Airpair Writing Competition

We are excited to be sponsoring a $500 cash prize for the best Ionic post submitted to AirPair’s $100K developer writing competition!

AirPair has released cool features that allow authors and readers to collaborate on posts, just like normal code, via forks and pull requests. Over the next 12 weeks, you can win your share of $100,000 in prize money for the best tutorials, opinion pieces, and stories about using Ionic in production.

Have you used Ionic in a way that you are proud of? Have you learned something you feel others would benefit from? How have you combined it with other APIs to get the job done? The average post published on AirPair in January was read 15,000 times, so this is a great way to share the cool things you’ve made with fellow developers.

Submit your posts here.

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What Does Pebble Time Mean For Developers?

Pebble’s first smartwatch crowd funding campaign in 2012 raised over 10 million dollars through pledges, with over a million of their smart watches sold.

The Pebble team recently announced their latest upcoming smartwatch - the Pebble Time. The Pebble Time is a color e-paper smartwatch with a new chronologically focused timeline interface, an animated UI, microphone, a smart accessory port and more. A new generation of Pebble Smartwatch brings with it an updated API and lots of exciting potential.

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by Patrick Catanzariti via SitePoint

5 Golden Rules For Mobile Email Design

As I mentioned in my previous article, mobile email design is not only a content choreography issue, but involves many design elements. We should never consider the design for mobile devices a simple matter of catering to "screen size". Instead we need to have a comprehensive approach that takes into account the very different ways […]

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by Massimo Cassandro via SitePoint

Sass Basics: Operators

Sass is quite popular and tends to be an essential tool for every front-end developer. Sitepoint has already published some introductory articles about this CSS preprocessor language.

In this article, we'll continue exploring Sass by diving into its operations.

Note: The examples will be based on Ruby Sass. I also suggest you to have a look at Hugo's article, which discusses Sass-Compatibility.

Assignment Operator

Sass uses the colon (:) operator to define a variable. For instance:

$main-color: lightgray;

Arithmetic Operators

Arithmetic operators are used to perform the standard arithmetic operations.

Here are the arithmetic operators that Sass supports:

Operator	Description
+	Addition
-	Subtraction
*	Multiplication
/	Division
%	Remainder

As we'll see in an upcoming section, the addition operator (+) can also be used to concatenate strings.

Note that the operators above work only for numbers with compatible units:

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by George Martsoukos via SitePoint

Protecting Your Keys From GitHub

16 Ways to Use Social Media to Promote Your Event

Does your business conduct events? Are you wondering how to use social media to promote those events? Social media is a powerful tool to gain exposure, whether you’re hosting a physical conference or an online event. In this article, I’ll show you 16 creative ways to increase awareness, engagement and sales for your event. #1: […]

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New Opportunity for Freelance Writers at Envato Studio