Many of us struggle silently with mental health problems and many more are affected by them, either directly or indirectly. It’s {Geek} Mental Help Week and we would like to help raise awareness with a couple of articles exploring these issues and offering solutions. – Ed.Everywhere we go, from...
Bootstrap is the most widely used frontend framework right now. When it comes to building responsive websites and apps, it’s the first choice of both professionals and hobbyists because of how simple it is to work with. Anybody who knows HTML, CSS and a bit of JavaScript can learn Bootstrap in no time. In th...
Advertise here via BSA Simply put, CSSgram is a library for editing your images with Instagram-like filters directly in CSS. What we’re doing here is adding filters to the images as well as applying color and/or gradient overlays via various blending techniques to mimic these effects. This means less manual imag...
Alongside a clear navigation, a good search functionality is one of the most important features, especially for large and complex web projects. That’s the only way of making sure that your visitors can properly orientate themselves throughout your site and find the contents they expect. However, the search featur...
If you’re developing an app that needs to accept payments, you will likely consider Stripe and Braintree as payment providers. They’re a new breed of full-stack payment companies that are friendly to both businesses and developers. They take care of the nitty gritty like merchant accounts and PCI compliance, and ...
Patrick Hamann in a fast-paced talk on avoiding single points of failure. He suggests:Use preloading and prefetching Load fonts asynchronously Always use timeouts / circuit breakers for Ajax requests Cache resources Treat the network as an enhancementDevelopers at the Financial Times managed to shave 1.5s off the t...
Karen McGrane tweets, dreamteam assembles, epic redesign ensues, story of entire process published. Some minor nuggets #RelevantToMyInterets:A big part of the effort was content strategy and taxonomy work. Cleaning up the tag and category system (and actually inventing different types of tags) meant they could offer ...
Grunt is a widespread and popular task runner for JavaScript. Its architecture is based on plugins that you can combine and configure to create a powerful build system for your web applications. The Grunt ecosystem is huge and offers hundreds of plugins to help you with tedious and repetitive tasks, such as linting, te...
This article analyzes problems related to random number generation used for cryptography purposes. PHP 5 does not provide an easy mechanism for generating cryptographically strong random numbers, while PHP 7 solves this by introducing a couple of CSPRNG functions. What is a CSPRNG? Quoting Wikipedia, a Cryptographic...
View demo Download source Today we’d like to share some inspiration for card effects with you. The idea is to animate the top element of a stack by clicking on an accept or reject button. We’ve used this Tinder-like example to show some symmetric and complementing pairs of effects, but these kind of animat...
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