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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
Comments Off on HipHop VM reaches 100% green Unit Tests in Laravel, Drupal, Slim, CodeIgniter etc.

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 

microsoft-windows-azure-cloud-hosting
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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Berlin, prepare for TOA conference (15th – 17th of July)

If you are in Berlin right now (and have 80-300 € to spend and 2-3 days of holidays (or “spontanious

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

phpstorm 7.0 php

How to install GitHub’s, NetBeans’s and Sublime2’s syntax highlighting code colours theme in PHPStorm 6/7

PHPStorm’s default code colouring might not be what you want, especially when you just switched from NetBeans. But there are

microsoft-windows-azure-cloud-hosting

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

[Link] Making a website vertically responsive

Very useful tutorial by Ian Yates: How to make a website VERTICALLY responsive, adapting its content for small heights. Interesting

java

Interesting: code of the same application in PHP, Python, Ruby, Closure, node.js, Java and Go

Definitly worth a look: Adam Bard created a tiny application in 4 different languages (PHP, Python, Ruby, Closure), just to

phpstorm 7.0 php

A perfect video tutorial to get started with xdebug in PHPStorm

Laracast just published an excellent short tutorial on how to get install xdebug in a local environment and how to

The architecture of StackOverflow

One of the most interesting talks these weeks, and a rare insight into one of the most active pages on

[Link] Redesigning SoundCloud by Evan Simoni

Again, an interesting approach / proof-of-concept on a redesign of a major website. Evan Simoni has overthought SoundCloud’s UI and

[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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