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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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This is an experimental advertisement

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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vagrant
LAMP, Linux, Local Development, PHP, Vagrant, Virtual Machine / VM
Comments Off on How to setup a (or multiple) server/LAMP-stack inside a virtual machine for local development with Vagrant and PuPHPet

How to setup a (or multiple) server/LAMP-stack inside a virtual machine for local development with Vagrant and PuPHPet

You know this: You need a new server, something to develop on, something to test on, something to put your 

php
Linux, PHP
Comments Off on How to prevent PHP sessions being shared between different apache vhosts / different applications

How to prevent PHP sessions being shared between different apache vhosts / different applications

When you run multiple applications on one server, you might run into the session-sharing problem: All your applications share the 

CSS, Typography
Comments Off on How to fix the ugly font rendering in Google Chrome

How to fix the ugly font rendering in Google Chrome

Update, August 2014: Google has rolled out Chrome 37, which finally fixes this issue nativly. Yeah! For historical reasons the 

mod-rewrite-ubuntu-14-04-lts
Linux, Ubuntu
Comments Off on How to enable mod_rewrite in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

How to enable mod_rewrite in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

A little note first: This is the most seen way to enable mod_rewrite in tutorials. However, it’s not the best 

the-php-login-project
Linux, Login, PHP, php-login project
Comments Off on How to install php-login-minimal on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

How to install php-login-minimal on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

In this article I’ll show you how to install the minimal version of the php-login.net‘s login script (see the GitHub 

the-php-login-project
Linux, Login, PHP, php-login project
Comments Off on How to install php-login-one-file on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

How to install php-login-one-file on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

This tutorial will show you how to install the one-file version of php-login.net‘s login script (see the full GitHub repository 

Linux
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How to show memory usage (Ubuntu)

Always very useful: A simple command to show memory usage (Ubuntu / linux distros). cat /proc/meminfo   

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

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 

php
Linux, PHP
Comments Off on How to install PHP curl extension (in 5 seconds)

How to install PHP curl extension (in 5 seconds)

It’s a common wordpress problem: PHP’s curl extension is not installed! No need to mess around in config files etc, 

Linux, PHP
Comments Off on PHPMyAdmin not found after installation ? Here’s a fix (Ubuntu 12.04) !

PHPMyAdmin not found after installation ? Here’s a fix (Ubuntu 12.04) !

You just installed PHPMyAdmin but http://www.yourdomain.com/phpmyadmin just says “phpmyadmin not found” ? Try to create a link in /var/www like 

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GitHub finally introduces repo traffic stats

It has been a veeeery long time, but finally GitHub has introduced private traffic stats for all projects. To open

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Hochlastseiten mit PHP, MySQL und Apache am Beispiel stern.de (deutscher Artikel)

Eine grandiose Powerpoint-Präsentation die sich jeder, der mit PHP, MySQL und Apache auf Linux arbeitet, mal anschauen sollte: Nils Langner,

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[Link] Retinafy your Site / Device by Nijiko Yonskai

A simple one-page Gist with all the information you need to make your sites retina-ready: Nijiko Yonskai – Retinafy your

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

PHPStorm: 42 Tips and Tricks (47min video talk by Mikhail Vink at Dutch PHP Conference 2015)

To be honest I’ve not seen the clip yet, but it sounds so awesome and everybody is upvoting it. Have

vagrant

A preinstalled Vagrant box with PHP HipHop / HHVM and Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

This is the same post like this one, but this time with Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. If you need to

[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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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

Microsoft enters post-password era with Hello (promo video)

Just a short promotion clip, but definitly interesting: Microsoft announces Hello, the authentication system inside Windows 10, using fingerprints, iris

windows-xp-eol

Windows XP is officially dead from today. Do you know people still using it ? Punch them.

From today, April 8th 2014, Windows XP is officially dead. Basically XP was already dead in 2009 when – after

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