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If you've been following the news, you'll have noticed that yesterday Composer got a bit of a speed boost. And by "bit of a speed boost", we're talking between 50% and 90% reduction in runtime depending on the complexity of the dependencies. But how did the fix work? And should you make the same sort of change to your projects? For those of you who want the TL/DR answer: the answer is no you shouldn't.http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/12/what-about-garbage.html
Google introduced a new method that verifies you are human without you having to solve a riddle.
On websites using this new API, a significant number of users will be able to securely and easily verify they’re human without actually having to solve a CAPTCHA. Instead, with just a single click, they’ll confirm they are not a robot.
It looks like this:
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.nl/2014/12/are-you-robot-introducing-no-captcha.html
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Authy makes it easy to integrate two-factor authentication into your existing Laravel application. It's user-end implementation is versitile, offering support for both smart-phones and standard phones. Furthermore, implmentation with its API is easy and seamless. Finally, its analytics and data tracking can you provide insights into your users and how they interact with your application's authentication system.http://blog.enge.me/post/installing-two-factor-authentication-with-authyThis tutorial assumes that you have an Authy developer account (which can be created here ), an application (either testing or production), and your application's API key.
When creating a new website you should always use HTTPS. Here's a video recorded at Google I/O earlier this year on the why and how.
The New York Times switched to HTTPS last month. Here are their reasons for doing so:
A framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML.
An interactive webVR version of a 4D monkey sculpture.
Paw is a very nice rest client for Mac. Comes highly recommended.
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.
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
An excellent read for if you're dealing with a large legacy code base that mainly consists of spaghetti.
A PHP package for mapping remote API resources (usually RESTful) as models in an ActiveResource style.
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/
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
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/
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 is a simple library for handling keyboard shortcuts in Javascript.
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
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
