Elevenses #7

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Opinion

• Password Rules Are ****
• The broken promise of Web Components

Development

• 7 Essential JavaScript Functions
• Regular Expressions for the Rest of Us
• Linting HTML using CSS
• Apps built without code
• 5 HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed
• Getting Started with CSS Grid
• 5 Features To Watch Out For in Angular v4 (courtesy of CM)
• Tic Tac Toe using Angular and MobX (nice intro into MobX)
• Building Ionic apps (courtesy of CM)
• Using external libraries with Angular2
• A Gentle Introduction To Graph Theory

Cloud

• New version of Google App Engine supports all programming languages

JavaScript / Angular2 / Ionic

• A Test-Driven Development Introduction to Angular 2
• New Split Pane and more, Ionic 2.2.0 is out!
• Testing routes in Angular 2
• Angular constructor versus ngOnInit
• Cache API rundown
• Make your [JavaScript] Code Cleaner with Decorators
• Using Gestures & Uncommon Event Bindings in Ionic 2
• Dynamic forms with Angular2
• An Animated Intro to RxJS
• Git - what did I do yesterday?
• Desktop support in Ionic
• Angular2 testing made easy

Libraries / Plugins

• A collection of utilities for creating/testing/experimenting with service workers.
• Swimlane - Angular2 component library
• jotdown - create markdown presentations
• ReactJS based Presentation Library
• Address completion and validation
• Bootstrap for Angular2, see also “using bootstrap with angular

Data / APIs

• Web share API

Tools

• Check your projected state pension amount
• A new browser by Opera (not sure the world needs another one …)
• Google reduces JPEG file size by 35% - guetzli
• UI for creating animations - then download the CSS
• VS Code Tips and Tricks
• Extension Boilerplate - build cross platform browser extensions

Security

• Pre-installed backdoor on 700 million Android phones sending users’ data to China
• Security 101 for saas startups

Testing

• Full stack integration tests in single browser process - courtesy of PC

Misc

• AI creates music!

Social / Fun / Cool / Geeky

• The Quicksort Algorithm – expressed in the medium of Interpretative Hungarian Dance … courtesy of MM
• Founder biography infographics
• How the national grid power generation is split

Codepens

• Chris Coyier’s Favorite CodePen Demos I
• Chris Coyier’s Favorite CodePen Demos II
• Overlaid emojicons

Lifestyle

• Kurt Cobain and Nirvana’s legendary gig at Leeds university 1990
• R2-D2 joins in on the chorus of Livin’ on a Prayer
• An iPhone … in red
• Learn a language by watching a movie

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