Post pobrano z: Udemy – Online Courses For Creatives (Giveaway Of 3 Courses You Want)

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Today, everything around us are evolving very fast and we always need to stay up-to-date + learn new stuff to keep being a part of them.

If we take the work-life of a designer/developer as a base, there are many new tools, softwares and techniques appearing each day. Clients now expect websites with HTML5-CSS3 or more & more printing houses ask for .AI files rather than .EPS when you are about to get a business card printed.

Simply, there are always new things to learn. And, if you find it easier to learn from experts, there is Udemy, a place to find online courses on everything where the teachers are real experts.

Here are some of the popular courses which you may be interested in:

• Photoshop CS6 Crash Course
• Creating Responsive Web Design
• UX For Founders

And, there are many other courses including free ones like the "iPhone App Design: How To Make A Top Selling iPhone App With Great Design" or "SEO Tips and Tricks with SEOmoz".

How to join the giveaway?

In order to get a chance to win one of the "1 any course you want" given away to 3 WRD readers:

• create an Udemy account
• and comment to this post (please mention your Udemy account e-mail in the "comment e-mail" field).

Winners will be selected randomly on 3 July 2012 (a week later) with the query below and announced as an update to this post .

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=3061 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Good luck to all.

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Post pobrano z: Websockets For PHP – Ratchet

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A common PHP-powered website is expected to run a script on the server, its content being rendered as HTML, the output is displayed and connection is closed

Using Ratchet, a WebSockets library for PHP, the connection stays open and both the client + server can push data to each other which is perfect for live-apps.

It consists of multiple components including:

• IoServer (the core to handle the events)
• WsServer (for communicating with W3C WebSocket API)
• SessionProvider (for handling the sessions)
• WampServer (provides the RPC and PubSub patterns)
• FlashPolicy (Flash fallback for unsupported browsers)
• IpBlackList (prevent any IPs from opening connections)

Ratchet is very well-documented and a nice chat demo exists which show its capabilities.

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Post pobrano z: Cross Browser Testing In The Desktop: BrowseEmAll (5 Licenses Giveaway)

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Years pass and browsers still render stuff very differently : ). It seems like they will keep doing so considering the different engines out there: WebKit, Gecko, IE, Presto (Opera).

They have different defaults, some CSS properties don't work on another and there can even be inconsistencies when rendering JavaScript.

BrowseEmAll is a Windows software for testing a website with many different browsers interactively and removing the pain out of the whole testing process.

The software looks and works like a browser which allow us to select the rendering engine from a wide list of options:

• Internet Explorer (7 – 9)
• Firefox (3.6 – 12)
• Chrome (12, 16, 19)
• Safari (4, 5, 5.1)
• Opera (10, 11)
• iPhone, iPhone 4
• iPad, iPad 2 simulator
• Android (2.2, 2.3, 3.2 tablet, 4.0, 4.0 tablet)

It is also possible to select the resolution and viewport (landscape or portait) for mobile + tablet browsers.

Once a website is loaded with the browser of our preference, we can browse it like a regular website and see if things work as expected.

Under the loaded website, there is a useful little feature, "Inspect and Compare", for comparing the HTML + DOM structure of the loaded URL with another browser to better locate any possible inconsistencies.

As BrowseEmAll works on our computer, we can also test websites hosted locally and no need to upload them to the web.

Besides browsing websites, the software can also automatically-generate cross-browser compatibility reports for selected browsers. The report includes screenshots with each browser and any HTML-CSS errors (if exists). 

To sum up, BrowseEmAll is a very good option for very quickly testing websites across multiple browsers with a single installation. Specially, the local testing feature makes it pretty unique.

How to join the giveaway?

BrowseEmAll is giving away 5 Professional licenses (worth $89/each).

In order to join the giveaway, you can choose one of the methods below or do both to increase your chances:

• comment to this post
• tweet this post (click to tweet easily)

Winners will be selected randomly on 06 Jun 2012 (1 week later). Good luck to all.

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Post pobrano z: Chronoline.js – A JavaScript Library For Displaying Timeline Of Events

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Chronoline.js is a JavaScript library for creating a chronological timeline of events.

The timeline is is displayed horizontally, events placed on it can be any days long and details about the events are shown in a tooltip when hovered.

It can feature the timeline with any number of days (day-by-day, weekly, quarterly, month-by-month, etc.).

The library uses Raphael.js + jQuery and works only in modern browsers.

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Post pobrano z: Open Source Web App For Creating Animated GIFs Online

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There are many web-based apps for designing + editing images and, day-by-day, they are becoming a serious alternative to any desktop image editing softwares.

On the other hand, it is hard to find "animated GIF support" in any of them and creating animated GIFs without a desktop app can be a pain.

MotherEffingAnimatedGIF is a very simple-yet-functional and open source web application for quickly creating such images online.

You just drag 'n' drop any number of images to the app, re-order or rotate them, set the image size + quality and the delay between each frame.

After that, it is possible to preview the animated GIF and download the output.

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