Skill tests for front-end developers
Sitthetest is a nice website that popped in my twitter feed this week. It has some tests that you can take in order to check your level in html, css, and javascript. Give it a try here.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Find easily electronic components
One of the biggest challenge if you are a maker, is to find the correct electronic components for your circuits. How many times did you wish for a place with all the information about the parts you might need for your next build? Now there is
Average brainpower consumption
—Resting metabolic rate: 1300 kilocalories, or kcal, the kind used in nutrition —1,300 kcal over 24 hours = 54.16 kcal per hour = 15.04 gram calories per second —15.04 gram calories/sec = 62.93 joules/sec = about 63 watts —20 percent of 63 watts = 12.6 watts
MIPS Creator CI20
One more “raspberry pi” style board is going to hit the market in January and it comes from the company “Imagination”. Specs look a lot better than raspberry but the price is almost double. No surprise here as the general rule is if you need
Get the title of a referral url with Javascript
If there is a need to retrieve the title by just passing the url to one of your applications this can be done with this tiny jQuery plugin I wrote. It uses yql to bypass the cors restriction and its really easy to use. Requirements
Linux on breadboard!
It is just amazing what people with skills can do. Check this guy, not only he build a computer on a breadboard but he also made it capable of running a light version of linux. And all this with a Motorola 68008 cpu, 512k(!) Ram
Firefox Developer Edition
Firefox is one of the best browsers out there as you already know and few days ago turned 10 years old. Usually the tradition is to bring presents to the person who has birthday but the guys in Mozilla thought the other way. They decided
Internet Explorer on Azure RemoteApp
Imagine that you are developing a website and you want to test how it looks in newer versions of Internet Explorer but only Windows 7 are installed in your pc. What are you going to do? Solution comes from Microsoft and it can run in
750 Free Glyphicons
Google open sourced 750 glyphicons few days ago so you can download them and use them freely in your apps. They come in several formats to choose: SVG versions of all icons in both 24px and 48px flavours SVG and CSS sprites of all icons
Windows Azure DocumentDB in NodeJS app
I’ve read a few weeks ago a small article about DocumentDB in Windows Azure which is Microsoft’s NoSQL solution in cloud, but I didn’t have time to go more in depth, until today! I came across this wonderful tutorial which explains in detail how to develop a