Experimental 3D Room Exhibition Layout

Today we’d like to share an experimental 3D layout with you. The idea is to show some information about a gallery’s exhibition in an interesting way. Each artist has a “room” in the gallery which shows the schedule for the exhibition. When clicking on one of the navigation buttons, we move away from the current room and proceed to the next (or previous) one with an animation.

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How to Anonymize Your Browsing with a Tor-Powered Raspberry Pi Hotspot

If you’ve been thinking about trying out Tor to anonymize all your web browsing, you could just download a browser and give that a spin, but it’s much more fun to make your own highly portable proxy that you can easily connect to on a whim. Enter the Raspberry Pi.

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Build and Deploy a Node API and React Web App on AWS

Over the past couple of weeks I've thrown out a series of guides, that while completely independent, can be used to learn and setup a full node and react api based application. I wanted to use this post glue these together and fill in gaps. From this setup you get:

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Preload, Prefetch And Priorities in Chrome

Today we’ll dive into insights from Chrome’s networking stack to provide clarity on how web loading primitives (like & ) work behind the scenes so you can be more effective with them.

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Create a Realtime Chat interface with Firebase and Angular

Continuing the work I did with Yowwlr, the Twitter for Cats client that I started building to show how to use Flexbox, I thought the next thing to tackle would be a clone of Twitter’s “messages” tab, which is essentially a chat interface showing bubbles when a user wants to chat.

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Copy to Clipboard from Command Line

If you've ever been debugging with a fellow developer, you'll hear "OK, execute that and let me know what it says". In this case, you can either manually copy the output and instant message the text over to them, or you can write the output to file with >> , open the file, manually copy the contents, and paste it into IM. I experience this for a few hours recently and it was way to much work!

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Pretty Printing

Myself and Addy spent a few hours banging our heads against a wall trying to understand why our samples using our new Service Worker libraries (sw-helpers)were failing. It turned out to be a stupid quirk of the libraries, bugs were raised etc, but ultimately logs would have helped.

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4 Approaches To Natural Language Processing & Understanding

In 1971, Terry Winograd wrote the SHRDLU program while completing his PhD at MIT. SHRDLU features a world of toy blocks where the computer translates human commands into physical actions, such as “move the red pyramid next to the blue cube.

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JavaScript. But less iffy.

This is part three of a series of articles on reducing complexity in JavaScript code. In previous articles, we suggested that indentation is an indicator of complexity. It is not an accurate or comprehensive indicator, but it can be a helpful guide.

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Deep Photo Styletransfer aplica estilo de uma foto a outra

Já sabemos que não podemos acreditar em tudo o que vemos, e este Deep Photo Styletransfer vem confirmar isso mesmo, criando imagens ultra-realistas mas que não existem. O Deep Photo Styletransfer é uma ferramenta que consegue analisar o estilo visual de uma imagem e aplicá-lo a outras.

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Galaxy S8 and S8+ hands-on: Betting big on big

The Galaxy S6 was, by all accounts, a truly transformational moment for Samsung's industrial design. After years of building plastic phones constantly lambasted for their "cheapness," Samsung made radical changes in an attempt to completely redefine its smartphone brand.

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8 novidades do Galaxy S8

A Samsung já apresentou o seu Galaxy S8, com preços a começar nos 820 euros, e embora já muito fosse conhecido, há sempre alguns pormenores que importa destacar.

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How to Install Ghost and WordPress With Docker

Docker is a lightweight, portable tool that can free you from having to install server software on your local machine. The containers Docker creates can be started and stopped on any computer, easing deployment and configuration.

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Code Your First Ionic 2 App: A Photo Sharing App

In this two-part tutorial series, you're learning how to create your very first Ionic 2 app. Now that you've set up your development environment and learned about the development workflow in Ionic 2, it's time to get your hands dirty by coding the app. 

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Preventing cross-site attacks using same-site cookies

Our comms team told us we need an image; our legal team told us it needed to be freely licensed. Credit: Carsten Schertzer (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0) Dropbox employs traditional cross-site attack defenses, but we also employ same-site cookies as a defense in depth on newer browsers.

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PDF Candy : The best free all-in-one online solution for PDF Documents

PDF Candy is a new all-in-one free online service for processing PDF files by Icecream Apps. There are 24 tools for various operations with the PDF files available on the website.

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Docker From the Ground Up: Building Images

Docker containers are on the rise as a best practice for deploying and managing cloud-native distributed systems. Containers are instances of Docker images. It turns out that there is a lot to know and understand about images.  In this two-part tutorial, I'm covering Docker images in depth.

