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31. May 2016

Plyr.io – A simple, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player

A simple, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player.

Accessible – full support for VTT captions and screen readers
Lightweight – under 10KB minified and gzipped
Customisable – make the player look how you want with the markup you want
Semantic – uses the right elements. <input type="range"> for volume and <progress> for progress and well,<button>s for buttons. There’s no <span> or <a href="#"> button hacks
Responsive – as you’d expect these days
HTML Video & Audio – support for both formats
Embedded Video – support for YouTube and Vimeo video playback
API – toggle playback, volume, seeking, and more
Universal events – no messing around with Vimeo and YouTube APIs, all events are universal across formats
Fullscreen – supports native fullscreen with fallback to “full window” modes
i18n support – support for internationalization of controls
No dependencies – written in “vanilla” JavaScript, no jQuery required
SASS and LESS provided – If you like these over plain CSS

GitHub

25. May 2016

Crunz – create cronjobs in PHP with a fluent API

Crunz is a framework-agnostic package to schedule periodic tasks (cron jobs) in PHP using a fluent API.

GitHub

25. May 2016

Responsive Emails with MJML

MJML is a markup language designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email. Its semantic syntax makes it easy and straightforward and its rich standard components library speeds up your development time and lightens your email codebase. MJML’s open-source engine generates high quality responsive HTML compliant with best practices.

<mjml>
  <mj-body>
    <mj-container>
      <mj-section>
        <mj-column>

          <mj-image width="100" src="/assets/img/logo-small.png"></mj-image>

          <mj-divider border-color="#F45E43"></mj-divider>

          <mj-text font-size="20px" color="#F45E43" font-family="helvetica">Hello World</mj-text>

        </mj-column>
      </mj-section>
    </mj-container>
  </mj-body>
</mjml>

<mjml>

<mj-body>

<mj-container>

<mj-section>

<mj-column>

<mj-image width="100" src="/assets/img/logo-small.png"></mj-image>

<mj-divider border-color="#F45E43"></mj-divider>

<mj-text font-size="20px" color="#F45E43" font-family="helvetica">Hello World</mj-text>

</mj-column>

</mj-section>

</mj-container>

</mj-body>

</mjml>

mjml

14. May 2016

Fine UI inspiration at Code My UI

Code My UI provides handpicked code snippets, you can use in your own web projects. You can find website design inspiration, plus some code samples.

Code My UI

14. May 2016

Tweene the animation proxy

It is an animation proxy: used as a wrapper of your chosen library, it may allow you to do more and better and it makes easy to switch from one library to another any time you want. Currently it can work together with GSAP, Velocity.js, Transit (CSS transitions) or jQuery.

One to rule them all
Timeline support for all
Support for play(), pause(), resume(), reverse() and restart()
To, From and FromTo tweens, loops and infinite loops, yoyo effect, delay and loops delay, callbacks and directional callbacks, full set of events

As a big velocity fan, Tweene provides some nice unique additional options and the timeline feature pushes things to new levels ;)

Tweene

4. May 2016

Thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from an url or html page with Snappy

“Snappy is a PHP5 library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from a url or a html page. It uses the excellent webkit-based wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage available on OSX, Linux, Windows.”

GitHub

4. May 2016

Timber reaches One-Point-Oh – Congratulation

TWIG is always part of my development process, allowing me to easily update handling and apply changes for my customers.

Nice to see Timber (TWIG integration for WordPress) reach version 1.0.

GitHub

4. May 2016

Empower your website with Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha‘s computational knowledge engine or answer engine developed by Wolfram Research, which can be consumed as a service as well. Users submit queries and computation requests. Wolfram Alpha then computes answers and relevant visualizations from a knowledge base of curated, structured data that come from other sites and books. 2000 non-commercial API calls per month are free.

They provide a nice set of API Language Libraries to get you started.

<?php  
  $appID = 'PLACE_YOUR_APP_ID_HERE';

  if (!$queryIsSet) die();

  $qArgs = array();
  if (isset($_REQUEST['assumption']))
    $qArgs['assumption'] = $_REQUEST['assumption'];

  // instantiate an engine object with your app id
  $engine = new WolframAlphaEngine( $appID );

  // we will construct a basic query to the api with the input 'pi'
  // only the bare minimum will be used
  $response = $engine->getResults( $_REQUEST['q'], $qArgs);

  // getResults will send back a WAResponse object
  // this object has a parsed version of the wolfram alpha response
  // as well as the raw xml ($response->rawXML) 
  
  // we can check if there was an error from the response object
  if ( $response->isError() ) {
?>
  <h1>There was an error in the request</h1>
  </body>
  </html>
<?php
    die();
  }
?>

<?php

$appID = 'PLACE_YOUR_APP_ID_HERE';

if (!$queryIsSet) die();

$qArgs = array();

if (isset($_REQUEST['assumption']))

$qArgs['assumption'] = $_REQUEST['assumption'];

// instantiate an engine object with your app id

$engine = new WolframAlphaEngine( $appID );

// we will construct a basic query to the api with the input 'pi'

// only the bare minimum will be used

$response = $engine->getResults( $_REQUEST['q'], $qArgs);

// getResults will send back a WAResponse object

// this object has a parsed version of the wolfram alpha response

// as well as the raw xml ($response->rawXML)

// we can check if there was an error from the response object

if ( $response->isError() ) {

<h1>There was an error in the request</h1>

</body>

</html>

<?php

die();

}

Developer Portal

4. May 2016

Splitter / Split Pane / Docker options

SPLIT PANES / DOCKER allow you to display multiple areas, either side by side or one on top of each other. Nested layouts are often part of it. By dragging a divider that appears between the areas, the user can specify how much of the total width / height goes to each area.

I have been building a backend interface in the past weeks, that forced me to look into ways to organize the workspace more efficiently . I could code my own splitter, but is not a priority right now and makes no sense to always reinvent the wheel :)

Here some of the options out there…

Pure jQuery UI

This uses the jQuery UI draggable component and provides limited options :)

 $('.splitter').draggable({
    axis: 'x',
    containment: '#content',
    distance: 0,
    drag: function(event, ui) {
      var width = $('#content').width();
      $('#content .leftpane').css({ width: ui.position.left + 'px' });
      $('#content .rightpane').css({
        left: ui.position.left + 1 + 'px',
        width: (width - ui.position.left + 1) + 'px'
      });
    },
    refreshPositions: true,
    scroll: false
  });

$('.splitter').draggable({

axis: 'x',

containment: '#content',

distance: 0,

drag: function(event, ui) {

var width = $('#content').width();

$('#content .leftpane').css({ width: ui.position.left + 'px' });

$('#content .rightpane').css({

left: ui.position.left + 1 + 'px',

width: (width - ui.position.left + 1) + 'px'

});

refreshPositions: true,

scroll: false

});

jQuery UI

Layout, has not been updated for a long time, but still provides a huge amount of options and methods to handle almost anything. Version 2.0 was announced, but never showed up. Google Groups / GitHub / Documentation
ProPanelLayout (Commercial)

jQuery Plugins

Pure Jasvascript

Split.js (Split Pane)
Golden Layout (Docker)
Dock Spawn (Docker)

CSS only

CSS3 Splitview

Enjoy coding …

3. May 2016

Self-hosted web IRC client … Shout / The Lounge

Node.js
Always connected
Responsive interface
Cross Platform
Multiple user accounts

Shout / The Lounge