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Codrops Tutorials In this section you will find in-depth how-tos involving common web development and web design techniques. Playground In this category you will find experiments, plugins and articles related to web development and programming. Here we present some new ideas and inspiration for solving problems and tackling challenges around web development. Blueprints The Blueprints are a collection of basic and minimal website concepts, components, plugins and layouts with minimal style for easy adaption and usage, or simply for inspiration....

iosdevtips : There are a lot of Xcode plugins to augment the IDE with additional features, conveniences etc., but it is a pain to discover and install such plugins. Alcatraz is a really great package manager that makes it a breeze to install Xcode plugins. Here’s how it looks: In Alcatraz, you’ll find plugins, color schemes and templates for code fragments. You can install it by visiting alcatraz.io. Here are some of the best Xcode plugins available in Alcatraz to boost your productivity:...

Cloud services for developers, hosted developer tools, software development tools and services | Leanstack The software development landscape is shifting rapidly, and Leanstack is helping developers make sense of it all. Hundreds of thousands of developers have already discovered new tools to improve their products and workflows through Leanstack.

(via What’s wrong with this picture? | Code.org ) Computer science is a top paying college degree and computer programming jobs are growing at 2x the national average . Less than 2.4% of college students graduate with a degree in computer science. And the numbers have dropped since last decade. See also Promote Computer Science | Code.org

Java 8 Tutorial “Java is still not dead—and people are starting to figure that out.” Welcome to my introduction to Java 8 . (…) At the end of the article you’ll be familiar with the most recent API changes like streams, functional interfaces, map extensions and the new Date API. No walls of text – just a bunch of commented code snippets. Enjoy! Default Methods for Interfaces Lambda expressions Functional Interfaces Method and Constructor References Lambda Scopes Built-in Functional Interfaces Streams Parallel Streams Map Date API Annotations

userexperiencehub: Design Process Diagram by Todd Warfel

Uncle Bob Martin walks through the “Prime Factors” kata in Java (29m06s) to illustrate the concept of Transformation Priority Premise as a way to address the common complaint about TDD: the brainlessness “As the tests get more specific, the code gets more generic.” … and “here’s the list of transformations” (47m53s): So what are these transformations? Perhaps we can make a list of them: ({}–>nil) no code at all->code that employs nil (nil->constant) (constant->constant+) a simple constant to a more complex constant (constant->scalar) replacing a constant with a variable or an argument (statement->statements) adding more unconditional statements....

About | SpriteBuilder SpriteBuilder is the first game development suite for rapidly building native iOS and Android games with Objective-C and Xcode. In 2013, Apportable brought together the maintainers of four of the most popular open source iOS game development projects ( Cocos2D , Cocos3D , CocosBuilder , and Chipmunk ) to create a new, integrated development experience. SpriteBuilder is a free download and the source code is available under the commercially-friendly MIT license (…)...

Favicon Generator – Generate favicon pictures and HTML Generate the favicon pictures and HTML code that work on all major browsers and platforms.

The number of patterns available to communicate information between objects can be overwhelming at first. The choice of which pattern to use often feels ambiguous. But once we investigate each pattern more closely, they all have very unique requirements and capabilities. (via Communication Patterns – Foundation – objc.io issue #7 )

Convert Photoshop Drop Shadows to CSS3 Box and Text Shadows This tool creates CSS3 Box Shadows based off of Photoshop Drop Shadow settings. After stumbling upon the Recreating Photoshop Drop Shadows in CSS3 and Compass article by Grady Kuhnline, I wanted to build a tool that would allow the rest of us not using Compass to have the same ability to convert for CSS3.

Responsivator View & share how sites look at different screen sizes Works with localhost too.

Starter’s Guide to iOS Design In this guide I’ll describe the deliverables you’ll be expected to produce, outline the constraints of the medium and introduce fundamental iOS and UI design concepts .

Richard Feynman, the Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering : Gustavo Duarte With respect to software, I take out four main points: Engineering can only be as good as its relationship with management Big design up front is foolish Software has much in common with other engineering disciplines Reliable systems are built by rigorously tested , incremental bottom-up engineering with an ‘attitude of highest quality’

Frida Inject JavaScript to explore native apps on Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS. Scriptable Your own scripts get injected into black box processes to execute custom debugging logic. Hook any function, spy on crypto APIs or trace private application code, no source code needed! Stalking Stealthy code tracing without relying on software or hardware breakpoints. Think DTrace in user-space, based on dynamic recompilation, like DynamoRIO and PIN . Quick-start Instructions...

Type-System Criteria · ongoing by Tim Bray Cri­te­ria Let’s call them the Bánffy-Bray cri­te­ria for se­lect­ing be­tween sta­tic and dy­namic type sys­tems. Sta­tic typ­ing’s at­trac­tive­ness is a di­rect func­tion (and dy­namic typ­ing’s an in­verse func­tion) of API sur­face size. Dy­namic typ­ing’s at­trac­tive­ness is a di­rect func­tion (and sta­tic typ­ing’s an in­verse func­tion) of unit test­ing work­a­bil­ity.

Online interactive resources to learn programming: Learn | Code.org — Beginners (concepts), HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Python, Codecademy — HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Python, Ruby Learn Code The Hard Way — Python, Ruby, C, SQL, Regex, CLI Try Ruby: learn the basics of the Ruby language in your browser

Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle (by CUSEC ) Their principles Elizabeth Cady Stanton — “Women should vote” Larry Tesler — “No person should be trapped in a mode” Doug Engelbart — “Enable mankind to solve solve the world’s urgent problems” (a vision of “knowledge workers” using complex powerful information tools to harness our collective intelligence) Alan Kay — “Amplify human reach and bring new ways of thinking into a faltering civilisation that desperately need it”...

CSS = California Style Sheets Jenn $chiffer (via A Call For Web Developers To Deprecate Their CSS — Medium )

The ultimate analytics platform. Send your data to any service with the flick of a switch. (via Segment.io – The ultimate analytics platform ) “It is basically the adapter pattern for analytics services.” (thoughtbot’s playbook )