates a block container box, and lays out its contents using flow layout.

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Build a GitHub-Hosted Blog with Jekyll Now

Jekyll is a platform used for static websites that just want to publish content quickly. The biggest issue with Jekyll is the reliance on command line methods. If you’re not CLI-friendly then you’ll never bother to touch Jekyll.

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Part 3: Redesigning Webflow.com

Over the last couple weeks, we looked at why we decided to redesign Webflow.com and the process of designing the site. Yeah, it’s a little inception-y. Before we dig in, it’s worth noting that this was only my second project at Webflow, so I’d only built a couple pages in Webflow.

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This Raspberry Pi-Powered Magic Mirror Can Be Set Up With One Line of Code

We’ve seen a few different magic mirror projects using a Raspberry Pi, but in the newest issue of MagPi they’ve put together what might as well be the definitive magic mirror guide as it’s easily the simplest one to make for yourself.

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Medidor de corrente USB-C garante segurança dos cabos

Misturar carregadores e cabos USB Type-C nesta fase é uma aventura que pode ter consequências dispendiosas, mas já há quem aproveite a oportunidade de negócio criando um medidor de corrente que promete manter todos os dispositivos USB-C em segurança.

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Creating a Real-Time Chat App With Redis, Node.js, and Socket.io

In this article, we will show you how to build a real-time chat application using the following technologies. Redis is an open-source (BSD-licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker.

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Working with JSON in MySQL

SQL databases tend to be rigid. If you have worked with them, you would agree that database design though it seems easier, is a lot trickier in practice. SQL databases believe in structure, that is why it's called structured query language.

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Scientists reverse Alzheimer's-like symptoms in mice

Scientists have discovered a way of counteracting the proteins that cause Alzheimer's-like symptoms including memory loss. In mice, at least.

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5 Time-Tracking Tools for Better Productivity – Best Of

Time is money. Especially for freelancers, time is the element that determines how much you can get done in a day and sets your pay rate. To help you make the most of your time, there are a number of time-tracking tools available on the web.

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Crash Course: UI Design

If you’ve done any kind of research about software design, you’ve probably heard of the terms “UI” and “UX”. But what separates UI from UX? At their most simple forms, UX design is what makes an interface useful, and UI design is what makes an interface beautiful.

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Laravel Random Keys with Keygen

When developing applications, it is usually common to see randomness come into play - and as a result, many programming languages have built-in random generation mechanisms. Some common applications include:

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Build a Music Player with Angular & Electron II : Making the UI

Angular 2 is the shiny new framework that comes with a lot of new concepts. Learn all the great new features. In the [previous]() post on building a music player with Angular and Electron, we were able to successfully setup an environment where our app can live.

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Server-side Rendering Shootout with Marko, Preact, Rax, React and Vue

Last week Alibaba announced a React-like library called Rax. Rax is a more lightweight implementation of the React renderer and it’s “universal”. It can run in Node.js, in the browser, and on top of Weex (which is pretty cool).

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Hugo Barra is joining Facebook as the new head of Oculus VR

Former Googler Hugo Barra announced recently that he was leaving his gig at Xiaomi, where he's worked as a global VP since 2013. Everyone was wondering where he would go, and now we know. Barra is Facebook-bound. Specifically, he's going to be the head of Oculus VR at Facebook.

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Build an Online Class Calendar with Acuity Scheduling’s API

I moonlight (a lot of us do). I moonlight as a Lego Engineer. It's always been a dream of mine, and in the evenings, I've been making it a reality.

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Google cria site para ajudar developers nas questões de seguraça

Para ajudar a clarificar a questão da segurança, a Google criou um site que oferece algumas dicas para que os developers se certifiquem que não vão colocar os utilizadores em risco.

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Get Started Building Your Blog With Parse.js: Migration to Your Own Parse Server

Sadly, Parse.com is shutting down on 28 January 2017. In the previous series, I walked you through the entire journey of building a blog system from scratch. But everything was based on Parse.com, and if you are still using those techniques, your website will unfortunately stop working by then.

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Announcing Ionic 2.0.0 Final

Today, I’m incredibly excited to announce Ionic Framework 2.0.0. Back in March 2015 the Ionic team was given a unique opportunity to take all the lessons learned building a mobile framework on Angular 1 and reimagine it for a new and fast approaching future of JavaScript and web technology.

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Making Responsive HTML Email Coding Easy With MJML – Smashing Magazine

Email is one of the best ways to engage with your users, especially during the holiday season. However, if you want to stand out, no matter how beautiful your emails are, you need to make sure they render correctly in your reader’s inbox, regardless of what email client they’re using.

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Building a Morphing Hamburger Menu with CSS

Building a Morphing Hamburger Menu with CSS. In this tutorial I'll explain the entire process of how to do it with CSS only, without using a single line of JavaScript. So, we will be seeing some CSS (and SCSS) tricks that will allow us to achieve an animation almost as smooth as the animated gif.

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How to Convert Vertical Video to 16:9 Horizontal in Just 1 Step

First, open your terminal (Command-t on Mac, Control-t on Linux, BSD, etc., and for Windows folks, I suggest cmder) and navigate to the folder containing the video you want to convert from vertical to horizontal. Hit Enter.

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Time Management Secrets of an Efficient Engineer

Sometimes I wish I was a vampire, or at least a werewolf. It would probably make this whole work-life balance thing people talk about easier. But unfortunately, I’m only human, which means I have to sleep, and I only get 24 hours per day, just like everyone else.

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Make a URL Shortener With Node.js and N1QL [Video]

Not too long ago, I wrote a lengthy tutorial on how to use Node.js and Couchbase to create a URL shortener. This tutorial used N1QL for querying the data. To complement that write-up, I've gone ahead and created a video tutorial to demonstrate how to develop this application from scratch and test it using a variety of tools.

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How to Host a MEAN Stack App on Digital Ocean

Angular 2 is the shiny new framework that comes with a lot of new concepts. Learn all the great new features. Software development involves certain steps to be repeated overtime for different projects.

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Build a Music Player with Angular 2+ & Electron I : Setup & Basics Concepts

Angular 2 is the shiny new framework that comes with a lot of new concepts. Learn all the great new features. Last year, I wrote a series on how we can make a music player using React. The app was able to run as a desktop app because we employed Electron.

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8pt Material Design GUI Templates

Eight..8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96. These are the numbers that run through my head at night. I have been using an 8pt based since my time on Android Auto, and have enjoyed applying the core Material Design methodologies to the Design Inc. user interfaces.

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Asus Tinker Board é Raspberry Pi com 4K e 2GB de RAM

O sucesso do Raspberry Pi inspirou muitos outros a avançarem com projectos idênticos, e agora até a Asus avança com um mini-computador compacto: o Tinker Board.

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Meet Minio, an S3 server you can self-host

Minio is a project that has come up on my radar several times and caught my attention - it's an S3-compatible object-storage server that you can run on your own kit and has first-class Docker and Raspberry Pi support. This tutorial is a walk-through for deploying and using Minio.

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Putting a UI around Docker with Portainer

Since we’re smart programmers and ops peeps, every task we execute, we do it through a terminal command, right? But from time to time a little visual feedback doesn’t hurt, right? The people at portainer.

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How to Use the JavaScript Fetch API to Get Data

We all remember the dreaded XMLHttpRequest we used back in the day to make requests, it involved some really messy code, it didn't give us promises and let's just be honest, it wasn't pretty JavaScript, right? Maybe if you were using jQuery, you used the cleaner syntax with jQuery.ajax().

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