Quaternion Monkeys
An interactive webVR version of a 4D monkey sculpture.
Paw
Paw is a very nice rest client for Mac. Comes highly recommended.
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Perfmap
Perfmap consists of a bookmarklet and Chrome extension to create a front-end performance heatmap of resources loaded in the browser using the Resource Timing API.
PHP 7 moves full speed ahead
Spoiler: it's all about performance. Coming to a host near you in 2015.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2841561/php/php-7-moves-full-speed-ahead.html
Modernizing Legacy Applications In PHP
An excellent read for if you're dealing with a large legacy code base that mainly consists of spaghetti.
Trucker
A PHP package for mapping remote API resources (usually RESTful) as models in an ActiveResource style.
Best Practices for Using the Vary Header
Vary is one of the most powerful HTTP response headers. Used correctly, it can do wonderful things. Unfortunately, this header is frequently used incorrectly, which can lead to abysmal hit ratios. Worse still, if it's not used when it should be, the wrong content could be delivered.http://www.fastly.com/blog/best-practices-for-using-the-vary-header/
Digging in to Laravel's IoC Container
Inversion of Control, or IoC, is a technique that allows control to be inverted when compared to classical procedural code. The most prominent form of IoC is, of course, Dependency Injection, or DI. Laravel's IoC container is one of the most used Laravel features, yet is probably the least understood.http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/digging-in-to-laravels-ioc-container--cms-22167
“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure
99.9% of websites on the Internet will only let you create one account for each email address. So if you want to see if an email address has an account, try signing up for a new account with the same email address.https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/invalid-username-or-password-useless/
DDD Ultra-Lite
I believe that the true value of what Eric Evans wrote years ago lies in the fact that virtually anybody can use some of the things he proposed. They don’t require any special tools, money, approval or reorganization. Those are simple things that you can start doing from next Monday (or tomorrow).http://weronikalabaj.com/ddd-ultra-lite/
Mousetrap
Mousetrap is a simple library for handling keyboard shortcuts in Javascript.
Why is the Zend Framework not popular
The question gets answered by Bill Karwin, the project lead of the 1.0 release.
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Zend-Framework-not-popular/answers/8173410
A Board Game That Teaches Four-Year-Olds How To Code
The goal of the game is for kids to maneuver their turtle across the board, avoiding obstacles and other players, in order to rendezvous with a jewel. But instead of rolling a dice and letting fate decide, they use a set of cards that serve as basic programming instructions, telling the turtle where to move and when to turn.http://toyland.gizmodo.com/a-board-game-that-teaches-four-year-olds-how-to-code-1656478026
