2015 has been an important year for PHP. Eleven years after its 5.0 release, a new major version is finally coming our way! PHP 7 is scheduled for release before the end of the year, bringing many new language features and an impressive performance boost. But how will this impact your current PHP codebase? What really changed? How safe is it to update? This post will answer these questions and give you a taste of what’s to come with PHP 7.
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Placing Bad – image placeholder generator
Placing Bad – image placeholder generator
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Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement
Plotly’s JavaScript graphing library, Plotly.js, is now Open-source and Free
Brute Force Amplification Attacks Against WordPress XMLRPC – Sucuri Blog
Brute Force amplification attacks can guess hundreds of passwords within just one HTTP request by exploiting the WordPress XML-RPC system.multicall method.
Source: Brute Force Amplification Attacks Against WordPress XMLRPC – Sucuri Blog
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Front-End Manorisms: Tips, Tricks, and Tools
FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
FLIF is a novel lossless image format which outperforms PNG, lossless WebP, lossless BPG and lossless JPEG2000 in terms of compression ratio.
According to the compression experiments we have performed, FLIF files are, on average:
Styling with STRINGS by Simurai
how we can use Flexbox, currentColor and EMs inside components to quickly style entire Web Apps straight in the browser.
Source: Styling with STRINGS
More Transparent UI Code with Namespaces – CSS Wizardry – by Harry Roberts
Employing a suite of namespaces to make your UI code more readable and transparent
Source: More Transparent UI Code with Namespaces – CSS Wizardry
Principles of writing consistent, idiomatic CSS by Nicolas Gallagher
Source: Principles of writing consistent, idiomatic CSS
The following document outlines a reasonable style guide for CSS development. These guidelines strongly encourage the use of existing, common, sensible patterns. They should be adapted as needed to create your own style guide.
This is a living document and new ideas are always welcome. Please contribute.