PHP Channel’s 3rd 2015 Trimester Update

Another three months have gone by, and we’ve got some news to share.

First, let’s introduce our newest authors!

New Authors

Jeff Smith, USA

Jeff Smith is a full-stack web developer who enjoys writing and reading of all types, and is interested in the Internet, business and entrepreneurship, technology, and learning new stuff. Jeff has been a very active member of our forums for a while now, and decided to chime in with his opinions by writing about defensive programming in PHP.

His debut post was well received, and part two is coming soon. In fact, it’s already in our peer review queue, so if you’d like to take an early look and give us your opinion on it, our doors are wide open!

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How to Write a Winning Pitch Deck

It’s tough enough to get a meeting with a VC. But once you’ve stolen their attention, how do you get their financial support?

VCs look for the valuable product, great team and exciting mission trifecta. But even if you have those three things, you’re not guaranteed to score an investment—you also need a compelling pitch deck that sums those elements up and makes it very clear to investors why this is one opportunity they shouldn’t pass up.

Wondering how to create a pitch deck worthy of your startup? Read on for tips from VCs, founders and Silicon Valley insiders.

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Create a Mobile Application Using WordPress, Ionic, and AngularJS

An Interview With Tuts+ Reader Lucy Stanford

Jenkins Workflow: Scripting Out Complex Builds

This Week in Mobile Web Development (#76)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly September 30, 2015   #76 Holly Schinsky recommends How to make web forms work better on mobile — Taking time to consider the device you’re targeting can make a huge difference in the usability of your web forms over simply making them responsive. Creative Bloq Brian Rinaldi recommends Mobile Web Is Top Of Funnel, Mobile App Is Bottom Of Funnel — Data shows that mobile web unique visitor growth is faster than mobile app visitor growth and Fred Wilson says that this is because mobile web is “top of funnel” for user acquisition. AVC Holly Schinsky recommends Visual Studio Emulators: Debug WebGL and HTML5 Mobile Experiences — Microsoft announces new emulators for debugging WebGL and HTML5 mobile apps. SitePoint - David Rousset This issue is sponsored by Tabris.JS Native mobile UIs in JavaScript with Tabris.js - iOS 9 ready — Tabris.js is a great way to develop apps with native UIs for Android and iOS in JavaScript. Jump in and give it a try! Tabris.JS Brian Rinaldi recommends Patterns — Responsive Web Design — A series of patterns for building responsive website designs. Responsive Design.is Holly Schinsky recommends Getting Started Building Apps with Ionic and Parse — A set of lessons to help you get started building mobile apps with Angular/Ionic and Parse.com. Aaron K Saunders Holly Schinsky recommends Hello Backend: Your Second Ionic Framework App — Part 2 in a series on building a hybrid app with Ionic. In this post, learn how to add the backend to your Ionic hybrid app with a factory talking to a Random User Generator API. McGivery.com Holly Schinsky recommends How To Use LokiJS For Local Storage In Your Ionic App — A tutorial on using the LokiJS in-memory database solution for local storage in your hybrid apps. Gone Hybrid Holly Schinsky recommends PhoneGap Day 2016 — The PhoneGap Day 2016 website has been launched with links for early bird tickets, call for speakers and more details around the scheduling and venue. PhoneGap Day 2016 Holly Schinsky recommends Android Builds Now Using Gradle on PhoneGap Build By Default — PhoneGap Build is now using Gradle for all Android builds by default. Read on for details. PhoneGap Build Blog Peter Cooper recommends What I Learned While Publishing An HTML5 Mobile App Thomas Hunter II Brian Rinaldi recommends PSA: Safari on iOS9 has a media query bug — The viewport size is set incorrectly when the viewport meta tag contains “initial-scale=1” or “width=device-width”, and the page contains an element that is wider than the desired viewport’s boundary. Reddit Brian Rinaldi recommends A note on weird font size changes in mobile Chrome — An unusual test case that causes text to automatically change size despite the CSS. QuirksMode Brian Rinaldi recommends A Glimpse of Latest Mobile App Development Trends — 15 development trends in the mobile app market according to Katie Stanfield. InfoQ Holly Schinsky recommends Tutorial: Create an Instagram Gallery App with Onsen UI + React — How to use Onsen UI with React to develop a simple Instagram app. Onsen.io Holly Schinsky recommends A Beginner’s Guide to Performant Design Decisions — Tips to implement good design practices to achieve the best 'perceived performance' in your design. Sparkbox Brian Rinaldi recommends Integrating the Calendar into your Ionic App — An example of integrating an app with the device’s calendar. Raymond Camden Brian Rinaldi recommends Rapid Cross-OS Mobile App Development: Lessons Learned — A discussion of the process of planning, developing and testing a cross-platform hybrid app by Jordan Crone. Smashing Magazine Brian Rinaldi recommends Another Cordova Mashup – Pixelatize — A sample hybrid mobile app integrating Jenn Schiffer’s pixelatize to create pixelated images. Raymond Camden Holly Schinsky recommends Weigh - A command line tool for checking the weight of browserifiable modules — A command line tool to check the weight (in bytes) of any browserifiable module. Bjørge Næss Curated by Brian Rinaldi and Holly Schinsky for Cooper Press. Cooper Press is located at Office 30, Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Update your email address or stop receiving MWW here

