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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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forbes 30 under 30
Running a company
Comments Off on Need motivation ? Check out these 2 awesome “FORBES 30 under 30” lists (web, UI, games)

Need motivation ? Check out these 2 awesome “FORBES 30 under 30” lists (web, UI, games)

The FORBES magazine has just published the new “30 under 30” lists, and they are really really interesting! Lots of 

Security
Comments Off on Hacking ATMs – A conference talk about the current security state of Windows XP driven cash machines

Hacking ATMs – A conference talk about the current security state of Windows XP driven cash machines

A few days ago the 30th edition of Germany’s Chaos Communication Congress took place, a high-profile event for IT-security and 

composer
Composer, PHP
Comments Off on Composer problems ? Try full reset !

Composer problems ? Try full reset !

Some small Composer commands that might solve your problems: I’ve taken them directly from Jordi Boggiano‘s (Composer co-creator) “In Depth 

php-phalcon-logo
Modern PHP, PHP, PHP-compiling
Comments Off on Which PHP-framework to learn in 2014 ? PHALCON, by far the fastest ever!

Which PHP-framework to learn in 2014 ? PHALCON, by far the fastest ever!

Hey guys, just a short little article between the years: If you have the possibility to learn and use a 

php mvc
Git, mini, MVC, PHP
Comments Off on Preview-release of (my) “php-mvc” project (a simple php mvc barebone)

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 

Git
Comments Off on First look on Gitter, the chat for GitHub

First look on Gitter, the chat for GitHub

GitHub has definitly become the #1 platform for git-based public repositories on the planet, no question. The site offers excellent 

hiphop php
HipHop, Modern PHP
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HipHop VM reaches 100% green Unit Tests in Laravel, Drupal, Slim, CodeIgniter etc.

In September 2013 the PHP HipHop VM dev team wrote a very interesting article [1] about failing Unit Tests of 

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PHP
Comments Off on SensioLabs, creator of Symfony and Silex PHP frameworks, gets $7 million capital

SensioLabs, creator of Symfony and Silex PHP frameworks, gets $7 million capital

The company behind the two popular PHP frameworks Symfony and Silex just raised 7 million dollars to “expand their open-source 

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Cloud hosting / servers
Comments Off on Microsoft’s Azure platform gives away high money prizes for “testing out” their cloud services

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 

php-legacy-code
PHP, Refactoring
Comments Off on Interesting talk on modernizing a legacy PHP codebase

Interesting talk on modernizing a legacy PHP codebase

Bringing oldschool PHP applications into 2014 is a big thing, especially when your app is valueable for your client. Paul 

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Must-read PHP blog: PHPweekly.com

Probably one of the best ressources for your weekly doze of news from the PHP scene: phpweekly.com simply publishes a

DEF CON 18 – When your computer got stolen and you can still SSH into it: “Pwned by the 0wner” (22min conference talk)

A fantastic masterpiece of a conference talk: Mac got stolen. Bummer! Two years later: owner SSHs into it (!), installs

atomic-design

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

Install Laravel 4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (a how-to tutorial)

Laravel 4 is the big thing. Every blog talks about it, nearly every developer-twitter-account mentions it. Hmm, looks like everybody

zend framework 3

First view on Zend Framework 3 by Matthew O’Phinney

Interesting stuff: One of the very first video impressions of Zend Framework 3, and it sounds fantastic! This is even

js javascript

JavaScript Testing Tactics (21min video by Justin Searls)

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Laracon 2013 – Kapil Verma: Engineering Complex Applications with Laravel 4 (40min video)

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

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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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

MINI2, an extremely simple barebone PHP application on top of Slim

For my daily work I often needed to setup super-simple PHP applications, just some more or less static pages plus

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A preinstalled Vagrant box with PHP HipHop / HHVM and Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)
Awesome next-gen PS4 graphics in “The Order: 1886”

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