Forrest Gump and the Difference Between Dumb and Simple

Sometimes these words are interchangeable. For instance, Forrest Gump might be described by either word. But other times they have very different meanings.

from My Pocket http://www.sitepoint.com/forrest-gump-difference-dumb-and-simple/

Laravel News: Everything we know about Laravel 5.1 - Updated

With the next Laravel release (5.1) coming soon, the Laravel News site has gathered together all of the information that's been shared about what's to come. In this new post they list some of the updates and code where needed to illustrate.

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/22765

Binary Studio Blog: Definitive Guide On Creating Custom Providers For Laravel OAuth2 Authorization

A new guide has been posted showing you how to create custom OAuth2 providers for your Laravel application. In this case they wanted to hook the application in via Socialite to the VK social network but needed a custom connector to make it happen.

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/22754

Best Tools and Resources for Web Professionals in 2015

Looking for the right resources to help you satisfy the needs of your clients? On the lookout for the best tools to help you increase your revenue? Searching for the right software to help you improve your business? Well, then you’ve come to the right place.

from My Pocket http://davidwalsh.name/tools-resources-web-professionals-2015

3 Reasons Why You Should Take Snapchat Seriously (Hint: It’s Not Sexting)

Back in 2013, a little-known social network called Snapchat (dismissed by many as a ‘sexting’ tool for teens) turned down a $3 billion buyout offer from social media giant Facebook.

from My Pocket http://blog.hootsuite.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-take-snapchat-seriously/

Mastering Composer – Tips and Tricks

Composer has revolutionized package management in PHP. It upped the reusability game and helped PHP developers all over the world generate framework agnostic, fully shareable code. But few people ever go beyond the basics, so this post will cover some useful tips and tricks.

from My Pocket http://www.sitepoint.com/mastering-composer-tips-tricks/

Marc Aube: Design Pattern Specification

Marc Aube has a new post to his site that introduces you to the specification design pattern, a technique that's useful for ensuing the current state of an object is valid.

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/22748

Technical SEO – It’s All About the Crawl

For about as long as I’ve been in SEO (12+ years), I’ve witnessed many, many people laying claim to “doing SEO”. From designers, to content marketers, to PPC folks, to PR folks, to social media folks. Everyone wants to be in the game.

from My Pocket http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/~r/sewblog/~3/bBY-D_00uNI/technical-seo-it-s-all-about-the-crawl

Google Unveils Rebranded Webmaster Tools

In a move to reach out to more users who care about search marketing, Google has rebranded Webmaster Tools as Search Console. The traditional idea of the "webmaster" reflects only some of its users, according to Google.

from My Pocket http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/~r/sewblog/~3/Cs72NYuTtog/google-unveils-rebranded-webmaster-tools

Bootstrapping a Laravel CRUD Project

In this tutorial, we’re going to build and run a simple CRUD application from scratch using Laravel 5. If you’re already deep in PHP, then some of the stuff in this section will be common knowledge to you. In any case, let’s go over it. We create a fresh install of Laravel 5 using Composer.

from My Pocket http://www.sitepoint.com/bootstrapping-laravel-crud-project/

Fred Muya: Configuring Custom Logging in Laravel 5

Fred Muya has posted a guide to his site today showing you how to configure custom logging in your Laravel 5 application. He replaces the default logging methods with an injected Monolog instance.

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/22730

Inspiration for Text Styles and Hover Effects

When it comes to tiny animations and effects on text, be it a link, a typographic logo or an introductory sentence, there’s really no limit to the creative possibilities. So today we’d like to share a couple of text styles and hover effects with you to get your creative juices flowing.

from My Pocket http://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/05/13/inspiration-for-text-styles-and-hover-effects/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tympanus+%28Codrops%29

Interview with the Creators of CHIP, a $9 Single-Board Computer

Single-board computing is hot on the DIY scene right now and riding that knife edge is C.H.I.P., a project currently in crowd-funding which prices the base unit at just $9. I was happy to run into the crew from Next/Thing Company who developed C.H.I.P.

from My Pocket http://hackaday.com/2015/05/19/interview-with-the-creators-of-chip-a-9-single-board-computer/

Low noise amplifier – 100MHz to 300MHz

A Low noise amplifier (or LNA) is a special amplifier that is designed to be the first amplifier in a receiver. It is vital that the first amplifier of a receiver has low noise, because the noise of the whole system is dominated by the first amplifier.

from My Pocket http://dangerousprototypes.com/2015/05/19/low-noise-amplifier-100mhz-to-300mhz/

How Much Energy Does The Internet Use?

from My Pocket https://blog.adafruit.com/2015/05/18/how-much-energy-does-the-internet-use/

Get Remote HTML Data and Parse It in Express for NodeJS

Have you ever wanted to fetch remote HTML data in a similar fashion to cURL or Wget using some backend web service and parse it? If you said no, don’t worry, I said the exact thing until I was challenged to do so.

from My Pocket http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/javalobby/frontpage/~3/oRSioMrx7w8/get-remote-html-data-and-parse

The Cons of AngularJS

In this article we continue looking at our recent infographic on the Pros and Cons of AngularJS Dev. While AngularJS brings a large number of advantages to the development of web apps, there are still a few deficiencies that need to be managed.

from My Pocket http://blog.backand.com/the-cons-of-angularjs/

To programmers: How do you go about naming?

