Category: Technology

Quick Tip: How to Use HTML5 “Picture” for Responsive Images – Tuts+ Web Design Tutorial

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Images are notoriously one of the most challenging aspects of responsive web design. Today we’ll look at how the “picture” element, a solution to the problem of responsive images, can be used right now. First, the Problem The days of fixed-width, pixel perfect website design are well and truly behind us. In the present day of widescreen monitors, internet TVs, multiple sized tablets and smart phones our designs now have to cater for everything from 320px wide up to potentially as high as 7680px wide. Along with this multi-resolution landscape comes a need for images to stretch or shrink to fit these wildly varying requirements. This can prove to be something of a problem given that, with the exception of vector graphics, the vast …

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Quick Tip: How to Use HTML5 “picture” for Responsive Images – Tuts+ Web Design Tutorial

Git for Beginners

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

It is a general tendency of human beings to resist change. Unless Git was around when you started with version control systems, chances are that you are comfortable with Subversion. Often, people say that Git is too complex for beginners. Yet, I beg to differ! In this tutorial, I will explain how to use Git for your personal projects. We will assume you are creating a project from scratch and want to manage it with Git. After going through the basic commands, we will have a look at how you could put your code in the cloud using GitHub. We will talk about the basics of Git here – how to initialize your projects, how to manage new and existing files, and how to store your code …

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Git for Beginners

Outlook.com Introduces the Most Sophisticated Rules in Webmail

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

When it comes to getting organized, Outlook.com has you covered. Starting today, we are releasing Advanced Rules and three other features, all to help you keep your inbox in top shape and make it even easier to see the email that matters to you. The average person has 184 emails in their inbox, and receives 28 emails each day.* This can be a lot to handle, so helping you get to the email you care about is one of our top priorities. Outlook.com already has a number of features to help you do this. For example, Sweep (one of our most popular) helps you quickly delete multiple unwanted emails. The following new features, which are rolling out today, build on our commitment to give your inbox …

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Outlook.com introduces the most sophisticated rules in webmail

Visual Studio Now Supports Hybrid Cross-Platform Mobile Development Via Cordova

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Currently, Antifragility and Microservices are trending topics and this might be a hint that there are new architectural paradigms or design patterns on their way for building application systems. InfoQ discussed these new concepts with Russ Miles to find out what they are good for and how to apply them in an architect’s or developer’s daily business – for existing applications and those to come InfoQ: In the recent months, Antifragility and Microservices became trending topics. It seems there might be new architectural paradigms on the horizon. Could you please tell us a little bit about Antifragility? At a first glance, it seems to be the same as robustness â€¦ Russ: Antifragile was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book of the same name. This …

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Visual Studio Now Supports Hybrid Cross-platform Mobile Development via Cordova

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How To Run Android On Windows PC And Mac The Easy Way For Free

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

By Paul Morris | May 14th, 2014

Let us introduce you to Andy. Or Andyroid. Not a particularly outstanding product name, but definitely something Android fans will need to have in their lives. It isn’t exactly a great secret that the world of mobile is huge right now. Mobile hardware, the software that powers them and the third-party apps to extend them are extremely hot property at the minute. But don’t you sometimes feel that the gulf between mobile and desktop is getting larger and larger? Andyroid is a product that’s looking to solve that by breaking down the barrier between the two. Andyroid can be thought of in the same light as BlueStacks or YouWave, with the added bonus being that it is…

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How To Run Android On Windows PC And Mac The Easy Way For Free