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Material Design – How Google designed Android L (7min video)

A very interesting insight into Android L’s (= Android 5.0) new design and the ideas behind. Android was always #3

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The blogosphere is full of annoying flash banners, GoogleAds and questionable product placements. So… let’s try out something new. :)

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Harper Reed – The magic and mystery of Big Data (30min video from Webstock’15)

Harper Reed is speaking, so nothing can go wrong. :) The former CTO of Threadless.com and Obama for America definitly

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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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Increase your PageSpeed score (10min video with Matt Gaunt)

Compact and clever information for dramatic speed increases. Definitly worth watching.

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Extremely easy SASS in Laravel (with pure PHP)

Working with SASS is awesome: it reduces your workload dramatically, makes web projects much cleaner, DRYs your code, adds awesome

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“Fuck you. Pay Me.” How to deal with clients, the professional way. An excellent talk with Mike Monteiro.

Excellent (and very useful) speech by Mike Monteiro about how to deal with clients, how to create a professional relation

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CSS, SASS
Comments Off on New features in SASS 3.3 (a talk by SASS-creator Chris Eppstein)

New features in SASS 3.3 (a talk by SASS-creator Chris Eppstein)

A very interesting conference talk by Chris Eppstein, creator of SASS itself, showing some of the new features in SASS 

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PHP
Comments Off on Europeans: Get ready for OFFF conference / festival in Barcelona, May 2014

Europeans: Get ready for OFFF conference / festival in Barcelona, May 2014

Designers and frontend guys, this is for you: If you live or simply are in western Europe in May 2014, 

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Coupon, Voucher
Comments Off on Adobe offers Photoshop for $9.99 per month (limited deal)

Adobe offers Photoshop for $9.99 per month (limited deal)

Currently Adobe offers the very latest version of Photoshop (which is Photoshop CC) for just $9.99 or 12,99€ (EU zone: 

hack-php
HipHop, Modern PHP, PHP
Comments Off on Wow! Facebook devs have rewritten and fixed PHP, releasing it as new language called “Hack” today

Wow! Facebook devs have rewritten and fixed PHP, releasing it as new language called “Hack” today

Exciting stuff is happening: Some years ago Facebook has released an early preview of HipHop, a virtual machine that precompiles 

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Composer, PHP
Comments Off on The difference between “composer install” and “composer update” – nailed on the head

The difference between “composer install” and “composer update” – nailed on the head

What a beautiful, direct and clean explaination of the often-confusing difference between composer install and composer update: Beau Simensen (Twitter, 

CSS
Comments Off on A collection of beautiful ajax loaders / spinners in pure .svg / CSS

A collection of beautiful ajax loaders / spinners in pure .svg / CSS

No images used, pure svg/css and scaleable. Bookmark now! Brent Jackson‘s ajax spinner / loader library on the project’s demo 

php
Modern PHP, PHP, Refactoring, Security
Comments Off on [Link] Excellent PHP best practices, 2014 style

[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 

composer
Composer, PHP
Comments Off on [Link] How to require versions of PHP, HHVM / HipHop, GD, curl, openssl etc. with Composer

[Link] How to require versions of PHP, HHVM / HipHop, GD, curl, openssl etc. with Composer

Jeremy Kendall has just published a short and excellent overview on how to require versions of PHP (and explicit 64-bit 

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PHP, PHPStorm
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PHPStorm 8 (early access version) released – for free

JetBrains have just released an Early Access version of the upcoming PHPStorm 8. In case you never worked with PHPStorm 

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Deployment, PHP
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Extremely simple deployment with PHPloy

Let me ask you a question: How mad do you get when you have to remember which files you edited 

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appserver.io – A New Way of Magento Enterprise Infrastructure (26min video talk)

Interesting stuff for all Magento people (unfortunatly the audio level is very low):

A quick history of Comic Sans, the most wrongly used font ever

Excellent 10min presentation every frontend developer should see. Yes, even if you never touched Photoshop and never chose a font,

php

12 tools for better PHP quality

Nice selection of 12 tools every PHP developer should bookmark. I totally love how the PHP community becomes some kind

Going node.js at Netflix (Slides by Micah R of Netflix)

It’s awesome how node.js takes over the absolute AAA-level corporate world. Note that node.js is still an early alpha product

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Microsoft’s Azure platform gives away high money prizes for “testing out” their cloud services

Disclaimer: DEV METAL does not get any money etc. for saying this, there is no affiliate link, no deal with

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How to install the mcrypt php extension (to use Laravel 4)

When installing Laravel 4 on a fresh Ubuntu or Debian system, you’ll probably get this error message: “Laravel requires the

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How blind people use websites (video with Sina Bahram, blind accessibility researcher)

162 million people worldwide are blind or visually impaired at a level that does not allow to read texts. An

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Somebody is writing a compiler for PHP, compiles down to machine code, outperforms HHVM

Yes, that’s right. Recki-CT compiles PHP down to machine code. It’s unbelievable what’s going on in the PHP world in

java vs php

Switching from Java to PHP. Seriously. A very interesting and pre-judice-free talk with Ph.D. Aris Zakinthinos

Ph.D. Aris Zakinthinos, CTO of achievers.com, a well-scalability-experienced guy and former IT employee of the military, has just delivered one

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Laracon 2013 – Jordi Boggiano: In Depth Composer (47min video)

More videos of 2013’s and 2014’s Laracon events from US and EU on their Youtube channel.

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