To programmers: How do you go about naming? (strawpoll.me) Didn't even think of that one, it's not super common from what I've seen. Sorry to everyone that_names_like_this.

from My Pocket http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/36ew1g/to_programmers_how_do_you_go_about_naming/

h2o/h2o

Copyright (c) 2014,2015 DeNA Co., Ltd., Kazuho Oku, Tatsuhiko Kubo, Domingo Alvarez Duarte, Nick Desaulniers, Marc Hörsken, Masahiro Nagano, Jeff Marrison, Daisuke Maki H2O is a very fast HTTP server written in C, licensed under the MIT License. It can also be used as a library.

from My Pocket https://github.com/h2o/h2o

Popcorn In Your Browser

from My Pocket http://popcorninyourbrowser.net

Source Code in TV and Films

Images of the computer code appearing in TV and films and what they really are.

from My Pocket http://moviecode.tumblr.com/?og=1

Europe Is Struggling to Foster a Startup Culture

BRUSSELS—When Adrian Johnson saw a request for volunteers to speak at his children’s career fair, the high-tech entrepreneur jumped at the chance to explain his profession. But the school in Fontainebleau, France, turned him down.

from My Pocket http://on.wsj.com/1FvEGtI

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Drill™ 1.0

Thousands of users adopt Open Source, enterprise-grade, schema-free SQL query engine for Apache Hadoop®, NoSQL, and Cloud storage.

from My Pocket https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces76

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Schema, part 1

The rise in schema-free and document-oriented databases has led some to question the value and necessity of schemas. Schemas, in particular those following the relational model, can seem too restrictive, and the case has been made that software development can be faster and more agile without them.

from My Pocket http://blog.confluent.io/2015/05/19/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-schema-part-1/

A Collection of 10 Exemplary Hybrid Mobile App Frameworks

As mobile devices are gaining rapid acceptance and demanding a lion’s share when it comes to online traffic, mobile app developers are finding it difficult to leverage their skills completely while playing around HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

from My Pocket http://designdrizzle.com/hybrid-mobile-app-frameworks/

PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot

Manuel Lemosmanuellemos.netBefore commenting about this book let me tell you first about the Apache Cordova project and PhoneGap for those that are not yet familiar with these projects.

from My Pocket http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/id/1783287926.html

15 Best Useful PHP Frameworks for Developers

Frameworks speed up development, enhance collaboration, and help keep code organized so does the PHP frameworks are used to reduce the task of repetitive codes as well as make an effective website program in less time.

from My Pocket http://thegeekzum.com/best-useful-php-frameworks/

20 Useful CSS Snippets for Responsive Menus

Responsive web design has been around for years but it’s still undergoing tremendous improvement. Not all designers have caught onto this technique and others who have are working hard to build it out further.

from My Pocket http://marketblog.envato.com/inspirations/css-snippets-responsive-menus/

10 Best PHP Frameworks of 2015

PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor is reflected upon as one of the most demanded web programming language that is nowadays utilized by most of the websites. PHP is hugely in trend due to its remarkable HTML, interactive features, database integration support, and simple in learning too.

from My Pocket http://www.script-tutorials.com/10-best-php-frameworks-of-2015/

10+ helpful GitHub hacks to immediately boost your productivity

Have you ever been asked what GitHub really is? I’d say it is like Wikipedia and Facebook for programmers. Combined. You can access, view and even edit files. Companies mainly use it to build software and web applications, whereas individuals use it to browse, find and share projects.

from My Pocket http://usersnap.com/blog/github-hacks-productivity/

NASA Open Up Their Data Vaults

One of the more interesting trends of the last few years has been the opening up of vast swathes of data for innovators to start hacking away and trying to come up with creative solutions.

from My Pocket http://www.dzone.com/links/r/nasa_open_up_their_data_vaults_big_data_zone.html

7 Mistakes You’re Making In Your Programming Career

As a life and career coach for software developers, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to many programmers about how they can improve their careers and accelerate their growth.

from My Pocket http://simpleprogrammer.com/2015/05/18/7-mistakes-youre-making-in-your-programming-career/

AngularJS Validation

Previously, I wrote a tip about validation in AngularJS. You can find the article here: But one of the comments wanted a version using AngularJS ng-message directive. I will use my original version application but rewrite it to use ng-message instead of ng-show.

from My Pocket http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/992545/AngularJS-Validation javascript

A Slim3 Skeleton

Warning Slim 3 is currently under active development. Expect BC breaks! I'm creating a number of projects in Slim 3 (which is currently under development) at the moment in order test things out and found that I was setting them up in essentially the same way.

from My Pocket http://akrabat.com/a-slim3-skeleton/ programming

Top 40 Best Freebies for Web Designers Part 3

Nothing could be much better than to enjoy freebies and goodies, especially when you are a web designer. These top 40 Best Freebie and Goodies have been scouted out after going through many resources that finally enable us to offer you something that can be of great use for you as a web designer.

from My Pocket http://designposts.net/top-40-best-freebies-for-web-designers-part-3/

"Project Oxford": Adding Smart to Your Applications

Developers today use a variety of tools to get their development done, from IDEs like Visual Studio, to specialized tools like editors, command line tools ,and standalone apps. As part of providing cross-platform tools for ASP.NET 5, cross-platform .

from My Pocket http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/2-613 programming

Sahand Saba: 9 Anti-Patterns Every Programmer Should Be Aware Of

In a recent post to his site Sahand Saba has posted a list of nine anti-patterns every programmer should avoid. This list isn't language specific and ranges in types of advice from general programming practices down to more specific "code smells" to avoid.

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/22703