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Heroku <3 PHP
Good news from Heroku: PHP is (finally) properly supported. Just add a composer.json file to your repo and Heroku will know your app runs PHP. Yes, you see that right: Composer is supported. Whenever you push your code to Heroku, it will install the dependencies if needed. $ git add . $ git commit -m …
GitBook: Build beautiful interactive books using Git and Markdown
Write your books and courses using Markdown, GitBook will convert it to a complete static website. Installable using npm. A companion app (pictured below) to create your books – in case you want a live preview along your edits – is also available. Building the book to a PDF/eBook is also possible … strongly considering …
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HalfStyle: Style Half of a Character by CSS
Sparked by the question “Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?” on StackOverflow, HalfStyle was created: HalfStyle is a set of advanced CSS rules that allow styling each half or third of a character, vertically or horizontally, independently and individually. Works on any dynamic text, or a single character, and is …
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Velocity.js – Accelerated JavaScript animation
Velocity is a jQuery plugin that re-implements $.animate() to produce significantly greater performance (making Velocity also faster than CSS animation libraries) while including new features to improve animation workflow. Velocity includes all of $.animate()’s features while packing in color animation, transforms, loops, easings, sequences, and scrolling. Velocity is the best of jQuery, jQuery UI, and …
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Reading Position Indicator
Lately I’ve seen quite a few websites that have some kind of an indicator to display the current reading position (how much you have “read”, depending on how far you have scrolled down an article). In this article, we’ll focus on a technique that uses a horizontal progress bar as the indicator. But instead of …
Parallax Done Right
Parallax has become, for better or worse, an increasingly popular web trend. Done right, it feels awesome. The problem is, a vast majority of sites using parallax suffer from terrible scroll performance. A good refresher on how to do high performance animations Parallax Done Right → Related: High Performance Animations → 2D transform’s translate() vs …
Akira – Live Action Trailer
The Akira Project is a crowd-sourced, non-profit project meant to create a live action fan trailer of AKIRA, the renowned manga-turned-anime film from the late 1980′s; a stunning example of both mediums as art forms. While Hollywood has been working on a live-action Akira movie for a few years now, we, as fans, wanted to …
PHP and Continuous Integration with Travis CI
Travis CI automatically sets up a CI environment and makes it simple for anyone to test and deploy their app. Their build system supports many different languages, you just have to define which language this project is and Travis CI will take care of the rest Good article by Sitepoint on getting started with Travis …
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