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Bézier Curves – Under the Hood (4min video)

Take a peek under the hood to see how computers draw cubic Bézier curves, as used in design and motion 

CSS, Featured, HTML5
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Joshua Davis – my hero of Flash – in two excellent interviews (audio, video)

Joshua Davis is the reason why I’ve started to code. Seriously. Back in the late 90ies, the internet was a 

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Local Development, PHP, PHPStorm, UI / UX
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Get Github’s code colors in PHPStorm (2014 style)

I really love the colors on GitHub’s code previews but couldn’t find any themes that copy that in a beautiful 

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PHP
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A super-simple introduction into PHP namespaces (7min video)

Once again, Jesse of JREAM totally nails it right on the head. A super-simple introduction into PHP namespaces. If you 

CSS, Fonts, HTML5, Local Development, Typography
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Adobe releases Firebug-like developer tools to edit and extract PSDs

A big step in frontend-development: According to this presentation on Adobe Max 2014 Adobe has just released a very interesting 

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When PHPStorm’s cache eats up your harddisk space

I recently stumbled over this: By default PHPStorm (obviously in all versions since 1.0) creates a local history of all 

The architecture of ...
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How Instagram.com works

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LAMP, PHP
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How to setup / install PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ships with PHP 5.5 by default, but if you want to use PHP 5.6, then it’s just 

Laravel, Modern PHP, PHP, Refactoring
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Support FLARUM, the future of PHP forum scripts (with some dollars on Kickstarter)

PHP forum scripts are horrible, let’s face it. Nearly everything that’s available is hard to install, hard to handle, hard 

CSS, Fonts, How do THEY do it ?, HTML5, JavaScript, Refactoring, Running a company, The architecture of ...
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[Link] Improving Smashing Magazine’s Performance: A Case Study

The title says it all: A very interesting guide through the optimization process on one of the largest blogs in 

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An introduction into Atomic Design, a super-clean way to style web applications

A super-interesting talk of Brad Frost at beyond tellerrand 2013, explaining the basics of Atomic Design: What is Atomic Design

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A little off-topic, but highly interesting: In April 2013 the former User Interface Head of WordPress (and WordPress expert) John

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PHP 5.7 gets refactored core, is 10%-30% faster than PHP 5.5! Wow!

What an announcement! The awesome PHP core guys have refactored the Zend Engine (which drives PHP) and could successfully speed

php

New GitHub repo: simple php-long-polling for creating real-time apps

Mornin’ ! I’ve just pushed a sweet little new project into GitHub: A very simple and totally reduced PHP long-polling

php

[Link] Excellent PHP best practices, 2014 style

Excellent post on This interests me: A collection of useful best practices in modern PHP development, like Redirecting the user

node.js

PayPal drops Java, goes node.js / JavaScript

First: this is not a Java-vs.-AnyOtherLanguage diss, just an article about a very interesting development: Using “frontend-languages” for serious server-side

Useful basic linux stuff: Show kernel version, distribution name and distribution version on Ubuntu systems

Always nice to know: Show kernel version: uname -r Show kernel version and CPU: uname -a Show distribution version: lsb_release

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Which server OS version to choose ? Some EOL lists of Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS

Moving running projects (especially smaller ones that you’ve made for clients years ago) from an outdated and not-supported linux version

php mvc

Preview-release of (my) “php-mvc” project (a simple php mvc barebone)

Voila! The very first pre-final release of the “php-mvc” repository is online: https://github.com/panique/php-mvc and http://www.php-mvc.net. It’s a very simple but very

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Sitepoint asks for your favourite PHP IDE – take part!

Bruno Skvorc ask for your favourite PHP IDE in this new article on Sitepoint. If you use one, then take

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