The most easily recognizable advantage of the new PHP 7 engine is the significant performance improvement.
Performance is undoubtedly the biggest reason why you should upgrade your servers as soon as a stable version is released. The core refactoring introduced by the phpng RFC makes PHP 7 as fast as HHVM.
See the results below, they are pretty self-explanatory – PHP 7 Twice The Speed.
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Fcebook announced that its React Native library is now available on Github. The library allows you to build native iOS and Android applications with JavaScript and Facebook’s React library.
React Native runs JavaScript engine in a separate background thread, which communicates with the native main thread using a batched async messaging protocol. There’s a plugin for React that uses this protocol for communication.
Tom Occhino’s introducing React Native and discussing why developers at Facebook decided to create it:
The tutorial you can find here
Nprogress is a nanoscopic progress bar. Featuring realistic trickle animations to convince your users that something is happening!
FancyInput is a jQuery plugin which basically makes it fun to type text. It works with input fields wrapped with a div, in a way that hides the actual input field (but still “communicates” with it), and put a span element containing the character pressed (in a normal use case), and every span element is being transitioned in a nice CSS3 way. The end result is a mimicked text input field which tries to simulate a real input field as much as possible, including copy, paste, undo and text selection changes.
SuperScrolloRama is a jQuery plugin for supercool scroll animation
Signature Pad is a jQuery plugin that takes advantage of HTML5 canvas element and javascript to create a flexible and smooth Signature Pad on your web page & app. The plugin also has the ability to record the drawn signature in JSON for later regeneration. Be aware that the jquery plugin also requires Numeric Javascript library and bezier curve helper included.
Toolbar allows you to quickly create tooltip style toolbars for use in web applications and websites. The toolbar is easily customisable using the twitter bootstrap icons and provides flexability around the toolbars display and number of icons.
jQuery Pin will “pin” any element to the top of a container as you scroll down the page. It can be easily disabled for smaller screen-sizes.
Chardin JS is a jQuery plugin to simple overlay instructions for your apps.
Mapael is a jQuery plugin based on raphael.js that allows you to display dynamic vector maps.
jQuery Collage Plus will arrange your images to fit exactly within a container. You can define the padding between images, give the images css borders and define a target row height.
SnapSVG is a brand new JavaScript library for working with SVG. Snap provides web developers with a clean, streamlined, intuitive, and powerful API for animating and manipulating both existing SVG content, and SVG content generated with Snap.
Typehead.js is a fast and fully-featured autocomplete library
Twitter Bootstrap is one of our favourite framework for quick website prototyping. If you don’t know about Twitter Bootstrap, it’s simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions. Originally created by a designer and a developer at Twitter, Bootstrap has become one of the most popular front-end frameworks and open source projects in the world. This great tool contains base CSS, grid, responsive, general styling, UI components and javascript plugins that can speed up your development process.
Twitter Bootstrap comes with many javascript plugins too but some common javascript plugins are missing.
Jasny Bootstrap is a direct fork of Twitter Bootstrap with a number of additional components. It features controls like input masks, file upload buttons, icons, additional form styles and more.
Bootstrap favors native browser controls, which is the reason it doesn’t expose any customization options for them. However, in some projects it is useful to have customizable controls like select boxes, which is exactly what Bootstrap Select does. This plugin gives you a pretty and customizable select box which looks great in your page.
Bootstrap Image Gallery is an extension to blueimp Gallery, a touch-enabled, responsive and customizable image & video gallery.
It displays images and videos in the modal dialog of the Bootstrap framework, features swipe, mouse and keyboard navigation, transition effects, fullscreen support and on-demand content loading and can be extended to display additional content types.
It is a good practice to split long forms into smaller, contextually similar chunks. This makes them a bit easier to handle. The Bootstrap Application Wizard does that for you and more.
Datepicker picker to field or to any other element.
An easy-to-use jQuery color picker for Twitter Bootstrap
Bootstro.js help you to show your users a guided tour of what is what on a page. Especially, for first-time users. Alternative for bootstro.js is Bootstrap Tour
This is a bootstrap plugin to autocomplete tags for contenteditable div elements. It works in the same way tagging people on Facebook, Twitter or Sandglaz works.
A Full view calendar based on Twitter Bootstrap
bootstrap-wysihtml5 is a javascript plugin that makes it easy to create simple, beautiful wysiwyg editors with the help of wysihtml5 and Twitter Bootstrap.
Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS.
Setting up an online store has almost become invincible as most businesses as well as individuals are concentrating on selling products and services online. If you are one such individual or business wanting to make an ecommerce store, the principal component you should be aware of is the platform that you plan to raise the ecommerce site. With so many eCommerce platforms available, it is hard to figure out which one is right for you. Many platforms offer different functionality which is necessary for some eCommerce stores, while simple functionality may be your piece of pie.
WordPress is a powerful free platform to build your online store. It is an extremely popular platform, if not the most popular, and with shopping cart plugins like (WooCommerce and GetShopped) is powerfull ecommerce solution:
Magento is the eCommerce software platform for growth that promises to revolutionize the industry.
There is never a perfect solution for any problem, but understanding the background of the two platforms may help make the decision.
Each platform has its strengths. On the surface, the two platforms may seem similar. They both are highly customizable, SEO friendly, can be extensively themed, and feature a strong online support community.