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Anacom "acorda" para os aumentos de preços dos operadores

A nossa ANACOM é uma entidade que se tem pautado por não se fazer ouvir nem sentir, mas com 1700 queixas de clientes referentes aos aumentos dos operadores no final do ano passado, vieram finalmente mostrar que ainda estão vivos... mas sem que isso se traduza necessariamente em boas notícias.

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Our Best Practices for Writing React Components

When I first started writing React, I remember seeing many different approaches to writing components, varying greatly from tutorial to tutorial. Though the framework has matured considerably since then, there doesn’t seem to yet be a firm ‘right’ way of doing things.

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Building a Conversational Bot with JavaScript and Node.js

Let's admit it – speaking to other people is so last century. Today, we might talk to our machines (Siri, Alexa, etc.), but, if we want to communicate with people, we use text. We SMS rather than call or chat via Slack rather than video via Skype.

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Practical CSS Grid: Adding Grid to an Existing Design

Understanding and using CSS Grid is easier than you might expect. The day Grid support shipped in Firefox 52, I decided on the spur of the moment to convert the basic layout of my personal site to use Grid.

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Designing responsive web layouts in React Studio

Welcome! This tutorial will walk you through some of the most essential layout features in React Studio, the web app design tool created by Neonto.

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Building a Tic-Tac-Toe Game with Vue 2: Part 1

JavaScript is the language on fire. Build an app for any platform you want including website, server, mobile, and desktop. This tutorial assumes that you have a little prior knowledge of JavaScript and the Vue framework. You also need to have Node and Git installed on your system.

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Scrape Images with wget

The desire to download all images or video on the page has been around since the beginning of the internet.  Twenty years ago I would accomplish this task with a python script I downloaded.  I then moved on to browser extensions for this task, then started using a PhearJS Node.

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Building For Mobile: RWD, PWA, AMP Or Instant Articles?

March 27th, 2017 As we look deep into 2017, one of the questions on every web developer’s mind ought to be, “What trend will define the web in 2017?” Just three years ago, we were talking about the “Year of Responsive Web Design”, and we’ve all seen how the stakes were raised1 when G

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Test a Flask App with Selenium WebDriver – Part 2

JavaScript is the language on fire. Build an app for any platform you want including website, server, mobile, and desktop. This is the second and final part of a tutorial on how to test a Python/Flask web app with Selenium webdriver. We are testing Project Dream Team, an existing CRUD web app.

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Intel Claims Its Magical New Memory Will Speed Your Computer Up for Cheap

For a decade now, one of the biggest factors in choosing a computer has been the choice between traditional hard drive and solid state drive. The former is cheap, bulky, and slow. The latter is expensive, light, and fast. There has been zero middle ground.

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End-to-End Testing with Nightwatch.js - Node.js at Scale

In this article, we are going to take a look at how you can do end-to-end testing with Node.js, using Nightwatch.js, a Node.js powered end-to-end testing framework. In the previous chapter of Node.js at Scale, we discussed Node.js Testing and Getting TDD Right.

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Build a “Serverless” Slack Bot in 9 Minutes with Node.js and StdLib

Slack bots — they’re fun, they’re useful, and people are building new businesses around bot interaction models on a daily basis.

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How To Loop YouTube Videos And Playlists On The Chromecast

Google owns YouTube which means YouTube has the best Chromecast support you can imagine. No other video streaming service, or its app, comes close. That said, Google has odd restrictions for casting YouTube videos to the Chromecast. You can cast a single video or an entire playlist.

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8 CSS gotchas to start your morning off right

In every community there’s a coming-of-age process, a rite of passage that every newcomer must experience before he can really consider himself an insider. For the CSS community, it goes something like this:

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OSCAMP - Open Source Camp em Lisboa a 5 de Abril

A Microsoft de hoje é bem diferente daquela das décadas passadas, e a demonstrá-lo está este evento Open Source Camp (OSCAMP) que se realizará em Lisboa já no próximo dia 5 de Abril.

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My Precious Data: Digital clutter and its dangers

Main Findings The rapid growth in the use of applications has significantly added to the digital clutter that exists on people’s digital devices: for example, users typically install 12 Android apps every month but delete only 10, in effect adding two apps to their device on a monthly basis.