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This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 208)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 208 — September 30, 2015 How To Make An SVG Lava Lamp Chris Gannon A well written and thorough tutorial that goes from doing illustrative work in Adobe Illustrator through to exporting to SVG and writing code to make the lamp ‘work’. US Government Releases Official 'Web Design Standards' US Digital Service Open source UI components and a visual style guide to create consistency and beautiful user experiences across U.S. federal government websites. They recommend using Sass, Bourbon and Neat throughout. Easy Content Organisation with HTML5 Steve Faulkner With just 5 elements (aside, footer, header, main and nav) you can provide the understanding and navigation benefits of content organisation to users who would otherwise not be able to perceive it from visual cues alone. Send email using the Mailgun API Mailgun  Sponsored Easy SMTP integration and a simple, RESTful API abstracts away the messy details of sending transactional or bulk email. Scale quickly, whether you need to send 10 or 10 million emails. Start sending email now with Mailgun PostCSS Deep Dive: What You Need to Know Kezz Bracey “You should learn what [PostCSS] is and how to use it ASAP,” says Kezz Bracey. PostCSS is a tool that transforms CSS via JavaScript plugins and offers a lot of interesting functionality. New HTML5 Player Beta Trial for BBC iPlayer BBC - James East BBC iPlayer is one the most heavily used video on demand services in the world and they’re using the new open MPEG-DASH standard and Media Source Extensions to stream video to an HTML5 video player. Image Diffing using CSS Franklin Ta A CSS3 filter trick where you invert the colors and set opacity to 50%. Don't Let Your CDN Betray You: Use Subresource Integrity Mozilla Hacks “Using a new specification called Subresource Integrity, a website can include JavaScript that will stop working if it has been modified.” Jobs Join The Top 3% of Freelance HTML5 Developers WorldwideToptal is an exclusive network of elite freelance software engineers. Apply today to work with top clients, set your own rates, and collaborate with other top HTML5 developers. Toptal In brief Accessibility: Towards an Inclusive Web with Edge and Windows 10 news  Microsoft Edge Dev Blog Give back to the developer community - apply to teach today. news Actively seeking web developers to join our tight knit family of passionate teachers and earn royalties.   Pluralsight SPONSOR A Look at Firefox 41's Improvements for Developers news tools  Mozilla Hacks World’s First Conference Calls Between Chrome, Firefox, and Edge news Notes on continued developments of cross-browser WebRTC interoperability.   Peter Saint-Andre 6 Use Cases For CSS's calc() tutorial  Vincent Pickering CSS Stacking Contexts: What They Are and How They Work tutorial  Tiffany B Brown Modern Web Layout with Flexbox tutorial  Webdesigner Depot How To Do Knockout Text on the Web tutorial  Chris Coyier My Current HTML Email Development Workflow tutorial  Massimo Cassandro Exploring the 'crossorigin' Media Attribute in HTML5 tutorial  Schalk Neethling Easier HTML Refactors Through Better Selectors opinion  Daniel O'Connor What I Learned While Publishing An HTML5 Mobile App opinion  Thomas Hunter II Ad Blocking and the Future of the Web opinion “Your site may soon be collateral damage in a war between Silicon Valley superpowers.” (i.e. Google and Apple)   Jeffrey Zeldman Bootstrap Form Builder + Processing tools Easily create beautiful HTML forms styled with Bootstrap. Let our server validate and email the submissions.  Formden SPONSOR Visual Studio Emulators: Debug WebGL and HTML5 Mobile Experiences tools  SitePoint The Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) Logger Extension tools A Chrome extension that logs EME events and calls to the DevTools console along with debugging information.   Sam Dutton HTML5 Background Videos: Stock HTML5 Background Video tools video  BG Stock animate.css: A Cross-Browser Library of CSS Animations code  Daniel Eden Sheets of Paper: Emulating Sheets of Paper in Web Documents code Before you get too excited, it’s mostly about the overall look and size - no effects.   delight.im postcss-write-svg: Write SVGs Directly in CSS code  Jonathan Neal Family Guy's Brian Griffin in Pure CSS demo  CodePen Curated by Peter Cooper and published by Cooper Press. Want to post a job? E-mail us or use our self-serve system. Unsubscribe : Change email address : Read this issue on the Web Published by Cooper Press Ltd. Office 30, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK

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