24. März 2017

Datamuse … a word-finding query engine for developers

„The Datamuse API is a word-finding query engine for developers. You can use it in your apps to find words that match a given set of constraints and that are likely in a given context. You can specify a wide variety of constraints on meaning, spelling, sound, and vocabulary in your queries, in any combination.“

words with a meaning similar to ringing in the ears
/words?ml=ringing+in+the+ears

Datamuse API

24. März 2017

Do Literature no Lorem Ipsums

Read passages from literature’s greatest such as H.G. Wells, instead the old boring Lorem Ipsums ;)

Fillerati

24. März 2017

Pirate IPSUM

The Lorem Ipsum Generator for all us pirates …ARG!

Pirateipsum.me

15. März 2017

DOM-to-Image … turn a DOM node into an image

dom-to-image is a library which can turn an arbitrary DOM node into a vector (SVG) or raster (PNG or JPEG) image, written in JavaScript.

var node = document.getElementById('my-node');

domtoimage.toPng(node)
    .then(function (dataUrl) {
        var img = new Image();
        img.src = dataUrl;
        document.body.appendChild(img);
    })
    .catch(function (error) {
        console.error('oops, something went wrong!', error);
    });

var node = document.getElementById('my-node');

domtoimage.toPng(node)

.then(function (dataUrl) {

var img = new Image();

img.src = dataUrl;

document.body.appendChild(img);

})

.catch(function (error) {

console.error('oops, something went wrong!', error);

});

GitHub

More uptodate and faster than html2canvas, which I used before in a couple of projects.

15. März 2017

We all love fireflies – jQuery Firefly

Firefly jQuery Floating Pixels .

GitHub

15. März 2017

Fontea … use those Google fonts easily with Photoshop.

800 Google fonts
Search and explore
Preview and compare
Windows / MacOS

Fontea

15. März 2017

Joyride 2 – create website tour in style

Joyride is an easy to configure site tour wizard.

Joyride

9. Februar 2017

Chrome 56 .. whats new?

With Chrome 56, web apps can now communicate with nearby Bluetooth Low Energy devices using the Web Bluetooth API, position sticky is back – making it easy to create elements that scroll normally until sticking to the top of the viewport. And HTML5 by Default is enabled for all users.

Chrome 56 on iOS also adds the ability to scan QR codes directly within Chrome. So many thought QR-Codes were dead, well not so much !

Google

6. Februar 2017

Rocket.Chat – Open Source Web Chat Platform

Rocket.Chat is am impressive Open Source Web Chat Platform, with a huge amount of features:

BYOS (bring your own server)
Multiple Rooms
Direct Messages
Private Groups
Public Channels
Desktop Notifications
Mentions
Avatars
Markdown
Emojis
Custom Emojis
Reactions
One touch Geolocation
TeX Math Rendering – inline math typesetting
Media Embeds
Link Previews
Sent Message Edit and Deletion
Transcripts / History
File Upload / Sharing
Scalable file sharing – S3 uploads with CDN downloads
Full text search
Live chat / Messaging call center
LDAP Authentication
CAS 1.0, 2.0 support for education institutions and hosting providers worldwide
Support for Okta SSO through SAML v2
I18n – Supports 22 Languages
Hubot Friendly
(Beta) Face to Face Video Conferencing (aka WebRTC )
(Beta) Multi-users Video Group Chat
(Beta) Jitsi integration
Audio calls
Multi-users Audio Conference
Screensharing
….. more

Rocket.Chat

6. Februar 2017

Plates- native PHP template system

„Plates is a native PHP template system that’s fast, easy to use and easy to extend. It’s inspired by the excellent Twig template engine and strives to bring modern template language functionality to native PHP templates.

Plates is designed for developers who prefer to use native PHP templates over compiled template languages, such as Twig or Smarty.“

GitHub