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Use all the Databases - Part 1

Ever wanted to use a few different databases to build your app? Different types of databases are meant for different purposes, so it often makes sense to combine them. You might be hesitant due to the complexity of maintenance and coding, but it can be easy if you combine Compose and GraphQL: instead of writing a number of complex REST endpoints, each querying multiple databases, you set up a single GraphQL endpoint that provides whatever data the client wants using your simple data fetching functions.

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Making Alix, a Chrome Extension for Linting HTML

Last week, I wrote about how you can use CSS selectors to help lint your CSS. The general idea behind this concept was that we can use some of the more advanced CSS selectors, such as :not(), to select certain types of elements in the document.

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Build A Tweet Bot With Python

JavaScript is the language on fire. Build an app for any platform you want including website, server, mobile, and desktop. This article demonstrates how to build a tweet bot with Python programming language.

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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017

Developers generally love their career path. Whether they like their current job is another story. Most developers are employed full time, and an additional 10.

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Build a Retrogames Archive with Node.JS, React, Redux and Redux-saga Part3

Use Redux to get predictable state in our applications. Here we are at the last part of the Retrogames Archive tutorial. We have now a full working app written in JavaScript and it's pretty much what we were looking to achieve.

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How to Create a Virtual Dash Button for Almost Anything Amazon Sells

Amazon Dash buttons are a quick and easy way to reorder products that you use often, but they only exist for certain brands and products. The good news, though, is that if you’re a Prime member, you can take advantage of virtual Dash buttons and quickly reorder almost anything that Amazon sells with Prime.

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Getting Started with Brunch: The Ultra-Fast Simple-Config Build Tool

Node is a powerful tool to get JavaScript on the server. Use Node to build a great website. When it comes to build tools, web developers have a hard time choosing between Gulp, Grunt, Webpack, and Browserify to mention but a few.

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Expanding Bar Navigation Concept

Today we’d like to share an experimental tab-like navigation with you. The main idea is to animate the bars of the navigation in a way that they expand to reveal some further content. The navigation is either shown in a vertical or horizontal orientation. For this experiment we are using anime.js.

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Create a Desktop Quiz Application Using Vue.js and Electron

JavaScript is the language on fire. Build an app for any platform you want including website, server, mobile, and desktop. Today, I would be explaining how to build a desktop quiz application using Electron and Vue.js.

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Code Your First Ionic 2 App: Getting Set Up

With the recent release of Ionic 2, you might be one of those hybrid app developers who wants to try it out. But maybe you're overwhelmed by the amount of learning needed to get started. That's why I want to give you a good start by walking you step by step through the creation of your first Ionic 2 app. If you're already familiar with Ionic then the concepts might easily "click" with you. But if you're a complete beginner, not to worry—I'll won't assume any prior knowledge of the framework.

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Surfing Internet becomes 100 times faster with the new Wi-Fi

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands claim to have developed a wireless network based on harmless infrared rays that can achieve Wi-Fi at a lightning speed of 42.8 Gbit/s over a distance of 2.5 metres, which is 100 times faster than the existing Wi-Fi network.

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Apple acquires automation app Workflow and makes it free

Apple has acquired Workflow, an automation app for iOS that lets you connect apps and create quick shortcuts to actions like texting a contact to let them know you’ll be late for your appointment, find a convenience store near you, make PDFs from Web pages and record an audio note to yourself t

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Super Mario Run is out on the Play Store

Super Mario Run is Nintendo's second smartphone game, the first being Miitomo. The company no doubt annoyed some Android users when it announced Super Mario Run at the iPhone 7 launch event, only promising that the game would be available for Android at some point.

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How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Always-On BitTorrent Box

It’s ideal to have a dedicated machine for your BitTorrent client, but it is energy intensive to leave a full rig powered up and online 24/7. Read on as we show you how to set up a power-sipping Raspberry Pi to serve as an always-on downloading machine.

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Improve Your Billing Form’s UX In One Day – Smashing Magazine

The checkout page is the last page a user visits before finally decide to complete a purchase on your website. It’s where window shoppers turn into paying customers.

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7 JavaScript Libraries for Dashboards

Dashboard is a visual indicator of an objective or a business process. It is an invaluable tool for cutting through data clutter and getting down to the essentials. It helps you to evaluate information and allow to make the correct decision in a timely manner.

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How To Get The Android O Developer Preview

Google unexpectedly dropped the first Android O developer preview yesterday. Android O is the code name for the next version of Android. Android 7 aka Nougat is the current stable version. This developer preview is intended for registered developers.

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