What’s going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting everything that popped up over the last week in his web development reading list so that you don’t miss out on anything. The result is a carefully curated list of articles and resources that are worth taking a closer look at.
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ProcessWire is a content management system distributed under the Mozilla Public License version 2.0 and MIT License. It is designed to tackle the issues caused by exactly this kind of opinionatedness by being non-opinionated. At its heart, it is based on a few simple core concepts and offers an exceptionally easy-to-use and powerful API to handle content of any kind. ProcessWire is a good fit if you want to develop a JSON REST API, an image-resizing app for employees, a front end for managing millions of products, a web application for displaying the financial results of companies, a simple blog, a website for a big university, or just a simple one-page informational website. Let’s get right into it!
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Parents are less willing to let their children play outdoors without direct supervision. As a result, children spend most of their free time in organized sports, music and arts activities. This results in less time for unstructured play than in previous generations. Digital technology is often blamed for children not going outside. Yet studies have shown little difference in the outdoor time of children who follow the American Academy of Pediatrics media guidelines and those who do not. When done right, digital technology can help solve the unique challenge of motivating children to go from indoors to outdoors and then to connect with nature.
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Wouldn’t it be great to have a set of consistent icons for all sports-related activities? This set of 45 icons was created by the design team at Icons8. You may modify the size, color or shape of the icons. No attribution is required, however, reselling of bundles or individual pictograms is not cool. A big thank you to Icons8 — we sincerely appreciate your time and efforts. Keep up the brilliant work!
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ECMAScript 6 has brought hundreds of small and big improvements to JavaScript. More and more, developers are using ECMAScript 6 features, and soon these features will be unavoidable. In this tutorial, Faraz Kelhini will explore arguments and parameters in detail and see how ECMAScript 6 has upgraded them.
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Whether you’re working on digital products or chocolates, prototyping plays an important role in any successful project, and if you work in user experience or software development, chances are you will have encountered Axure RP at some point. In this article, Pierre Croft will help you gain a good understanding of the new features available with Axure 8, and how they could improve elements of your daily workflow. There are definitely some really useful new additions.
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With technology evolving and language recognition and processing improving, we are on a path that could make interaction with digital services more intuitive, more accessible and more efficient — through conversational interfaces. Conversational interfaces are still in their infancy. There are still hurdles to jump, and we need to explore what works and what doesn’t. However, this means that there are no beaten paths, yet. It’s a time for experimentation, a time to tinker with the concept and try out something new.
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What’s going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting everything that popped up over the last week in his web development reading list so that you don’t miss out on anything. The result is a carefully curated list of articles and resources that are worth taking a closer look at.
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This set of 40 icons was created by the design team at Printerinks.com. Please note that this icon set is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. A big thank you to Printerinks — we sincerely appreciate your time and efforts. Keep up the brilliant work! Please provide credits to the creators and link to the article in which this freebie was released if you would like to spread the word in blog posts or anywhere else.
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In today’s burgeoning digital market, every company stands to lose by avoiding alignment with digital policies. By the same token, you have even more to gain by incorporating those policies into an overall long-range strategic plan for your digital enterprise. By complying, you’ve ensured that your home on the web remains secure.When creativity is balanced with guidance — the real goal of these policies — then digital workers are freer to innovate and work more efficiently than in other organizations. Digital workers, especially web designers and developers, need to recognize that policy influences their products online much as it does offline.
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