Latest news on web development

Latest News on Web Development

As a web designer we know how web development process can be more complex and I have got some great feedbacks on this while discussing some of the common issues we face in our day to day work. And I thank you all for getting all the latest tools and technologies which will help us to make our web development work progressive.

News Here’s bad news. A Flash security vulnerability has been found, and there’s no fix on the way yet — apart from uninstalling Flash. If you can’t do that, please use click-to-play and be very careful.

General The Front-end Handbook is an open and free book about how to get started in the web industry. It not only shares the basic technological aspects but also business and social advice.

Concepts & Design The founders of Teehan+Lax, shared a massive set of iOS9 GUI templates , you can use it for free with Photoshop or Sketch

A massive set of iOS9 UI templates for Photoshop and Sketch.

Tools Jack Franklin started reflecting on the state of front-end tooling.

Firefox changed its extension ecosystem to use Web Extensions, which makes it super easy to convert a Chrome to a Firefox extension.

Security If you’re building an application with node.js you must read the node. js security checklist that helps you circumvent lot of security pitfalls.

Privacy A recent report explains how the NSA breaks our crypto. It even seems that they break Diffie-Hellman primes, meaning that HTTPS/VPN wouldn’t be secure anymore.

Web Performance Jeremy Keith is always good for a well-thought-out article on ideas that spread on the internet. This time, he criticizes Google’s new AMP project that, for a lot of people, leads to more questions than it answers.

How to enable HTTP/2 in Apache? With Apache httpd 2.4.17, HTTP/2 is finally supported and here we have a guide on how to set it up and configure it for usage on your server imgix, a well-known real-time image processing service HTML / SVG Bram Stein started writing a series of articles, the so-called Web Font AntiPatterns. Starting with overusing web fonts, in lining fonts, and using too aggressive sub settings.

CSS / Sass Making diamond grid quite a difficult task. But using Sass to calculate it, makes things a lot easier. Chen Hui Jing explains in her blog post how you can create a diamond grid with SCSS. Work & Life The worst situation for a developer is when you’re constantly interrupted during your work. It massively affects productivity and code quality.

An idea to put an end to the “why do we have to build this crap?” question.

Go beyond…

Tesla pushed a new software update to its cars, enabling them to drive on autopilot.

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